About Jonny
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Qualifications and Accreditations
I am currently training to qualify as a Hypno-Psychotherapist and gain full clinical UKCP membership, enriching my expertise with many more tried and tested approaches.
Why Did Jonny Become A Therapist?
I’ve been a Hypnotherapist since 2004. I’m currently based in Italy, working online with clients in the UK. Looking back it is clear to see how I arrived at hypnotherapy. I am naturally high in openness to experience, agreeableness and extraversion and low in conscientiousness and neuroticism (Big 5 Personality Test).
My Hypnotherapy training and experience began in 2003 with a diploma in hypnotherapy, from which I graduated in 2004 and immediately started working with hypnotherapy clients. This practical experience, I realised, is the best training I could ever have. I am grateful to all those clients who I worked with in the early days, before I truly understood how I was able to help people so significantly. This cemented the fact to me that I had found my calling.
I wanted to work therapeutically with people as much as possible, but I also wanted to continue to develop and grow in my offering. Education, for the first time, became something I deeply enjoyed. I put this development into action initially though engaging in practitioner, master practitioner and advanced master practitioner trainings in NLP, a masters degree in psychology and currently, an advanced diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy. This latter qualification, along with my hypnotherapy diploma and masters degree will form the basis for accreditation and registration with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the highest standard in UK therapy.
I have always been fascinated by perception, what makes people tick and which levers to pull, to help people to help themselves. In confronting difficult truths about being bullied in childhood, I realised that other people’s perception of me reflects my own self-perception. It isn’t that my bullying was my fault, but it was my responsibility and within my power to transform. I let go of blame and worked to alter my self-perception. Astonishingly to me at the time, people started to treat me differently. I became respected by myself and then by my peers. My talents for lateral thinking and empathy became recognised, I grew in confidence and self-value. I began to flourish.