Teresa Hale

Teresa Hale is regarded as one of the Worlds leading "Health visionaries". She has played a major role in growth of Complementary Medicine over the last 15 years. Her influence in fact, is certain to grow with a launch of her book "The Hale Clinic Guild to Good Health" together with plans for a major series of seven television programmes on her clinic for international transmission.

Teresa Hale founded the Hale Clinic, London in 1987. The Prince of Wales opened the Clinic officially in 1988 and Teresa has been at the helm as Managing Director ever since.

A philosophy and Economics graduate with a post graduate degree in Education, it was her interest in Yoga which steered Teresa towards Complementary Medicine. As a Yoga instructor she found that students would frequently ask her to refer them to homeopaths, naturopaths, osteopaths etc. Seeing the need for a centre where members of the public could consult a range of Complementary Therapists, she decided to start up the Nine Clinics in Kensington. It soon became apparent that the demand for this type of health centre was enormous and it wasn't long before the space had to be abandoned for larger premises. The move took place in June 1987 when the Hale Clinic opened in London's elegant Park Crescent. Thirty purpose built consulting rooms, a library/bookshop and a dispensary are housed in the stately Nash Terrace building.

Over 40 different treatments are available from the 100 practitioners who are based at the Clinic. Chiropractors, healers, reflexologists, masseurs work side by side treating whole range of conditions. Many of the therapists are multi-disciplinary and a number are qualified medical doctors. Teresa believes that complementary Medicine should not be seen as an alternative to orthodox medicine - rather neither system has the whole answer to every medical problem. It is the aim of the Hale Clinic to attract the highest calibre practitioners to further the acceptance of complementary Medicine throughout the community and to offer the public a different approach to health care.

Teresa Hale has lectured in the USA, Italy and the United Kingdom. She has also carried out three research projects in Complementary Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and Exeter University.