Our Contributors
To create their online courses, co-principals of Chrysalis, Dr Chris Forester and Sharon Forester, have only worked with talented writers and tutors who are acknowledged experts in the field. As a team they pride themselves on personal service and interaction.
Dr Chris Forester
In addition to numerous professional qualifications Chris holds degrees from Oxford in Philosophy, Theology and Psychoanalysis. Over the course of his career he has held University Lectureships, chaired a national therapy organisation, run numerous workshops both in the UK and the US and made several TV appearances.
Sharon Forester
Sharon has a background in working for charities including the Parkinson’s Disease Society and the Terence Higgins Trust.
Alan Davidson
Alan Davidson is a qualified Adult Education teacher, a Principal Tutor with Chrysalis, and a Hypnotherapist with nearly 20 years in private practice.
Anaiya Aon Prakasha
Anaiya Aon Prakasha, previously known as Siri Datta, has been teaching and writing about Kundalini Yoga since 1997, endeavouring to research, study and experience the depths and more Gnostic aspects of Yoga to teach in her classes. She is also a well-known yoga author and yoga TV presenter, having recently become the new TV presenter for Yoga People, as part of the Body in Balance SKY Channel. Anaiya Aon Prakasha also has her own monthly Yoga Show on My Spirit Radio.
Anne Marshall
Anne Marshall is a former Midwife and lecturer in Acute and Critical Care Nursing. Today she works as a freelance Coach, NLP Practitioner and Trainer and is known internationally as a speaker, author, seminar presenter, and personal coach.
Bekki Shining Bearheart
Bekki is a shamanic healer, teacher and spiritual counselor, she has been teaching shamanism since 1982.
Deborah Marshall-Warren
Deborah Marshall-Warren is a well-known hypnotherapist and a leader in the field of contemporary interactive hypnotherapy in the UK and in Europe, as a practitioner, a coach and an author. She works together with clients from many parts of the world and has run her own private practice, Whole-Being Interactive Hypnotherapy, for fast approaching two decades. Deborah practises and teaches internationally, in Asia, in Malta, and in the UK at HB Health, Knightsbridge, London.
Dr Crow Swimsaway
Crow Swimsaway PhD, has been active in shamanism since 1982, doing teaching, healing, research and writing. His academic background includes BA and MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago and PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics, based on two years of fieldwork among the Atayal people in the mountains of central Taiwan.
Louise Baker
Louise Baker is a qualified Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner and Executive Coach.
Margaret Jacobson
Margaret is a registered member of BACP with a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and over 10 years’ experience of working with individual clients.
Chrysalis Online Courses
Kick start your career with an online course from Chrysalis
Chrysalis® Online Courses, from the UK's premier accredited therapy trainer offers a wide range of distance learning options right on your home computer for you to take at your own speed and convenience. With ten years' of counselling and alternative therapy training behind us, Chrysalis gives you the confidence to explore a new path, build on your existing skills or just enjoy learning something new and interesting.
A course with the right support and feedback was essential to me – and the Chrysalis online system fulfils that need. 
