About Me

At the Cambridge Hypnotherapy Clinic, I treat a wide range of emotional, habitual or psychological problems using hypnotherapy or counselling, offering high quality care, expertise and support.

I have found hypnotherapy to be exceptionally good at ridding people of many fears, anxieties, phobias, depression and other disorders. Because hypnotherapy gets to the root cause of problems it is the most effective therapy I have come across. It is therefore an extremely rewarding job because it helps so many people to feel enormously better. It really does change people’s lives. I also work with people suffering from cancer by using hypnotherapy to help promote emotional and physical recovery. An increasing number of people consult me for relaxation in pregnancy and childbirth and for help while undergoing IVF. The easiest of all problems to treat is smoking. Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is incredibly successful. It only takes one session and is an extremely simple and enjoyable process.

I qualified as a hypnotherapist in 1999 and became a member of the International Association of Hypnoanalysts. I now have an advanced diploma and has served as a member of the Association’s Council of Management.

I find teaching and training very rewarding and over the last fifteen years I have periodically run workshops at Homerton College, and the School of Education at Cambridge University, at Bedford University, at schools and in similar settings in subjects ranging from hypnotherapy counselling skills, bereavement workshops and child abuse issues to IT.

Other therapy

Since becoming a hypnotherapist I have scaled down my counselling work to a bare minimum because I find hypnotherapy more rewarding and as a rule more useful to people than counselling. Over the past fifteen years I have worked in a variety of settings with a variety of clients from all walks of life. I worked for Cruse Bereavement Care as a bereavement counsellor from 1989 and soon became a group supervisor. I specialised in working with children and families bereaved by sudden and violent death. At this time I also had a thriving private counselling practice. I received  supervision training in 1994 and I have been supervising counsellors and those in business settings, in groups and individually for some years now.

I specialised for 8 years in working with people with sexual and gender problems. From 1991 – 1999 I worked at the Middlesex Hospital, part time, specialising in helping with people with sexual dysfunction and those with gender dysphoria.

Also over that time I was a volunteer counsellor at the Cambridge young people’s counselling and advice service: Centre 33. At the request of the Manager and the Governors I spent some months running the counselling side of the Centre as the Counselling Coordinator until we could find a suitable permanent replacement. I still have a particular interest in working with young people.

I am a member of The Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. APHP is an exclusive body which maintains directories of hypnotherapists UK and worldwide. It is dedicated to maintaining a high standard of professionalism amongst its members, all of whom are fully covered by hypnotherapist’s professional indemnity insurance and committed to ongoing training.