I have been interested in Mental Health issues all my adult life and after gaining a place at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford in 1966, and obtaining an MA degree in Modern Languages, I went to Drama School in London, pursuing a stage career and worked in TV, Radio, Films and the Stage.  I also worked as a full time teacher in Primary School for a number of years.

 I worked as a Bereavement Counsellor in Camden for four years and then studied Analytical Psychotherapy at the institute of Psychoanalysis and both the London College of Psychotherapy and the Lincoln but subsequently became fascinated by Hypnotherapy which works very much in the “ here and now “ and the power it can often have, working co-operatively with the client, to change long held, unwanted habits and negative ways of thinking, feeling and behaviour.

I trained at the London College of Clinical Hypnosis, from which I qualified in 2001.  I started in full time private practice, treating a variety of conditions from phobias, to weight control, and anxiety and depression.

In 2006 I wished to add to my knowledge base and trained in Cognitive behavioural therapy where I graduated in 2007. This I find a very useful adjunct to my hypnotherapy, and often utilize in more long stay patients to modify behavioural patterns and can be very effectively used in long term anxiety and depression sufferers.