My Story
I started my working life as an actor, attending training at Academy's of Dramatic Arts in London and then spent a colourful decade working in fringe theatre throughout the 80’s. I appeared in shows like YOU – The City by Fiona Templeton; an intimate play with an audience of one where the audience member is taken through a series of encounters around London, including answering the phone in a curry house, and being taken for a ride by a cheeky cockney taxi driver.
The 90’s heralded the birth of a son and the need for a regular income, so I re-trained and worked as a counsellor in The Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School in South London. I became a specialist in addictions therapies. With this training I worked as a full time counsellor in prisons, rehabilitation clinics and residential treatment centres, helping people to make major changes to their lives. A rewarding memory was witnessing an ex-client – who had made his way through recovery in prison – go on to work for ‘RAPt’ (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust), where he started his journey of change, even bravely addressing MP’s in the House of Commons in support of this organisation, which helps transform many addicted prisoners’ lives.
In recent years, I have established a successful counselling and hypnotherapy practice in Bath. Here I can make best use of my many years of experience, skills and learning in the service of others, using the latest progressive hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques.
