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UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations

 

Self Regulation
“Single voluntary self-regulatory bodies should be established for the Complementary and Alternative Medicine professions most widely practised in the United Kingdom and these bodies should have a single independent body funded by registration fees and a Governing Council made up of a balance between professional and lay members”. (Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health).
 

 

UKCHO Executive Committee

Chair John Lawrence NCH
Deputy Chair David Reeves NRAH
Secretary Peter Matthews SSM
Treasurer Jean Murton BAThH
Complaints Officer David Reeves NRAH
     
Terri Bodell NACHP
Helen Fogg HA
Greg Forde CAH
 Stephanie Kirke BIH
  Su Ricks-McPherseron NCSAG
Terence Watts APHP
     
  Martin Armstrong-Prior Co-opted
  Josephine Teague Co-opted

Biographical Details:

John D. Lawrence, BSc (Hons), DHP, Dip. CAH, Dip. (Erk) Hyp. Master NLP and Meridian Therapy Practitioner is a National Guild of Hypnotists Board Certified Trainer and Hypnotherapist. He has worked with clients from all over the U.K. and abroad for specific issues. He is a member of the National Hypnopsychotherapy Council and the National Council for Hypnotherapy. He was awarded "The Researcher of the Year Award, 2002" for his work on phantom limb pain and amputees by the latter organisation and holds senior clinician status with that body. He is a former Research Director within the NCH. He is an Accredited Hypnotherapy Supervisor within the NCH. He is a volunteer clinical hypnotherapist with the National Phobics Society. He is on the Register of Approved Gastrointestinal Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists helping to relieve ailments of the digestive system (IBS) and (IBD) etc. Formely he was one of only two Scottish expert advisors to serve on the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, looking at the integration of complementary therapies in to the NHS. He is also a former director and chair of Holistic Health Care Limited,  a Scottish charity working to promote education, research and the relief of sickness in a Holistic manner. Currently he practices at Linlithgow near Edinburgh.

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Peter Matthews possesses academic and professional qualifications at degree, post-graduate and higher degree level in education, employment law, industrial relations, stress management and hypnotherapy. His particular interest is the legal implications of stress at work. His paper on this topic is published at www.manageyourstress.co.uk.

He was formerly a Stress Manager with Harley Street Stress Management Specialists, based in Harley Street, London, nationally and internationally recognised as a centre of excellence for both medicine and complementary medicine. He is Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow and Life Member of The Society of Stress Managers. He is currently the Secretary of The Society of Stress Managers as well as Secretary of UKCHO.

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Jean Murton,   Jean is the director of the Belmont Centre for Hypnotherapy UK. She is the trainer for the British Association of Therapeutical Hypnotists (established 1951).
A committee member of BAThH a founder member of UKCHO. Jean is a member and accredited with several Hypnotherapy organisations and has been a practicing hypnotherapist since 1986  A Master Practitioner of Neuro- Linguistic Programming She has been a director of UKCHO since November 2000.

She has travelled internationally and been on TV and radio many times. She offers classes in many subjects in the study of the relationship between the power of the human mind and the power of the Universal Energies. She has run classes successfully on relaxation, stress and has dealt successfully with psychosomatic issues, on a one to one basis.

Her main interest is in clinical hypnotherapy and she is co-author of the recently published; Hypnotherapy in Healthcare.

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David Reeves, is the President of the (British) National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists www.nrah.co.uk.

He has been in private practice as a Psychoanalyst, Hypnotherapist since 1991, and as a Stress Management Consultant since 1994. He is the head of a thriving Harley Street practice and has another practice in Swindon, Wiltshire.  He also spends time training and working in the USA.

Before moving into the field of Hypnotherapy and Stress, his background was in the commercial sector reaching the level of Managing Director.

David has undergone extensive training in both the UK and the USA in numerous aspects of Psychology, Psycho-sexual problems, Hypnosis and (Battlefield) Stress Management.

He has taken part in BBC and  local Wiltshire radio programs and is a registered tutor with two charities, SCOPE and Learning for Life, lecturing in various aspects of Psychology, Hypnosis and Stress.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellow of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, a life long member of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association, and belongs to several other leading professional associations in both the UK & USA. He is also a freeman of the city of London.

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Terri Bodell, is a Fellow and Deputy Chair of the National Association of Counsellors, Hypnotherapists & Psychotherapists and Member of the Royal Society of Medicine. She is a consultant Clinical Psychotherapist specialising in life skills development and has been helping people to deal with the challenges of work and their private lives for over 14 years. She is also a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and holds a Diploma in the treatment of eating disorders.

She has written articles on depression, stress, life skills, eating disorders and other psychological issues for a number of publications in the UK. She is Editor of the NACHP Journal to which she also contributes. Terri has also featured in Scottish Television’s leading documentary series ‘Faith Without Walls’ covering topics of ‘sex and sexuality’ and ‘death and dying,’ and has given numerous radio interviews on a variety of psychological health and life skill problems including BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Three Counties Radio. She has led numerous life skills development courses, on an individual and a corporate basis, and has been invited as a guest speaker for various organisations. She is currently running a series of courses on stress management for cardiac patients at Barnet General and Chase Farm Hospitals’ Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit.

