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I have 35 years experience as a clinical psychologist in the NHS (25 years as a consultant clinical psychologist). I have recently retired from the NHS and have decided that I would like to continue to help people find ways to move forward, using my experience and skills gained over those years, but also with some added skills such as hypnotherapy and NLP (neurolinguistic programming) that enable me to help you move forward really quickly and without the need for lengthy treatment.

I have trained with Ali Campbell - internationally renowned for his work and training in NLP and Hypnotherapy, and Ali continues to mentor me.

I also continue to be registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and can also offer more traditional treatment approaches if that is something that you prefer.

I have experience of working with all types of difficulties, but over the last 35 years I have specialised in treatment of anxiety and trauma (post traumatic stress disorder) - having worked with individuals, emergency services staff (police, fire, ambulance staff) and veterans of the armed forces, as well as members of the public who have been caught up in large scale disasters as well as single events such as serious car accidents.

I have also worked with organisations to assist in organising the psychosocial response to major incidents - including training staff too enable them to help people in the aftermath of major incidents like the Hillsborough stadium disaster, the Oklahoma terrorist bombing, and the Dunblane school shooting.

Dr Alison Rowlands