Meet the Teachers
Here you will find some brief background information on our teaching team
Athena Cassar RSHom PGCE
My passion in health and healing has been a lifelong journey. As a child I remember both my Grandmothers preparing herbal remedies and using food medicinally for a variety of ailments.
After a long career in education, community development and as a Professional counsellor I decided to leave my job and pursue my interest and curiosity in homeopathy, enrolling at the North West College of Homeopathy.
I have been involved in a number of local initiatives, working in partnership with the NHS Trusts and other local community projects and I am pleased that more than 10 years on these are still continuing.
On graduating, I continued my long held fascination with food and its nutritional importance in combating imbalances in health. In pursuit of greater understanding I went to Kerala, Southern India to work/study with a group of Ayurvedic doctors. I found this experience invaluable, greatly increasing my knowledge of the biochemical relationship of food and health.
On a more personal level, effective homeopathic treatment has eliminated excruciating back pain that I suffered for more than 20 years. I have also found it tremendously useful in more serious life threatening situations both personally and with my patients.
I am totally committed to using homeopathic medicines as they are gentle, non-invasive and leave no residual side effects. I believe homeopathy can empower individuals to be their 'true' selves and thus be more in harmony. The fact that homeopathy considers individuals in their totality and not just a collection of symptoms, means that we offer a unique and personalised service to our patients.
As a dedicated homeopath and healer I am committed to achieving the optimum health outcomes for my patients, and this is the philosophical basis of my practice.
I am inspired by the beauty of nature, an unswerving belief in the goodness of human nature and the creativity of the wonderful people that I have met in my life.
Jemima Kallas
I have been in practice as a homeopath since 1997. Homeopathy inspires me with passion; teaching it has plunged me into ever deeper understanding of this wonderful medicine.
I trained at the College of Homeopathy. I tend to prescribe classically, the route that offers the smallest necessary stimulus to the patient's vitality but I observe colleagues who practise differently with fascination and respect.
What draws me to homeopathy is the combination of heart, intellect, knowledge, intuition, spirit and experience. It has been a joy to treat people of many backgrounds. When I was living in London, people consulted me from the Caribbean, Poland and Iran, from Ghana, Russia and China - and born and bred English too! - speaking in so many accents to put words to what was troubling them. For, beneath the experience of exhaustion, pain, emotional fear and invasive disease is that striking individual note which I am still learning to hear better.
I spent most of my life as an editor of professional publications: with homeopathy, I have moved from the written to the living word. I am qualified as a counsellor and a life coach. I have held clinics for the College of Naturopathic Medicine and taught in Bulgaria and now, with LICH, in Serbia and Croatia. I live in Oxford and spend a lot of time in the beautiful garden I created where tussocks of grass, brambles and nettles used to sprawl.
Pema Sanders LCH RSHom
Pema Sanders runs the LICH / Frontline Homeopathy project in Beirut, Lebanon. Pema has been a homeopath for 25 years, having started her studies in homeopathy at the College of Homeopathy, London, in 1979.
Since arriving in Beirut Pema has run 5 of LICH’s 100 hour Foundation Courses for the general public, and has been running low-cost and free clinics in west Beirut and the Chouf Mountains. She currently has students studying for the LICH Diploma.
Prior to living in Beirut Pema practised homeopathy in Brighton, England. She worked for 10 years at the Dolphin House Children’s Clinic, in Brighton. Pema pioneered the establishment of free homeopathy clinics in the outlying areas of the town, which later became part of a Sure Start programme, and which continue to this day.
Pema has also been involved with curriculum design – for the Asculapius College in the UK (where she taught from 1994-8), and for the Tisserand Aromatherapy course in London. Her contributions to the Rough Guide to Travel Health were published in 1999. She also taught and supervised at the South Downs School of Homeopathy, Chichester, West Sussex, from 2001-5.
From 1993 until 2003 Pema taught on the LICH Diploma programme in Bucharest, Romania (1993-7) and then became involved with the fund-raising and management for the project, which is still running.
In 1999 she travelled to Beirut on behalf of LICH for the first time to set up and co-ordinate a Diploma programme. This course finished in 2001 with a small group of successful graduates who are now established in practice. After keeping in contact with these students from 2001 till 2004, Pema decided that there was still a need and a desire for more homeopathy teaching in Beirut and Lebanon, and she moved to Beirut.
Pema's other interests include – soap-making, feminist theology and making flower-essences. She is a registered UK spiritual healer and is currently learning Arabic (with difficulty) and taking a course in Early Church History in Hamra, Beirut.
