The Notting Hill Osteopathic Practice is open, but without a receptionist. BT have messed up the digital upgrade and have cut off the landline. Please use email for now!
Please telephone 020 7727 7733 and leave a message,
or email for queries: ajferguson1@live.co.uk
We treat all people from young babies to the elderly. Each person is individual, with their own history and current circumstances. We treat patients with a variety of conditions, such as back or neck pain, headaches or limb injuries. We treat the whole person with the condition, rather than only treating the symptoms.
This practice integrates Structural and Cranial approaches to osteopathy: so we can treat acute conditions and deeper underlying patterns of stress and tension.
The beginning of any consultation will involve exploring your concerns, including your presenting complaints. Each person is individual and has their own history and current circumstances. We attempt to reach a diagnosis or understanding of you and your conditions.
Our osteopaths integrate multiple approaches to treatment, including Structural and Cranial. Through discussion and physical treatment, we are able to treat the whole person, rather than just the symptoms. We aim to educate and prevent problems, and to help patients to be healthier.
Together with you, we will form a treatment plan for the future to ensure long term health. This will involve steps that you can take at home and does not necessarily mean returning to us will be a requirement. Our number one priority is your health.
ANDREW FERGUSON DO MSc
Andrew Ferguson graduated from the British School of Osteopathy in 1980. He was awarded Masters Degree in Health Practice in 2003. Author of several Osteopathic academic papers and a book in 1988 called Back and Neck Pain. He is interested in the philosophy and practice of holistic health care.
Andrew treats many professional ballet and contemporary dancers and has nearly 40 years experience in the field of dance injury, technique and posture. He has a holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, recognising that emotional stress or life events can have as much effect on the body as physical injuries and tensions. His aim is to help patients to improve their own health, with the intention of long-term improvement as well as immediate relief.
Andrew has lectured on the treatment of children, and treats patients of all ages. He has experience is unwinding layers of trauma that can build up through our lives, or as a result of particular events. The diagnosis is not only what is wrong, but “why hasn’t it got better?” and “how can we prevent it recurring?”. Many patients have sedentary jobs and poor posture, so a lot of ailments are a result of repetitive strains, which need to be considered ergonomically to prevent recurrence. We need to improve or remove the obstacles to health so that the body can heal itself.
Outside of Osteopathy Andrew is a keen gardener, bee-keeper and dog walker.
Kerry Dowson BSc. (Hons) Ost. is a Registered Osteopath. She qualified from the British School of Osteopathy (now University College of Osteopathy). In addition to working for the Notting Hill Osteopathic Practice, she is also a Consultant Osteopath for Brentford Football Club, and runs a clinic at Queen’s Gate School for girls. Past experience includes working for the NHS as a general osteopath and with Dr Tim Evans at his preventative health care practice, Westover House.
Kerry has spent the past 20 years filling her bag of tools by regularly attending various training sessions and courses to increase her knowledge and professional skills by keeping up to date with new developments. These have included training in Cranial Osteopathy, Dry needling, Sports care, Visceral osteopathy, Children’s Osteopathy, a start to an MSc. and much more.
Kerry consults a diverse cross section of patients, aged from 2 weeks to 102 years old, with varying ailments and issues. She works with acute and chronic issues and enjoys a challenge.
Kerry has incorporated a system of ‘conscious breath’ with her patients during some of her sessions. Over the years she has noticed how the breath has helped people with their pain and has delved more deeply into the mechanisms behind successful breathwork, becoming a qualified Breathworker in the process. She has trained extensively with three different modalities of breathwork. In particular, she has focused on the Biodynamic Bodywork and Trauma Release System for stress and anxiety management and trauma release. She has integrated her knowledge of osteopathy with her knowledge of breathwork to create a unique way of working with patients. The aim of this work is to release tension in the musculoskeletal system and the internal workings of the mind, brain and body thereby creating space for somatic body release, self-healing, co-regulation and embodiment.
During the lockdown of Covid 19 she ran online breathwork sessions to help people to breathe again properly whilst recovering from Covid 19, as well as holding regular group sessions for those suffering from stress, anxiety and lack of sleep. As a result she will continue to host her online platform for breathwork via Zoom.
She loves gardening and propagating plants, cycling, walking her dogs. She has great fun singing in a female Acapella Group called The Treblemakers who donate all monies earned to a nominated charity.
I see a broad spread of patients – children including newly born babies and their postpartum mothers, pregnant women. I see teenagers with their various physical manifestations of maturity and change. Adults with long term postural challenges and responses to trauma and shock. I see patients with a wide variety of stressful expressions held in different parts of the body. I manage the ongoing functional well-being of older patients with degenerative aspects to their health. I have considerable experience treating artists and performers - actors, dancers and musicians.
My enthusiasm is for the most extensive osteopathic scope of practice. My approach embraces the greatest diversity of osteopathic technical approaches with
all modalities of treatment including subtle, positional and ‘cranial’ osteopathy, to direct osteopathic manipulation, all predicated on what is most effective and appropriate for the body and person being treated.
I have a large and busy family. I left my former occupation in the media after witnessing the astonishing results of osteopathy with my first born son, twenty-six years ago. I qualified as an osteopath and pursued post graduate training in specialised areas of clinical competence, namely paediatrics and treatment of pregnant and postpartum women. I have continued my study into osteopathy with research in osteopathic education and doctorate level examination into philosophy and concepts of complementary health care and medicine.
I am very involved in osteopathic education and teach as a clinical tutor in Europe’s oldest and largest paediatric clinic – the Osteopathic Centre for Children. I am also the Course Leader for the prestigious Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy nurturing expert training in this complex and specialised area of osteopathic practice. I frequently lecture and run courses in the UK and abroad, speaking at international conferences and contributing to journals and articles.
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