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Counselling & Hypnotherapy Tutors

Many of our counselling & Hypnotherapy tutors have taught the Chrysalis course for a number of years and students are encouraged to tap into their experience.

All our tutors have forged successful careers in counselling and psychotherapy, whether that be in private practice or employment. While all counselling tutors are at least accredited members of the National Counselling Society.

Counselling Tutors

Tutors in Belfast

Belfast

Chris McMahon

Chris began his counselling journey in 2009, following many years in business management and then essential skills tuition when he achieved a High Diploma in Counselling through NRC and the UU, as an integrative counsell…

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Belfast

Jonathan Broad

Jonathan is a Counsellor & Psychotherapist working in private practice serving clients throughout the UK & Ireland. Jonathan is also an associate counsellor for a well-known Irish charity. Jonathan works as an In…

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Tutors in Birmingham

Birmingham

Siân Williamson

Siân has been a counsellor for over 20 years having started as a volunteer with Cruse Bereavement Care. She has an Honours Degree in Psychology, a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and a Diploma in CBT. …

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Birmingham

Steve Thomas

Steve is an Accredited member of The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society and has worked in many care and wellbeing facilities, initially training in stress management and nutrition. He then went on to study …

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Birmingham

Michelle Riviere

Michelle is a Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist. Michelle is in full time private practice and specialises in Psychological Trauma, Building Self-Esteem and Confidence and Conflict Resolution. Michelle works wit…

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Birmingham

Anne Ryan-Thomas

Anne was a nurse prior to qualifying as a counsellor in 2011. She originally trained in the person-centred approach, then followed with CBT. She has more recently gained an MA in a creative arts psychotherapy, combining …

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Tutors in Bournemouth

Bournemouth

Martin Handy

Martin completed the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills and the Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Southampton. He has recently completed a counselling and psychotherapy researc…

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Tutors in Bristol

Bristol

Rhianan Lowes

Rhianan is a fully qualified Counsellor running her own private practice in South Bristol, offering therapy to couples as well as individual clients. She was responsible for setting up a free counselling service in one o…

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Bristol

Elaine King

Elaine is a fully qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor running a private practice in Marlborough, offering therapy to individual clients. Her private practice sees her work with patients who are experiencing Trauma, In…

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Tutors in Cardiff

Cardiff

Jody James

Jody originally studied Person Centred Counselling at University before specialising in Children and Young People. Jody has a keen interest in LGBTQ+, anxiety and working with trauma, she spends a lot of time gaining CPD…

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Cardiff

Elaine King

Elaine is a fully qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor running a private practice in Marlborough, offering therapy to individual clients. Her private practice sees her work with patients who are experiencing Trauma, In…

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Tutors in Chelmsford

Chelmsford

Kay Milton

Kay Milton is qualified in Psychodynamic Counselling, Transpersonal Therapy, Dream Analysis, and Life Coaching. In addition she has studied Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Zen Therapy and received training in Cognitive …

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Chelmsford

Peter Banes

Peter is a person-centred counsellor living in North Essex. He initially completed his training with Chrysalis several years ago earning his Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling. Peter has had a lifelong…

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Tutors in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Gloria Breen

Gloria lives in the Scottish Borders and enjoys the outdoor life. Psychology has been a passion for almost 14 years since starting her career change, leading from working as a Veterinary Pharmaceuticals sales manager to …

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Edinburgh

Melanie Lee

Melanie lives in East Lothian and enjoys being out in nature. She qualified as a counsellor/psychotherapist in 2010, retraining from IT Consultancy/Web development. Melanie has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and a Post…

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Tutors in Glasgow

Glasgow

Gloria Breen

Gloria lives in the Scottish Borders and enjoys the outdoor life. Psychology has been a passion for almost 14 years since starting her career change, leading from working as a Veterinary Pharmaceuticals sales manager to …

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Tutors in Guildford

Guildford

Sharon Gardner

Sharon is a Counsellor, Hypnotherapist and Clinical Supervisor and lives in Surrey. She initially qualified Human Resource Management and Development (MA, Chartered MCIPD) and worked for various large organisations. She …

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Guildford

Martina Jean-Jacques

Martina is an NCS Accredited Supervisor, Psychotherapist, and Counsellor trained in both Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. She has worked for the NHS IAPT team, community counselling settings and private pra…

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Tutors in Hitchin

Hitchin

Leigh Grigson

Leigh is a married lady and is a mum to her 3 teenage children. When her children reached school age, she embarked on a journey of self-discovery and came across the world of counselling which she has developed a real pa…

