Ruth Osborn

I am a fully qualified hypnotherapist working in Eastcote, Pinner, North West London.  My training was with the London College of Clinical Hypnosis at Imperial College in Kensington where I passed the Certificate and Diploma exams in Clinical Hypnotherapy.  These qualifications are independently accredited by the University of Greenwich.  More recently I obtained my Practitioner's Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy.  I am a fully insured member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

After some years teaching in Adult Education I was intrigued by students often negative attitudes to their own abilities and potentials. A BSc in psychology at Birkbeck, London University, reinforced my view that much of our behaviour is constrained by unconscious and involuntary mental processes.

We may rationalise unproductive habits such as smoking or overeating, asking ourselves why we are doing this.  We may struggle to overcome anxieties and phobias telling ourselves we are being silly.  However this conscious, analytical approach is often not successful.  If there is a conflict between the conscious and the unconscious then the latter will usually win.

By resolving such problems in the unconscious, where they start, I am fully convinced that hypnotherapy can offer an effective solution to a wide range of conditions.