Your trainers in Linlithgow are:

John D. Lawrence - Principal of the UK Academy, Scotland, Clinical Director of the UK Academy.

John D. Lawrence BSc (Hons), DHP, Dip.CAH, Dip. (Erk) Hyp. Master NLP and Meridian Therapy Practitioner is a National Guild of Hypnotists Board Certified Trainer and Hypnotherapist based in Central Scotland. He has worked with clients from all over Scotland, the U.K and abroad for specific issues. John formerly ran a highly successful practice in the North of Scotland Highland Hypnosis Ltd before setting up practice and training in Central Scotland.

John set up the first training base for the UK Academy in Scotland in 2002 and has successfully run hypnosis courses for over a decade now. He is a prolific trainer and therapist running specialist courses as well as the UK Academy Dip.CAH and has extensive training experience. He has been described as "one of the UK's most gifted and humorous therapists" by Steve Burgess of Lionheart Training in Hull.

John is a member of the National Hypno-psychotherapy Council and the National Council for Hypnotherapy. He was awarded "The Researcher of the Year Award, 2002" for his work on phantom limb pain and amputees by the latter organisation and holds senior clinician status with that body.

John is a former Research Director of the NCH. He is an Accredited Hypnotherapy Supervisor with the NCH. He is a volunteer clinical hypnotherapist with the Anxiety UK Charity. He is on the Register of Approved Gastrointestinal Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists helping to relieve ailments of the digestive system (IBS) and (IBD) etc. Formerly one of only two Scottish expert advisors to serve on the Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health, looking at the integration of complementary therapies in to the NHS. He is also a former director and chair of Holistic Health Care Ltd, a Scottish charity working to promote education, research and the relief of sickness in a Holistic manner. He is currently Vice-Chair of UKCHO, one of the lead bodies involved in the regulation of the hypnotherapy profession in the UK.

Rae Jenson - Trainer, UK Academy, Scotland. Director Hypnosis Scotland LTD
Rae Jenson BA (Hons), PGCE, Dip.CAH, HPD, PNLP, MNCH (Reg)

Rae is a National Guild of Hypnotists Board Certified Trainer and Certified Hypnotherapist. She is also a fully qualified Meridian Therapist and Trainer.

Working in her practice she helps clients with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, phobias, public speaking, confidence building, smoking cessation and pain management and specialises in the area of Weight Management. She is a member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy and is a former Director of Marketing of NCH.

Chosen as NCH's Hypnotic Voice of The Year 2004, she has developed her own training courses to help students produce their own Hypnotherapy CDs as well as writing and presenting training courses for the UK Academy's Weight Management Specialist Course Module, Pain Management and EFT For the Hypnotherapist. As well as being a certified trainer and fully qualified teacher, Rae is an artist and designer, bringing her own creative style and sense of humour to the training environment.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP was developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and Dr John Grinder of the University of Santa Cruz, California. It began as a model of communication, and a large part of NLP is devoted to helping people to think more positively and to communicate more effectively.

'Neuro', as the name implies, relates to our neurological processes. We all experience our world through our various senses, and this affects our thought processes, sometimes in an adverse way. 'Linguistic' refers to the way we use language to make sense of what is happening and to communicate that experience to others. Finally, 'programming' relates to how we interpret those experiences and use what we have learnt to structure our lives. Sometimes an individual's programming is negative and self-destructive, and NLP aims to help people reframe their experiences and perceptions in order to achieve a more positive and effective outlook.

A term you will often hear in NLP is 'modelling excellence'. Such modelling is perhaps one of the most significant aspects of NLP, and is based on an understanding of how people do things well. The idea of 'modelling excellence' is that if you model the behaviour of somebody who has all the attributes that you are seeking you can learn from them and eventually be as successful as they are.

Another expression that you often hear in NLP is 'the map is not the territory'. This implies that the world we perceive is not the real world but our own unique model that we live in. To put it another way, although several people may experience an identical event, no two will perceive it in precisely the same way. We all know, for example, that an optimist will see a glass as being half full, whilst a pessimist will see that same glass as being half empty. An important part of NLP is helping people change the way they perceive their world, and to see it in a more positive way.

NLP is a powerful technique that often brings about change very quickly. For this reason it is a technique that is popular with both individuals and organisations. Training for the Certified NLP Practitioner Diploma is incorporated into the Dip.CAH curriculum.

Supervision

Supervision is of great benefit to newly-qualified and experienced hypnotherapists alike. It provides a safe, confidential environment in which therapists can discuss their concerns with a suitably qualified and experienced third party, and helps them to develop their practice and meet the challenges presented in an objective way. Jo Goss has qualified as an Accredited Hypnotherapy Supervisor through the National Council for Hypnotherapy. She offers supervision on a face-to-face basis for those living in the North of Scotland, and is also happy to offer telephone and e-mail supervision for those living further afield.

John Lawrence is available for supervision in Central Scotland. He is an Accredited Hypnotherapy Supervisor (NCH), and is also qualified to offer supervision to all complementary therapists. John can be contacted on 01506 830190 or via his web site at www.hypnotherapyscotland.com

 

 

 

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