Isabelle Knight BSc(Hons) DHypPsych(UK)
After studying Biology at University, specialising in Human Behaviour and Nutrition, I went on to follow a completely different path in my professional life to become a computer software specialist. I worked for many years in customer support and training. Outside of the office, I was able to merge my interests in health and computers by turning into a cyberchondriac (internet-fuelled hypochondriac). This obsession with my own health combined with various other factors eventually led me to becoming depressed.
I tried a variety of therapies, including traditional psychotherapy, but these seemed to just stretch out endlessly and make me even more depressed. Finally, in an effort to at least get a decent night's sleep, I tried self-hypnosis. Surprisingly this seemed to make quite a difference. After much internet research, I discovered the Uncommon Knowledge website and was blown away by the quality and variety of their self-hypnosis mp3 downloads. I followed their on-line Depression Self Help Program and gradually everything started to fall into place.
I later enrolled on their hypnotherapy and psychotherapy course which is firmly routed in solution-based methods, and qualified with a DIPLOMA in Brief Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. Since then, I have successfully helped people overcome, amongst other things, their addictions, weight issues, phobias, low self-esteem, performance anxieties, panic attacks and depression. My faith in this method is strengthened by my clients' immediate responses regarding the speed with which they notice change occuring.