Elaine Wilkins BA Hons, PGCE, ILM, CMI, Accredited Coach, Founder, Author and Recoverer 

The Chrysalis Effect is a non profit organisation that has been delivering an online recovery pathway for over 11 years in the private healthcare sector. It was developed by our founder, Elaine Wilkins. who experienced 6 years and chronic fatigue and pain before achieving full and sustained recovery.

Her experience was typical of many. She was offered anti- depressants, pain and sleep medication and offered a symptom management course designed to accept living with a long term chronic illness. With 2 teenage children this felt completely unacceptable to her and so she set about trying to find out what had caused her symptoms and what she needed to do to overcome them.

This took a long time trying to search while struggling with so many cognitive and physical symptoms. She felt like giving up many times. It took 6 years but she got there. Then she heard of a young woman who had committed suicide after suffering for 17 years on medication left with no quality of life.  She knew this had to change.

This led Elaine to research recovery. She says 'The medical model researches disease. I wanted to research recovery. To understand exactly what it takes to recover. I knew what I had done to recover and wanted to see if there were common themes in others who had recovered. I sought out other people who had been given a similar diagnosis who had recovered fully, and guess what? The same things came up over and over again, this formed the basis of a recovery programme and accredited health care practitioner training.

Since then Over 3750 patients have accessed the recovery pathway and today it has grown to become an international recovery community. The mission was to make sure that recovery is accessible to all at point of GP referral regardless of postcode.'

Dr Alison Sabine

MBChB MRCP Consultant Rheumatologist

Dr Alison Sabine who has been a specialist in Rheumatology since 1995 and a consultant rheumatologist since 2009.

Dr Sabine is based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. After more than 25 years working in hospital medicine and specialising in Rheumatology, Alison is more committed than ever to focus on health promotion and disease prevention.

She is keen to see a shift in the way chronic disease is managed, so instead of continuing to treat symptoms of disease with medication, we search for and address the root cause and see how lifestyle changes may help. She embraces a whole person approach for patient recovery.  

Dr Patricia Worby

PhD BSc, MSc, ACMT, HPD

Patricia Worby, PhD, is a practitioner of body-oriented (somatic) psychotherapy which releases unprocessed emotion causing a range of medically unexplained symptoms including pain, fatigue, anxiety, etc.

Her specialism is in chronic illness especially chronic exhaustive conditions which she believes always have a trauma component at their core. This was the subject of her PhD thesis and books ‘The Scar that Won’t Heal’; Stress, Trauma and Emotion in Chronic Disease and ‘The World Within’; How your Microbiome Shapes who you are.

Initially studying Nutritional Medicine at Surrey University and then Advanced Clinical Massage (ACM) at the Jing Institute, Brighton, she began to confidently treat musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. However, something was missing… clients were coming to her with complex multi-factorial disease for which physical therapy was not enough. She recognised the emotional stress component to disease which is often not addressed and decided to extend her knowledge with psychotherapy - specifically studying cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy and trauma release.

She has recently developed a unique programme for the release of unprocessed emotions using a combination of Havening, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) which form a powerful armoury for treatment of anxiety, depression and chronic pain.

In addition, she is a certified NLP Practitioner and Chrysalis Effect Wellbeing Coach specialising in Chronic Fatigue Syndromes such as ME and Fibromyalgia and an author of 4 books and the teaching module for Advanced Chrysalis Effect Practitioners on ACE.

Dr Patricia Worby PhD, BSc, MSc, ACMT, HPD, Member of the International College of Holistic Medicine (ICHM), General Hypnotherapy Register and an Institute of Leadership and Management accredited wellbeing coach and Chrysalis Effect (ME/CFS specialist) Practitioner.

Kuljit Sehmi

Kuljit specialises in chronic pain and trauma release and is an award-winning member of The Chrysalis Effect Team.

After her own experience of recovery from severe Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Arthritis and Neuromas, she has a deep passion and fascination for how chronic pain and symptoms manifest and resolve.

After her own release of deep pain and trauma she has trained extensively in cutting edge healing modalities for gentle release of trauma and chronic pain. She is an advanced Emotional Freedom Technique, Trauma Release Experience and Matrix Re-imprinting practitioner and TCE Specialist Recovery practitioner.

Kuljit gave up her 20 year career as an Optometrist to fulfil her passion and delight for empowering others to release their pain and suffering, so it is better for them than it was for her and combines the latest science with a knowing that we are more.

She is the co-author of the journal ‘Your way to health’ and believes that recovery happens from the inside out and that new understanding gives everyone new possibilities for recovery from these life-changing and  debilitating conditions.

Liz Hancock

BACP Accredited

Liz is a BACP Accredited Relate Counsellor and Psychotherapist  in practice for over 18 years. A Key area for her work is the link between relationships and Pain. Her extensive qualifications and modalities include: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EFT, CE Recovery coaching. 

Liz has specialised in Pain and Fatigue Recovery for the last 10 years. She is also a member of The Chrysalis Effect advisory board and head of Clinical supervision.

Liz was diagnosed with  Fibromyalgia and told she would never recover. This was absolutely not the case. She has been fully recovered and pain free for many years.