Essential Time Out

Philosophy behind Essential Time Out

Essential Time Out is a small team of therapists working together to facilitate well being using a number of different holistic techniques. We work on a private basis as well as in the corporate setting. We seek to help individuals and organisations optimise their capabilities to lead to a happy, healthy and well-balanced lifestyle. We aim to empower clients and help them find the potential to overcome the natural stresses and strains that life throws at them.

History

In recent years Essential Time Out has undergone a transformation and has come to be a small, highly qualified and talented group of therapists each contributing individual skills. All of our team have successful practices as well as working in corporate settings. Initially founded to provide a quality service within the corporate world, Essential Time Out was founded in 1997 by Helena Argüelles and Rose Meulenbroeks.

The Team

All members of the Essential Time Out team are highly qualified, insured and experienced. We provide a support for each other, which, means that our work is genuinely unique.

Helena Argüelles

Helena has been a therapist since 1989. She first trained in massage whilstliving in Spain and on her return to the UK continued her studies in reflexology, reiki, Indian head massage, chair massage and kinesiology. She has experience working in many different settings including offices, residential homes and hospitals as well as in her clinic in Gloucestershire and throughout the South of England. Her youngest client yet has been a baby of 3 months and her oldest a pensioner of 93!

She loves a challenge and her clients have brought many interesting and sometimes obscure health issues. Kinesiology is now her main therapy. It is a technique that she says has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for her. She is passionate about encouraging her clients to find ways to improve their quality of life and to feel empowered enough to overcome their health issues.

Living in the Forest of Dean with her partner and two children Helena enjoys the beautiful countryside, the garden and the endless DIY projects! She has travelled widely and lived abroad for several years, speaking four languages fluently.

Helena is a registered member of the following organisations:
Kinesiology Federation
British Complementary Medicine Association
Complementary Therapists Association
Academy of On-Site Massage
Helena founded Essential Time Out in 1997 with Rose Meulenbroeks who has now moved on to other pastures in Canada.

Martine Benlolo ITEC, MSCM

Martine has been a therapist since 2001 and is qualified in on-site acupressure massage, therapeutic, sports and deep tissue massage as well as jurlique facials.   Martine has a practise at her home and also works for the charity “ The Disability Foundation” www.tdf.org.uk at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital This is a registered charity that specialises in working with people with disabilities, their families and carers. 

Martine uses a variety of soft tissue manipulations to create an individual treatment for each person.  She studied at the Middlesex School of Complementary Medicine and is accredited by the National Guild of Professional Practitioners.

Philippa Costello

Philippa became involved in nutrition after suffering from an undiagnosed illness in her early twenties, which was later identified as M.E. On graduating from the renowned Plaskett Nutritional Medicine College she joined a large healthcare company as a nutrition advisor. This enabled her to gain valuable experience in many areas of nutrition before leaving to work as an independent nutritional therapist.

Her work includes preventative nutrition by educating people on healthy eating. She has a particular interest in women’s health, allergies and intolerances, weight loss/gain, digestive disorders, M.E, fatigue, skin disorders and children’s nutrition.

She favours working closely with clients to identify the correct nutrition for them as individuals; this often includes a screening for food intolerances and vitamin and mineral deficiencies. This enables her to use nutrient supplementation where appropriate, although she does favour eating the right foods over supplements.

Her aim is to provide independent professional and appropriate advice for her clients by filtering through the myths and facts so that they can discover the truth about nutrition and their own health.

Philippa is licensed to practice by the British Association of Nutritional Therapists. She has built up a large clientele at the Natural Medicine Centre in Kent, and health centres in and around greater London. She has also tutored for Greenwich Universities BSc Nutritional Therapy course and for BCNH (UK College of Nutrition and Health)