This is how it starts

I can't pretend I always wanted to be a Hypnotherapist. But where did it start?
Early in the 1980's I studied Psychology as part of both my Management Degree and my Marketing post grad Diploma. I really really enjoyed this part of both qualifications, and tried to read further into the subject, and most importantly tried to use principles from occupational psychology in my work in Sales and Marketing.

Fast forward to late 1990's to early 2000's and I am now implementing IT services into businesses. I'm not the Techie, I was the first wave, working with users, trying to get their requirements captured, and also working as the third wave, trying to act as an interface between the users and the Techies, both of whom appear not to speak each others language.
Again, I am using lots and lots of the behavioural psychology to help users adjust to the new environment, to change behaviours and habits, and become more efficient and effective.

Then I had a flight of fancy, and moved into Recruitment, helping other recruiters set up Management divisions, and even setting up my own business. www.cactussearch.com
moving more into HR consultancy. I didn't enjoy the mechanics of recruitment, so sold my interest, and moved fully into HR Change Management projects. Again I was using lots of psychology to help people become more efficient, more motivated, and more effective in their roles. But people at work are like an iceberg, their home life, and even their earlier life was having a huge effect on their work behaviours and thinking, and I couldn't really affect their behaviours because I didn't have the tools to get under their skin, and into their minds (please excuse the mixed metaphors).

Fast forward to 2015- I'm reading lots and lots about psychology, and how the mind works, and actually picked up Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Quite why I had not read this book before, I have no idea, but it was a revelation.
I then set about reading everything I could find on related subjects, and within 5 books I was reading about Hypnotherapy, then more, then more. Ting.
That little bell goes off in my head- I could be a Hypnotherapist. I will be a Hypnotherapist. I will be the best Hypnotherapist I can be.
Then follows hours and hours of research.
Then I took the leap, and gained an interview with David Newton, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, and Head of CPHT Bristol Hypnotherapy Training who was kind enough to accept me onto Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma (AHD) course.

More planning, and the Avon River Practice came into being.