White Hart Clinic

 

Pyschological Service

Hypnosis and Counselling


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City Minds at White Hart Clinic

We treat individuals not symptoms:
The psychological services at WHC have now been extended and hypnotherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and counselling are now all offered at the centre.

All the services, except for counselling, are delivered through City Minds, a company that specializes in hypnotherapy, CBT and solution-focused therapy.


About City Minds
At City Minds we recognise that psychological health can be easily learned and applied in a short space of time, thereby helping people to realise a more positive self-image.

The rapidly changing demands of today’s society has led to the development of brief strategies for lasting change and these form one of the fundamental principles of our work.

A unique service, City Minds is designed to bring excellence to therapy. Our therapists are of a uniformly high standard and accreditation. City Minds methods are proven to create beneficial change and are flexible and adaptable in meeting the needs of individuals.

City Minds therapists provide a combination of solution-focused therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and hypnotherapy.


Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-focused brief therapy is an effective and goal-directed approach to tackling problems. It is future-focused and works with an individual’s strengths, making the best use of their resources.

Its aim is to bring about lasting change by teaching people how to build solutions rather than to simply solve problems.


Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Stemming from the Rational Emotive Behaviour model, CBT is backed up by a wealth of scientific research and works on the understanding that unhealthy beliefs lie at the heart of emotional disturbance and self-defeating behaviours.


Cognitive and behavioural therapies work by identifying the unhealthy beliefs a person holds about the negative things that happen in their lives. It then helps them to restructure those beliefs by challenging and changing them into empowering healthy beliefs.

With CBT, you learn practical ways of tackling your problems and learn to make positive changes to the way you experience your life.


Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which responses to suggestions are heightened and insight into the subconscious is gained. Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic application of a state of hypnosis.

It is a natural and effective technique for accessing the subconscious mind – unleashing potential, changing unwanted habits and behaviours, dealing with trauma and stress and finding solutions to problems and concerns.


Counselling
The start of a journey into self-awareness: Counselling or therapy is a space for you to explore and gain understanding of what is going on in your life, your relationships, your family or your work with a skilled therapist.

Together you look at behaviour patterns of behaviour, thoughts and ways of caring with strong emotions which may be destructive to yourself or others.

It is hard to make changes unless you understand why you behave the way you do. Through counselling you can gain more self-awareness and learn to live life with more of an idea of who you are and what you want.

The Team:

Maggie Chapman
A director and co-founder of City Minds, Maggie is an experienced therapist who believes it is important to inspire young people in a way that shows positive change is possible. Each of us has unlimited potential, none more so than that of a developing mind.

With degrees in business and psychology, Maggie originally qualified as an accountant, where working in the City gave her a unique insight into corporate-related stress. She then went on to qualify as a bereavement and trauma counselor before developing her skills to work with adolescents. After training in clinical hypnosis, she joined the academic faculty of the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH) and became one of its senior lecturers, teaching both nationally and internationally.

Maggie has private practices in Central and South West London, is a Fellow and Treasurer of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BSCH) and a Fellow of the British Association of Medical Hypnosis (BAMH).

Suzi Dittmar
Suzy Dittmar holds an MSc degree in cognitive behaviour therapy, as well as diplomas in hypnotherapy from the LCCH. A highly motivated therapist, Suzy is goal-directed and empathic and highly successful with clients from a wide range of backgrounds.

A therapist at The Priory Hospital in Roehampton, she also had a private practice in Central London and lectures on the cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy diploma course at the LCCH.

Suzy specialises in issues ranging from anxiety to depression, unhealthy eating patterns to addictions and stress management to anger management, as well as a lack of confidence, self-worth or motivation.

Daniel Fryer
A former journalist and writer, with a degree in journalism and sociology, Daniel is a graduate of the LCCH and holds diplomas in both clinical hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy (with distinction).

A great believer in the power of the positive mind, he runs private clinics in South West London and is a volunteer for a South East London HIV health charity, where he helps people come to terms with HIV and its associated symptoms.

As well as specializing in the treatment of phobias, he also puts his many years of journalism experience to good use by helping people combat the effects of work-related stress.

A registered hypnotherapist with the National Phobics Society and the National Smoking Cessation Institute (NSCI) and a member of the BSCH, Daniel is also a tutor at the LCCH on the cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy diploma course.


Angela Giuliani
Angela is an experienced therapist and teacher. The director for education at City Minds, she is a qualified teacher and NLP Practitioner and holds a Cert. Ed and a Post Graduate Diploma in educational psychology, as well as diplomas in clinical hypnosis, cognitive behaviour therapy and life coaching.

A member of the BSCH, with over thirty years experience working with children, young adults and families, Angela’s therapeutic strengths lie in family dynamics and child development.

Angela is a co-founder of the children’s charity META (Mind Education Through Awareness), works on a daily basis with children and families and brings her therapeutic skills into state and private sector schools.

She also has a successful private practice in Surrey.

Ian Martin
Ian has practices in Central and South West London, holds a diploma in cognitive psychotherapy and is currently finishing his MSc degree in rational emotive and cognitive behaviour therapy at the University of London.

He has spent the last four years on placement as a psychotherapist in the therapy department of the Priory Hospital in Roehampton.

A qualified teacher, he is now an assistant lecturer on the LCCH cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy course, is a member of the BSCH, is working toward accreditation with the BABCP and is also a member of the AREBT.

Before training in this area, Ian was the general manager of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, which gave him a broad experience and understanding of performance anxiety and its related challenges. He works with actors, singers and other performers as a specialty, but this is not exclusive, as he also works with other emotional, behavioural and symptomatic problems as a matter of course.


Carla Shehfe
Carla first started in psychology more than 15 years ago when she graduated with a BA in psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. For the next eight years she branched out into many different areas, completing both an MBA and then a CPE in Law before going full circle and returning to psychology, this time via clinical hypnosis.

She obtained her masters degree in rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) from Goldsmiths College, University of London and today is a supervisor to second year Goldsmiths students studying for their diplomas in cognitive behaviour therapy.

Carla is a cognitive behavioural therapist and hypnotherapist with a private practice in Harley Street. She also works at The Priory and is a lecturer on the LCCH cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy diploma course.

She is passionate about what she does and loves working with people.

Nicola Todd
Nicola is a graduate of the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and holds practitioner diplomas in clinical hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy (both with distinction). She is a full member of the BSCH and is a tutor for the LCCH.

She has been in private practise since 1997 and has treated numerous conditions involving emotional and psychological factors as well as changing behaviour patterns and habits.

A former actress, with a degree in music and drama, Nicola has a particular interest in working with performers. She specialises in performance anxiety, phobias, smoking cessation and anxiety disorders


Caroline Nisson Is our counsellor who trained at the Central School of Counselling & Therapy in 1996 and was a senior therapist at the Priory for 10 years. Caroline specialises in the area of relationships and communication, helping clients to regain control over many areas of their life, including depression and anxiety, dependencies, addictions, obsessions and coping with grief and loss.