Adv Dip Hyp, Dip Hyp NGH, Adv.DPLT, DWMT,SAC Dip & NCFE, MPLTA, GHR Reg, NRH Reg, GQHP, Reiki Master

I was born in the early 50s on the Italian Riviera near France, where I graduated with honours. Then I moved to Padua, near Venice, and I began teaching in various colleges.

Padua is a lively town with an international scholarly reputation, which hosts one of the oldest universities in the world, founded in 1222, and made famous by many illustrious scholars like Galileo - who taught there - and artists like Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello and Mantegna, to mention just a few. While supporting myself with my teaching job I continued my studies, completing first a three-year Post-Graduate Specialisation in Modern Philology with honours, and then a PhD - partly prepared at the Sorbonne and Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris - in Neo-Latin Philology (Philology is the historical branch of Linguistics). I also qualified as a University Researcher in Italy and in France.

I have a sound academic background with more than 20 scholarly publications to my credit - including two essays which received excellent international reviews - and I am fluent in English, Italian and French. I have spoken at international congresses in Italy, France and Great Britain and I have a lifetime’s experience in teaching and coaching in many different environments. I have been involved in numerous educational projects and curriculum settings. I have had tutoring responsibilities at my college and I also trained teachers and coaches, helping them to organise their seminars and courses. In 1996-97 I lectured in a Shanghai university on behalf of the Italian Foreign Office and I then moved to London, where I reside with my husband and my cats.

My research has been centred mainly on Symbolism with a special interest in Spirituality and History of Religions, which has led me towards Jungian Psychology and Astrology, the role of the Subconscious, and Hypnotherapy.

I started practising hypnosis in 1994 in Italy with some like-minded people, obtaining excellent results, but I have cultivated my interest in past lives since my teens, due to spontaneous memories I have had since my early childhood. During the early 90s I also trained in Channelling and I studied Crystal Therapy and Chakra Balancing. In 1997 I graduated as a Reiki Master in Hong Kong. Since moving to the UK I have gained several formal British and American qualifications in Advanced Hypnotherapy (with specialisations in Age and Past Life Regression Therapies, Stop-Smoking and Weight Management) and Counselling (with specialisation in Grief and Bereavement) and set up a practice in North Harrow, Middlesex.

I suffered from psoriasis from the age of 12 and although doctors told me that it was a degenerative disease and could only get worse, I refused to believe them. In my early 20s I started investigating alternative forms of healing, beginning with acupuncture (which eventually I learnt to do by myself) and ending up, in the early 90s, with Reiki, Crystal Therapy and Channelling, which are truly holistic approaches involving spirit, mind and body. I am happy to say that the psoriasis reduced dramatically and eventually disappeared completely when I changed my diet and became vegan, ten years ago, and I have been free from this disease since then.

I am a highly qualified and experienced Nationally Registered Hypnotherapist, fully insured, and I belong to some of the most prestigious national and international organisations in the field, regulated by a strict code of conduct. I am also the organiser and moderator of a Peer Support Group in North-West London for the General Hypnotherapy Register, the largest Association of Hypnotherapists in the UK.

Academic Qualifications

~MA in Foreign Languages and Literature (summa cum laude)
~ Three-Year Post-Graduate Specialisation in Modern Philology (summa cum laude)
~ PhD in Neo-Latin Philology
~ Italian Teaching Certificate (with British DfEE accreditation)
~ Italian Teaching Qualification as a University Researcher
~ French Teaching Qualification as University Maître de Conférences

Professional Qualifications

~ Diploma in Hypnotherapy (Certified Hypnotherapist) from the National Guild of Hypnotists
~ Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy from Hypnotic Solutions
~ Diploma in Specialist Training in Hypnotherapy for Smoking Cessation from Hypnotic Solutions
~ Diploma in Weight Management Therapy from Hypnotherapy South West
~ Diploma in Age Regression Techniques from John Dewar's School of Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
~ Diploma in Past Life Therapy and Hypnotherapy from the Past Life Therapists Association
~ Diploma in Advanced Past Life Therapy from the Past Life Therapists Association
~ Dr Brian Weiss's Workshop Many Lives, Many Masters: Experiencing Your Past Lives (London, June 2010)
~ General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice from the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council.
~ Diploma in Basic Counselling Skills (SAC Dip & NCFE)
~ Diploma in Advanced Counselling Skills (SAC Dip & NCFE)
~ Diploma in Grief and Bereavement (SAC Dip & NCFE)
~ Diploma in Energy Animal Healing (SAC Dip & NCFE)
~ Reiki 1 Usui Shiki Ryoho with Vito Carlo Moccia (Padua - Italy)
~ Reiki 2 Usui Shiki Ryoho with Giuseppe Zanella (Levico - Italy)
~ Reiki Master Usui Shiki Ryoho with Tina Kalmar (Hong Kong)

Professional Memberships

~ GHSC (General Hypnotherapy Standards Council)
~ GHR (General Hypnotherapist Register)
~ MPLTA (Past Life Therapists Association)
~ NRH (Nationally Registered Hypnotherapist)
~ HIM (Healing International Member)

Publications Concerning Hypnotherapy

I have published many articles on various alternative medicine and spirituality websites.
The magazine Chat - It's fate has published some regressions we have done for their readers.

Adv DPLT, DWMT, Reiki Master

In 2009 my husband Gary joined me in the practice. After a life-long interest in psychology (in particular the Jungian psychology of the Unconscious) and Eastern religions, he qualified as an Advanced Past Life Regression Therapist and gained a diploma in Weight Management Therapy, adding these skills to his Reiki Master in the Usui tradition obtained in 2002. Gary is also responsible for the administration and smooth running of the practice.

Qualifications

~ Diploma in Past Life Therapy and Hypnotherapy from the Past Life Therapists Association

~ Diploma in Advanced Past Life Therapy from the Past Life Therapists Association

~ Diploma in Weight Management Therapy from Hypnotherapy South West
~ Reiki 1 Usui Shiki Ryoho
~ Reiki 2 Usui Shiki Ryoho
~ Reiki 3 Usui Shiki Ryoho
~ Reiki Master Usui Shiki Ryoho