Emma the therapist…
I’ve always had a passion for health and wellbeing. Following a career writing and editing for a variety of health and women’s magazines, I retrained as a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist in 2021.
This came from a desire to help others with my knowledge of natural health, as well as from the work I have done to heal myself. I have worked hard to make sure I am well-resourced to cope with my role as an unpaid carer to my (soon-to-be-teenage!) son.
A little background…
In 2012, my newborn baby had a catastrophic brain injury leaving him severely disabled. Life was never again going to be the way I had pictured it. It was a shocking event that put my family’s life on a very different trajectory. One which initially felt devastating, but how wrong I was!
Over the past 12 years, I have done so much healing, thinking, grieving, philosophising, accepting, learning, changing and growing. What I learned on this journey perfectly aligns with the solution focused model. It hasn’t been all terrible, it hasn’t been completely wonderful, but so much good has come from this event.
A long time ago I chose to make the best of life, whatever that looked like.
I know that life doesn’t always go the way we expect or want and that we can’t control that. What we can control is our thoughts, our reactions and where we choose to put our focus. Through solution-focused questioning and hypnotherapy trance, we can change the way we think and feel about life, and therefore change our lives radically.
If we focus on the problems, the problems grow and magnify so we don’t notice all the good things. Switch that focus to the good things and they start to grow until they overshadow the more negative things in life.
This is my work but also how I live my life.
Emma the person…
I live with my husband, two children and cat in the amazingly beautiful town of Frome in Somerset - think cobbled streets, historic churches, great food and coffee, a strong creative community and quirky independent shops. I go to the gym, love to walk in the hills and forests of Somerset and Wiltshire. I write fiction and poetry and have recently developed a love of making ceramics.
I trained with the prestigious Clifton Practice and am a fully qualified, insured and DBS-checked Solution Focused Hypnotherapist.