The Creativity Track Record

I’ve chosen eighteen examples from my trauma therapy work on my CV over the last twenty five years that highlight and showcases my creativity and how I’ve developed and used it as a valuable skill in my work.

These examples highlight that while AI can now automate many tasks, creativity, curiosity, imagination, innovation, and human-centred problem-solving remain essential uniquely human skills that technology cannot fully replace that will continue to drive innovation and progress. And that’s the reason why creativity will continue to be one of the most valuable skills in the future.

I used my creativity as part of my PhD research to start testing the 3 questions below as a way to help people overcome the obstacles stopping them from achieving their goals. And it was right at the beginning of my PhD work when I started asking people from every walk of life that it became clear that there were 2 major categories of obstacles stopping them, obstacles that were external to the person and obstacles that were internal to the person.

I already knew how to use my creativity to design and develop new and unique options to overcome any external obstacles that were stopping people from achieving what they wanted.

However I knew from my research that there were more options to help people overcome any internal obstacles. And that’s why I got trained in CBT, NLP and ACT in order to use my creativity to design and develop new and unique options to help them to do this. And that’s the reason why I have successfully used these therapeutic models ever since in addition to hypnotherapy, Havening® and HeartMath®.

What all of this means is that, by asking people the 3 questions below, I can work with creativity, curiosity and compassion to help people identify what they want, the internal and external obstacles stopping them and the options available to them to overcome whatever the obstacles are. Including getting relief and recovering from any past emotional, psychological and physical trauma.

Over the last 25 years I have used a wide range and different combinations of trauma therapies with creativity, compassion, and curiosity to help people from all walks of life overcome the obstacles created from past emotional, psychological and physical trauma. By asking them these 3 questions:

1. Q1What is it that you really want to achieve?results
2. Q2What is it that’s really stopping you?obstacles
3. Q3What are all the options available to you?curiosity

Eighteen examples highlighting how I developed and used my creativity in my Trauma Therapy work over the last 25 years

Examples:

25 years ago I worked with a new business owner who wanted to go networking to build her business but she was stopped from doing this by her fear of walking into a room full of strangers.

This was the obstacle that she wanted to overcome. After working with me, we identified the source of her fear as a traumatic event from her childhood. We then investigated her options and she chose NLP as the right trauma therapy for her to overcome this post-traumatic fear. And that's how immediately after working with me she happily went networking and from that day she’s never experienced this fear since. She’s even walked into a room full of dragons on Dragons Den on BBC TV!

In the last 2.5 years here are seventeen more examples of different types of trauma that I’ve helped people get relief and recover from:

Post-traumatic Sleep Problems:

I worked with a woman who wanted to improve both the quality and the quantity of her sleep but what we discovered in our therapy sessions was that she was stopped from doing this by two recurring traumatic nightmares that had, over time, developed into a worsening chronic sleep disorder. She found it difficult to get to sleep and to stay asleep. This was the obstacle that she wanted to overcome. After working with me and identifying the source of her recurring nightmares as two traumatic events from her childhood and then investigating her options she chose Havening® integrated with vagus nerve techniques as the right trauma therapy for her to overcome these post-traumatic sleep problems. And that's how immediately after working with me she went from being a lifelong poor sleeper since childhood to being a good sleeper and being able to get asleep and stay asleep. Read her testimonial below.

Traumatic Bereavement:

• I helped a mother get relief and recover from the traumatic death by suicide of her son
• I helped a daughter get relief and recover from the traumatic death of her mother
• I helped a sister get relief and recover from the traumatic death of her brother
• I helped a wife get relief and recover from the traumatic death by suicide of her husband
• I helped a family get relief and recover from the traumatic death of the daughter’s childhood pet

Traumatic Medical Diagnosis:

• I helped a mother and daughter get relief and recover from the traumatic medical diagnosis of the mother’s eyelid cancer
• I helped a wife and her husband get relief and recover from the traumatic medical diagnosis of the husband’s life-limiting medical condition
• I helped a daughter get relief and recover from the traumatic experience of finding her father collapsed from a near-fatal stroke that left him permanently disabled
• I helped a sister get relief and recover from the traumatic medical diagnosis of her younger brother’s incurable cancer

Traumatic Rage:

• I helped a stepmother recover from and get control of the traumatic rage she felt in response to her step daughter’s uncontrollable angry outbursts and anger towards her
• I helped a woman recover from and get control of the traumatic uncontrollable rage she started experiencing and couldn’t control with medication, exercise or anything else

Traumatic Car Accident/Incident:

• I helped a woman get relief and recover from a traumatic panic attack whilst driving that left her with anxiety and fear of driving her car
• I helped a woman get relief and recover from a traumatic accident whilst parking her car that left her with a fear of using car parks

Traumatic Fear/Anxiety:

• I helped a woman get relief and recover from her traumatic discovery of a massive hidden spider's web in her attic that she walked straight into when she moved to a new house that left her with a fear of spiders and the daily anxiety that she would find more spiders in her new house
• I helped a woman get relief and recover from a traumatic fall in her garden that left her with a fear of falling again and the daily anxiety that she would fall if she went out into her garden
• I helped a woman get relief and recover from a traumatic incident at work when she fainted at the sight of blood that left her with a fear of fainting again and the daily anxiety that she would faint if she saw blood again

In the list above are just some of the wide variety of people's Traumatic Events and Experiences resulting in fears/phobias/anxieties that I’ve worked with in the last 25 years.

Here's just a short list of other fears/phobias/anxieties that I’ve worked with in the last 25 years:

Fears/phobias/anxieties related to flying, heights, wasps, lifts, water, dogs, exams, spelling, numbers, travelling on public transport, public speaking, job interviews, workplace presentations, sales pitches, cold calling, showering, mirrors, money, the colour red, eating fish, toes, belly buttons, certain vegetables, shadows, the dark.

And the most novel new one that didn’t exist 25 years ago is the fear or anxiety of being without your mobile phone. And yes it has a name - Nomophobia.