I'm Laurence, a hypnotherapist offering sessions here at The Tree Room, as well as online, through my practice, Just Human.

Before becoming a hypnotherapist, I spent more than a decade working with people who were trying to make changes in their lives. I started out with the Probation Service, delivering behaviour change programmes, before spending around eight years working in drug and alcohol services with people facing all sorts of different challenges.

That experience shaped a lot of how I work today. It taught me that people are rarely stuck because they aren't trying hard enough. Sometimes we understand exactly what we'd like to change, but the patterns underneath it don't respond particularly well to logic, good intentions or simply telling ourselves to stop. That's where hypnotherapy can offer a different way of working.

My approach is calm, collaborative and down to earth. Hypnotherapy doesn't require you to give up control or switch off; you're an active part of the process throughout. There's also no expectation that you need to arrive knowing exactly what's wrong or how to fix it. We start with you, what you'd like to change, and work from there.

I hold the Chrysalis Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Introduction to Counselling Skills and I'm a Registrant Member of the National Hypnotherapy Society. I'm also currently training as a counsellor and work under regular clinical supervision.

Just Human was built around a pretty simple belief: whatever has brought you through the door, you deserve to be met with curiosity rather than judgement.

You're just human, after all. And so am I.