Meet The Authors
Dr Alice Baldock
Alice has been working as a GP for over 25 years and is currently an NHS GP Partner in a busy Hertfordshire practice.
After qualifying from Imperial Medical School, she held various hospital posts before being offered the opportunity to work at the Royal Perth Infirmary, Australia for a year. Once back in the UK, Alice decided to enter the GP vocational training scheme in Essex.
Since becoming a doctor, Alice has consulted with thousands of patients and continues to be curious in the ways illness presents and the patterns of human behaviour. She specialises in women’s health, and has also gained her coaching diploma. She continues to support her colleagues and remains committed to the NHS.
Now a trainer of the next generation of GPs, Alice is often invited to present to key influencers in the profession on the ways to prevent burnout and enable doctors to flourish .
Alice can often be found in her cosy house with her husband and two wonderful teenage children…otherwise, she will be cycling through the sand dunes on the coast of her native country of Holland, thinking of her next book .
Diana Martin Odell
Diana has been working as a psychotherapist for 25 years. After graduating from the University of Hertfordshire with an honours degree in Linguistics and Psychological Studies, Diana completed diplomas in clinical hypnotherapy, stress management and cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy as well as further training in counselling, life coaching, CBT, and therapy for fertility issues.
As a Stress Management Consultant at Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospital, Diana was part of a research team investigating the connection between stress andpregnancy. She was, for many years, a consultant and director at St. Albans Women’s Refuge.
Over the years Diana has seen thousands of clients who have sought help with a wide range of issues The connection between psychological dysregulation and physical conditions has long been of interest and she has worked closely with GPs and consultants both in the NHS and the private sector. Her specialist areas of therapy are fertility issues including unexplained infertility and IVF, relationship difficulties, stress and burnout.
Diana moved from Hertfordshire to the Kent coast a few years ago. She and her husband now live in a house overlooking the sea which is usually calm and peaceful, except when filled with their blended family of four children, partners, grandchildren and dogs.