About me
Hi, I'm an Ericksonian Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist and counsellor. What's that? Milton Erickson was America's foremost psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, who was studied by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their formulation of NLP. (Neuro Linguistic Programming.) I've studied his methods and the theory of indirect hypnosis, and have a Diploma to prove it. Practice is more important than paperwork however, and if you've got a problem, I can show you how his methods work. Erickson's appreciation of the unconscious mind was different to Freud's in many respects, particularly in how it communicated with the conscious mind and vice versa. Erickson believed that positive action in the external environment could change aspects of the mind's internal environment, and that reframing of the internal environment could be used to change behavioiur in the external environment. Either way, you get improvement! I'm also a registered social worker with 40yrs experience, trained in many aspects of counselling and therapeutic interventions. I've worked with a variety of psychiatrists and therapists in family therapy, child guidance and mental health. I also do management coaching and mentoring, surprising you may think, buit actually it uses most of the same skillsets, and many hardpressed managers have benefitted from work around stress management. Apart from that I like boats and motorbikes, fresh air, swimming, and anything that's an achievable challenge!
