Juliet Hollingsworth
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About me
Moving forward, together.
If you’re interested in certifications and qualifications, please scroll to the bottom for a simple list. I spent years chasing certificates, until I accepted that true knowledge comes from experience. From listening to and learning from others.
My clients and their stories are what’s made me the therapist I am today, the way I learned to help people differently. To help people understand the screams from their heart, body and soul. My certificates demonstrate my ability to commit, they show you the timeline of my interests. They’ll help you understand the level of my academic intelligence and go some way to let you know I’m a determined individual. But I can tell you for sure, I have embodied much more from sitting and listening to people tell me their story.
It’s taken me over 16 years of being a therapist to work out what I do, how I ‘therapist’ successfully. I’ve often said I wish I could describe what I do and write it into a programme. To find a way to teach it to others. However, I can’t, I can’t because what I do isn’t me. It’s you. This occurred to me after listening to a client tell her story. For an hour, I sat quietly, holding space. Listening intently. Not because it’s my job or because of financial rumination, but because of humanity. The love I feel for my clients is intense. I want to pick each one up and put them on the top of Mount Everest, shine a beam on them and shout to the world – look at this human. Look at how amazing they are. Because I am a sucker for authenticity, for vulnerability…a romantic at heart. So, I listen, absorbed in the story. Experienced enough to not feel emotionally involved. I keep myself out of your story, but when you tell me I hear you so deeply, I feel it with you. I’m rooting for you as you explore the depths of your soul to get through it, whatever it may be, and come out the other side. Bigger, brighter, more you.
At the end of the hour, I rounded the session off with a few “wise therapist words” and my client responded with a deep breath in and…
“Wow, you’re good”.
I instantly felt a fraud. I looked down at the realms of words in front of me. The five A4 pages of notes I’d written as they spoke. And I worried. How am I good? What did I do? I told my client, it was them. And it was, it was all them. They found the courage to open the door to their most intimate thoughts. Human feelings that we all experience but try to run from. Some may call this the shadow side. The bits of ourselves we don’t like and therefore attempt to fight. The parts we push away instead of leaning into with curiosity. But most of all, we try to hide. Letting the feelings rise in only the safest of spaces. When you permit the feelings, you give yourself the opportunity to understand. To learn more about yourself. To know yourself, who you are, what you need, how to speak your truth. To find your joy and success.
In addition to holding this space for my client, I did something else. It’s in my nature to see patterns. As my client spoke, I heard the thread that ran through their words. What to them felt like a jumbled mess of emotions was to me a clearly structured explanation. I’ve always been good at puzzles. Being a therapist is the same. As I listen to you share the different pieces distributed around, I see the pieces that fit together and build the puzzle in my mind. I will share with you the pattern I see. Not my option nor advice. Simply my understanding of what you say. To my client, this was profound. To me too, but it all came from within them.
I’ve always said I work intuitively with an approach based on evidence. I like structure, I want to understand the whys of everything. I devour books voraciously. I research passionately. I love learning and always want to know more. I combine the scientific research with the experience of others and my own intuition as I work.
Traditionally, the spectrum of issues a hypnotherapist works with is broad (anxiety, stress, fears, phobias, weight loss, confidence, self-esteem, performance enhancement, sleep disorders, pain management, trauma, habit breaking, grief and loss, anger management, improving relationships, motivation and goal achievement, past life regression, smoking cessation).
I know the programmes. I know the fast cures. I attend conferences – as a speaker and listener – and hear the hypnotherapists speak about fixing the problem in one hour. Heck, one therapist I know claims to help people in 5 minutes. And we’ll go there if this is what calls you.
My passion is helping people who feel stuck find their way out – whether this is for a clearly defined reason or not – and often this takes time. I am in no rush. I’ll hang on in there until you feel safe. I have time for your back story before you get to the now. I try not to interrupt, and when it’s appropriate, we’ll use hypnosis to enhance the process. I will personalise your sessions so they are relevant to your problem, rather than taking a programme designed for anyone and everyone.
Over the years, my work has changed. In 2008, when I first qualified as a hypnotherapist, our lives were incredibly different to today. Steve Jobs didn’t unveil the first iPhone until January 2007. It’s only in recent years we’ve all had the smartphone extension to our arms. Covid changed the way we live. The improvement in technology causes conflict inside of us. Problems of 20 years ago were easier to manage in some ways, because the external influences were less. Today, a large part of my work is helping clients make lifestyle changes. They come to me feeling broken, and we realise together, it’s their lifestyle that’s causing all the breakages. Of course, sometimes it is inside of you, and we can work with that too.
Qualifications
Masters Degree in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology from Middlesex University & Professional Development International
Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis with Psychotherapy from the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis (DHP)
Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma from the National Council for Hypnotherapy
I am registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (the independent UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners).
I am an Anxiety UK registered therapist. Anxiety UK is a national charity, helping to support people living with anxiety, stress and anxiety-based depression.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experienced hypnotherapist offering treatments in many areas, specialised in (but not limited to);
Addiction
Anxiety
Body Confidence
Communication
Confidence
Depression
Fears and Phobias
Fertility
Hypnobirthing
Meditation and Mindfulness
Mental Health
Nutrition
Sleep Issues
Smoking
Stress
Trauma
Weight loss
MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology
Dhp. Clinical Hypnosis with Psychotherapy
Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma with the NCH; (Upon completion of the HPD, successful candidates will be awarded a certificate of achievement by NCFE. The HPD has been accredited by NCFE as having measurable learning outcomes that have been benchmarked at Level 4 (using Ofqual’s Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) level descriptors).
NCFE is recognised as an Awarding Organisation by the qualification regulators for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The NCH has been approved as an NCFE centre and the HPD has been accredited by NCFE to guarantee that it is of a high standard and meets the rigorous requirements of a national awarding organisation.
NCFE accreditation gives assurance that the content of a training course is of a high standard and meets the rigorous requirements of a national awarding organisation.
NCFE accreditation also gives formal recognition to our courses which result in the ‘award’ of a certificate of achievement. This award does not qualify you for a nationally recognised qualification.
The HPD also meets all the ‘Learning Outcomes’ of the “Complementary and Alternative Healthcare – Hypnotherapy”: National Occupational Standards.)
Member organisations
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
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Areas of hypnotherapy I deal with
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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
Fertility
Therapies offered
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Fees
£90.00 per session
Free initial in-person session
Additional information
£90 per session
£450 for hypnobirthing programme
£250 for quit smoking programme
£35 Quick Fix Sessions available on my website for Weight Loss, Quit Smoking, Can't Sleep, Anxiety and Fear of Flying
When I work
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Mon - Fri 5am - 9pm Weekends also.
Online sessions available.
