Hands up if you sometimes feel like a forthcoming event that you're due to take part in – be it 10 seconds away or 10 days away – makes you feel a bit uncomfortable? I can guarantee that almost everybody reading this will have raised a hand (or, more likely,…

When I started out as a hypnotherapist in London, I thought that the bulk of my work was going to be helping people to stop smoking. I thought that given hypnotherapy's strong track record as a proven way to deal with this that I would be helping people to say…

According to statistics, between 10 and 25 per cent of the population have a problem with anxiety. That’s up to 15 million people, and for many thousands of these people panic attacks will be a very real part of every day life. If you do have panics attacks, then at…

When I tell people I am a hypnotherapist in London, it’s quite common for people to ask me for some advice. And one thing that they frequently want to know about is anxiety, which is a serious concern when it leads to panic attacks. Here are my three top tips to…

Working as a hypnotherapist in London, I get a glimpse into the real-world issues that affect my clients every day. It can be hard for even someone like me who is well-trained in the gentle art of staying calm to be a picture of tranquillity when a tube door is…

Today, May 18th 2017, on Chris Evans’ Radio 2 Breakfast Show, a hypnotherapist helped cured the sports reporter Vassos Alexander of his snake phobia as you can listen to here. Putting my mild jealousy to one side about not doing it myself, I thought it was a brilliant 15 minutes…

Thanks to tube strikes, work pressures, traffic and the general hustle and bustle of city life, London can be pretty stressful for the up to 25 percent of people who already struggle with anxiety. In fact, figures released by the Mayor’s office in 2014 showed that anxiety levels in London…

We are all completely different – that much is evident when you study the faces of people as they settle into their seats on an aeroplane. For the cabin crew, the pressing issue is getting everyone seated and all the luggage stowed away. For people who like to be in…

 What kind of internal voice self-talk do you have?  Does it help inspire you to greatness, called ‘positive internal self-talk’.  Or, is it cruel and stops you from achieving what you set out to do, which is called ‘negative internal self-talk’?  Whichever you have, this automatic / unconscious response is…

My heart went out to singer Ed Sheeran recently when I read about his struggles with panic attacks. It appears that he is living proof of the downside of fame, and the sad truth is that he is by no means the only celebrity to need help for anxiety. Sheeran…