My name is Kate Chester, I have been working as a smoking cessation counsellor for the past eleven years in a community health sector. My professional qualifications from nursing and social work provide an integrated practice encompassing both the medical and social models of health.  I also have a unique style of working that addresses the tricky obstacles that regularly get in the way of people shaking off a tobacco addiction. 

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Sometimes this can be from anxiety, guilt, shame, past traumatic experiences, or experiencing the stresses of every day life that get in the way, or the elusiveness of habit patterns.

I can work with you to learn new perspectives and insights and will establish sustainable strategies that can stay with you for the long term.

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My particular interests and experience lie with mindfulness practice and its application to the nature of habit, and the relationship between smoking, stress and trauma . 

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