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About
Aga Kehinde
Aga has 23 years’ experience as a clinical nurse specialist in oncology and oncology research, she holds a diploma from The Coaching Academy in Personal Performance Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming. Aga supports individuals and teams who have experienced serious challenges to navigate through the chaos, developing wellbeing strategies to reclaim purpose and meaning in their personal and professional lives.
She is a Cancer Educator and a Health and Wellbeing Lead for the Oncology Division at the Royal Surrey Hospital where she leads on the project ‘’psychological safety for all’’ which supports psychological and emotional wellbeing for both patients and healthcare practitioners.
Aga is passionate about a system approach to building a healthy society using an integrative approach for the whole community.
She is a co-chair of BSIO ( British Society of Integrative Oncology) where she supports international strategy to build strong Integrative strategies for cancer patients throughout the systems.
She is a chair EFT International Research Comeetie and to MelaNoMore Patient support group,
She volunteers as a Cancer Coach at the Fountain Centre where she support patients
using a hybrid approach of a full body-mind-energy experience for achieving holistic wellbeing.
She is a Founder of VUCNAV – self navigating framework ( free for NHS) for managing stress and author of ‘’Empowerment for Health and Wellness’’
Current Roles
Training Programme Director at NHS England
Cancer Education Lead at Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
Guest Lecturer at the University of Surrey
Leadership Coach at Kent Surrey and Sussex Leadership Academy
Co-Founder of Arukah Project - Trauma Awareness for the Justice System
Founder of Tapping Team UK - Empowerment and Education for communities in Crisis
Health and Emotional Wellbeing Coach at Synthesis Clinic – precision health
Chair for EFT International Research Committee
Cancer Coach Volunteer at Fountain Centre
Founder of Aga Kehinde Coaching
About
Sharon Osterfield
With over 30 years of experience in healthcare, Sharon Osterfield has progressed from a Medical Scientist in Cardiology to an Executive Director, leading large divisions and hospitals. As a transformation leader, she brings extensive expertise in leadership, management, and delivering multi-dimensional projects across both the NHS and private sectors operationally and digitally.
Beyond healthcare, Sharon is a passionate Social Entrepreneur dedicated to supporting socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Her work has driven the creation of innovative models addressing housing, education, and the rehabilitation of offenders. Drawing on her expertise in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), she founded a project that integrates holistic support for those in need.
As a trustee for multiple organisations, Sharon actively advocates for addiction recovery and the empowerment of vulnerable communities, striving to create lasting change through collaborative and impactful solutions.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Arukah Project, a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting those in the justice system and the associated pipeline to prison.
Co-founder and Commercial Director at STAR - Stronger Together Around Recovery A bespoke international consultancy service that provides evaluation and training on strength-based models of addiction recovery.
Charity Trustee at Recoop A charity that advocates and supports the needs of people in prison over the age of 50 years
Charity Trustee at Reframe Coaching - A charity that supports individuals with gambling-related harm using recovery coaching methodology.
Charity Trustee at The Church Land Trust - A charity that seeks to advise churches on how best to use their physical asset of land and buildings to provide housing and community centres as part of social regeneration and breaking cycles of homelessness.
Transformation Director at e18 Innovation - A consultancy firm that advises healthcare organisations on the implementation of automation and AI software.
Sharon is also a Professional Doctorate candidate at the University or Portsmouth in which she intends to research the use of Trauma Tapping Technique on those who self harm during their time of incarceration.
About
George Brooks
George is an Accredited EFTi Master Trainer, BACP Accredited Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor, with over 35 years’ experience in mental health. He has been offering EFTi accredited EFT training across the world, in person and on-line at level 1,2&3 for thirteen years to counsellors & psychotherapists, psychologists, teachers, and anyone interested in learning more about EFT.
George has written a number of published articles including “An evaluation of a short cognitive behavioural anger management intervention for pupils at risk of exclusion” and “EFT Self Help for self-harm”, as well as presenting at the BACP Research Conference, The EFT Gathering in York, The Spring Energy event (2024), and The EFTi symposium (2025).
George is the CEO of Brooks Counselling Ltd, providing worldwide Counselling, Training & Supervision services in the Education, Health & Public sector since 1999.
From 2007-2024 he worked part-time as a teaching fellow at Manchester University where he has taught Counsellors and Educational Psychologists on Masters & Doctorate programmes.
More recently George has developed a Trauma Focused approach with his colleague & friend Christina Buxton, using an adaptation of EFT we have called Trauma Focused EFT (TF-EFT).
About
Christina Buxton
Christina is a Chartered Academic Psychologist, Coaching Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Researcher. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Chartered Scientist. She is a senior practitioner member of the BPS Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy, and on the BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors, as well as the Register of Qualified Test Users (RQTU). In addition, she is a registered Psychotherapist with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a member of EMDR UK and Ireland, and an accredited member of Emotional Freedom Technique international (EFTi). Christina is a leading figure in education in this field in the UK. She has developed and promoted protocols of evidence-based practice, including developing the UK’s only competency-based framework for practitioners working with psychological trauma and best trauma informed practice in the wider psychological professions.
Christina's academic, organisational and individual work spans 30 years of working towards an enhanced understanding of concepts and interventions around the subjects of mental health, well-being and psychological trauma. During this time, Christina has led many projects and initiatives to both theoretically provide a deeper appreciation of the complexities of these subject areas, and to improve the lives of those exposed to adverse life events. Her work has been devoted to the development and dissemination of evidence-based practice and sound ethical and professional standards in these areas, and Christina has led and developed the UK’s only evidence-based trauma training programmes in higher education.
Her work has both added value to the understanding of this field and has led to strategic and effective change in areas of practice. Her research and clinical work are in individual's experience of PTSD and Complex Trauma, as well as in diagnosis and assessment. Christina research takes a psychosocial approach to better understand the wider context in which individual's experience of trauma occurs and the meanings they draw from this. Her recent co-authored book, Discourses of Psychological Trauma, provides a critique of the medical model of mental health. This offers practitioners non-pathologising ways of thinking and responding to those suffering from the effects of adverse life events and was one of the publishers bestselling titles for the year of publication. Her other research interests involve methodological innovation through creative methods individuals’ narratives of psychological trauma. Christina has peer reviewed publications in both the field of psychological trauma and in innovation and creative use of methodologies exploring the experience of those affected by psychological trauma. She has been an accepted and invited speaker to many national and international conferences in her research areas.
