Charmaine Kemps MSc.FT; Dip.Cog.Hyp; HPD; NLP Prac.
Reg: UKCP; MNCH (Lic)

I can make a positive difference in your life...

I offer a holistic and integrative therapeutic service, which combines the following methods to meet your unique personal needs.

Systemic Individual and Family Therapy.

Systemic therapy is a talking therapy which explores the way we relate, think, behave and feel within the context of our relationships in our families, work and socially. By doing this, we can begin to understand what particular patterns of thought and behaviour are causing the problem and what needs to change. During the conversation between us I will be offering ideas and suggestions which could help you disconnect from the problematic patterns and find alternative ways for living in harmony with yourself and others.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy

All of us have the capacity to go into natural trance states in which our minds can dissociate from the present moment and becomes less defensive and more open e.g. when we are day dreaming, watching TV and don't notice the people around us, driving etc. Cognitive Hypnotherapy uses these natural trance or unconscious processes to educate and enable and the mind to reframe limiting beliefs, feelings, thoughts and memory patterns which are causing and maintaining the problem. As your therapist, I will always be working towards your stated goals which I will have worked out with you at the start of our work together. During this time you will be aware of what is happening and can stop the process at your will.


Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

N = Neurological
L = Language
P = Programming

Neuroscience has become an important contributor to our understanding of how we know what we know. NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, whose interest was in understanding the qualites of how we know what we know and what works well and effectively. This led them to explore how our five senses i.e. visual, audio, taste, smell, touch, act as filters to the way in which we perceive the world and inform the brain. They suggest that over time this information creates patterns (like brain maps) which influence our feelings, thinking and behaviour, which we humans then describe in language and form our lived experieneces. Although it is only a metaphor, some people suggest that the brain is a bit like a computer which is programmed by these patterns and our language. This metaphor makes it easier to recognise the potential for the brain to reprogramme unhelpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours by the very same process when it given the right direction.

My aims are to.....

- offer you a quality, complete and holistic service.
- listen with care and tailor the service to suit your unique personal needs.
- help you to make sense of your situation.
- empower and motivate your inner strength and ability.
- provide liberating new possibilities for your relationships and life.
- help you to achieve your potential.
- keep therapy to as few sessions as possible
- offer value for money service

So that I do not waste your time, please note that I do not work with:

- Stopping smoking
- Weight loss
- Addictions