Coach, Counsellor & Hypnotherapist in The City of London and Central London

Through my experience as a Counsellor I have come to understand the importance of creating an empowering relationship with my clients based on acceptance, non-judgement, compassion, honesty, empathy and understanding.

Through working with my clients, I have found that when these conditions are present within our therapeutic relationship it makes it possible for my clients to feel safe and secure enough to explore the issues and fears that are causing them distress and to move towards making changes.

I am trained and experienced in various therapeutic modalities that I can blend together to create a unique model of working depending on the needs of the client.

I work with both short-term solutions focussed therapy as well as longer term therapy.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the psychotherapeutic approach that looks at the link between our thoughts, feelings and behaviour and how we are influenced by this interaction which then affects how we perceive ourselves, others and the world

This diagram shows how the link between thoughts feelings and behaviours operates.

CBT also acknowledges the role of underlying beliefs, often out of our awareness, which tend to be the ‘power house’ of our thoughts, feelings and behaviours and which are crucial when making therapeutic changes when using CBT.

By taking the time to bring into our awareness what it is we are thinking and uncovering our thought patterns which have become habitual over time it is possible to bring about therapeutic changes in any distortions in our beliefs and thought patterns which may be causing us distress.

I can support you to change the way you think about an event to enable you to change the way you feel about it and consequently change how you behave which results in achieving a more helpful outcome in any given situation.

I often tend to incorporate Mindfulness exercises alongside my CBT work as this supports my clients in being able to recognise unhelpful thought, feelings and behaviour patterns without becoming overwhelmed by them.

Coaching

The first question to ask yourself before embarking on your Coaching journey is ‘ What do I want’? Often this is where many people experience difficulty and for various reasons. I can support you to identify what it is you would like to gain through Coaching and to then work with you to formulate a plan to turn what it is you want into actionable steps for you to take in order to achieve your aim.

Because I have trained and worked as a Counsellor and Therapist for over 15 years, I am able to bring a deeper understanding to any issues that may be stopping you from reaching your potential and help you to overcome these along your Coaching journey.

Whatever it is you would like Coaching for I have been able to support hundreds of clients throughout my career to gain awareness and become empowered to identify their challenges, face them and make positive, life changing decisions.

Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming

All of my clients come to me at the stage where everything they have tried in order to solve their problem no longer works.

It may have been that what they were doing did at some point provide some relief from their difficulty but now what was once a solution has become the problem.

An example could be that if as a child you were told not to speak with strangers it may have been really good advice at the time yet this message would have gone deep into the unconscious (depending on how reinforced it was) and would have influenced your thoughts feelings and behaviour. Fast forward to age 30 and the same person has difficulty meeting new people and we can see how the solution can be become the problem.

I can help you to change unwanted habits and behaviours rapidly and effectively using the Psychotherapeutic approaches of Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

By using the skills of Hypnotherapy it’s possible to make lasting therapeutic changes at a very deep unconscious level which then manifest on a conscious level and is experienced in changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

By understanding how we structure and remember an experience through our senses it is possible to effect positive and lasting change through the use of NLP by cognitive restructuring of our experiences to be more in tune with who we are today.

Through my work as a Coach and Therapist here are just some of the areas/issues that I have successfully supported my clients with to create positive change in their lives:

•Goal setting
•Career change/Change management
•Smoking cessation
•Anxiety management
•Anxiety disorders
•Anger management
•Building Self-Confidence
•Depression
•Fear of public speaking
•Nail biting
•Over/under eating
•Phobias
•Relationship issues
•Sleep disturbance
•Stress management
•Unhelpful thought patterns
•And much more...

To find out if I may be able to support you and to answer any questions you might have please get in touch.