Central Clinic

Dr. Beguelin trained in St Mary's Hospital Medical School (London) and graduated in 1978 from the University of London.  He held several junior posts in surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology before returning to Gibraltar in 1980 as Surgical Senior House Officer in St Bernard's Hospital. He was appointed in 1981 as the 7th GP in the Group Practice Medical Scheme (GPMS) where he stayed until November 2001.

During over 21 years in public services in Gibraltar he has worked as Prison Medical Officer, Police Surgeon, GP to Mount Alvernia Elderly Care Home, locum Port Medical Officer and locum acting Consultant Psychiatrist.  During an 18 months sabbatical from 1990 in London, he studied and received psychoanalysis and worked as Registrar in Elderly Psychiatry and Adult Psychiatry.

He has served as Surgeon Lieutenant to St John's Ambulance Brigade, and Hon. Secretary to the British Medical Association's Gibraltar Division.  He is chairman of the charities Diabetes Gibraltar and Clubhouse Gibraltar.  He has lectured in schools about substance abuse as part of the Royal Gibraltar police drugs information campaign and later with the Education Department.  He is medical advisor to the Ministry of Transport, Thyroid Gibraltar, MS therapy centre and also contributes to the local media on matters of Public Health information.

Dr Beguelin continues to provide locum cover for the Royal Gibraltar Police as Forensic Medical Officer and Port Medical Officer when Dr Salem is away and is also part of the College Clinic General Practice Team.

Madeline has many years of experience in the Profession of Counselling. She trained as a Counsellor in the U.K. where she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling in 2005 at Thames Valley University, London, course accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, where she has been a member since the onset of her training in 2001.

Madeline specialized in Bereavement Counselling, with Bereft Bereavement Counselling for the Borough of Ealing London and attended workshops at St. Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham. General Counselling - Ealing Abbey Counselling Service.  Since returning to Gibraltar she has worked at the Central Clinic focusing mainly on Bereavement, Couple and Family Therapy. She has also led workshops at Bayside School on Bereavement, has had radio interviews on the subject of loss, and in 2010 was appointed as a Bereavement Counsellor for the Lady Williams Centre, leading Group Therapy Workshops, and one to one Counselling.

Madeline applies her work with great diligence and respect, always taking the clients standpoint, world-view and story as the primary focus in the relationship. Her defined listening and intuitive sense and skills brought on by many years of experience enables Madeline to intervene appropriately, coupled with the genuine encounter which is conducive to providing the space to heal.

Mrs Vielma graduated in 1996 from the Universidad Central de Venezuela with "Magna Cum Laude" for Academic Excellence and First Placed Graduate of Psychology for that year. She also received awards from the Scientific and Humanistic Development Centre (CDCH - UCV), the Venezuela Society of Psychology and the "Mariscal de Ayacucho" Foundation for Academic Excellence.

She was awarded a Masters Degree (MSc) in Psychology at the Caracas University Hospital in 1999 with a high level of clinical experience in Psychotherapy.  She undertook an additional year in clinical research in the area of neuropsychology and hypertension and has furthered her training in Child Psychotherapy, Humanist and Psychodynamic techniques and Cognitive Behavioral techniques.

She has worked as a psychologist since 1994 in several Venezuelan institutions including the Ministry of Defence, Caracas University Hospital, Caracas Central University, the psychiatric hospital San Juan de Dios, Los Andes University and private clinics.  She was appointed Honorary Member of the Clinical Psychology Department (KG V Psychiatric Unit) in 2003 and works also in private practice at the Central Clinic.