Happy New Year to you! Wishing you all a healthy and successful 2023! I'd like to share some exciting news for 2023 with my clients, students, supervisees, colleagues and friends: I am now the proud new proprietor of The Observatory Practice in Plymouth! I trained at...

January can be a difficult month for some people. The excitement (or stress) of Christmas is over, and there still seems to be a LOT of winter left before we see signs of the spring again. It can be all too easy to fall into a slightly lethargic, melancholic or...

Many people have struggled during the last year with healthy eating and lifestyle choices. Putting on weight has been an unfortunate, but often inevitable, consequence of living through a global pandemic and several lockdowns. Solution-focused hypnotherapy is a...

May 14, 2021 As we emerge from lockdown, and a very difficult year, many people are experiencing anxiety, either for the first time, or in a more severe way than ever before. The following helps to explain what anxiety is, and why we can feel the way we do. ...

Just posting a quick update here about my maternity leave... As some of you may already know, I have been on maternity leave since the end of January. I had my beautiful baby girl a week later, and fortunately we had a few weeks with friends and family before lockdown...

Ever wondered why you feel so awful the day after a few drinks? It’s not just the headache or the sicky feeling, it’s the niggling idea that you said or did something you wish you hadn’t. The worry, or foreboding feeling, of the morning after. The hangover...

So how are those New Year's Resolutions going? We're edging towards the end of January and many of us may be finding it tough to stick to the promises we made at the start of the month. It's a very common story. Perhaps you've vowed to give up smoking this year? I've...

Obsessive thoughts are a common symptom of feeling stressed, anxious or depressed. If the primitive, emotional part of our mind feels that we are in danger, it will naturally want to keep drawing our attention back to whatever it perceives to be the problem. So if we...

Let's just get this out there to begin with - I am a massive fan of sharks. I'm not even quite sure why. And I appreciate you may want to stop reading now if this is already giving you the shudders! I love 'Jaws', both the film and the Peter Benchley book. And,...

TAP DANCE DAY As you are almost certainly aware, the new GDPR regulations come into effect as of today. We would like to let you know that we have developed a Privacy Statement in the interests of letting you know how we handle and protect the information...