Debbie Buck has had an interesting and varied working life. Her first career choice was banking, and she worked for several international banks in Dublin and in the Isle of Man. In 1993, feeling disillusioned by working with abstract numbers, she decided to do something more real†and gave up her job as Assistant Manager in a large merchant bank in order to move to England and study full-time. Armed with an Advanced Diploma in Counselling, Debbie then worked as a Counsellor, both with people in prison and in private practice. This led to her becoming Drugs Treatment Manager at a number of Her Majesty’s finest prisons between 1995 and 2002 and, ultimately, to her vocation as a complementary therapist. Her interest in alternative forms of therapy started in 1998, when she gained her First and Second Degrees in Usui Reiki. She then qualified in Auricular Acupuncture, which was used to great effect in the prisons, both for staff and prisoners. In 1990, she was privileged to travel to New York to observe and work in the Lincoln Memorial Centre, where the NADA five-point auricular protocol was developed by Dr Michael Smith. Perhaps the most significant learning completed by Debbie was her training for the Bowen Technique, in which she qualified in 2000. This resulted in an invitation to work in Mauritius in 2002-3, where she treated clients with Bowen in a privately-run clinic.
