Welcome to the National Council For Hypnotherapy Podcast, where we dive into the fascinating world of hypnosis, lifting the lid on hypnotherapy, sharing insights and tips for change as we chat. So sit back, relax, and enjoy all the wonderful possibilities of Hypnotherapy. My name is Tracey Grist, and I will be your host today. So, I'm here today with Gary Johannes, who is a man of 4 hats, and many different which we'll ask about in a bit. Welcome, Gary. We're we're going to keep it simple and let's go straight into it. So so what what's what do you do currently and what's been your journey to today?

So I'm a solution focused hypnotherapist. So I'm up in Peterborough. Mhmm. So I'm feeling St. Clair. However, I do cover the whole country for different depending on what half I've got on. And so I guess my day job is seeing clients, seeing people who are struggling in a bit of a pickle, you might say, with anything to do with their mental well-being. So if that's anxiety, depression, whether that's PTSD, or any level of things which they're not being the best version of themselves.

So anywhere and and we also work quite a lot in aspirational stuff, so people want to be better at what they do. So we also help with that. So I work with anyone who feels they just want to be better than what they are, or get better, or cope better.

Yeah. So and you were mentioning earlier, so you also look after training schools across the UK as well?

Yeah. So many years ago, I trained with the amazing David Newton down in Bristol with CPhT. And it's interesting that I'm on this podcast because a few years later, probably about 4 years later, I was at the NCH conference in London, and wonderful lady, part of CPhD still, was a lady called Susan Rodriguez, who everybody knows in in the industry, probably. She's brilliant. And she was there, and she was actually involved in some of my training. And she said to me, why have you not started lecturing with us, training with us? And I'm like, well, I've never been asked, and I've only trained about three and a half years ago. Surely, I'm not. And she's like, oh, you're mad.

And that led me to set up the Peterborough branch of CPhD. And since when I trained, when it was only probably Bristol where I used to have drive down from Peterborough to and they had one in Plymouth, we've now got something like 28 schools. So, you know, it's pretty amazing. And back then, David Newton, who was very involved in CPhD, less so now, he used to ring me up and going just for a chat. And then I put the phone down, and I'd realized I've started another school. So I ended up with, you know, he was very good at making sure you, understood what was needed even though if you didn't know what he was needed. And I ended up running 8 schools. So I've got schools where I look after.

Like this weekend, I'm down in Kent training wonderful students down in Kent. Last week, I was in Birmingham. And sometimes, I'm in Newcastle. Sometimes, I'm in Norwich. So we I personally oversee 8 of the 20 odd schools. And it's one of the it's probably my favorite part of everything I do, watching people students come onto the course with an idea they'd like to help people, an idea they'd like to change career, an idea that this might be the right thing for them, and just watch them over. We do a 10 month course. It's a full HPE course.

It's lovely, accredited because the company's been going for so long. We've got everything. But you watch a student come from that and then become this amazing therapist, and they grow and change, and it's just wonderful to watch.

And so this is within solution focused?

Yeah. So, yeah, so I do solution focused hypnotherapy. There are lots of different modalities. I I I train and I do solution focused work in every every different hat I wear, it's still with the solution focused mindset and model.

Okay. How is that different? So what what are the highlights of solution focused hypnotherapy that's different?