Clinical Hypnotherapist & Nutritionist

BSc(Hons), MSc(Edin), FRSH, DipCAH, HPD, CH(USA), PDipNLP

I have been involved in the field of promoting health for the last 25 years and now specialise in promoting health through hypnotherapy, biofeedback and nutrition. I have studied nutrition as part of my MSc in Health Promotion and BSc Biological Sciences and have worked and lectured in nutrition & health promotion.  I have extensive experience in the areas of stopping smoking, weight loss, and workplace stress and more recently created and sold a successful organic food company.  I live in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, am married with 3 children and like to keep fit, play music and watch films.

We all have within us enormous personal resources and by using hypnosis we are able to access these to help ourselves.  This can help us solve problems and relieve tensions that may appear insoluble or intractable to our conscious mind. However sometimes there are certain skills, for example confidence or relaxation, which we may not have enough of, or may not have at all.  With hypnotherapy these skills can be rapidly acquired, helping us overcome obstacles and achieve our goals.  The state of hypnosis, can be described as deep relaxation promoting an altered state of consciousness, and is a safe, natural state.

Biofeedback is another tool that can teach you how to balance the nervous systems in the body, thereby promoting relaxation and physical calm.  This is excellent for stress management and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).  This technique is widely used in USA.

Clinical hypnotherapy is a powerful tool to harness the inner strength of the mind. Using a combination of hypnosis, NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), relaxation and visualisation, hypnotherapy is one of the most rapid psychotherapies available.

By being aware of our diet and daily nutrition we can identify ways in which to maximise our health and wellbeing. 'We are what we eat' is a well-known cliché but we are also the product of what we have eaten in the past. Looking after our body is an important part of promoting wellbeing in our minds; as is looking after our mind, through promoting positive thoughts, is an important part of promoting physical wellbeing. The mind and body are intricately linked through numerous feedback systems and promoting harmony in mind and body comes from understanding this connection.