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Barbara Gerber (counselling psychologist) and Janine Kirby (family practitioner and homeopath) are running a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme in East London.This is an integrative, medically-based, participant-centred approach to stress management developed 30 years ago at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. To date, it is the longest standing, most successful and well-researched stress reduction programme worldwide. There are currently over 500 programmes running globally.
Janine is qualified as both a specialist family practitioner and a homeopath. She has additional qualifications in paediatrics and obstetrics. She enjoys teaching, having facilitated 6th year medical students at UCT and Master in Family Medicine students at Medunsa and Unitra.She has a passion for integrative medicine, helping her patients understand the intimate connection of mind, body and spirit. After having spent many years in the public sector, she now has her own private practice. 
Barbara is a counselling psychologist. She has worked in human resource development throughout South Africa. After she married, she moved to the Kruger Park and continued with her own training and consultancy business. She moved to East London in 1998 and studied and qualified as a counselling psychologist through Rhodes University. She has since worked both in hospice as well as a lecturer in psychology at Rhodes University, East London campus, overseeing the Masters programme. She currently supervises intern psychologists and has her own private practice.