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Hitchin

Christine Robinson

Christine is a qualified counsellor with 14 years experience in delivering counselling to adults, couples, children and young people. She has worked within the NHS in mental health units and within public and voluntary s…

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Tutors in Ipswich

Ipswich

Chloe Carter

Chloe Carter is a qualified Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor, Trainer and Workplace Assessor; with over 20 years experience. Chloe holds a Humanistic Integrative Counselling Diploma and her Clinical Supervision Diploma ba…

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Tutors in Leeds

Leeds

Steve Sharpe

After 25 years as a training consultant, Steve retrained as a couple therapist with Relate in 2007 and worked part-time with Relate for 7 years. He then completed a diploma in Sex Addiction Treatment and set up in privat…

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Leeds

Kaye Barney

Kaye is a Relate-qualified counsellor who works with adults (individuals, couples, and mother/daughter pairs) on issues such as relationship problems, bereavements, self-esteem, anxiety and depression. She is an integrat…

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Leeds

Stuart Hillston

Stuart spent 20 years as a software entrepreneur, in the UK, USA and Japan before moving into corporate finance and coaching/mentoring. Stuart has been training business leaders in coaching and leadership skills for 10 y…

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Tutors in Liverpool

Liverpool

Yvonne Hale

Yvonne is a Qualified and registered Social Worker and has practised since 1987 in Child Protection and Adoption and Fostering. Yvonne Qualified as a Counsellor in 1998 and has worked since in Private Health, she continu…

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Liverpool

Christine Finch

Chrissy Jayne originally trained as an Anger Management Practitioner with Mike Fisher at the British Association of Anger Management in 2010. It was from this experience that she decided to qualify as a counsellor but ha…

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Liverpool

Mark Nicholls

Mark began training to be a therapist after many years working in Public Relations and then as a business owner. His own very positive experience of counselling lead him firstly to be a listener at his local Samaritans b…

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Liverpool

Sarah Jones

Sarah started her counselling journey in 2014 after a career in design. When she had her daughter in 2012 Sarah knew it was time for a change. She’d had an interest in psychology and self help books since school and ofte…

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Tutors in London

London

Anna Fraser

Anna is Certified Neuro Linguistic Programmer and an accredited member of the National Counselling Society MNCS (Acc). Anna qualified as a Counsellor with a Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in 2013 and you can fi…

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London

Chloe Carter

Chloe Carter is a qualified Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor, Trainer and Workplace Assessor; with over 20 years experience. Chloe holds a Humanistic Integrative Counselling Diploma and her Clinical Supervision Diploma ba…

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London

Diana Rollanson-Williams

Diana Rollanson-Williams is an accredited psychotherapist, supervisor and life coach. With over 20 years of coaching experience and over a decade of counselling and psychotherapy delivery working with adults and young pe…

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London

Alma Griffith

As well as being a Life Coach in NLP and Nutritional therapist Alma has continued to develop her interest in Psychology studying Time Line therapy, Hypnotherapy, IEMT and completed her Advanced Professional Diploma in Ps…

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Tutors in Maidstone

Maidstone

Rebecca Attwood

Rebecca is a counsellor and supervisor who holds a MA in Psychoanalytic Theory, an Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling and a PGCE in Post Compulsory Education. Rebecca launched an affordable co…

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Maidstone

Sharon Mayes

Sharon qualified in 2019 with NHS & Social care Partnership Diploma in Integrative Counselling accredited by the BACP and qualified in February 2022 with Counselling and Psychotherapy Central awarding body Level 5 Di…

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Maidstone

Laura Greene

Laura developed a passion for Psychology in her teens and has built a career helping people to make positive and long-lasting changes in their lives. After graduating in 2008 with a BA Honours degree in Criminology and P…

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Tutors in Manchester

Manchester

Elizabeth (Liz) Pascoe

Liz is an integrative counsellor and supervisor incorporating Person Centred therapy, Psychodynamic counselling, Cognitive Behavioural counselling (CBT), along with Mindfulness and a 3 stage trauma model to tailor the th…

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Manchester

Andrew Brown

Andy is a Chrysalis graduate. For many years, he worked as an engineer and consultant in the IT industry and has many years experience in IT project and program management in the UK and Europe. He came into the world of …

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Tutors in Newcastle

Newcastle

Lorna Cordwell

Lorna Cordwell has taught for Chrysalis since 2006 and has been practising as a therapist since 1987. She holds an Honours Degree in Psychology from the University of London, a Level 7 equivalent Diploma in Hypnosis and …

