Paul Peace

Hello and welcome to my personal page! Hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is a very personal experience and choosing the right therapist is important if you are to succeed in your goals. You're welcome to call me for a chat without obligation. In the meantime, here's a bit about me...

I treat all my clients with respect and dignity. I aim to keep things positive and avoid things that make clients uncomfortable such as blame and criticism. I operate openly and with integrity and honesty, seeing clients through therapy as quickly as possible whilst making sure the changes are manageable and sustainable. I am not involved in stage hypnotism.

I behave according to the codes of ethics laid out by my professional bodies - the National Council for Hypnotherapy, National Council of Psychotherapists and the General Hypnotherapy Register. I am also accredited by The National Regulatory Register for Hypnotherapy. I am a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and an NCH accredited supervisor of hypnotherapists. Your therapy is confidential.

I love what I do. Combining my interests, qualifications and experience in hypnosis and psychology with my desire to help people improve their lives is my dream job! You will always get a warm welcome here.

My main interests outside of therapy are walking in the countryside, wildlife and gardening.

Qualifications

DipH - Diploma in Hypnotherapy. This qualification demonstrates competence in inducing hypnosis, applying a wide range of techniques, and understanding ethical issues such as client confidentiality.

HPD - Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma. This is a new qualification aimed at setting common standards in course content and quality across the UK. Training in hypnotherapy is conducted privately and the problem with many qualifications is that the same school that awards the qualification also happens to be the one the therapist has paid for training (and training varies widely in content and quality). The HPD is externally assessed/verified by the Northern College for Further Education (NCFE).

Certificate in Hypnotherapeutic Supervision - I am a qualified to supervise hypnotherapists and I am accredited as a supervisor by the National Council for Hypnotherapy.

PhD - Doctorate in Psychology obtained from Sheffield Hallam University. I studied the way certain language patterns shape gender and create unequal and undesirable power relations between men and women.

BSc (Hons) Psychology - first class from Sheffield Hallam University. Surprisingly, a degree in psychology is relatively rare in the hypnotherapist community. Hypnotherapists routinely deal with the human mind, behaviour, language, body language and emotions and all of these areas are covered on a Psychology degree.

NLP Master Practitioner - Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming. We don't currently understand how language and the biological brain interface but there have been some remarkable observations of how certain language patterns can help people improve their lives. NLP has helped people overcome phobias and habits, communicate better, manage emotions and much more. 'Neuro' refers to the biological brain, 'linguistic' refers to language and 'programming' is a computer metaphor referring to the way old habits, thoughts, speech patterns and emotions can be replaced by new ones.

Master Practitioner of TimeLine Re-Patterning - TimeLine Re-Patterining is one of a number of brands of timeline therapies which help people to overcome problems by exploring past troubles and past resources. For example, someone frightened of giving presentations might explore being put down by a teacher at school and labelled 'stupid' when answering a question in class. They can travel back in time to an early positive experience of, say, enjoying being in a school play, or bring the skills and abilities of a mature adult mind to bear of the initial sensitising event.

EMDR trained - Fully trained to Advanced Part 3 in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, phobia, etc. EMDR Europe accredited training.

Other courses attended

NLP Modelling with the co-founder of NLP John Grinder, and Carmen Bostic St Clair.

Other

National Council for Hypnotherapy - First Prize for best hypnotic induction.

Membership

British Psychological Society - Chartered Psychologist
National Council for hypnotherapy - Senior Clinician & Accredited Hypnotherapy Supervisor
General Hypnotherapy Register - Registered hypnotherapist and supervisor
National Council for Psychotherapy - Full Member
EMDR UK & Ireland - Member

For more information please call:

Paul Peace (0114) 235 1985