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On Sunday I was booked to appear on the Jeni Barnett show on BBC Radio London. It was for an hour and the plan was just for me to take calls about how Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help people with their problems. I was really looking forward to it. I awoke on Sunday morning to hear [...]

I was invited onto the show by the lovely Jeni. As well as talking about Cognitive Hypnotherapy I also got to speak to some listeners about insomnia, low self-esteem and procrastination. Oh, and weight loss and the producer’s jealousy. It was a busy time. I’ve edited out the music to save you time. Ooh – [...]

An event last weekend was one of my highlights of the year – and for the second year in a row. In 2010 we launched a presentation skills workshop for Questies interested in adding training to their income stream. It was a magical, transformative three days that went far beyond my expectations, and the feedback [...]

It takes a lot to make my wife Bex rant. It takes even more for her to still be ranting at dinner to something she heard that morning. Dr Peter Naish obviously has a gift. He was reported widely in the press yesterday talking about hypnosis being used more widely within the NHS. This is [...]

The Daily Express recruited several of their staff to listen to a Slimpod, a recording designed and recorded by Trevor to help people lose weight, and available through Thinking Slimmer. As you can read, the results surprised them.
The use of hypnotic suggestion has been one of the key elements of Cognitive Hypnotherapy from the beginning, [...]

For most of my life I’ve been at war with vegetables. Apart from peas, pretty much they were just table decorations – and salad? Well, salad came in for a particular level of contempt. Despite a lifelong enjoyment of keeping fit, I spent little time thinking about keeping healthy through my food choices, and what [...]

ThinkingSlimmer is a new approach to weightloss using short recordings (known as Slimpods) to adjust our unconscious relationship to food. It only requires 10 minutes listening per night and we’ve had some brilliant successes. I used Wordweaving to create them, and I’m ‘the voice of the Slimpod’. Darin is one of our most inspiring successes – from couch potato to running the Great South Run in just a few short months.

This particular blog began as a response to a thread on our student forum – an extremely lively place which often receives up to a thousand visits a day from our network of students and therapists (collectively known as Questies). Someone on the thread had quoted me as describing counselling as a backward step – [...]

Darin McCLoud is a nice guy who had a recent bad experience with the press. He’s a diabetic and has had problems with his his weight for as long as he remembers. Having failed with diets on repeated occasions he believed that a gastric bypass was the best way to remedy the problem. However, when [...]

There’s an interesting new treatment that has been shown to be effective with anxiety and addictions and which is now being tested for PTSD. It’s called Cognitive-bias modification (CBM) and can have a positive effect in a short space of time.
It is based on the idea that many psychological problems are caused by unconscious [...]