Welcome!

I wonder if you’re asking yourself right now, what would happen if you were to feel really comfortable with who you are and what you can do? I wonder if you’re wondering about how things might become so much easier or more possible for you if you only knew how to feel good?

Well, these are the questions that I’ve spent the last ten years or so helping people to explore and discover.

I can work with you to help you to:

• let go of  a particular problem, challenge, issue or fear that is troubling you.
• discover, dream and/or pin down what it is that you want next.
• learn how to give yourself what you need to feel good.
• get ‘unstuck.’
• discover how to relax deeply.
• use your own amazing resources in helpful ways.

I can encourage, support, gently cajole and sometimes kick-start you until you get the results you want.

I draw on my experience of living this personally as a creative type, who struggled to find the ‘right fit’ for my abilities for many years, and professionally through my experience of designing and teaching university courses in creative writing, life writing and creativity, facilitating many, many workshops and working with hundreds of fabulous coaching and therapy clients.

I am the author of the book  Hypnotic Journaling and I’m a published poet.

The important formal bits

I’m a Clinical Hypnotherapist and EFT practitioner, registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register and guided by its Code of Ethics and its high standards of supervision and continuing professional development.

I have a DPhil (a doctoral degree) from the University of Sussex, where I developed a model for using writing in personal development and well being.

I first began to explore ways of helping people to develop personally and professionally whilst working as a training consultant for Reuters, the international news agency.

My work using writing and story with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture has been featured in the national media.

The most important thing to say here is that I love my work and I love helping people to make changes in their lives. In addition to hypnosis, which is my main tool, I also use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and other techniques and approaches drawn from my research in psychology, cognitive science, psychotherapy and the field of personal development. I’m constantly seeking out new skills and strategies to share.

I’ve worked with literally hundreds of clients over the last few years and I have trained, hung out with and been mentored by all kinds of wonderful people in the fields of hypnosis and personal development including Stephen Brooks and Stephen Gilligan, Michael Neill, Adam Eason, Celia Hunt, Mark Tyrrell, Jill Wootton, and my original teacher and friend, Steve Burgess. These people remain some of the major influences on my work. (A surprising number of them are called Stephen.)

If you’d like to find out more about the way I work, please do come over to my personal consultation pages here.

You can also read my blog here and, when you sign-up for my newsletter/ezine, I’ll send you my free Secret Sauce ebook.

Thank you.