Exploring New Therapeutic Techniques: "And the hypnosis really appealed to me because a lot of the work that I had been doing was quite protocolized and felt quite rigid in some ways."

Exploring Hypnotherapy: "It's that connecting to the person that I really enjoy about hypnosis, that there isn't a protocol, that there isn't a format, if you like, that the session has to take that we can use indirect suggestion. We can use direct suggestion. We can use little tricks and treats to really help people engage with what it is that is bothering them so, and what it is that they need help with."

The Magic of Cinema and Hypnosis: "So I think it was just a combination of so many different things. And then to understand that it was a real thing, that hypnosis isn't a game or a trick or a stage show, that actually it's something that really works, you know, that it's something that really makes a difference to people."

Exploring the Subconscious: "And the emotional kind of release at times or just that real insight that the person can get when you go deeper into the subconscious."

Exploring Self-awareness and Growth: "The story was about kind of looking at things in a new way about seeing the sunrise. It was about really tackling that thing you've got in your mind right now, knowing that you've got the skills and resources to do so and being able to access them and see the sunrise, to see that positive change."

Brain Activity During Creative Insight: "We can see them light up as they got this message. They already had what they needed to solve the problem, if you like, to bring the solution into their lives."

Exploring the Unconscious Mind: "When we drift and dream, which often is the experience of hypnosis, you know, that lovely sense of daydreaming, we go into a state in the brain, kind of like the default mode network is when the brain starts to relax and just gets on with other stuff. It stopped deliberately thinking about the problem, but work is happening in the background. Then the brain picks a different book from the library, and it opens it, and it shows it to you. And you're like, oh, the answer's in that book."

The Power of Subconscious Problem Solving: "And you're like, that's the answer. Yeah. And that's what your brain has done, the creative processing that it's been doing, where you were on that section of the library, trying to find the answer in there, the brain went, oh, but you know what? What if we look in that part of the library? And there the answer was."

Personal Courage in Therapy: "Significant moments for me have been particular clients who have really, really gone through so much and shown such incredible courage and strength. And it reminds me of how powerful we actually all are inside."

Exploring Hypnosis: "It's the full range and it delivers the most extraordinary change. It really does."