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Tutors in Northampton

Northampton

Liz Ritchie

As an Integrative Psychotherapist Liz is able to draw on techniques from a number of different approaches to personalise client’s therapy in accordance with their explicit and implicit personal needs. These approaches in…

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Northampton

Jill Wagner

Jill is a mum to four grown up children, and has both fostered and adopted, over the years, supporting other adoptive parents. When the children became self sufficient, she decided to change her life direction. Jill has …

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Tutors in Norwich

Norwich

Ilse Leenders

Ilse is an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist and work as an Integrated Therapist offering multi-models of therapy. Ilse is also an SDS Accredited Clinical Supervisor (CSAccred. (AAC) Ilse trained and qualified wi…

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Norwich

Rachel Griffin

Rachel is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor which means she tailors her in-depth knowledge of different theories to the specific needs of each individual client. Rachel works in the north Norfolk area. She runs…

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Tutors in Nottingham

Nottingham

Siân Williamson

Siân has been a counsellor for over 20 years having started as a volunteer with Cruse Bereavement Care. She has an Honours Degree in Psychology, a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and a Diploma in CBT. …

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Nottingham

Duncan Ellison

Following a two decade career in media, broadcasting and live events, Duncan retrained, graduating with a level five in therapeutic counselling. He has since added a diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a diploma…

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Nottingham

Michael Dawes

Michael is a person-centred counsellor from the East Midlands. He completed his BA(Hons) in Humanistic Counselling Practice in 2016 at the University of Nottingham and integrates different aspects of other Humanistic mod…

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Tutors in Oxford

Oxford

Byron Harris

Graduating from Chrysalis in 2016, Byron set up Harris Plus Health Ltd and runs a busy practice. He is a full time counsellor and therapist. He works online, and from offices in Cardiff and Chippenham. Byron has a BSc in…

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Oxford

Jilby John

Jilby holds a diploma in Counselling and Integrative Supervision of individuals and groups. She has acquired an MSc in Contemporary person centred Psychotherapy and has done training in Trauma Therapy and EFT (Emotionall…

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Oxford

Virginie Sussest

Counselling is definitely a passion and vocation; before Virginie's initial training with Chrysalis, then with Place 2 Be and CPPD she never felt any real attraction to any career path, but when she started my training s…

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Tutors in Peterborough

Peterborough

Marc James

Marc works for the Cambridgeshire Violence Against Women & Girls project, as Service Manager. He oversees provision of Therapies for young people who have been exposed to domestic abuse or sexual violence through 1-2…

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Peterborough

Julie Morley

Julie runs a well-established Psychotherapy private practice situated between Stamford and Peterborough and has taught Counselling and Psychotherapy since 2016. Her interest in the human mind and brain began as a child a…

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Tutors in Reading

Reading

Martin Handy

Martin completed the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills and the Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Southampton. He has recently completed a counselling and psychotherapy researc…

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Reading

Paula Barlow

Paula is a Counsellor, Hypnotherapist, and Counselling Supervisor in Reading. She initially qualified in Social Administration and Psychology and has an MA in Human Resource Management (Chartered FCIPD) and has worked in…

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Reading

Natalie Parks

Natalie has an MA in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice from the University of Nottingham. Natalie specialised in working with Children and Young People. Before training as a counsellor sh…

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Tutors in Sheffield

Sheffield

Iris Winkel

Iris Winkel is a trauma and EMDR psychotherapist, working for a charity called the Snowdrop Project as Counselling Manager since July 2020. She is responsible for developing and establishing the Snowdrop project counsell…

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Sheffield

Stuart Hillston

Stuart spent 20 years as a software entrepreneur, in the UK, USA and Japan before moving into corporate finance and coaching/mentoring. Stuart has been training business leaders in coaching and leadership skills for 10 y…

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Sheffield

Sophie Gifford

For over a decade, Sophie has specialised their career within the not-for-profit sector, supporting adult’s that have been victimised by others, particularly in relation to childhood sexual abuse, domestic abuse and sexu…

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Tutors in Southampton

Southampton

Cathy Jones

Cathy has extensive experience in creative design and teaching delivery of Counselling qualifications up to and including Degree/Research qualifications in both clinical and supervision practice. Cathy has a First Class …

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Southampton

Martin Handy

Martin completed the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills and the Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Southampton. He has recently completed a counselling and psychotherapy researc…

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Southampton

Stella Stefanidou

Stella is an experienced counsellor, clinical supervisor and clinical manager for organisations, schools, and individuals. Stella originally started her training as a psychologist in northern Greece, but soon decided to …

