affinitytherapies.viviti.com

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Email: gmtysk@gmail.com

 Evidence Based approaches using :- Hypnotherapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for the treatment of Anxiety States, Phobias, Management of Pain, Stress, PTSD and Chronic conditions , Low Self-Esteem and Confidence Issues.

"A Moment's Insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gordon Kerr, EN, RMN, RNMH, Hypnotherapy Cert (GQHP)  & Diploma, NCFE Accredited GHSC, MNCH (Lic) & GHR (Reg)

From an early interest more than 40 years ago, in Oriental philosophy & meditation forms, I have been fortunate to study Buddhist meditation, (Vajrayana and Soto Zen under several teachers), personal development using biofeedback for several years,  incorporating aspects of both into my therapy processes. CBT mindfulness is based on Zen meditation and is becoming popular worldwide now and in the UK it  has been endorsed by N.I.C.E (National Institute of Clinical Excellence), as an effective form of cognitive behavioural therapy.

Concurrent with this, I have more than 30 years experience (working in  several Mental Health settings & also with clients who had Learning Difficulties) assisting with behavioural, emotional or psychological problems, in assessing need and deriving individual behavioural plans for clients.  Areas in which I have a primary interest include anxiety states and phobias, PTSD and other forms of stress disorders. Management of pain, medical  and other  chronic disorders are also of great interest. I believe this work demands an imaginative approach linked with evidence based methods, and have augmented my healthcare background, training in Hypnotherapy with Don Robertson at UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy in London, which incorporates CBT into its courses at Advanced Certificate and Diploma level. For a year I worked in the capacity of a sexual health advisor for young people with an organisation which provides advisor helplines covering a number of  social, medical or educational issues. 

Subsequently I have also completed a Foundation Course with Dr. Mike Cummings of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, Levels 1 & 2 Emotional Freedom Techniques with Helen Walker of Inner Energy, and Advanced QEEG Neurofeedback with Dr. Beverly Steffert & Professor Yuri Kropotov at Goldsmith's College London.

Further CBT skills training by attending a Children & Anxiety Training Course organised by the National Phobics Society, given by Professor Ron Rapee of McQuarrie University (Sydney) and Dr.  Samantha Cartwright-Hatton (University of Manchester), to enable identification, diagnosis & treatment strategies for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.

October 2008, trained in Zengar Neurocare neurofeedback with Corinne Fournier in France. This is not a therapy or form of treatment, nor is it medical,  but rather a person centred and distinctively different  form of  training which respects the individual and their innately characteristic way of being, while recognising that the person may have needs to improve the way their mind or body works.

The brain and Central Nervous System are observed via EEG connections at sites C3 and C4 on the top of the head. These connectors pick up electrical output from the sensorimotor region of the brain, in frequencies ranging from 0-42 HZ. Unlike other forms of neurofeedback which may augment or suppress electrical activity by stimulation, the Zengar model provides no stimulation to the brain instead providing a re-orienting feedback flow of information (in the form of music or video) when disruptions in the stream of neural activity are observed. Brain and nervous system then learn and progressively adapt more smoothly and,  crucially Globally as the person becomes more comfortable and familiar with how (and how well) their mind-body actually relaxes. 

Zengar does have similar effects to hypnosis, in that is basically a natural method, using the relaxation response, in which the person undergoing training is in a passive state, and learning essentially takes takes place in the unconscious, as this enables far greater speed and integration of learning than would be possible in normal waking awareness.

  In  my opinion, this process and this impressive model has great potential for just about anyone who wishes to improve the way they manage their body and mind. To put it succinctly, "all of the body is in the mind, but not all of the mind is in the body" (Sri Aurobindo).