Having just completed a fabulous CBT-hypnotherapy workshop, thanks to the participation of everyone involved, it reminded me of just how much I love working with clients using a CBT-hypnosis approach. It was also a reminder of just how adaptable it is within a more integrative hypnotherapeutic way of working. On the course we had students from different hypnotherapy backgrounds, each with their own way of working, and each with a personal preference for what they want to bring to the therapy...

I recently watched a documentary on Pompeii and one of the points that was raised was that, for some survivors of trauma, one of the things they experience is post-traumatic growth. This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently, both in relation to people who have experienced a single traumatic incident, and for people who have experienced ongoing or more complex trauma. It's an idea that can feel quite uncomfortable to talk about because it can easily be misunderstood. The last...

Parts therapy is, quite simply, one of the most logical and common-sense approaches to working with people I've ever come across. When I teach it, it's one of those approaches that students tend to grasp very quickly. The underlying principles are intuitive. We all recognise what it's like to have one part of us wanting one thing, whilst another part wants something completely different. Whether it's the part that wants to get fit battling with the part that wants to stay on the sofa, or the...