About

A practical, in-depth approach to change

If you’ve been living with anxiety, low confidence, an unwanted habit, or a past experience that still affects you, you may have reached a point where simply trying to ‘manage’ it no longer feels enough.

I help people work towards meaningful change — not just surface-level adjustments, but the kind you feel in everyday life: more steadiness where there was worry, more confidence where there was doubt, and a sense that the past has less of a say in how today goes.

I began this work over two decades ago, and in that time I've seen just how much the field — and the needs of clients — have changed. I've continued developing my approach over the years, expanding my work beyond hypnotherapy alone. Working this way means I can keep things focused and straightforward when that's what's needed, and go more slowly and carefully when it isn't — which matters particularly with trauma, where a paced and appropriate approach is often essential.

If you'd rather arrange to speak now than read further, you can book a free 30-minute consultation, or call or text me on 07739 466318.

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When talking therapy isn’t enough

You may have talked things through—perhaps more than once—but the feelings or patterns still return.  This is where a more focused and structured way of working can help.

My approach combines hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, coaching and trauma-informed methods, selected based on what is most likely to be helpful.

Whether it’s a phobia, an unwanted habit, feeling stuck in negative patterns, building self-belief, or addressing past experiences that still cast a long shadow—my work is tailored to what you need.

What Makes My Work Different

I use approaches that I've worked with both personally and professionally, having experienced their effects directly rather than only studying them.

My route into this work was personal before it was professional.

In the mid-nineties I had counselling myself, for around two years. I valued it, and I still regard counselling as a worthwhile approach in its own right. It helped me understand my past — and that understanding mattered. But for what I was carrying from early life, I found that talking things through — often the same ground, revisited again and again — didn't change how I felt. The feelings and patterns stayed more or less where they were.

A few years later I came to hypnotherapy myself, this time for a long-standing fear of flying. It had been with me for years, and I'd more or less assumed it was just part of who I was. It resolved in a handful of sessions. The contrast between the two experiences — months of talking that helped me understand, against a few sessions that actually shifted something — set the direction of my career.

The most significant piece came later. In 2012, I sought out specialist therapy to address a difficult upbringing and experiences from early life that were still making themselves felt. That work reached things the earlier counselling never had and offered resolution — and it led me to train in those same approaches, because I'd seen so many clients carrying similar early experiences who I believed deserved more than understanding alone.

So when I say I know what it's like to sit in the client's chair, I mean it literally. Nearly all of my training has been experiential — working through my own real material, not acting out scenarios — and it's a principle I built into the therapy training school I ran for seventeen years.

Over the past 23 years, I've developed my training alongside client work — shaped by what I've encountered in practice. This has been especially important when supporting clients with trauma, abuse, or difficult early experiences, where safe and flexible approaches are essential. Rather than simply adding more hypnosis techniques, I focus on selecting the most appropriate methods for every client.

Working Together

Many people I work with haven't tried hypnotherapy before, and arrive with some uncertainty about what it will involve or how it'll feel to sit with a therapist they haven't met before.

That's entirely normal, and I don't rush past it.

Before any therapeutic work begins, I take time to understand what's brought you here, what you've already tried, and what you're actually hoping for. There's no pressure to have that perfectly articulated — part of my job is to help make sense of it.

People often tell me they were surprised by how straightforward the first session felt. I don't think therapy needs to be overly formal or uncomfortable to be effective.

Not everyone arrives with something deep or complicated, and that's just as welcome — a lot of what I do is focused, practical work on a single issue, and it can move more quickly than people expect. Equally, I've worked with a wide range of people and situations, and complexity doesn't faze me. I'm used to adapting how I work to what a particular person needs. Whatever's brought you here, it's unlikely to be something I haven't come across in some form before.

Professional Background

• Nearly 30 years working in the wellbeing field
• 7 years teaching practitioner-level qualifications to adults in further and private education, prior to specialising in hypnotherapy in 2003
• 23 years in private practice
• 17 years as Principal & Lead Tutor at a long-standing Hypnotherapy Practitioner Training School
• Trainer and Supervisor for other hypnotherapists
• Trainer of an advanced diploma focused on working with trauma and childhood abuse
• Senior Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (SQHP) throuth the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR)
• Fellow of the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (NCIP) — awarded for services to the NCIP
• Registered for Hypnotherapy with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)

Over time in practice I’ve developed the ability to recognise patterns and underlying dynamics more quickly. This can help bring clarity to the work and allow us to focus more directly on what feels most important.

A Bit More About Me

I've lived in Derbyshire for many years, and the countryside here is a big part of how I switch off — usually on foot or by bike, often somewhere in the Peaks. I also draw and paint, badly enough to find it relaxing rather than competitive.

I mention this because I think it matters that your therapist is a person with a life, not just a list of qualifications.

Next steps

If you're looking to explore things differently, or you feel stuck and want a way forward — come along for a free initial consultation. It's a chance to ask questions, talk things through, and decide whether this is the right approach for you.

Sessions are available in person in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and online across the UK.

Call or message me on 07739 466318, or use the online booking system to book your free 30-minute consultation.

Professional Training & Continued Development

My work has been shaped by ongoing professional training over more than two decades, particularly in trauma-informed, integrative and practical approaches to emotional change.

This has included training in:

• Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
• Integrative Supervision
• Trauma & Abuse Specialist Skills
• Lifespan Integration
• Rewind Technique
• Core Transformation
• NLP & Coaching approaches
• EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
• Human Givens-informed approaches
• Mindfulness-based approaches

I continue to undertake ongoing professional development focused on grounded, practical and psychologically informed ways of working.