Qualified from the MicroStrategy Bootcamp in 2010 with the following certifications (on MicroStrategy Version 9.0.1). I have been working as a consultant for MicroStrategy since then.

MicroStrategy Project Developer
MicroStrategy Report Developer
MicroStrategy Document Developer
MicroStrategy Administrator
MicroStrategy Certified Developer (MCD)
Which all add up to the MicroStrategy Certified Engineer (MCE)

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NB: Please note that I’m not currently taking on any new Hypnotherapy clients at this time.

Please note that I’m currently not practicing hypnotherapy. For an excellent local therapist please visit:

http://www.hypnotics.org.uk/

Eliminating the myths but none of the magic.

What can Hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) do for you?

• Control your weight
• Pain Management
• Relax and learn to let go
• Hang-Ups, Fears and Phobia cessation
• Become a non-smoker
• Improve your memory
• Athletic, Academic and Business performance
• Stress Management
• Relationship Issues
• Eliminate restrictive behaviour patterns

“If you only do what you’ve always done you’ll only get what you’ve always gotten.”
~ Goethe

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are, to me, a way of enabling us to short-cut conscious learning by accessing the ‘alternate state’ of unconscious thought.

There’s a lot of heated debate as to what this altered state actually is and if it even actually exists at all. The trance state is something different to every individual so it’s very difficult to explain exactly what it is. In the ‘useful links’ section on the right-hand-side of this page is link to the Wikipedia entry on Hypnosis. I believe it gives a very balanced opinion on the current thoughts and theories as to what hypnosis and the trance states actually are.

Hypnosis and Brainwave patterns

• 14 to 30Hz  Beta waves – Aware and Alert
• 8 to 13.9Hz  Alpha waves – Hypnosis / listening to music
• 4 to 7.9Hz  Theta waves – Entering and Awakening from sleep
• 0.1 to 3.9Hz  Delta waves – Deep Sleep

It is believed that the hypnotic state occurs when our brains are operating at a certain frequency. It’s important to note that we all experience hypnotic states during our normal daily activity. Do you recall ever ‘losing yourself’ to a piece of music? Have you ever arrived at work thinking; how did I get here? These are trance states.

In the therapeutic arena the hypnotic trance or detached state is achieved in order to bypass conscious and learnt thought patterns. Essentially if you’re trapped in a negative thought pattern and wish to change this it’s normally deemed more effective if you bypass the conscious thought (possibly resistant conscious thought) and talk directly to the unconscious in order to learn a new, positive thought patterns.

Derren Brown’s book ‘Tricks of the Mind’ has a great and impartial description of what hypnosis and hypnotherapy are.

“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”
~ Viktor Frankl

Do you have an upcoming interview? Try this free MP3 hypnotherapy track to help you prepare: Hypnosis Interview Preparation (the usual caveats apply: don’t listen whilst driving or using machinery).

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day
when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do,
and you’ve done it.”

Margaret Thatcher

During my Hypnotherapy training course I decided to finally read ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor E. Frankl and I found that it was probably the most important book I’ve ever read. Although not on the reading list – because hypnotherapy itself isn’t mentioned in it – I had seen it mentioned in the ‘further reading’ sections of many other great books I had read.

Viktor E. Frankl was an eminent psychiatrist who created a school of psychotherapy based on man’s search for meaning (Logotherapy). He proposed that, when everything else is lost, man still has the choice as to how he responds in any situation and that last of all freedoms is founded on his meaning in life.

If you are in a situation where you have lost absolutely everything - just as Frankl himself did at the hands of the Nazi’s in the concentration camps – you can still have meaning in your life. And if you have that meaning then you can find the strength to carry on.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
~ Viktor Frankl

So, when I combine this philosophy with the humanistic methodology utilised by Milton Erickson (via the use of metaphorically vague language patterns) you have my philosophical approach to hypnotherapy. I also use NLP techniques to aid in the reframing of negative experiences – NLP uses the Meta-Model questionning approach (heuristic, flexible and logical questionning) which challenges currently held beliefs which is the opposite of the Milton-Model (artfully vague and metaphorical questionning approach). This helps me to be more flexible in my responses to different clients needs.

When I first started to study hypnotherapy I was quite aprehensive towards the use of ‘this life’ regression. Coming from a more NLP biased background I believed that it wasn’t required for the therapist to come into contact with too much of the clients’ content regarding their issues. But I have since come to appreciate the power of dealing with past issues in the hypnotic state. How many of us carry emotional baggage that can be easily and effectively dealt with by going back and telling our younger selves that we’re OK and that we’re who we are because of experiencing those trying times.

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
~ Zig Ziglar