Cognitive Hypnotherapy
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I am a qualified Cognitive Hypnotherapist. Due to covid and other personal reasons, I closed my practice down in 2022. As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, I had a special interest in helping people overcome addiction.
While treating people for addictions, my main focus was treating the cause rather than the symptom. This meant a lot of deep work on past traumas, depression and severe anxiety. I have helped people overcome many class-A substances and many behavioural addictions.
I have helped many people move on from past trauma, depression and severe anxiety and go on to live happy lives and to even progress in their careers.
The Cognitive Hypnotherapy model brings together some of the best aspects of various other disciplines of therapy. Hypnotherapy, NLP, CBT, Parts Therapy, EMI, Timeline Reconsolidating Therapy, coaching, etc. I was also lucky enough to assist a well known addiction recovery coach Hugh Osborne, on his workshops where he would teach other Hypnotherapists his process and techniques.
One of my main reasons for closing down my practice, was because Cognitive Hypnotherapy is not yet recognised by the NHS, which meant running a private practice. My main problems with this were: 1. The exchange of money for therapy. 2. Most of the people who I wanted to help the most could not afford the service, which meant me giving a lot of free therapy. As rewarding as this is, it does not pay the bills and with a new family, this was a bit problematic.
I have recently discovered the PWP position and have done some research on it. The opportunity of being a part of the NHS and the supported continued professional development, is really exciting. I would love to be a part of this and I believe that I would be a great fit for this.
Hypnotherapy model is an amazing tool and had a great community but one of the things that (in my opinion) it was missing was the ability to move clients around easily into programmes or towards professionals who were more suitable. I find that during recovery from any psychological problem, the same patients will benefit from different things during different stages of their recovery and it seems to me like IAPT can accommodate this. I have had clients who were beyond my remit, who I would refer back to their GP, but I knew that this wasn’t probably going to go anywhere. It’s good to know that (within IAPT), I can refer them directly onto a clinical psychologist who is within the service.
Since closing down my practice, I have been working at a family business in a management position but I am not really happy here. My passion and my purpose is helping people heal and this is something that I am really good at. I would love to get back to this but didn’t really know how until finding this position.
As a therapist, I am kind and gentle but also have a strong heart and a steady hand during interventions. Although I am confident, I do not have an ego within a session setting because my clients safety and well-being is always my main priority.
I practiced Cognitive Hypnotherapy for seven years before closing down. My last practice was on Harley Street, which I was proud of but, building a practice on Harley Street comes with its on complexities, which (for me) took something away from the joy of the work. during covid and a while after, I moved my practice online, which wasn’t too bad but also came with its problems.
