Masha Bennett is an accredited Advanced Practitioner and international Trainer in EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), and a registered Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist, as well as having experience in a range of other therapeutic approaches, including therapeutic groupwork, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing). She combines her psychotherapy and training practice based in Glossop near Manchester, UK, with work as a Psychological Therapist in the National Health Service.
After her early career as a zoologist and then a botanist, Masha began working with people in 1999, and was employed by the Probation Service, HM Prison Service, addiction charities and mental health organisations, as well as working in adult education. In 2006 she has set up and developed an innovative Well Being Centre in Stockport near Manchester, and prior to that she managed a drug rehabilitation unit in a women's prison; she has also worked as a therapist in a children's home, and currently combines her private practice with work in the UK National Health Service, as a Psychological Therapist in a Staff Support Team. Masha has taught EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) in the UK and internationally, including Russia, Greece, Israel, Norway, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, and regularly does voluntary work for a number of different charities.
"I wake up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult." (E. B. White)
"It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking,expecting planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that." (Neale Donald Walsch)
"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." (Mary Kay Ash)
"Everything you can imagine is real." (Pablo Picasso)
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." (Bill Cosby)
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." (Dr Suess)
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