Life Coach and Mindset Coach Therapist

Do you feel sad? Thats what your GP will ask you. They will want to know your symptoms. Sometimes antidepressants do work but with therapy we change your habits, your view on life, your perception of yourself without taking tablets. Im not going to ask you how you feel just yet, I want to know the last time you felt on top of the world, it could be years ago. But it will be proof you know how to live a life without depression. You can be free, you can have control back of your life. It takes true courage to seek help and open up to a stranger. But whether its me or another Therapist there will be no judgement, just someone to listen to you and support you to find that happy you again.

Weight loss. Weight gain.

Its so much easier to gain weight than lose it right?

But what if I told you that you can lose weight in a healthy way without capsules, diet plans, slimming world, weight watchers and all those companies that try to sell these products. Yeah they may work for a while but its so restricting, to me its not real life. For example why do we see food as sins or naughty foods. Its programming us to have a unhealthy relationship with food. The word 'diet' I dont use and if we work together we will ban the word 'diet' its a negative, restricting and temporary word. The word 'die' is in it, we are working on 'life' for a lifestyle. Who is to say cake is bad or a sin or eat less because we had cake. No. We want LIFESTYLE, something that improves mentally and physically in a way that is comfortable for us. I know what its like, I lost 6 stone in weight and I did it through a lifestyle change. Youve got this!

Phobias and fears what's the difference? If I was going to pay £100,000 to do the thing thats frightens you the most and you do it than thats a fear. If you would not do it for that amount of money than thats a phobia. We work with both fears and phobias. The thing with phobias are they are generally built up overtime, causing you to have this pattern of thought, emotion, behaviour and action. This is something we can discuss further, but its important to know that understanding the phobia/fear can make a huge difference to the way you view it. We can work together in a few sessions, so you face your phobia.

Self-Esteem is when you are in a place of lack. Perhaps your lacking in love/connection with yourself. As human we have quite a few different needs and sometimes they can become unbalanced and thats when Self-Esteem will play a part in building that balance back in your life.

So, self-esteem if we break it down and talk about ‘self’, who are you as a person? Do you people please? Do you recognise your strength? What about self reflection? I bet you don’t praise yourself for good things you do or progression that u make. It may feel like everything is a chore and too hard to reach. Perhaps you don’t feel worthy of much, because you stay in a place of comfort and certainty? Do you feel you self sabotage from being your own type of self, standing on your feet with worth and love but a niggling little voice says "you can't do that"? Now esteem, let me guess you don't value who you are anymore, your truths, your dreams, your goals or who you see in the mirror? You may have lost passion or confidence in yourself? Do you feel like you have just run out of steam, you try and try but there is no "I can do this"? Is something holding you back?

Drug addiction, alcohol, porn, sex, there are so many things that we can focus on purely to help us in some way to get through life. More often than not, what we are hoping for the addiction to create a feeling of uncertainty, spontaneity, impulsivity or risk. Weirdly enough we are also creating a feeling of certainty in the routine of it. But as we are all aware, an addiction can cost us much more than the money we waste on it, it can also cost us relationships and sometimes our lives.

To help a client kick their addiction, I use strategic intervention, graded exposure, counselling and hypnosis.

It is important to connect with a child in the first few seconds of meeting, this is going to be a big deal for them and the last thing they want is me appearing to be just like any other authoritive figure that they would never open up to. I am trained to talk to children in an age appropriate language giving them space and time to feel heard and listened to. The child is encouraged to tell their own story without fear of judgement or interrogation focussing particularly on their feelings using skills in empathy and sensitivity. What is said during our sessions is confidential. I will talk about our session with the child's parents if the child requests it or if I feel it would be helpful, but then only with the child's consent. The exception to confidentaility is if I have reason to believe that any person was at risk of harm, either from themselves or others, as I am duty-bound by law to report this to the relevant agency.

Parents want to do their best for their children but sometimes life has a way of throwing things in our path making everything seem like a challenge. They may feel they have failed as parents and of course that is not the case but accepting there is an issue that needs to be looked at is a big step and a very important one.

My first session could begin with the parent/parents themselves, so I can get some background information and where they are at in life. This can be quite difficult for them but I have found many parents find it a great relief and a step in the right direction. Sometimes the parent/parents may find counselling would be helpful for them too. Quite often children cannot find the words but I will work with them in a gentle, sensitive way building rapport and allowing them to communicate via arts therapy, storytime, conversation and other skills.

Insomnia or sleep disorders can be very frustrating, particularly when we know at some stage in our life, there was a time that we slept well. You may say "I never ever slept well!" but even going back as far as childhood, you would have slept well at some point in your life.

However as we grow older and life brings its stresses, worries and concerns we can develop a regular sleep issue. Sleep deprivation can cause problems at work, in relationships and generally leave us feeling very unhappy and fatigued.

Hypnotherapy is a fantastic process where we can begin to learn to relax again and at some point start to improve on our sleep pattern. So how comes you can nod off so easily while trying to watch that film on the television but then find yourself lying awake all night while other people snore the night away.

When we 'try' to sleep, the chance is that we can fail. When you're trying to watch the late movie, you fail right? Because you're trying to stay awake. When you try to sleep you're actually focussing on lack of sleep rather than how it will feel to wake rejuvenated and refreshed the next day.

Sleep then starts to become pain rather than pleasure. Let's begin the process of unlearning this bad strategy you have of trying to sleep and learn to drift off peacefully again.

Try to remember when you had your first cigarette or maybe the first few, did you smoke then because you felt stressed, tense or to help you calm down? Did you smoke then to help you concentrate? Nearly every person I have spoke to has answered “because my friends did”, “they made me look big, feel grown up”, “I don’t even know why I started.” And so here you are now and depending on how many you smoke a day, you will find after a certain amount of time (roughly every 45mins with regular smokers) your brain will tell you that you need a cigarette.


You can imagine it being like a parasite inside you that needs feeding and once you smoke it, well you know . But what happens if you don’t? The feeling gets stronger and stronger and you become more agitated until you finally light it up and take that first puff. Your brain remembers that feeling of agitation and stress and you begin to plan ahead unknowingly, working out when you will smoke, how many you need and so forth.


I’m sure in this day and age now where smoking has become completely unfashionable you will have heard all the horror stories of deteriorating health, cancer, emphysema and more. You may even know a friend or a relative who has suffered ill health or died because of smoking but isn’t it amazing that we can ignore it all and think it won’t happen to us? Control again!


So let me explain a bit about what will happen when you come to see me. Our first hour will be a counselling session using cognitive behavioural therapy and neuro linguistic programming to really find out about you and your habit. The reason for this is that when we move on to the next hour of hypnosis I can completely tailor the session to you because it is you that is important. I want to help you and it’s important to me that you are choosing me to bring you success and combining all of these powerful techniques is the most successful way to experience hypnotherapy to stop smoking for good.

I have listed a few services I offer, but there is plenty more. So feel free to get in touch.