My own interest in hypnosis and hypnotherapy began in the mid 1990's. After someone overheard  me talking about wanting to stop smoking,  recommended a Hypnotherapist that had helped her and her husband to both become non smokers .

I think at that time  for me hypnosis was something that happened on stage where people sang like Elvis Presley or eat raw lemons and onions for no good reason. I was however curious enough to call. I arrived for my appointment a very cynical 40 a day smoker.  A couple of hours later I left  as a very happy and confident non smoker. I even got in to the smoking carriage of the train home, surrounded by other people smoking and had absolutely no desire to smoke. My family and friends were amazed.

It was about a year later that my curiosity began to get the better of me, I wanted to know what had happened. I had been a heavy smoker for more than 30 years and I hadn't had a cigarette for over 12 months and I wanted to know why? I purchased a book on hypnosis hoping  it would help me understand or explain what had happened but it didn’t provide me any real answers.  I just had more questions, so after several more books  and a lot more questions I found a college in Cardiff that trained Hypnotherapist's. So there I was in my late 40's sitting in a classroom beginning now to understand what had happened to me during that time with my own Hypnotherapist.

Since qualifying I have been in private practice for over 10 years and follow a continuously on going professional development programme.

I have been fortunate enough to study with several leading Hypnotherapist's using different styles of hypnotherapeutic intervention, with a particular interest in pushing the boundaries of hypnotic analgesia and anaesthesia.

I am a validated practitioner with the General Hypnotherapy Register and a founder member of the Clinical and Therapeutic Hypnosis Association.

As part of my continuous development training I have undertaken extended studies with:

I have also had my skill as a Hypnotherapist tested in the most extreme. By using hypnotic anaesthesia at the road side to an 18 year old girl who had had a traumatic amputation of the left foot and a shearing injury to the right side of her face, and other internal damage. I induced a trance state and used hypnosis to disassociate her awareness of her injuries, this reduced her pulse rate and blood loss, her skin pallor returned to normal.

When the medics and doctors arrived on the scene she was able to engage in lucid dialogue relevant to her on going treatment. She made a full recovery the foot was saved  and the degree of emotional trauma from the event was considerably reduced.  That was a very special experience for me for many different reasons. See Press Cuttings During my time as a Hypnotherapist I have witnessed and had some tremendous experiences, apart from the many clients who are now non smokers. I am privileged to have been able to work with people who have had deeply emotional, as well as invasive physical difficulties in their lives, all of whom benefited from using hypnosis or hypnotherapy.

I do not see hypnosis and hypnotherapy as a panacea to all ills.

I do however quite firmly believe that by using hypnotherapy and hypnosis to understand  ourselves, we become much better equipped to help ourselves”.

Prior to my becoming a therapist I was working within the security industry here in the UK Europe and South America, utilising my training received with the armed forces. An interesting outcome of this is the success’s I have had with ex servicemen suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder mainly due to my understanding of the problem at a grass root level. Go to  www.ptsdhelp.co.uk for more details.

I have been recognised and validated  By:

The GHSC,

The GHR,

Is a Licensed IEMT  therapist

Registered Microcurrent  practitioner in the treatment of pain,  stress and anxiety disorders

Providing you with the help you want via an eclectic mix of stress management tools, which have at their foundation both cognitive and dialogue interventions such as C B T and N L P.  Marc is also actively involved in the treatment of military PTSD  Via the PTSD help network  

See www.ptsdhelp.co.uk

Providing clinical services as a therapist from consulting rooms in Bracknell for many years, I moved to Chepstow in 2010, and now have a growing private client practice in the town centre.

With extensive practical experience of helping both male and female clients to deal positively with personal trauma, ranging from serious physical attack to intrusive sexual assault, anxiety and other trauma or stress related problems. I am now utilising that experience in the area of stress management after recognising that many of the issues being presented, by clients were actually being compounded by social pressures the work place and relationship issues.

Following a 9 year military career beginning in the early 70’s.  I  spent the  following 20 years working within the security industry, as a protection officer with a major bank, in San Paulo Brazil. Later working within the media here in the UK and Europe.  As a consultant to a major defence contractor I became familiar with the pressures of delivering technical and manning commitments, to high risk environments on time and within brief. I have  seen first hand the effects of stress and trauma within the workplace, and its damaging effects on both the individual and a team, sometimes with irreversible consequence.

“Stress can be a valuable  asset, or your worst and most destructive enemy. How you recognise and deal with it is always by choice. Unfortunately  some of those choices have more to do with previous experience, than the conscious  effort  of making a rational choice relevant to that moment of stress.”