About me
Welcome,
I'm Kathleen
Taking the first step on a healing journey takes courage. It means stepping out of your comfort zone to do something different, which is not always easy.
As a solution focused hypnotherapist and psychotherapist, I’m specialised in supporting women who are feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Whether you are in the throes of parenting, struggling with peri-menopause symptoms or grieving changes in your life and relationships. Just know that this isn’t a permanent feeling. I can help guide you through.
My purpose is to create a safe and supportive space for you and to offer you tools that will empower you to overcome limiting beliefs, habits, and fears. Using techniques based on the latest advances in neuroscience we can create new neural pathways, rewiring your brain to a strong, confident, calm, and in-control mind. Empowering you to make the changes you need to make and create the life that you deserve.
A bit about me!
I trained with CPHT who are the forefront of Hypnotherapy training in the UK and I hold the Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (DHP) and the Hypnotherapy Practitioner’s Diploma (HPD). Both qualifications which are recognised by professional bodies and considered to be the gold standard in Hypnotherapy training.
Since completing my training I have attended many additional courses, lectures and read countless books to expand my “tool kit” of skills and keep up to date with modern research. These have included Gut Directed Hypnotherapy, Mindful Menopause and The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy as well as further training lined up for working with ADHD and neurodivergence and Natural Mindfulness. I am also a member of the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH), the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH) and I am fully insured with Holistic Insurance and have an Enhanced DB.
I guess I have always been classed as an anxious/sensitive child. I wrote countless diaries filled with angst, I rescued any animal I was allowed to rescue and cried easily! I was also born and raised abroad to British parents and as idyllic as it sounds I always had a sense that I was a foreigner in both places. I didn’t quite belong anywhere and wanted desperately to fit in. I realised years later that I was what they now call a Third Culture Kid-a child raised in a culture that is different to that of their nationality. This sense of being a little “rootless” and with friendships forever changing, despite all the positives of having such a multi cultural upbringing, created challenges in developing an identity as well as a lot of anxiety.
As mums, partners, carers, professionals and everything in-between it can be tricky to find time to focus on ourselves. We live in a fast paced, increasingly stressful and busy post pandemic world right now and our resilience is at an all time low. I would love to help you find your way again and transform the chaos and overwhelm you are feeling right now into clarity, peace and self acceptance.
Now for the fun facts!
- I am bilingual in Italian
- I love being out in nature and have become a bit of a bird watcher since lockdown! The sea is my happy place.
- My favourite book is "Circe" by Madeline Miller. A celebration of female strength in a man's world. I love it so much I have a tattoo representing her on my lower leg!
- I once worked at a world famous butterfly farm in Dorset when I was a student. The silk moths there made the silk for Princess Diana's wedding dress! A fascinating place.
- My most recent Netflix binge was "Ripley" based on the books by Patricia Highsmith. Loved the black and white cinematography and Italian setting. Thrilling story!
