My background, experience and qualifications

I love my work. It is a great privilege and a hugely rewarding experience to be able to help people create amazing changes in their lives. I have been working as a practitioner since 2009. I bring clarity and compassion to my work, and a great commitment to my clients.

My own experience... has shaped the person I am today. I was forced to give up working in further education because of my own chronic illness which lasted 8 years. However, when I did the Lightning Process for myself, all that changed, and I now lead a full and active life. I decided to train as a practitioner myself, and I am now able to share what I have learned with others. For more about my own story, please see my blogsite.

Before training to become a Lightning Process trainer, and also in Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Training and Life Coaching, I had 15 years' experience of teaching in Further Education. I worked with adults with a wide range of support needs, and was also a programme team leader at the City of Bristol College. I have taught work preparation and choices, literacy, numeracy, decision-making, confidence building, goal setting and social skills. I also provided and coordinated 1:1 support to adults with mental health issues and disabilities on courses throughout the college.

My qualifications... I have a Diploma, Masters and an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Life Coaching from the Phil Parker Training Institute, and I am qualified as an Advanced Lightning Process Practitioner. In addition I am trained as a Psych-K practitioner. I also have a Post Graduate Certificate of Education (Further Education). 

I am a member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy and NLP. I am fully insured, and have a Disclosure and Barring Service check.