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Tutors in Warwick

Warwick

Steve Thomas

Steve is an Accredited member of The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society and has worked in many care and wellbeing facilities, initially training in stress management and nutrition. He then went on to study …

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Tutors in Worthing

Worthing

Lauren Eede

Lauren Eede is a qualified integrative counsellor and has a masters in youth studies and criminology. Her specialism was moulded towards addiction services and has worked in many agencies over the UK treating drug and al…

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Worthing

Cathy Jones

Cathy has extensive experience in creative design and teaching delivery of Counselling qualifications up to and including Degree/Research qualifications in both clinical and supervision practice. Cathy has a First Class …

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Worthing

Donna Barnett

Donna is a qualified integrative counsellor and a mother to three beautiful daughters and a fur baby (cocker Spaniel). Donna has over 10 years of experience working with trauma both with adults and young adults, and seve…

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Hypnotherapy Tutors

Tutors in Belfast

Belfast

Darryl McCullagh

Darryl currently works in private practice as a Hypnotherapist and Hypnobirthing Practitioner. He has been interested in Hypnosis from an early age and for many years he practised hypnosis and was self-taught initially f…

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Tutors in Birmingham

Birmingham

Faye Hatch

Having qualified with Chrysalis Not for Profit in 2015 Faye has successfully built a thriving hypnotherapy private practice in Birmingham. Faye specialises in working with solution-focused hypnosis on a wide range of iss…

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Birmingham

Debbie Harris

Debbie runs a successful Counselling practice in Melton Mowbray, specialising in stress, anxiety and depression. She qualified in Hypnotherapy and Counselling with Chrysalis and went on to qualify with a Practitioners Di…

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Birmingham

Karl Shanahan

Karl is a qualified Hypnotherapist having completed his studies in Hypnotherapy with Chrysalis in 2014. He is a member of the National Hypnotherapy Society and the National Counselling Society. He is also an accredited p…

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Tutors in Bournemouth

Bournemouth

Martin Handy

Martin completed the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills and the Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Southampton. He has recently completed a counselling and psychotherapy researc…

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Tutors in Bristol

Bristol

Reuben Turkie

Reuben is an integrative NCS Registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (AIMcert, NCS, Psy.C), & Hypnotherapist (AIMcert, NHS). Also working as an Associate lecturer for Chrysalis Courses, CPD Trainer, business consulta…

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Tutors in Cardiff

Cardiff

Antonia Gooder

Antonia qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist in 2017, with later qualifications in hypnotherapy for emetophobia, disordered eating, gut-directed and also in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Antonia runs a successful pri…

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Tutors in Chichester

Chichester

Honey Lansdowne

Honey has coached and mentored for over 20 years and completed her first hypnotherapy and counselling diploma with Chrysalis in 2013. She has developed a successful hypnotherapy, coaching and training business that opera…

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Tutors in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Fiona McLean

For many years Fiona worked in childcare supporting children and their families and chose to start formal training to be a counsellor in 2012. Fiona trained though Chrysalis and obtained my Advanced Diploma in Psychother…

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Tutors in Glasgow

Glasgow

Fiona McLean

For many years Fiona worked in childcare supporting children and their families and chose to start formal training to be a counsellor in 2012. Fiona trained though Chrysalis and obtained my Advanced Diploma in Psychother…

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Glasgow

Amanda Gunning

Amanda Gunning is a certified clinical hypnotherapist who has been helping people overcome anxiety and achieve their goals for over 18 years. She runs her own successful hypnotherapy practice in the northeast of Glasgow,…

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Tutors in Guildford

Guildford

Shirley Lafond

Shirley is married with 4 adult children. She has been interested in self-development and how people think all her life and after various jobs studied at Chrysalis to learn Counselling, Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy. As…

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Guildford

Katrina Elliott

Katrina Elliott is a qualified Hypnotherapist and counsellor who has undertaken additional training in EMDR. Katrina works in a pluralistic way pulling on different modalities that will suit the clients needs. She specia…

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Tutors in Hitchin

Hitchin

Jaswinder Challi

Jaswinder started teaching the Counselling and Psychotherapy Diplomas in 2000 (up to Level 4), initially with CSCT and then with CPCAB for 8 years. She also began teaching with Chrysalis from 2007 which she continues wit…

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Hitchin

Emma Stiff

I qualified as a Hypnotherapist in 2016 after studying with Chrysalis and have run my busy private practice in Essex ever since. As well as many other issues I have a keen interest in Weight Loss and anxiety issues. I am…

