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I am very pleased to see that the Mayor of London, the Mayor of Manchester, and the central government have launched campaigns against the sexual harassment of women and girls. All the campaigns include videos, which are being widely shown, and which show clearly just how unpleasant, damaging and unacceptable this behaviour can be.

Last time we looked at some of the reasons why we fall into a negative frame of mind. I said I would show you how to change this for yourself. I will be giving you some more techniques over the next couple of months.

The out-of-court settlement which Prince Andrew has made with Virginia Giuffre probably means that the story will disappear from the front pages, at least for a while.

I talk a lot about belief systems and why we hold the beliefs we do with my clients. Often, we discover that the beliefs they hold are making their lives more difficult.

We are living in very worrying times as the war in Ukraine worsens. It is natural to be worried and concerned about our safety and what will happen in the future. However, for some of us, this natural fear can get out of control and lead to serious anxiety.

With the changes in Covid regulations, most students are now back at university full time, away from home, and living in student accommodation. I have noticed that one issue has not gone away, and it is a very worrying issue indeed. This is the very real problem of the high rate of sexual assault on campuses.

I notice many of my clients are saying that they are finding the current situation with Covid more and more confusing and this is making them very anxious, even though this variant does seem less dangerous. Many feel frustrated by this and ask me if there is anything they can do.

When we are dealing with traumatic memories, we need to be able to process them so they become part of our life narrative. We know the event or events happened, but we don’t respond to the memories of them emotionally or physically.

I am trained and professionally qualified in the use of a range of cutting edge therapeutic treatments including EMI (Eye Movement Integration). Eye Movement Integration is a powerful method for treating emotional difficulties and for many clients it provides more rapid relief from emotional distress than conventional psychotherapies.

We are now well into what is a very strange summer indeed for many of us. In my experience, there is a very high level of general anxiety about as we try to find the best ways of living in a world which has changed such a lot.

If not treated the symptoms of PTSD can be devastating and impact hugely on what otherwise can be a positive life experience, enjoying those first months and years with a new baby. If you think you are suffering with post-natal PTSD please get in touch.

The slow lifting of lockdown is finally here. This is leading us to a world of more options. The chance to make choices, which has been a long way off for so long, now seems much closer or even already here.

PTSD can be a debilitating illness and it appears to be getting more common. The good news is that there are a variety of modern techniques which can help. I am going to go into detail about what these are and how they work.

It’s that time of year again! Exams at school and at university are fast approaching. As usual, I notice the increase in clients seeking my help in my hypnotherapy for anxiety clinics in Harley Street and in Henley on Thames.

I don’t know what went on behind the doors of the various royal palaces between Megan and Harry and the rest of the Royal Family, so I am not going to say anything specific about the very unhappy situation which has developed. But there are things that Megan and Harry revealed in their interview with Oprah Winfrey which do really worry me.

Most of us are feeling heartily sick of lockdowns. But given that it looks like they are with us for some time, I am going to take another look at how we can cope.

I am going to take a look about what you can do if you are being sexually harassed at work. At the forefront of my work is how you can protect yourself, and emerge with the least possible damage.

"Helping you gain control over the things you want to change"ANXIETY & STRESS TRAUMA & PTSD LACK OF CONFIDENCE WOMEN'S HEALTH POST NATAL PTSD It might be off the front pages, but the pain of sexual trauma does not go away. Posted on 19 January 2021 I was looking back...

This year, this strange 2020 year unlike no other in our lifetimes, I will not be blogging about Christmas anxiety. Well, that is not quite true, I am going to be talking about anxiety but in a very different context.

"Helping you gain control over the things you want to change"ANXIETY & STRESS TRAUMA & PTSD LACK OF CONFIDENCE WOMEN'S HEALTH POST NATAL PTSD Masks, Cognitive Dissonance & Keeping Calm Posted on 20 Nov 2020 A friend of mine, who lives in a European country, phoned...

I posted a message on my Facebook page recently.  I said: “Things do not feel good at the moment. We will all need all our resilience and a lot of strength to get through the next period. I think this can be done and it may even teach us some useful life lessons. More this week on how we stay well and happy and we go into a tough winter.”

‘Don’t tell anyone, but there are some things I quite like about lockdown,’ If I had a pound for every client who has said this to me recently, I would have lots of money but not much to spend it on at the moment. But joking aside, comments like this reveal something very important about how different personality types cope differently when social life is constrained.

I notice something very interesting with the clients I see for sexual abuse and trauma. Although the Weinstein trial has finished and justice seems to have been done, a number of my clients are finding it difficult to put behind them. One said to me the other day, “Everyone else is obsessed with corona virus and I still keep thinking about Harvey Weinstein. What is wrong with me?”

If you are a regular reader of this blog then you will know I often talk about resilience. That is the ability to deal with the bad things which life can throw at you and still remain a mentally healthy and well person.

We are all being tested at the moment. And I know many of my clients who are trying to cope with feelings around the coronavirus are finding it very difficult. Health anxiety and the Corona virus is a real thing. It can be dealt with and I am going to give you my take on it.