Private 1-to-1 work that reaches the memory, not just the story.
Trauma therapy in Kent. When the body still reacts like it's happening now.
You're looking for trauma therapy. Maybe something specific happened, or maybe it built up over years. Maybe you've talked it through before and understood it, without the charge around it ever lifting. That's the hard part of trauma. Knowing where it came from rarely changes how the body still reacts to it.
The work that changes that is EMDR. It's the method the NHS and World Health Organisation recommend for trauma, and in plain terms it helps the brain reprocess a memory that got stuck, so it stops firing the same response in the present. Alongside it I use clinical hypnotherapy for the patterns the trauma left behind. The aim isn't to relive anything. It's to let your system finally file it as over.
Sessions in Maidstone, at my Harley Street clinic in London, or online worldwide.
- MSc Psychology
- MSc Communication, Behaviour & Credibility Analysis
- Diploma in Hypnotherapy (DHP)
- Certified Hypnotherapist (CHyp)
- Master NLP Practitioner (MNLP)
- Member of the Complementary Medical Association (MCMA)
- Master Transformational Coach
- Published Author
- 25+ years in business & personal development
- Outskirts of Maidstone - Kent Practice
- London Clinic
- World Wide - Online or In Person
I've been where you are. That's not a line.
Before working with others, I had to do this work myself. For a long time I was good at the external picture. I had a career in photography, working with national magazines, then built and ran a marketing agency for over two decades. By most measures, it looked like things were going well. Underneath that, something else was running. Patterns I did not fully understand, reactions I could not always explain, a quiet but persistent sense that something was off despite the evidence to the contrary.
It took doing the work at a deep level to understand what was actually driving it. That experience changed the direction of everything. I spent years training across psychology, hypnotherapy, NLP, behavioural analysis and human communication, not to collect credentials, but because I wanted to understand precisely how these patterns form, how they hold, and how to shift them at the level they actually live.
I work with people from all walks of life. Some are dealing with anxiety, grief, or things they have been carrying for years. Others feel stuck or disconnected in ways they find difficult to articulate. What they share is not a type or a background. It is that something is not working, and they are ready to do something real about it.
That is also what I understand about change. It does not happen through theory. It happens through doing the work at the level where the pattern actually lives.
Sessions are private, direct, and built entirely around you. No worksheets. No therapy-speak. The work, and nothing else.
The issue is rarely what appears on the surface
Trauma isn't the event. It's what the nervous system did with it, and then kept doing, often for years after the danger passed. The memory gets stored unprocessed, so the body keeps responding as though the threat is still here. Talking about it can give you the story. Reaching the memory at the level it's held and reprocessing it there is different work. That's what EMDR is built for.
Whatever brought you here, the work goes to the same place. Find the pattern. Change it at the level it lives. Everything else follows.
Talking about problems doesn't solve them.
Disrupting the patterns that create them does.
People come for many reasons. The root is usually the same.
People come for many different reasons. I help with Counselling, Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Life Coaching & Emotional Freedom Techniques. The entry point varies. The work underneath is always about the same thing: finding and shifting the pattern that is keeping you stuck
Anxiety & Overwhelm
You wake up already behind. Your mind is three steps ahead of where you are, running through things that have not happened yet. The things that used to feel manageable now take everything you have. And no one around you sees it, because you have become very good at holding it together.
Confidence & Self-Worth
Other people see someone who has it together. You see someone waiting to be found out. The voice is not loud. It does not need to be. It sits underneath every decision, every opportunity, every room you walk into. And it has been there so long you have stopped noticing that it is not yours.
Purpose & Fulfilment
Everything looks right on paper. The career, the life, the things you have built. And still there is a feeling that none of it is quite yours. Not unhappy. Not in crisis. Something quieter than that. A slow sense that you have been running hard in a direction someone else set, and you never stopped to ask whether it was the right one.
Relationships & Connection
The people closest to you get a version. Not the real one. You want to connect, you want to be understood, and something keeps the distance in place. The same patterns show up across different people, different situations. You can see it happening and you still cannot stop it. And the loneliest part is that no one else knows.
Performance & Focus
You know what you are capable of. You have seen it. And right now there is a gap between that and what you are actually producing. You are not lazy. You are not lacking discipline. Something is pulling the handbrake every time you build momentum, and effort alone has not been enough to override it.
Habits & Behaviour
You know the pattern. You can see it clearly. You can explain to yourself exactly why you should stop. And then you do it again. The drinking, the eating, the avoidance, the anger. It is not a lack of understanding. It is not a lack of willpower. Something underneath keeps resetting the behaviour, no matter how many times you decide this time will be different.
- Generalised Anxiety
- Social Anxiety
- Panic Attacks
- Health Anxiety
- Performance Anxiety
- Burnout
- Chronic Stress
- Overthinking
- Sleep Problems
- Phobias & Fears
- Imposter Syndrome
- Self-Doubt
- Perfectionism
- Fear of Failure
- Low Self-Worth
- Public Speaking
- Fear of Judgement
- Body Image
- Shame & Guilt
- People Pleasing
- Communication Breakdown
- Trust Issues
- Loneliness & Isolation
- Family Conflict
- Grief & Loss
- Emotional Unavailability
- Anger & Resentment
- Codependency
- Parenting Pressure
- Life Transitions
- Alcohol & Substance Use
- Emotional Eating
- Compulsive Behaviours
- Avoidance Patterns
- Anger & Reactivity
- Negative Self-Talk
- Procrastination
- Risk-Taking
- Addictive Patterns
- Self-Sabotage
- Decision Paralysis
- Leadership Pressure
- Business Stress
- Inconsistent Output
- Exam & Test Nerves
- Career Transitions
- Creative Block
- Motivation & Drive
- Conflict at Work
- Work-Life Balance
- Depression & Low Mood
- Trauma & PTSD
- Emotional Numbness
- Lack of Meaning
- Midlife Questioning
- Bereavement
- Identity Crisis
- Overwhelm & Fatigue
- Worthlessness
- Disconnection
A different kind of process
The work is precise, not abstract. It's pattern-level intervention using two evidence-based approaches: EMDR to reprocess the trauma memory itself, and clinical hypnotherapy for the responses and patterns it left behind.
Find what's actually holding it
Trauma doesn't always sit where you'd expect. Assessment is working out, carefully and at your pace, which memories are still driving the response in the present. We go nowhere you're not ready to go.
Reprocess at the source
EMDR reprocesses the memory at the level it's stored, so it stops triggering the same reaction. Clinical hypnotherapy settles the patterns left behind, the hypervigilance, the avoidance, the bracing. We use one, the other, or both, paced to what your system can hold.
The past as past
The aim isn't to forget or to relive. It's for the memory to lose its charge, so it becomes something that happened rather than something still happening. When that lands, the body stops reacting as though the danger is still here.
The work speaks for itself
If any of this resonated, let's talk.
A free 15-minute call. We use it to see whether EMDR, hypnotherapy or both is the right fit for what you're carrying, and to make sure the pace is right for you. Trauma work is only safe when the trust is there first, so finding the right person matters as much as the method. No pressure, and nothing you have to talk through on that first call.
This work is not a crisis service. If you need urgent support, please contact your GP, call NHS 111, or call Samaritans free any time on 116 123.