ABOUT THE SCOTTISH SCHOOL OF HYPNOTHERAPY

All training is carried out by fully experienced tutors, supplemented by specialist lecturers and visiting practising hypnotherapists.

It is with great sadness that we must announce that one of the Founder Members of the NSPH, Neil Watson, died on 8th November 2009

It would be impossible to replace Neil’s contribution to the course but we are currently exploring alternatives. 

I have left his details below for the time being.

HERE ARE SOME OF US:

KATE MCEWEN BA(Hons)  - Director & Principal Trainer Member of the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists (MNSPH) Senior Qualified Hypnotherapist - General Hypnotherapy Register (SQHP) Member of the National Council of Psychotherapists (MNCP) Member of the Hypnotherapy Association Member of the Advisory Council of, and Postgraduate trainer for, the NSPH

Kate has been in practice as a hypnotherapist, in partnership with John McEwen, since 1999 during which time she has been privileged to work with thousands of clients.  

Personal experience of the effectiveness of hypnotherapy had resulted in a mid life change of career. She trained under the astute guidance, and inestimable experience, of Vicki Watson, Founder member of the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists

Kate continues to practice as a partner in B9 Hypnotherapy, Argyll.

In 2004, with a back ground in lecturing spanning 22 years, Kate took over the training remit for the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists and continues to uphold the high standards of training demanded by the Society and other accrediting bodies.

Her experience in further and higher education provided her with substantial credentials for this role.  Much of her previous work involved counselling and support work both for students and as a Mentor for other lecturers undergoing teacher training.

As a senior lecturer, she also participated in curriculum and assessment procedure development and the maintenance of educational standards within the establishments in which she worked, as well as being employed as an external course and unit verifier and on course validation panels for the Scottish Qualifications Authority.

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Over his working life John gained extensive experience in both industry and commerce, but significantly, for over twenty-two years worked in the Scottish Ambulance Service, most of that time functioning as a Senior Officer, in a variety of roles and at many different locations.

During this time, John was in charge of the Service's response to some of the worst disasters in Scotland, in recent years. Experience gained at tragedies, such as Lockerbie and Dunblane and the rail crashes at Belgrove and Newton has meant that John came to be recognised as an expert on Disaster Management, and its consequences.

In sharing this experience with others, John was a regular external lecturer at the Home Office Emergency Planning College at Easingwold and less frequently at University College London and Keele University.

Growing out of this experience, and with substantial and prolonged access to those workers in emergency services who had been exposed, not only to major disasters, but also to the endless small, personal tragedies which is the day to day duty of Paramedics and others, John became interested in clinical hypnosis primarily as a tool which might help to "treat" Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). John trained with Vicki Watson at the then Twa Acres Hypnotherapy Training Centre in Blairgowrie, and, after graduation, set up in full time practice with Kate Scott, at Corsebar Hypnotherapy.

John was also a former member and Chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists (NSPH).

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Scottish School of Hypnotherapy are also proud to include among their tutors:

VICKI WATSON RGN FNSPH FNCP MGHR SQHP
The original Twa Acres Clinical Hypnotherapy Training Centre was founded by Vicki Watson in 1978 with the Clinical Hypnotherapy Training Course, as a natural progression, coming into existence in 1989.

Vicki had spent over twenty years in general and intensive care nursing as a registered general nurse, before finally deciding to make herlong standing involvement in hypnotherapy known and, having completed a training course in England, began practicing as a Clinical Hypnotherapist.

Many years previously as a young student nurse Vicki was privileged to witness hypnosis being instrumental in helping save a young girl's life. This triggered her interest in the subject and encouraged extensive study into the phenomena of hypnosis as a very effective treatment modality.

Vicki's contribution to hypnotherapy and its uses is such that, apart from being interviewed on local and national Radio & Television, Vicki has been guest speaker at Dundee University Medical Society Annual Symposium and Abertay University. She also had a number of articles on hypnotherapy published in various magazines including Scottish Nurse.

She lectured on a regular basis to student nurses at the University of Dundee School of Nursing & Midwifery and to Perth Palliative Care Course nurses on the role hypnosis can play in the control of chronic pain in the Health Service.

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NEIL WATSON BSc CBiol MIBiol FNSPH. SQHP
Neil is a Chartered Biologist with a wide range of interests. He is also highly skilled in the art of dowsing and regularly lectures on this subject at training venues for top-line Management, Leadership & Personal Development workshops In addition, he is an external lecturer on biorhythms, compatibility, dowsing and past life regression techniques at Corsebar Clinical Hypnotherapy Training School, the only NSPH accredited Clinical Hypnotherapy Training Course .

Neil has a deep involvement in hypnotherapy having been closely involved in the setting up and running of the original Twa Acres Clinical Hypnotherapy Course and, with his wife Vicki, is Co-Founder of the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists (NSPH). He works tirelessly in his position as NSPH Secretary to promote the interests of the NSPH, which has members at home and abroad and from many different professions and walks of life.

Although significant changes in the collection of Professional Indemnity Insurance premiums have been put in place this year, Neil continues to be seriously involved in negotiations with the NSPH Insurance Company to ensure the most advantageous transaction possible for all practising NSPH members.

Sean Quinn RMN, RGN, MNSPH
Clinical Hypnotherapist/Psychotherapist

I am in my mid sixties, married for over 40 years and have three of a family.

I qualified as a Registered Mental Nurse and Registered General Nurse before completing a one year Diploma Course in Child and Family Psychiatry, including formal training in psychotherapy and counselling.

I practiced in this special field of psychiatry for 14 years working both in Scotland and England before being promoted to Director of Nursing Services, Mental Health Lothian Health Board.

On retiring from the Health Service, I completed a formal training in Clinical Hypnotherapy and I am registered with, and past chairman of, the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists.

"It is the error of our day in the treatment of the human body that the physicians separate the soul from the body" - Plato

GLORIA MURRAY BA, FAIA, AFA of Murray Associates
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Gloria is the Senior Partner in Murray Associates and has extensive knowledge of providing accountancy services and business advice for small businesses.

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