Why I Became a Hypnotherapist (and What It Taught Me About Transformation)

People often ask me why I became a hypnotherapist.

The honest answer is that I didn’t set out looking for this path—it found me at a time when I had completely lost my sense of direction.

I had worked in many different fields over the years, but none of them truly fulfilled me. Then life brought me to a point where everything I thought I knew about myself seemed to fall away. After the end of my first marriage, I found myself in a place I never expected to be. I didn’t really know who I was anymore. My confidence had disappeared, and even the simplest things—what I liked, what I enjoyed, what I wanted from life—felt unclear.

It was during this time that I went to see a hypnotherapist, and that moment changed the course of my life.

Something shifted in me quite profoundly. My focus moved from inward confusion to outward possibility. I began to reconnect with myself again. Through hypnotherapy, I learned how to start shaping the life I actually wanted—not by chance, but with intention. It felt like a complete transformation; as if I had gone from caterpillar to butterfly. Slowly, I began to rebuild a life that felt like mine again.

Over time, that change became more natural, more grounded, and more real in everyday life.

Eventually, I went through a short period of unemployment, and in that space of uncertainty, I made a decision that would define my future: I trained to become a hypnotherapist myself.

After a year of training and more than 500 hours of case studies, I qualified.

During that time, I also came across something that would become very close to my heart—hypnobirthing.

This became personal very quickly. My first granddaughter was born 16 years ago, and her birth was a traumatic experience. It was highly medicalised, involving epidurals and forceps, and both my daughter and my granddaughter were distressed during the process. I remember feeling deeply unsettled afterwards, thinking: there must be a gentler, more peaceful way for babies to enter the world.

That moment stayed with me.

So when I qualified as a hypnotherapist and discovered hypnobirthing, I knew immediately that I wanted to explore it further. I trained on a course recognised by the Royal College of Midwives to become a hypnobirthing teacher.

Since then, I have had the privilege of supporting thousands of families. I have witnessed babies being brought into the world in calm, peaceful, and empowering ways—parents feeling informed, grounded, and supported rather than fearful or overwhelmed.

It is one of the greatest honours of my work to know that something so simple can change the entire experience of birth for a family.

Today, I love what I do. I feel deeply privileged to help people rediscover themselves, release fears, phobias, and anxiety, and step into a calmer, more confident version of themselves.

Because that is what this work really is about: transformation.

Watching someone move from uncertainty and fear into clarity and strength still feels, to me, like witnessing a caterpillar becoming a butterfly—the person they were always destined to be.