Hypnotherapy in Edinburgh
I write this after 33 years clinical full time practice with Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. I have conducted over 20,000 therapy sessions.
I have enjoyed just about every day of the 33 years of 6 days a week I have worked.
I have helped thousands of people worldwide.
I trained with the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, beginning my training at Brook Hospital, Blackheath, Kent then Cheadle Hulme, Manchester and finally Glasgow.
I qualified with a distinction and subsequently became a fellow of National Society of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy.
I became a full member of the National Register of Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy.
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My proudest moment was receiving a foreword from Dr Albert Ellis for a book that I wrote on the treatment of anxiety. “Breaking The Vicious Circle of Psychological Misery”.
I visited him in New York to thank him and became great friends with his wife and entrustee of his REBT legacy Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis.
We have a website www.ellisREBT.com
I also wrote another book about overcoming a stroke in rapid time “Nurture Your Nature”.
Edinburgh Hypnotherapy
My first ever client was a teacher, helping her with confidence issues. I think it fair to say that I was more nervous than her!
One of my many memorable moments was helping to get a person’s voice back. They presented with psychosomatic voice loss and could barely speak.
The main presenting symptoms that people have is anxiety and lack of confidence.
The most common word they use to describe the problem is ‘I overthink things’.
The vast majority of people I have treated are highly intelligent, overly conscientious, care too much what others think and have a labile nervous system and a ‘PhD’ in self-criticism!
I have treated every psychological problem there is.
Having experienced anxiety, 35 years ago and combining the work of Dr Claire Weekes, Dr Albert Ellis and Dr Milton Erickson I have been quickly able to help people towards recovery.
The gloomiest aspect of my job is reading or meeting other therapists who naively and obsessionally guide their client towards looking into their past.
This, in my view makes the person’s symptoms and over all profile worse.
I have no plans to retire and look forward to a number of years helping even more people with my experience.
I thank you all and hope you too have enjoyed the experience.
I would never have been able to do it without the support of my terrific parents, the late Nancy and Stanley.
Hypnotherapy in EdinburghRobin W. Thorburn ADHP (NC) MNRHP FNSHP UKCP (H)