About Debbie
I am a UK based therapist specialising in IBS and anxiety, working with clients online via Zoom.
I use a range of methods including gut directed hypnotherapy, CBT, and advanced rapid change techniques to help you reduce your IBS symptoms so that you can stop planning your life around your gut.
I am a retired Registered General Nurse with 20 years experience working on medical and gastro enterology wards.
I also lived with both anxiety and IBS myself for nearly 50 years. Retraining as a therapist enabled me to finally gain control over both of those things. And now I get to help others do the same thing.
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I know exactly what you're going through
I'm a therapist who specialises in helping people like you to reduce their IBS symptoms and anxiety. But more importantly, I'm someone who spent nearly 50 years living exactly the life you're living now.
For decades, my gut controlled everything. I couldn't drive far from home. Every outing meant planning around toilets. The fear of a flare-up was worse than the symptoms themselves.
My world got smaller and smaller. Holidays were out. Social events meant excuses. Even my family didn't understand why I was "like this."
I thought this was just who I was now, someone whose body couldn't be trusted. But I couldn't keep living that way.
Eventually, I found a therapist who worked differently. She didn't make me analyse my anxiety or rehash my past. She used techniques that went straight to the nervous system patterns keeping me stuck.
Session by session, everything began to change. The constant dread faded. The obsessive body checking quieted down. I started making plans without the panic spiral.
Now? I travel. I drive wherever I want. I say yes without a second thought.
Qualifications
Debbie's qualifications span specialist IBS hypnotherapy, rapid change techniques, trauma-informed approaches and a full career as a Registered General Nurse, a combination that brings both therapeutic skill and genuine clinical understanding to every session:
IBS Specialist Training
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Certified HypnoIBS® Practitioner
Hypnotherapy
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Certified Hypnotherapy Practitioner
Rapid Change Techniques
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Certified MEMI® Practitioner (the first cohort trained in the UK)
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Certified IEMT® Practitioner
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Certified Kinetic Shift® Practitioner
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Certified Emotional Freedom Technique® Practitioner
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Trained in 'The Willingness Ladder'
Emotional & Nervous System Techniques
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Advanced Core Transformation® Training
Trained in Havening® Techniques
Mindset & Imagery Techniques
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Certified Mindscape® Practitioner
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Trained in Metaphors of Movement®
Pain & Symptom Relief
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Certified OldPain2Go® Practitioner
Healthcare Background
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Registered General Nurse (retired, 20 years experience)
Page last updated: 09/05/26