I work with people who have a painful inner life, they want to change themselves for the better and they know it is up to them, but however hard they try they stay stuck in the same old struggles

As a therapist and trainer I specialise in using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and through that work I developed the Identity Healing processes.

I grew up on Anglesey, in north west Wales (about as far west as you can go before falling into the Irish Sea).

I went to Nottingham University in 1977 to study Chemistry (because I didn’t get good enough grades to get into medical school).

When I got my BSc I thought that I might be a science teacher and took post graduate teacher training, which made it clear to me that I didn’t really want to be a secondary school teacher.

I’ve had various jobs including milkman, assistant steward in a cafeteria on an Irish Sea ferry, a Residential Social Worker at a centre for delinquent teenagers, the Assistant Head of Youth Centre in Brixton, in Inner London, and short periods as a grape picker in Switzerland, a spring grinder(!) in Germany and a night porter and barman.

In 1990 I moved to the north-east of England to take an MSc in Software Engineering course in Newcastle upon Tyne, eventually finding work as a programmer specialising in image analysis programming for medical and scientific applications. At that time, I became a practising Buddhist.

In 2000, I rekindled my long interest in NLP, which I first discovered in university, by taking a NLP Practitioner training, which led to even more NLP training and eventually finding and learning EFT.

In 2005, I abandoned the software engineering day job and started work as a self-employed therapist and trainer.

You can find out more about my work as a therapist and trainer at https://practicalwellbeing.co.uk

I now live by the sea in Blyth, Northumberland in the north east of England with my partner Karen.