About me
If you’re constantly managing stress, overthinking or pressure — but still feel like your system is running too high or hard to control, you’re not alone.
When anxiety begins affecting sleep, travel, confidence or your ability to think clearly under pressure, it’s usually a pattern, not a flaw.
This often intensifies at transitional points — exams, career progression, increased responsibility, unexpected health concerns, or periods of uncertainty about what comes next.
I work with high-responsibility individuals experiencing anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, sleep problems, fear of flying, driving anxiety and performance pressure. Many appear to be coping well externally, while internally running on sustained overthinking, tension or anticipatory stress.
Using Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH), we move beyond symptom management and retrain the stress response at both cognitive and physiological levels. The aim is steady control, clearer thinking and a nervous system that no longer escalates under pressure.
Understanding the Pattern
When you’re carrying sustained responsibility, your system is under constant demand — attention, decision-making and self-control are always in use. Over time, this can begin to show up in different ways:
• Sleep disruption or insomnia
• Panic in specific situations (exams, meetings, flights)
• Avoidance of driving or travel
• Persistent overthinking and mental rehearsal
• Burnout or decision fatigue
These are different expressions of the same underlying pattern — a stress response that is activating too easily and not settling effectively.
When this pattern is addressed directly, the system becomes more stable, responses become more controlled, and symptoms reduce in a way that holds.
How the Work Is Structured
The work is structured and practical, combining cognitive techniques, behavioural retraining, and targeted hypnosis to reduce automatic stress responses.
• Evidence-based cognitive techniques
• Behavioural retraining
• Structured hypnosis to reduce reactivity and reset the stress response
Sessions are focused and collaborative, with a clear emphasis on building control, reducing reactivity, and restoring steady functioning — rather than relying on open-ended exploration alone.
While the process is tailored to each client, it typically follows a structured progression:
Session 1 – Pattern Mapping & Stabilisation
The work follows a structured progression, designed to move from understanding the pattern through to lasting change:
1. Clarify the pattern
We identify how stress or anxiety is showing up and what’s driving it.
2. Map the sequence
We break down the pattern so you can recognise it earlier and more clearly.
3. Reduce reactivity
We introduce practical ways to stabilise your system and interrupt the response.
4. Build new responses
We rehearse and reinforce more controlled, effective ways of responding.
5. Apply and consolidate
We integrate the changes into real-life situations so they hold under pressure.
Common Patterns I Work With
While the underlying pattern is often the same, it can present in different ways:
• Performance anxiety (exams, presentations, interviews)
• High-functioning anxiety and pressure sensitivity
• Chronic overthinking and mental rehearsal
• Burnout linked to sustained responsibility
• Procrastination driven by pressure or perfectionism
• Stress-related sleep disruption
Training, qualifications & experience
Training, Qualifications & Experience
Before retraining as a therapist, I spent over two decades working in high-pressure analytical and mentoring roles across Canary Wharf, the City of London, Singapore, Frankfurt and Zurich. This experience gives me a grounded understanding of sustained performance demands, cognitive overload and responsibility-driven stress.
I later qualified in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH), an evidence-based approach integrating CBT with clinical hypnosis. My work combines formal psychological training with practical insight into how pressure, decision-making environments and performance expectations shape thinking patterns and resilience.
Professional Qualifications
Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy – UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (BPS-aligned training)
Certification in Counselling Skills
Certification in Understanding Autism
Professional Memberships
Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
Member organisations
The National Council for Hypnotherapy holds one of the largest registers of independent Hypnotherapists in the United Kingdom and strives to maintain the highest standards among its members. There is an agreed Code of Conduct, an established Complaints & Disciplinary Procedure and all members are obliged to maintain comprehensive Public Liability & Professional Indemnity Insurance, maintain regular CPD (continuing professional development) hours, and attend Supervision when needed.
The CNHC encompasses many types of alternative therapy, including hypnotherapy.
In order to be admitted to the register a practitioner must have studied to the National Occupational Standards for that profession/discipline, or have reached the equivalent of the National Occupational Standards through other relevant training or at least three years of experience and been assessed by their peers.
A practitioner must also have professional insurance and agree to abide by the CNHC Code of Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of hypnotherapy I deal with
info Information about health conditions (*)
Hypnotherapy can enhance the well-being of individuals diagnosed with serious medical conditions, but should not take the place of medical treatment and advice. If you have been diagnosed with - or suspect you may have - any of these conditions, please speak to your doctor before starting hypnotherapy.
Other areas of hypnotherapy I deal with
Performance anxiety
- Exam stress
- Interview anxiety
- Presentation anxiety
- Public speaking anxiety
- Competition anxiety
- Choking under pressure
- The yips
Overthinking
- Racing thoughts
- Rumination
- Perfectionism
- Imposter syndrome
- Mental blocks
Burnout
- Work stress
- Corporate stress
- Executive stress
- High achiever stress
- Pressure management
- Cognitive overload
- Can’t switch off
Sleep anxiety
- Stress-related insomnia
Stress-related IBS
- Gut anxiety
SEND parent stress
- EHCP anxiety
- Education advocacy stress
- School meeting anxiety
- Caregiver burnout
Therapies offered
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Fees
£125.00 per session
Additional information
Session fee: £125
Available in person in Greenwich or Bromley, and online.
Nervous System Regulation Programme: £550 for 6 sessions
A structured course of work supporting anxiety, sleep disruption, breathing pattern issues, and performance under pressure.
How I work
I use Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy to address unhelpful thought patterns alongside underlying stress responses. Where appropriate, sessions may include tailored hypnosis recordings and between-session exercises.
The programme is designed for focused, structured work. Individual sessions are available where a full programme is not needed.
When I work
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Further information
✨ In-Person 1-to-1 Therapy
Sessions are available in:
- Greenwich (SE10) – near Cutty Sark, easily accessible via DLR, London Bridge, Canary Wharf and Kent connections.
- Blackheath (SE3) – consultations relating to SEND parental stress and education advocacy.
Online sessions are available across the UK and internationally, using the same structured Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy approach. Evening appointments are available.
How Sessions Work
We identify the primary pattern maintaining the difficulty, understand its cognitive and behavioural drivers, and work step by step to retrain the response.
Sessions may include:
• Targeted Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Practical regulation and performance tools
• Clear goal tracking and review
Where appropriate, tailored exercises or audio recordings may be provided between sessions to consolidate progress.
