Do you ever feel like past trauma still controls your present, no matter how much time has passed? Many people living with PTSD or Complex PTSD (CPTSD) struggle with flashbacks, overwhelming emotions, and a nervous system that never feels safe. These experiences can be exhausting and isolating.

As a trauma-informed hypnotherapist and PTSD therapist, I’ve supported countless clients in using hypnotherapy for trauma recovery. In this blog, we’ll explore how hypnotherapy for PTSD and ...

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Have you ever searched “help with sex life” or “intimacy issues help” and felt instantly overwhelmed by the options of what will help you? You see titles like “sex therapist near me,” “certified sex coach,” and even “online sex therapy UK,” and the immediate confusion sets in: Which professional do I actually need? This is a completely common dilemma, and it’s one that stops many people from getting the vital support they deserve.

In this a...

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Have you ever wondered why some people seem to struggle more than others with workplace stress or conflict, even when nothing “big” has happened? Trauma is not about what happens to us, it’s about how we process it and the impact it has on us later on. 

70% of people will experience something as being traumatic in their lifetime and that means consequences down the line for our mental wellbeing. Autistic people and those with other neurodivergent conditions (ADHD, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and related) have neurodevelopmental differences that compound this and 80% of neurodivergent people will in any case have a co-occurring everyday mental health condition such as anxiety, depression and OCD.

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Do you ever catch yourself doubting your worth, replaying mistakes in your mind, or brushing off compliments because they just don’t feel true? Living with chronic low self-esteem can feel like carrying an invisible weight that colours every part of your life—your relationships, your career, and even your ability to take care of yourself.

You are not alone. Millions of people struggle with self-esteem issues that stem from early experiences, negative self-talk, or deep-rooted beliefs about not being “good enough.” But there is hope. In this article, we’ll explore how hypnotherapy for low self-esteem can help transform these patterns by working directly with the subconscious mind—the place where so many of these limiti...

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Are you ND Curious? 

In my work as a neurodiversity coach and integrative psychotherapist, I often listen to clients who wonder why they feel ‘different’.  

Maybe you’ve always felt a little out of step with others. Or maybe you’ve stumbled across a post or video about ADHD or autism and thought, that’s me! If you’re starting to wonder whether you might be neurodivergent, you’re not alone, and you’re probably not imagining things.

In this article, I’ll explain what ‘neurodivergent’ means, and how many of us are discovering this part of ourselves later in ...

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The importance of a healthy level of self-esteem cannot be underestimated:  it determines our worth, value and right to have our legitimate needs met.  It is the ability to set boundaries, attract and maintain healthy relationships, and recognise that we will not abandon ourselves simply for the sake of belonging.  It is a sense of being rooted in ourselves, and recognising intuitively when someone,  or something, is not in our best interests coupled with the ability to act on this gnosis and withdraw if necessary.

Self-esteem becomes our guidance system, our inner compass, to navigate our way through life as well.   We cannot control what happens to us in life but with good self esteem we can learn to sail in high seas.

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The ego can be a thing of terrible beauty – rampantly cocksure one moment, fragile as parchment the next.

It is capable of inspiring and propelling us to moments of true greatness, leaving others around us lost in the backwash of its afterburners. And then, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it instant, it can plunge us into self-doubt and self-loathing.

Ego defines our emotional and psychological essence, a wild animal that paces the cage we lock it in. We feed it and it grows. We starve it and it shrinks. We neglect it and it becomes savage.

Often, its food of choice – or, perhaps more accurately at least, the diet we choose to feed it – is the app...

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In a shade over six months the UK will no longer be a member of the European Union. Whatever your view of that in principle, the matter of Britain’s membership is a debate that has long since been obsolete. Our love affair with Europe is in its death throes and come next March the political equivalent of a decree absolute will formally be signed by all parties.

Our departure is no longer about the financial terms of the divorce, either. 

Events over the weekend (which largely unfolded in The Daily Mail at the pen of Boris Johnson) and this morning, as it was reveale...

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Give a man a fish and he’ll feed himself for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll feed himself forever. Or so the saying goes. It’s probably true, but who really knows? Fish can be damned smart. Particularly the ones that have been caught before.

Here’s a saying which I know is absolutely true:

Give someone five minutes with nothing to do but think and they’ll find a way to beat themselves up about something, no matter how small or trivial.

It’s a sentence or thought that starts with the words If only I hadn’t …

… said that, done the other, been mean about Rachel’s new hairstyle,...

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Over the last few days, former Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell has suggested that George Michael may have been tortured by a childhood secret that proved to be both the singer’s inspiration and his curse.

Michael was, of course, a global superstar, recognised as one of the most gifted songwriters of his generation. A string of bubblegum hits in the Eighties with Wham! made him the bedroom-wall-pin-up for teen girls – and some teen boys – around the world.

And as he outgrew the sockless deck shoes and coiffured highlights and forged a more contemporary image rendered in brooding charcoal and black and punctuated by goatees and designer shades, his songwriting became similarly substantial...

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