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Helen Fogg has been a Committee Member of the Hypnotherapy Association (HA) for 2 years, with the extra role of Local Contact Coordinator. She has been in private practice as a hypnotherapist since 1994, specializing in anxiety disorders and panic attacks, IBS, stress, fears and phobias, as well as confidence, performance issues, smoking and weight control. In addition, she is a qualified kinesiologist and shamanic practitioner. Her practice is based in North Hampshire, where she is the proprietor of her own holistic centre, combining a complementary health clinic with a venue offering classes, workshops and training. Her background is in further education where she taught as a Mathematics lecturer for 18 years. She is very keen to see hypnotherapy develop as a respected profession, gaining the trust from the general public and the medical profession, and is looking for increased access to CPD opportunities and supervision for all registered hypnotherapists.

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Greg Forde is President of The Corporation of Advanced Hypnotherapy, Senior Tutor at The Atkinson-Ball College of Hypnotherapy and Hypno-Healing, and has been practising Hypnotherapy since 1967.  As well as being a Relate-trained relationship counsellor and NLP trainer, Greg is a corporate coach, trainer and mentor, working with a range of companies, from sole-trader to Microsoft. He is an internationally published author and is passionate about lifelong learning.

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Stephanie Kirke,  MSc.Psy, DipHP, HPD, AccHypSup, Senior Clinician MNCH(Acc)MNGH Stephanie was Chair of UKCHO from October 2004 until July 2006, when she stepped down from the position. Stephanie still remains as a member of the executive and gives her support to the VSR work ahead. She is a practising hypnotherapists since qualifying in 1994. With an academic background in Psychology at degree and higher degree level, Stephanie also has 12 years teaching experience both in FE and sixth form school settings. Stephanie is an accredited member and senior clinician of the NCH, Director of Supervision since 2003 and was voted Chair of NCH in January 2005.

Stephanie is interested in the progress of the UK hypnotherapy profession as it strives toward voluntary self-regulation. UKCHO is the only organisation in the UK which represents a number of registering and/or accrediting organisations whose aim is to maintain professional standards and where possible, raise those standards still further.

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Su Ricks-McPherson, BA (Hons), ADHP (NC), Dip. CAH, PNLP, HPD, ACC HYP SUP is a certified trainer for the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, a Fellow of the National College Student and Alumni Guild, an Accredited member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy,  and a practicing hypno-psychotherapist.  Su was awarded "The Researcher of the Year Award, 2008" for her work on the impact of negative messages in the media on anxiety, stress and general well being. She holds senior clinician status with the NCH and is an accredited supervisor and a UKCP registrant.  She is a former Executive Director of the NCH Executive Committee and is the current editor of the NCSAG E-Journal.

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Terence Watts, Terence has been in professional practice since 1989 and is the Chairman of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, which he founded in 1999. He holds memberships in several professional organisations, including:

Fellow and Senior Clinician of the National Council for Hypnotherapy
Fellow of The National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists,
Member of The International Stress Management Association
Member of The Society of Authors.

He also holds the MCGI (Member of the City & Guilds Institute) and is the author of:

Warriors, Settlers & Nomads
Rapid Cognitive Therapy
Hypnosis: Advanced Techniques in Hypnotherapy and Hypnoanalysis

He has written several training courses and is an international presenter and trainer, and is Principal of the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Trained originally as a hypnoanalyst, he uses an eclectic mix of therapies in his work and is a specialist in psychosexual disorders. In 2006, he originated a brief diploma course for professional therapists in the management and alleviation of psychosexual dysfunction.

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Martin Armstrong-Prior, Martin has been involved in counselling and therapy at various levels since 1974. He has practiced hypnotherapy since 1992, when he completed his training and joined the National Council for Psychotherapy and the Hypnotherapy Register. When the Hypnotherapy Register broke away from the NCP Martin became prominent in the development of the NCH into a ‘Members Co-operative’ and became the first Chair of the Cooperative. About the same time he became the first Secretary of UKCHO when it was formed, and helped to develop the structure of this organisation as a Co-operative.. He retired from the Police Service in 2000, after 30years of service, and has been an active supporter of the development of standards in the hypnotherapy profession."

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Josephine Teague,is a mature practitioner of hypno-psychotherapy who runs a successful practice in Impington, just outside Cambridge and a training school, Cambridge College of Hypnotherapy, as well as administering the Cambridge Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists (CRAH).

Academic qualifications are MSC, BSc(Hons), DipPsych, PGCE. She is UKCP Reg ECP WCP and holds the European Certicate of Clinical Hypnotherapy. Some of her vocational qualifications are PGDHP, DipTHP, DHP, HPD, AdvDHP, CI, BCH, AccHypSup, CertHypSup, She is also currently Chairman of the Hypnotherapy Association. She is a Fellow of Central Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists and of the Royal Society for Medicine and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of National College Students and Alumni Guild. She has been elected Vice Chairman of the HyphoPsychotherapy Section of UKCP.

Josephine also holds professional memberships of various other professional bodies, including NCH, HA, NRHP UKCP.

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