I'm a fully-qualified and comprehensively insured cognitive hypnotherapist and NLP master practitioner. I trained at the Quest Institute (www.questinstitute.co.uk) which teaches leading-edge techniques.
The National Council for Hypnotherapy
(www.hypnotherapists.org.uk), to which I belong, implements the highest standards of training and professional ethics amongst its members.
| “ Above all I believe that it's important that women and the partners who support them have a sense of confidence. With this confidence it becomes easier for you to manage the sensations and the process of birth, while being in a safe and positive partnership with attending medical staff.” |
Please see www.hypno-west.co.uk for more information on my hypnotherapy work on other issues.
Please contact me for a chat about how Confident Childbirth could help you. |
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For years now I've enormously enjoyed helping women have a positive experience of birth.
I'm the mother of a 15-year-old who was born well before I knew any of this. It was in July 2002 that I qualified as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist. A few months later, I attended specialist training in Hypnotherapy for Childbirth with Medical Hypnosis, two doctors who are also clinical hypnotherapists and practise the techniques they taught with their pregnant patients.
This combination means that I have a wide range of tools and techniques with which to guide people towards the outcome that they want. I recognise and respect each person's particular goals for their birth. The work we do installs positive patterns of perception and thought which in turn, as sportspeople know, have the power to influence the body to perform at its best.
In the context of childbirth, research has shown that using hypnosis for calm and confidence has a beneficial psychological effect, and also influences the physical outcome of birth: shorter labour, less need for medication, less likelihood of medical intervention, and shorter hospital stays.
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