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As a former airline pilot, now hypnotherapist, I blend aviation discipline with deep psychological insight. Let's unlock your potential and soar together

With many years of experience, I help you conquer fears and anxieties, guiding you to lasting change. My specialisms are:

The support and therapy of those who have been oppressed, bullied or abused. Fear of Flying. Phobias. However hypnotherapy and Rapid Transformational Therapy in particular has powerful properties. Let me guide you to a better way of living. Contact me now.

21/11/2025

Unable to simply let go?

There is a strange and lonely weight that settles on the shoulders of a fearful flyer.
No one speaks of it, and no one teaches you its name.
But you know it.
You’ve been carrying it for years.

It is the belief, half-buried, half-denied, that the safety of the aircraft rests, in some mysterious way, upon you.
Your vigilance.
Your tension.
Your refusal to rest.
As if your suffering were the final thin thread holding this great machine in the sky.

And there you sit, surrounded by hundreds of strangers who have no idea that you, quiet and trembling in your seat, are the one keeping watch for them all.
You do not dare to close your eyes.
You do not dare to soften.

For you have convinced yourself that your fear is a kind of duty, a private covenant with survival.
Baldwin once wrote that “people who cannot suffer can never grow.”
But there is another truth, equally fierce:
People who believe their suffering is required will never be free.
That is the tragedy of this burden.

It is noble in its intention and merciless in its consequence.
You have mistaken vigilance for virtue, tension for responsibility, fear for guardianship.
You have forgotten that there are professionals, engineers, pilots, crews, whose lives have been shaped by a devotion to this craft far deeper than your dread.
Their attention does not waver because it is not built on fear.
It is built on mastery.

And you. You were never meant to be the guardian of the sky.
When you finally understand that the plane flies whether you suffer or not, whether your shoulders are tight or your mind is racing or your heart is breaking, something extraordinary happens.
The weight slides from your body.
The sky opens.
And you realise that letting go is not negligence.
It is liberation.

It is the profound and private act of returning your life to yourself.
Only then can the journey begin.

20/11/2025

There are parts of your life that you do not understand. Perhaps you’ve noticed them in fleeting moments, a sudden fear, a reaction that surprises you, a pattern that repeats itself despite every effort to change it. These are not signs of weakness. They are the shadows cast by parts of your mind and your experience that you have never been taught to see.

The Apostle Paul said, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Corinthians 13:12). It is a recognition that our perception is limited, that we stumble in the dark not because we are careless, but because life is always more complex than our current understanding allows.

Shakespeare, too, warned us: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (Hamlet, Act I, Scene V). There are forces at work in your life, thoughts and impulses, fears and desires, that you cannot yet explain. They are as real as the air you breathe, and yet they remain hidden until someone shows you how to notice them.

I have spent my life navigating turbulence in the sky and in my own soul. I have learned that being a guide is not about offering answers, it is about helping someone stand steady while they look at what they cannot yet see. Hypnotherapy is one of the tools I use, but it is never the whole story. The work is in walking beside someone, in lending experience, patience, and the kind of attention that allows them to meet themselves fully.

There is a clarity that waits for you. It is not immediate, it is not forced, and it does not come from magic. It comes from being guided through what has always been there, and from realizing that the unknown is not your enemy, it is your invitation.

17/11/2025

✨ If I Could Grant You One Wish… ✨

I ask my clients this during hypnotherapy, and no, this is not the moment to be noble, generous, or think of world peace.

I mean you.
Your life.
Your biggest current pain-in-the-posterior.

So tell me…
If I could wave a magic wand and fix one thing that’s driving you absolutely bananas right now… what would it be?

(No polite answers. Be gloriously honest. 😄)

14/11/2025

For years, I believed my work was about helping people overcome fear, fear of flying, fear of anxiety, fear of the unknown.
And it is.

But something shifted recently, a moment of clarity that revealed a deeper truth I’d always felt but never fully named:
I don’t just help people break through fear.
I help them reclaim their ability to feel alive.

I’ve seen it countless times:
A client’s eyes brightening…
A deep breath returning…
Relief turning into possibility…

I sensed something profound happening beneath the surface, but only now do I understand it.
When fear loosens its grip, something extraordinary awakens, not just calm, but life itself.
People don’t just fly again.
They live again.
Their world expands.
Joy returns in colours they’d forgotten.

And this matters for you too.
There are parts of your own existence, deep, beautiful parts, that you may have dismissed or forgotten because fear took too much space.
These parts are still there.
Waiting to breathe.
Waiting to be felt.

Your life is bigger than your fear.
Your future is wider than your anxiety.
And the joy that’s coming isn’t new, it’s been waiting.
Sometimes the real breakthrough isn’t what you release,
but what returns to you.

And if you’re ready, I’m here to help you meet that part of yourself again, the part that remembers how good it feels to be alive.

