who am i?
I specialise in Clinical Hypnosis, Life Coaching, Stress Management and Neuro Linguistic Programming. This means is that I'm trained to help people realise their own, often undiscovered, potential to transform any area of their lives they might need to change.
My qualifications are:
* Cert SM – Certificate in Stress Management
* Dip H – Diploma in Hypnotherapy
* Dip NLP – Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming
* HPD – Hypnotherapy Practitioners' Diploma
Previously, I worked on community and casework projects in deprived South African settings. I also counselled for the Gay Advice Bureau in Johannesburg, an erstwhile crisis-intervention help-line. I haven’t, however, been exclusively employed in the helping professions. Indeed, much of my working life was spent in the worlds of business and the arts, where I gained invaluable experience in the creative process, motivation, sales, management and entrepreneurial endeavour – skills that now stand me in excellent stead - particularly when Life Coaching.
my approach
I believe that people generally have the capacity to find solutions to their own problems and needs. Therefore, whether you are looking to resolve a personal issue, work through a difficult situation or seek self-development, I see my role largely as that of a facilitator. I’ll use a variety of tools and techniques to help you achieve the results you seek, including NLP, Clinical Hypnosis, Life Coaching, Time Line Therapy and aspects of Gestalt and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy.
My approach is a Client based one. We’ll work together in a confidential, safe, non-judgemental environment, where I’ll help you utilise the power of your mind to work with whatever issue you bring. For meaningful change to take place, it is important for us to not just deal with symptoms, but to also explore whatever root-causes there might be. Using certain techniques, it is possible to do this without having you relive painful aspects of your past, in the way one needs to do using some schools of psychotherapy.
Remember that the more you know, the better immunised you are against a similar situation recurring.
I’ll also work with your value and belief systems. There are often a number of deeply held, and frequently unconscious, subjective beliefs or attitudes within us that impact on a situation. Many of our beliefs in particular prove to be both inaccurate and unhelpful, if not also severely limiting. They can be difficult to identify without some skilled help, but truly life changing when we’re able to explore them and go on to create for ourselves a more appropriate sense of reality - one that better reflects the world in which we live as well as our own reality and our place within it.
Every effect has its cause, and significant long-term change frequently depends on us reviewing the effect both our actions and our underlying thoughts and values have on the way we feel, relate to each other and behave. It is my goal to have you become empowered and emotionally self-sufficient - and through the process, you’ll hopefully, not only grow as a person, but also make real and lasting positive changes to your life.
Of course, I’ll employ Hypnosis and NLP to do this, both powerful tools that directly access the unconscious mind.
my philosophy
I believe that people have enormous inner resources, which are all-too-often ignored. My aim is to help you to explore and tap into the great power you have for personal healing, growth, achievement and positive transformation. I have the deepest respect for people’s inner wisdom and their ability to locate and resolve their own personal issues. We each follow our own unique path through life and it is of course right that I encourage and support both the direction and timetable of yours in a non-judgemental way.
