About me... Ian Gammons
First the formal stuff...
I qualified with The Quest Institute and hold:
NLP MPrac (Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic
Programming)
Dip.C.Hyp - (Diploma in Cognitive Hypnotherapy)
HPD - Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (following formal assessment by the National Council for Hypnotherapy). This is the only, independently accredited, professional standard qualification in Hypnotherapy in the U.K.
MNCH(Lic) - Member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH)
As a registered member of the NCH I am bound by a comprehensive Code of Ethics and am covered by Public Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance.
And a little more personal...
I'm also a Chartered Mechanical Engineer (MIMechE) and it was in this area of my life that I personally experienced the debilitating effects extreme anxiety can cause. I was truly in a 'hope-less' situation, trapped by the constant gnawing in my stomach and the countless nights of waking up in a sweat at 2 am unable to get control of my negative thoughts. Deep down I knew that to change the dire way I was feeling I needed to find a way of facing up to my problems, some way of regaining control and hope in a positive future without relying on medication.
Like many people I'd always had a wary interest in hypnotherapy and decided this was one of the routes I wanted to explore. As I learned more about how it might help me I realised that if hypnotherapy really was capable of bringing about the changes I needed then I wanted to learn how to help others who were suffering as I was.
Looking into the different training organisations I reached the point where, after many telephone calls and visits I had just one more organisation to contact, The Quest Institute run by Trevor Silvester. An informal interview/chat was (and still is) required before Trevor would accept an application for training and afterwards I was invited to stay and watch a class in progress. During that class I saw a technique for overcoming phobias demonstrated on a lady with a strong fear of heights.
The effectiveness of the technique coupled with the trainer’s obvious skill and integrity left me in no doubt that if I was going to find a way forward then the tools, models and theories brought together within Cognitive Hypnotherapy would offer me as good a chance as I was ever likely to find.
As I write this (Nov 07) I’ve just finished assisting the training of Q21, the latest course to qualify as Cognitive Hypnotherapists, and in a weeks time I’m starting the Quest NLP Master Practitioner training. This course finishes in January 2008 and will also qualify me as a ‘Project You Coach’, coaching backed with all the advantages that Cognitive Hypnotherapy and NLP can bring to bear on whatever’s getting in your way.