13/11/2025

Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Fear

You can know flying is safe, and yet you still feel terrified.
You can quote statistics, watch safety videos, even repeat to yourself, “It’s fine, everything’s fine.”
And yet, your heart races, your body tenses, and every bump feels like the beginning of the end.

That’s because fear doesn’t live in the logical mind. It lives in the emotional brain, a much older part of us that evolved to protect, not to reason. When it senses danger, it floods the body with stress hormones before you even have time to think.

For most people, those signals switch off when the danger passes. But for someone with a fear of flying, they don’t, because your emotional brain has learned to associate flight with threat. And logic can’t rewrite emotional learning.

That’s where therapy comes in.
Hypnotherapy, in particular, works by communicating directly with the emotional brain, the part that logic can’t reach. It helps you unlearn the fear at its source, not by fighting it, but by retraining your body to feel safe again in the sky.

You don’t need another pilot explaining turbulence.
You need to change the relationship between your mind and your body, to teach them to trust each other again.
Because the real issue isn’t flying. It’s control, surrender, and safety.
And when you stop trying to think your way out of fear, you finally start to feel your way back to freedom.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl Jung

12/11/2025

Most people, when you ask them what they want, go silent. They look down, search the air for words that never come. They tell you what they don’t want, the pain they want to avoid, the habits they want to lose, the loneliness they can’t stand, but not the thing itself. It’s as though the muscle that dreams, that names desire, has grown weak from years of neglect.

And this is no small wound. For a person who cannot say what they want will never know when they’ve found it. They will be restless in every home, dissatisfied in every love, disappointed in every achievement. They will move like ghosts through the world, clutching the outline of a life they never dared to draw.

In hypnotherapy, this becomes painfully clear. The mind cannot give you a nebulous concept. It cannot steer toward “better” or “different” or “less of this.” It needs direction, a vivid picture, a felt sense, a true north. When you do not name your destination, you hand responsibility for your dreams to someone, or something else. The mind, like a loyal servant, will obey the loudest voice it hears, whether that is your own or the world’s.

And the world is full of voices eager to decide for you. We were taught to obey, not to feel. To consume, not to choose. To chase approval, not truth. The television tells you what to want. The influencer tells you who to be. The state tells you what to fear. And so, little by little, the voice inside, that still, rebellious, miraculous voice,falls silent.

But that silence breeds sickness. Depression is the soul’s protest against a life unlived. Anxiety is the conscience remembering what it once wanted. Whole societies now hum with this low, chronic ache, a collective amnesia of the heart.

The cure begins with a question: What do you want? Not what you were told to want, not what would make sense, not what others would admire. Just ... you. The answer may tremble at first, it may contradict itself, it may take time. But if you stay with it long enough, that small voice will rise again, and with it, your freedom.

Because a person who knows what they want cannot be led. And a society of such people cannot be bought.

11/11/2025

Why Turbulence Feels Worse Than It Is

Turbulence feels terrifying, but not because it’s dangerous.
It’s because your body and brain stop agreeing on what’s real.

Your vestibular system, the tiny balance organs in your inner ear, sense motion, while your eyes see a still cabin.
That sensory mismatch confuses the brain, so it triggers an alarm: “Something’s wrong!”
Your stomach lurches, your heart races, not from danger, but from disagreement between your senses.

To make sense of it, the brain sometimes creates illusions, the somatogravic illusion, for instance, can make steady flight feel like climbing or falling.
It’s not your imagination; it’s your body’s ancient survival system overreacting to a modern environment.

Here’s the irony: the more sensitive you are, to movement, energy, or subtle changes, the more vividly you feel it.
That same sensitivity that makes you empathetic and aware on the ground becomes your tormentor in the sky.

Meanwhile, the aircraft itself is calm.
It’s engineered to handle forces ten times greater than turbulence can produce.
The wings flex. The pilots stay composed. The plane is fine, only your perception isn’t.

The real turbulence isn’t in the air.
It’s in your nervous system.

But that can change.
With hypnotherapy, you can retrain your body to interpret motion differently, to trust again, to fly calmly, and to take back all the adventures fear has quietly stolen.

10/11/2025

Ever said or done something in the heat of the moment, then wished you’d paused first? This post is about the tiny space, sometimes just one breath,that can change everything.

My neighbour, a man of few words but great wisdom, said to me the other day,

“We’ve all got an on/off switch. The trick is knowing when to use it.”

It struck me how simple, and yet how profound, that is.

Each day, we face moments that push our buttons, a sharp word, a disappointment, a temptation, a flash of fear. And before we know it, we’ve reacted. The emotion takes the wheel.

But what if, in that tiny gap between what happens and what we do next, we remembered we have a choice?

As Viktor Frankl wrote:

“Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

That space doesn’t need to be long. Sometimes it’s just one conscious breath, a moment of awareness that interrupts the automatic pattern.

That breath can be the difference between saying something we regret and saying something that heals. Between eating out of habit and choosing nourishment. Between acting from fear and responding from strength.

