Linda Mortimer
Clinical Hypnotherapist Psychologist
My work as a Clinical Hypnotherapist
I am a GHR registered Clinical Hypnotherapist accredited by the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH). I hold the Hypnotherapy Practitioners Diploma (HPD).
I have a BSc and Masters degree in Psychology, and have worked for many years in mental health, psychological research and teaching psychology. Whatever role I have taken, the main focus has been in helping people become all that they can be. Training in hypnotherapy at the London Hypnotherapy Academy means that I can now help people in a therapeutic setting, to tackle the problems that may be preventing them from living a happy and fulfilled life.
I find hypnotherapy a fascinating process, and am continually pleased and amazed at the way it can transform lives and free people from problems that have dogged them for so many years. It is a purposeful process that helps people who are stuck in a rut. It’s simple but effective techniques can transform your life. It certainly changed mine.
Hypnotherapy is appropriate for a wide variety of client issues from personal development, sport and academic performance, stress management, fears, phobias, addictions, surgical and dental anxiety, confidence issues, pain control, women’s health.
I call on my understanding of mental wellbeing gained from my research and teaching to apply to my hypnotherapy practice. I use an intergrative approach to hypnotherapy, combining ideas and techniques from a range of theoretical and practical backgrounds that includes Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy and Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.
Psychology has been a core part of my life: studying, teaching and applying psychology to all that I do.
My work as a Psychologist & Hynobirthing Practitioner
As a psychologist I have a particular interest in anxiety, and how it impacts the quality of our lives. The focus of my PhD research is how soon to be first time mothers imagine childbirth and early parenthood and how this relates to anxiety and depression both during and after pregnancy. I am about to complete a 3 year research project that is currently being written up for publication in Psychology journals.
This research focus was developed from my work as a hypnotherapist, looking at the way that how we think shapes the way that we feel, especially when we are anxious. Having worked with pregnant women and helped them to prepare for and experience childbirth I became increasingly aware that the way that we think about the major life events of giving birth and becoming parents affects how we experience it.
As a qualified KG Hypnobirthing Practitioner I combine my skills as a hypnotherapist, teacher and psychologist to provide evidence based classes that focus on helping women to gain a greater understanding of childbirth and to visualise a peaceful natural birth.