Hypnosis for change, Grief crisis, Self hypnosis, Past life regression, Confidence and assertiveness counselling

Effie Gardner - Member of the GHR (General Hypnotherapy Register) and their validation board GHSC (General Hypnotherapy Standard Council)
HPUKI (Hypnotherapy Practitioners in the UK and Ireland)

8th September 1992 - NLP practitioner course. Nlp is similar to life coaching.

16th March 1996 - Qualified with distinction as a curative hypnotherapist with the Academy of Curative Hypnotherapists of Manchester at Leeds General Infirmary.

10th January 1998 Reiki healer level 1, 17th April 1998 Reiki healer level 2, 17th August 1998 - Reiki Master level and teacher qualification.

20th December 2001 - Advanced Diploma in 'Therapeutic Counselling' Diploma for 'Facilitators Styles - Change Agent' for Group Training and Motivation at Oasis - Human Relations in Boston Spa, Yorkshire.

20th July 2003 - Past Life Regression and Re-incarnation Therapy with 'Lion Heart' Hull.

20th December 2008 - Refresher course on Stress Management and Pain clinic.

Since March 1996 I have been managing my own full time counselling/hypnotherapy practice.

My counselling training is based on the teaching of C R Rogers - Client Centres Counselling and transactional analysis devised by Dr Eric Berne.

My hypnotherapy, nlp life coaching and stress management training is based on the teaching of Dr Milton H. Erickson, D. Corydon Hammond Ph.D. and Dr Michael Yapco all of whom devised treatments and therapeutic model that have since became an professional/international bench mark. Technically speaking their model of treatment is not analytically based, which makes hypnotherapy so effectively versatile. Dr Milton H. Erickson lead by example and he impressed on his students that everyone can and deserves to be happy, everyone can enjoy a meaningful life and acquire new skills for being content. He advocated that there is no need for people to suffer personal and emotional pain silently anymore than physical ones. Milton Erickson believed that the human mind is the servant of its human rather than us being driven by it.

His approach is still as fresh and accurate today as it was when he initially started developing his methods.

My background is in small business management where my responsibilities included team building and this enables me to offer full support both to employees and self employed people.

In 1986 we employed seven people and hoped to expand trade. When realising that we will need to acquire additional skills, we were invited to an introductory self-development Nlp (Neuro Linguistic Programming) course. But the time a therapeutic career was not on my list of interests. A few years later that lead me to an unexpected but total change of direction.