About Helen
Helen has always had a passion for working with babies and children. She is a Chartered
Physiotherapist who now has 38 years experience, working with mothers, babies and
children.
Helen trained at the Middlesex Hospital in Central London. She qualified in 1979 and then
continued working there as a member of staff. She went to work briefly for the
Westminster Hospital but longed to get some specialist paediatric training. In 1981, Helen
started work at the world renowned Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street,
London. Here she did many post graduate courses and worked with some of the UK’s
leading specialists.
Several years later, Helen moved to take up the position of Senior Paediatric
Physiotherapist and Clinical Paediatric tutor at the Belgrave Hospital for Children in
London. Here Helen learnt her baby massage skills and shared them with student physios
and nurses alike. She taught nurses in the Special care baby units how to massage
premature babies. From then on, she has taught baby massage all over the world to
parents and professionals alike, and has been invited to lecture on this subject to her
peers.
In 1984, she moved overseas to Singapore, where she worked in schools, set up her own
private practice “Health Matters”, and ran a highly successful baby clinic. In addition,
Helen taught baby massage, waterbabies classes, as well as ante and post natal exercise
classes for Mums. She was also a regular contributor to several parenting magazines.
During her time in Singapore, Helen gave birth to two baby boys and understands
firsthand the life of an expat mother, often far away from their family. Helen grew up in
Hong Kong as a child, has lived and worked in 5 different counties, and consequently she
is able to offer support to new parents who find themselves outside their home country.
After leaving Singapore, Helen worked in hospitals and opened her own private practice in
Geneva, Switzerland. She was Consultant Physiotherapist to the International School of
Geneva and after 13 years there, she is now bilingual in French and English. Her Spanish is
improving slowly. During her time in Switzerland, Helen also trained as a Certified
Reflexologist, something she now incorporates in her conventional Physiotherapy practice
with Mums and babies.
Helen has always valued the concept of continuing professional development and has
participated in many specialist courses.She is also both Bobath (NDT) and Halliwick
trained. Other specialist areas include a wide range of neurological, orthopaedic and
respiratory conditions. With this wealth of experience, Helen is able to offer the parents
and babies who consult her appropriate treatment, knowledge and advice. This can be
online or in person.
As part of Physiobaby, Helen holds baby clinics, and gives talks and seminars worldwide.
These are typically to parents, schools, teachers, health professionals and Yoga teachers.
Helen is a founder member of Nest4Mums, in Hong Kong and collaborates frequently with
the other professionals that work there. Helen has done voluntary work all round the
world, recently with migrant mothers, and is looking forward to continuing that in Peru.
If you have a question about your baby’s development posture or growth, the earlier you
have it checked out the easier it is to reassure and resolve. Helen will be happy to help
you. She will be offering online consultations by Skype/Facetime wherever you are in the
world. If you think Helen can help you and your child, she can be contacted by e mail at:
helen.binge@gmail.com or by telephone on (+51) 981 359 289
Qualifications
Chartered Physiotherapist.
Specialist in Paediatrics
M.C.S.P.
Member of the Chartered Society
of Physiotherapy in the U.K.
Grad.Dip.Phys.
Graduate Diploma of Physiotherapy
H.C.P.C. Registered
Registered with the Health and
Care Professions Council in the
U.K.
Certified Reflexologist.
Bayly School of Reflexology U.K. and
Switzerland
