I am a Senior Practitioner and Peer Supervisor with the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council and have been in full-time practice for 31 years. It is now scientifically recognised that stress is the pre-cursor to the malaise of humanity, my expertise lies in all stress related issues known to man, woman and child! I believe in an holistic approach based on treating the person as a whole, treating the physical, mental and emotional imbalance as one. I regard them intimately connected since they are all aspects of the whole person's condition. Any symptom of any condition is the individual's unique way of expressing their illness or the way they feel and think, symptoms are warning lights. I have always referred to my work as 'complementary' rather than 'alternative' and did, for many years, practise within two GP surgeries in Buckinghamshire, namely The Surgery in Little Chalfont and Cross Keys Surgery in Princes Risborough, before moving to the South Coast in 2000.