Claire Quinn

EMDR Informed Therapeutic Coaching and Hypnotherapy.

Hi, my name is Claire,

Work with me if you are open to the miracle of the minds own natural healing power and are willing to try an approach that tackles your issues at their root.  

Cultivate a stronger sense of self-worth.  Shed light on and obliterate the limiting beliefs, self-doubt and associated anxiety. Silence the negative inner critic that tells you all the reason’s you’re not good enough and can’t have the life you want.   Together we will dissolve the deep hidden beliefs that undermine your self-worth and pull against your conscious goals.

My specialism is in working with and empowering women to overcome anxiety and negative mind-chatter associated with chronic self-doubt, feelings of being not good enough and enabling them to step into their unique potential. The negative mind-chatter is particularly problematic and is a form of hypnosis, negative self-hypnosis.  Together we can silence it for good.

I'm a Professional Accredited Psychotherapist, EMDR therapist and Hypnotherapist. I have an academic background in Psychology and have worked  within the NHS as an Assistant Psychologist, a Low Intensity CBT therapist and a Counsellor.

 I’ve spent years doing the training and hundreds of hours researching this area and can safely say my unique blend of therapy transforms lives.

My unique approach harnesses the brains own healing mechanism.  I use a combination of Psychotherapy, Coaching, EMDR  (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing ) and Hypnotherapy. to eliminate issues at their root.  With me you get 4 therapies in 1!!! 

EMDR is a complex therapeutic process that should always be delivered by properly trained therapists, therapists who have had to meet stringent criteria and rigorous training.  Only mental health and medical professionals are accepted onto EMDR training, making it a specialist therapy which is NICE (NHS) approved.

EMDR in particular is a powerful therapy that eliminates issues at their root.  Using EMDR's 8 phase framework, together we identify and dissolve the deep hidden, often subconscious, beliefs that undermine your self-worth and pull against your conscious goals.

The past is always present

Adverse life experiences create memory networks that operate, like auto-pilot, out of conscious awareness.  These maladaptive memory networks shape how we view and make sense of the world and ourselves throughout life and cause us to adapt and behave in certain ways so we lose touch with our inner wisdom.  

These memory networks form our identity and leave us with a lesser sense of self confidence, self-worth and self-efficacy.  Like a perceptual filter they cause you to develop a narrow and limiting view of yourself and the world and keep you from living to your full potential.  As a result, you stay small and don’t dare step out of the familiar rut.

To add insult to injury, in order to stay there in that rut, you may have developed a ferocious inner critic that nags, demands, second guesses you, casts doubt, judges you harshly and compares you negatively with others    This inner critic keeps you in the familiar misery of chronic self-doubt and feelings of not being good enough.   

Gradually you come to believe the inner critic and stop hearing your true self that knows how limitless your potential is.    Together we can help you to develop awareness of and attunement to your own inner wisdom, which you have been conditioned to ignore, censor or discount and as a result you are kept small and play small in life,

Does this sound like you?  If so I can help.

Almost all human psychological and emotional suffering is caused by these maladaptive memory networks and the subsequent alienation from the true self and its promptings.  

This suffering might show up as feeling – anxious, depressed, worried, like a fraud, not good enough or unworthy,  a nagging self-doubt, needing and seeking others approval or validation,  worrying what people think of you, difficulty internalising your success, over preparing for things and fearing failure, self-sabotaging, people pleasing, fear of being found out as lacking in some way,  feeling valued only for what you do rather than for who you are as a person, holding yourself up to impossible standards, feeling self-conscious, insecure, fear of exposure, feeling ‘bad’ about yourself, feeling vulnerable, avoiding being in the lime light or applying for that promotion, keeping yourself small, the list goes on and on.  And what’s worse, no amount of  success, positive feedback or reassurance changes how you feel and view yourself.

These ‘symptoms’ are labelled variously as  imposter syndrome, low self-esteem, anxiety, worry, depression, performance anxiety.  Whatever the label, at the root, the cause is the same, the tenacious maladaptive memory networks and alienation from the true self.

To get unstuck you need to work with me to identify and transform the underlying beliefs by targeting specific emotionally charged memories and then eradicate them for good.  And this is my specialism.

Here is where I can help

Most therapy helps you understand how your blocks to living your best life were created, but they still leave you stuck.  I can help you both understand your blocks and get you unstuck!

I offer bespoke therapy package based on cutting edge neuroscience and a tried and tested approach that is backed by mountains of research.  My approach eliminates the old memory networks;  it won’t erase the past but it will erase the emotional impact that the past has left on your nervous system.  

The old beliefs and subconscious conditioning that have been colouring your view of yourself and the world – GONE!   A part of you already knows you are capable of and worth more than you have been getting, let’s put that part of you in charge.

What to expect

Our sessions will be tailored to your unique needs and presentation and will involve exploration of your difficulties and goals.  We’ll look at your life history to inform our treatment plan and complete some preparation work using the infinite power of your brain to give you inner resources of safety and empowerment.

Once we have co-created a treatment plan I’ll guide you to identify key memories to target with EMDR and then the magic begins.  Together we will map out different elements of the target memory/memories and we’ll begin processing each one in turn.  

During re-processing I’ll start by asking you person to recall in your mind the memory while you also move your eyes from side-to-side, hear a sound in each ear alternately, or feel a tap on each hand alternately. These side-to-side sensations are called bi-lateral stimulation (BLS).  BLS  effectively stimulates the “stuck” processing system in the brain so that it can reprocess the information more like an ordinary memory, reducing its intensity.

The effect is proposed to be similar to what occurs naturally during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, when your eyes move rapidly from side to side as the brain processes the events of the day. Some research suggests that EMDR is effective because concentrating on another task whilst processing a distressing memory gives the brain more work to do*. When the brain is not giving its full attention to processing the memory, it starts to become less vivid. This allows the person to distance themselves from it and begin to remember the event in a more helpful and manageable way.

EMDR is a complex therapeutic process that should always be delivered by properly trained therapists.

How to find me

I work from my comfortable, private therapy room in Howbrook, Wortley, North Sheffield. Therefore, I am within easy reach of Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Doncaster, Sheffield and Leeds areas.

I am a professional accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society and adhere to their ethical framework. 

Qualifications and Experience

I have 14 years experience in Psychology and 10 years  experience working in Mental Health.  As mentioned above, I have worked for the NHS as an Assistant Psychologist,  Low Intensity CBT therapist and as a Counsellor.  I was completing a PhD but decided to discontinue this to enable me to focus on my clinical/therapeutic work with clients as this is my passion.

I undergo 2 hours of supervision each month to ensure my work is effective and ethical.

My qualifications are as follows:

Diploma in Hypnotherapy

Master’s Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction)

Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology (Distinction)

Batchelors Degree (with hons) in Psychology (First Class with Hons.)

Postgraduate Certificate in CBT 

Postgraduate EMDR training

I am also a trained Brain Working Recursive Therapy Practitioner and a Certified Rewind practitioner