In hypnotherapy, we call this retraining the mind’s autopilot, learning to pause, to breathe, and to let your wiser self take the lead.

Before you act, ask yourself:

“What do I want the result of this interaction to be?”

When you start choosing your responses rather than reacting from emotion, life changes shape. You become calmer, more intentional, and infinitely freer.

Because self-control isn’t about suppression, it’s about awareness.
And awareness begins with something as simple as a single, steady breath.

07/11/2025

Sometimes a fear begins its journey in one place, and ends up somewhere completely different.

Imagine two trains passing each other at the same moment.
On one train, something painful happens, heartbreak, illness, loss. On the other, you’re flying, or driving, or doing something entirely unrelated. But as those two trains rush past, your subconscious, always alert, always trying to protect you, mixes up the tracks.

Now the fear that belonged to the first train has quietly jumped onto the other one.

Months or years later, you find yourself afraid of flying, or travelling, or something that never used to bother you. You tell yourself it’s irrational, but it isn’t. It’s associative conditioning: your brain linking two events that happened at the same time and deciding they’re the same danger.

The amygdala, the brain’s alarm system, doesn’t care about logic or timelines. It just remembers: this felt bad, avoid it.

That’s why so many intelligent, capable people find themselves stuck with fears that make no sense. They’re not weak. Their minds are simply doing their best to protect a heart that once hurt deeply.

The beautiful part?
Once you see how the trains got switched, once you realise where the fear really began, you can gently move it back to its rightful track.

Because what was learned in fear can be unlearned in safety.

06/11/2025

An Uprising in Happiness

🎵 Inspired by “Human” – Rag’n’Bone Man

There comes a time when a person must look at their reflection and tell the truth.
Not the polite truth we serve to survive the day
but the one that trembles in the bones:
I am tired of pretending to be more than human.

The world taught us to wear armour so heavy
we mistook its weight for worth.
We learned to call exhaustion achievement,
and silence strength.

But happiness was never the prize for perfection.
It is the birthright of the breathing
of those who have fallen and risen again,
who have loved in the ruins,
who have wept and still chosen to see beauty.

The revolution we need is not in the streets,
but in the soul
a rising up of gentleness,
a refusal to apologise for tenderness,
a declaration that to feel is not failure,
and to hope is not naïve.

Because when you begin to love the human in you
the messy, aching, radiant human
you give the world permission to do the same.

🎵 “Don’t put your blame on me,” he implores.
No.
Put your faith in you.
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
And its beautiful.

05/11/2025

Imagine the Situation…

It’s the week before Christmas. Bob, Ted, and Dave are headed for a skiing trip in Chamonix. Ted and Dave don’t mind flying. Bob does. Their journeys couldn’t be more different, and the contrast tells a story about time, cost, and stress.

🚗 Bob: Tightens his gloves, grips the wheel. London traffic, then Dover. Ferry lines, paperwork, winter roads. Coffee stops, tolls, map checks… fatigue creeping in. Every mile feels endless. His mind flickers between excitement for the slopes and the hours ahead.

✈️ Ted & Dave: Walking through Heathrow, coffee in hand, laughing. Security, boarding, takeoff, clouds below, mountains ahead. An hour later, they land in Geneva. Bags collected, a taxi whisks them to Chamonix. They arrive relaxed, energy intact, already imagining their first run.

🎬 Split-screen: Bob counting miles, fuel, ferry cost. Ted & Dave splitting the taxi fare...chilled.

Bob is stressed and exhausted already dreading the return journey. Feels a bit left out.
Ted and Dave arrived ages ago and are relaxed, happy and now part of the scene.

Financially the result is almost equal, but the non-financial “cost” tells a different story.

⏱ Time: Bob ~13 h | Ted & Dave ~4½ h
💷 Cost: Bob ~£269 | Ted & Dave ~£275 each
🧠 Non-financial: Bob = fatigue, stress, effort, risk | Ted & Dave = comfort, peace, energy

Sometimes the real cost of not flying isn’t pounds… it’s time, energy, and experience. 🌄

04/11/2025

Sometimes fear of flying isn’t about the plane at all.
It’s the memory of someone else’s fear that they unwittingly passed on to you.
Your parent’s tense shoulders, the way they gripped the armrest, the nervous laugh when turbulence hit. You felt it. You didn’t understand it. But your body remembered.

Even now, years later, your stomach tightens as the engines roar. Your chest aches. Your mind races, imagining disaster, and yet, it’s not the plane. It’s the echo of that old fear, buried deep in your nervous system, whispering: “Be careful. Stay alert. Something could go wrong.”

Here’s the secret most people don’t know: what was inherited can be released.
Through gentle guidance, your mind can learn safety. Your body can remember calm. That frightened child inside you can finally breathe.

One day, stepping onto a plane won’t trigger panic. It will feel like stepping into freedom, a freedom you’ve always deserved.

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