I am an Clinical Hypnotherapist, qualified to Advanced Level, AdvDipHyp, AdPr, DipHyp, CMH CPNLP, currently training in CBT to further my learning and skills. I love to learn and read about the subjects that I enjoy so much. I am an avid reader of articles, books, academic research and strive to be the best that I can be. I treat a majorty of complaints with hypnotherapy,ranging from problematic skin, blushing, anxiety, sleep disorders, depression, overeating, I do hypnotic gastric banding and smoking cessation and phobia recovery. I have a special interest in working with children and children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders who are verbal, as well as working with people at the end of their lives with terminal illness and palliative care, weight management and weight loss- including hypnotic gastric banding, and also working with adult survivors of childhood abuse, letting go of grief and guilt, and dealing with PTSD symptoms. I have worked with members of the LGBTQ community, including helping trans-women with feminising their behaviours and mannerisms. I also have a deep and grateful love of past life regression sessions which seem to happen a huge amount of the time... I think with the world consciousness being so threatened by war and politics and so much hate, that people are turning more and more to spiritual leanings to comfort themselves during trying and frightening times. I love doing past life sessions and they NEVER fail to amaze me. I have worked with one on one clients, groups and pairs of clients too, and am passionate about bringing what I have learned to other hypnotists and groups of clients in workshops which I will be running with my friend very soon!I have had amazing successes working with clients with chronic pain and significant phobias and fears and love to work with all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and with all manner of experiences. I also love to write and write every day almost without exception- unless something unforeseen interrupts my morning routine! I enjoy writing and reading poetry and love language in its many beautiful forms. I am a dab hand at amusing people with my (somewhat dreadful) versions of regional accents and love to use humour a lot in the hypnotherapy sessions that I provide. I am a lover of words and enjoy weaving them into beautiful metaphor and story telling as part of my work and am working on writing articles and a book at present. I am also an Artist, I paint and draw somewhat sporadically at the moment due to my studies taking precedent over most other things.

I have a loving partner who I have been with for the best part of five years with whom I share the love of a small dog called Molly. She is the apple of both our eyes and is a loving and intelligent little soul with heaps and bags and masses of personality- and a bit too intelligent for her own boots! I thoroughly enjoy training her to do lots of tricks and she seems to enjoy it too, especially when there’s a gravy bone at the end of it!

Currently my partner and I have embarked on a gardening adventure and have started growing all our own vegetables with mixed success, due in no small part to the slug population in our garden! I have caught plenty of them in the act of decimating our baby courgette plants! (and french beans, sprouts, squash, tomatoes and cucumbers…..). We are trialling as many organic and natural slug repelling tricks, so far the biggest success has been beer traps- they really do work! and garlic water being sprayed on the plants before we go to bed! I will be investing in wool pellets and copper tape too though just to make quadruply sure! And God help any bird that tries to munch on my strawberries!I have my own set of spiritual beliefs mostly based around the universe and nature, although I would not describe myself as being a religious person, at least in the typical sense, though I do hold strong spiritual beliefs and am open to discussing these as well as hearing about others. I am by nature inquisitive and curious and open minded to pretty much any possibility that presents itself. I am very much a ‘go with the flow’ type of person, though I can be a very passionate, hot headed fireball when I am in the face of injustice, regardless who it is being played out against, man or beast.

I have led a very colourful life, both in my art, my language and my experiences and I think that it helps me to bring a lot of life experience to the table when I am treating other peoples’ issues.

Essentially, life is beautiful, scary, wonderful, awesome, challenging, exciting and a real roller-coaster! I have lived with my own mental health issues for most of my life, but now, rather than letting them own me and hold me back, I use my experiences to bring the best of myself to the people I treat and the people I choose as my friends. My disability has turned into a positive tool for me to use and for that I am truly grateful. In fact I am truly grateful for many things in my