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Tutors in Ipswich

Ipswich

Nicola Mills

After 19 years in the Police Force, Nicola felt it was time for a change and to focus on something that really was going to make a difference to people and to give her better skills to help people who were often coming t…

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Tutors in Liverpool

Liverpool

Michelle Thomas

Michelle is a graduate of Chrysalis, qualifying in 2017 with an Advanced Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling after undertaking a placement with Age UK. She is an accredited member of the National Counselling Society and…

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Liverpool

Laura Keegan

Laura trained as a Counsellor and Hypnotherapist with Chrysalis and qualified in 2014, during her training she volunteered at women’s centres on the Wirral and after qualifying worked in private practice as an Integrativ…

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Tutors in London

London

Cila Hintz

Cila Hintz is an accredited and supervised psychotherapist and cognitive behaviour therapist. Cila is also a qualified and practicing hypnotherapist. Cila has had further specialist training at the British Psychology Ass…

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Tutors in Maidstone

Maidstone

Fernanda Prado

Fernanda Prado is a respected and experienced hypnotherapist who has been practicing since 2016. Over the years, she has helped numerous clients overcome various issues, establishing themselves as an authority in the fie…

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Tutors in Manchester

Manchester

Glynis Iveson

A fully qualified Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Glynis is herself a Chrysalis graduate, using an ‘integrated’ approach when working with her clients. With both private clients and referrals through pub…

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Tutors in Newcastle

Newcastle

Caroline Dennison

Caroline has had a varied career, staring as biomedical scientist in the NHS. While in this role she discovered a flair for communication and went on to study a PGCE at Newcastle University, qualifying as a teacher of sc…

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Tutors in Northampton

Northampton

Jaswinder Challi

Jaswinder started teaching the Counselling and Psychotherapy Diplomas in 2000 (up to Level 4), initially with CSCT and then with CPCAB for 8 years. She also began teaching with Chrysalis from 2007 which she continues wit…

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Tutors in Norwich

Norwich

Nicola Mills

After 19 years in the Police Force, Nicola felt it was time for a change and to focus on something that really was going to make a difference to people and to give her better skills to help people who were often coming t…

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Tutors in Nottingham

Nottingham

Karl Shanahan

Karl is a qualified Hypnotherapist having completed his studies in Hypnotherapy with Chrysalis in 2014. He is a member of the National Hypnotherapy Society and the National Counselling Society. He is also an accredited p…

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Tutors in Oxford

Oxford

Mark Vanner

Mark Vanner is a fully qualified hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner based in Oxfordshire where he runs three busy private practices. He has a diploma in Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) plus practitio…

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Tutors in Peterborough

Peterborough

Debbie Harris

Debbie runs a successful Counselling practice in Melton Mowbray, specialising in stress, anxiety and depression. She qualified in Hypnotherapy and Counselling with Chrysalis and went on to qualify with a Practitioners Di…

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Tutors in Reading

Reading

Martin Handy

Martin completed the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills and the Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Southampton. He has recently completed a counselling and psychotherapy researc…

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Reading

Cila Hintz

Cila Hintz is an accredited and supervised psychotherapist and cognitive behaviour therapist. Cila is also a qualified and practicing hypnotherapist. Cila has had further specialist training at the British Psychology Ass…

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Tutors in Sheffield

Sheffield

Faye Hatch

Having qualified with Chrysalis Not for Profit in 2015 Faye has successfully built a thriving hypnotherapy private practice in Birmingham. Faye specialises in working with solution-focused hypnosis on a wide range of iss…

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Tutors in Southampton

Southampton

Martin Handy

Martin completed the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills and the Advanced Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Southampton. He has recently completed a counselling and psychotherapy researc…

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Southampton

Nick Matthews

Having completed 24 years in the military, Nick embarked on a new career as an advanced interviewer, psychological profiler and training consultant, who now has 18 years experience in this field. Nick’s extensive experie…

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Tutors in Warwick

Warwick

Faye Hatch

Having qualified with Chrysalis Not for Profit in 2015 Faye has successfully built a thriving hypnotherapy private practice in Birmingham. Faye specialises in working with solution-focused hypnosis on a wide range of iss…

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Tutors in Worthing

Worthing

Honey Lansdowne

Honey has coached and mentored for over 20 years and completed her first hypnotherapy and counselling diploma with Chrysalis in 2013. She has developed a successful hypnotherapy, coaching and training business that opera…

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