Gary is a member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy, the General Hypnotherapy Register and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council and holds diplomas in Hypnotherapy and Stress Management, Advanced Hypnotherapy, Complete Mind Therapy, NLP, Life Coaching, EFT for Addiction Treatment, Master Practitioner In Applied Clinical Hypnotherapy and the Senior Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice.

Gary has since returned to British Ethical School of Therapies as a tutor. From his success with one of his corporate contracts working with actors for performance and confidence, in 2009 Gary was chosen to work with Duncan Bannatyne's team of experts for an episode of the Virgin Television series "Duncan Bannatyne's Seaside Rescue". Gary also works with professional athletes, particularly in fight sports such as boxing, Muay Thai, and Mixed Martial Arts.

Hypnosis can best be described as a state of profound physical and mental relaxation, during which we become inwardly focused, aware of our immediate reality but with a comfortable sense of detachment.

Without realising it, you already experience everyday trance states, for example daydreaming. When we daydream we become inwardly focused, completely involved in some memory or imaginary experience, even to the point of not being aware of someone talking to us - we become detached from the external world. Another example is having driven a car on a journey which you have covered many times before to find that when you arrive at your destination, you have no memory of a part or parts of the journey, reading a book, listening to music and watching television are all trance states where you become so involved with what you are doing that you don't notice how time has slipped by or how deeply you have relaxed.

There are, of course, many similarities between these familiar trances and formal trance. In formal trance, the hypnotherapist will assist you to, as it were, "tune in" to this unique ability and help you use it in a far more focused and structured way. With the correct therapeutic approach it is possible to directly influence the unconscious mind, gaining access to part of our vast learning experience, searching for resources that we seldom believe we have and discovering change sometimes in a dramatic way.