My Therapy Background & Training

I've always been fascinated by the ability of the human race to improve themselves and with my own journey in life, and the help I received with hypnotherapy as a young teenager, it became a huge hobby and passion of mine.

An early inspiration came from Paul McKenna in the early nineties, who I’m very grateful to have trained with through many online training webinars, and also personally earlier in 2025. He, and also Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP and pioneers of modern hypnosis have been instrumental in fuelling my years of knowledge in hypnosis and personal change therapy.

I graduated in June 1996 when I qualified as the youngest member of the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists under the expert watchful eye of Mrs Vicki Watson, through the Twa Acres Hypnotherapy Training Centre in Blairgowrie. Vicki changed my life and continues to be a huge inspiration in my life.

 I have also trained with British Hypnosis Research in London under the renowned Ericksonian Hypnotherapist Stephen Brooks at the Royal Masonic Hospital in Hammersmith, London and completed countless refresher and CPD training in all areas of hypnosis, hypnotherapy and NLP including past life regression, psychoanalysis, hypo-analysis, stage and street hypnosis, grief and bereavement and many other areas including with the Open University.

 I hold the senior qualification in hypnotherapy awarded by the General Hypnotherapy Register and General Hypnotherapy Standards Council. My training in psychotherapy and counselling was conducted under the auspices of the National Council for Psychotherapy and the Institute of Complimentary Medicine and their later formations. I continue to offer these during my practice.

 I’ve also lectured for the NHS, demonstrating to medical staff and doctors the efficacy of hypnosis and the power we have over our own minds for pain management, healing and the physiology of the body. I have conducted countless workshops in relaxation, stress management, hypnotherapy and confidence building for performance and also training days, along with years of individual appointments with clients.