Our Team
Berta is a patient using cannabis based medical products (CBMPs), to manage her complex health needs (9 diagnosis’ with 50+ symptoms) and advocates for CBMPs as a viable symptom reliever medication for unmet clinical health needs or as an alternative to conventional pharmacological medicines.
Berta Kaguako is a Health and Social Care Consultant, with an Undergraduate in Psychotherapy and Masters in Psychoanalysis. Berta’s background is in Mental Health, Substance Misuse and Children & Families: in both a therapeutic and senior management capacity, having won 3x Blooming Strong Awards (Recognition from UN for contribution to violence against Women).
Berta started her career/training as a Children’s Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, before moving onto adult integrative Psychotherapy and then Substance Misuse. She then went onto senior management, where she was the Westminster Borough Manager for a Substance Misuse service, within the charity sector. Berta later went onto managing a family assessment centre, assessing parenting capacity for family proceedings, before venturing off into consultancy within the same sector. Berta’s most recent professional experience is within the medical cannabis sector, where she was a CQC Registered Manager and now consults within the medical cannabis sector and co-founded EthVida, a non-profit organisation and patient educational platform.
Interest include: Trauma & Abuse, Safeguarding, Children and Families, Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Cannabis Based Medical Products, Alternative Medicine, Holistic Care, Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy, Women’s Health, Ethnic Representation in Healthcare, Wellbeing, Self-Help, Sociology, Physics, Quantum Mechanics and many more….
Our Story
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Humans should feel empowered to make informed decisions relating to their health and wellbeing.
Healthcare should be patient centred. Healthcare starts at preventative care.
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