EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Nineteen years in emergency medicine. Everything since.TAM JOHNSTON. INTEGRATIVE THERAPIST AND COACH.
Over 30 years of combined clinical experience with an approach that draws upon neuro-scienced informed practices and methodology to create change that lasts.
Dip.Hyp, BSc Nursing, MNLP, Applied Neuroscience Practitioner, Havening Practitioner
I am an integrated therapist and coach helping people with a practical, rapid, neuroscience-informed approach to long lasting change. Specialising in the underlying patterns and unconscious coding beneath issues such as anxiety, trauma responses, phobias and unhelpful self-talk.
Prior to re-discovering my purpose in NLP therapy and coaching, I spent nearly two decades in the NHS nursing, most recently as an Independent Nurse Practitioner and later Matron of a busy London Emergency Department. I then left the NHS to train as an NLP practitioner and coach. Havening, applied neuroscience, hypnotherapy, and time-line therapy followed.
That clinical background shapes how I practise. It taught me that what shows up in the body and what’s happening emotionally are rarely separate things. And it also showed me how boxed in, fragmented approaches to healing miss the important aspects that join everything together and lead to real change. Everything I’ve seen since has deepened that experience and is reflected in why I work with the whole picture, and the encoding of these patterns that lie beneath it all. I’ve brought that sense of integration into my practice and my holistic, systematic approach. I see clients in person at my London and Brighton clinics and online with people across the UK and internationally. Most clients notice meaningful change within one to three sessions.
I am a fully qualified NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, certified Havening Techniques practitioner, applied neuroscience practitioner and hypnotherapist, insured and accredited with the relevant professional bodies.
I have purposely studied with some of the best trainers in the world such as the co-founders of NLP, Dr John Grinder and Richard Bandler, experts Robert Dilts, Christina Hall and Judith DeLozier as well as world-renowned Hypnotherapists Paul McKenna and Dr Keith Hearne. I was selected to assist John Grinder in his international training program; a true privilege and learning experience. As you would expect, I continue to develop my own practice and knowledge-base through advanced training in the UK and internationally. Staying up to date and enhancing skills is exceptionally important to me to ensure my standard of care remains at the level you deserve.
Over the years I’ve worked with a whole host of fascinating, amazing people. From creative professionals, singers and actors, entrepreneurs, small business owners, public sector workers, nurses, finance and IT professionals to name a few. I have worked with people from all walks of life and meeting people like you is one of the best parts of my job. The transformations I have seen in them, and experienced first-hand myself, are what keep me doing this work. Having experienced these tools from the other side of the room (that part of the story is here) I know how powerful they can be and what it’s like when things spiral or just get ‘sticky’.
If you’d like to explore working together, I’d love to hear from you.
Qualifications & Credentials
Certified Practitioner in Applied Neuroscience (ITS, Ian McDermott and Dr Patricia Riddell)
NLP Trainer (Association for Integrative Psychology-AIP)
Certified Havening Techniques ® Practitioner, Dr Ronald and Steven Ruden (Havening Techniques ®)
NLP Master Practitioner 3rd Generation bridge program (NLP University, Robert Dilts, Judith DeLozier and Suzi Smith)
NLP Master Practitioner (Association for Integrative Psychology-AIP)
Diploma in Hypnotherapy – Dip.Hyp. (European College of Hypnotherapy)
NLP New Code Practitioner (Dr. John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair, NLP Academy)
Certificate in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy (IANLP)
NLP Practitioner (Association for Integrative Psychology-AIP and IANLP)
Time Line Therapy ™ Practitioner (Timeline Therapy Association)
ITOL Int. Certificate in Coaching (Institute of Training and Occupational Learning)
Certificate in Personal Coaching (Coaching Academy)
Linguistics Intensive-Language in Action (Christina Hall)
Secrets to Hypnosis (Richard Bandler and Paul McKenna, NLP Life Training)
Fundamental Coaching Skills (International Association of Coaching)
Clean Language (West One NLP Training)
Leading an Empowered Organisation Programme (University of Leeds)
BSc Nursing (University of Hertfordshire)
Registered General Nurse (Retired)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Diploma – current (IANLPC)
What OTHERS SAY
I’ll let others do the talking as to the results they got after our sessions.
Since our session, I can’t stop smiling, everyone has commented on it. I don’t care about what others think of me anymore, it’s just not on my radar. I'm handling the relationships with my difficult family so much better, they don't get to me in the same way.
I wanted to email and say thank you once again for the session yesterday. I am still buzzing from it and haven't been able to stop thinking about the insights we discussed! I feel a lot more 'comfortable' with myself since our chat which, whilst not appearing to be the greatest compliment, is actually huge. It's more than any therapy has provided
I really cannot thank you enough for all of your help and support. I finally feel like the person I was meant to be and life is great.
Simply, life finally makes sense with Tam!
I wanted to say thank you so much for the sessions so far. I can't believe how much clarity you have helped me gain in such a small space of time. You are one clever lady, and the gifts you offer ripple out far beyond the person sitting opposite you, way out into the world, creating really good things.
Thank you so much. Yesterday's session has already made a big difference to my perspective and energy. You're good!
If you are looking for someone to help you to focus on what you want, to ensure that you don’t run back to old ways of thinking and to make you feel energised and completely positive about your future, then speak with Tam.
Tam gets such utter satisfaction from your outcome and progress; it is awesome to be around her, she just so wants you to get it!
She very much has your best interests at heart, and is so very adept at getting to the core of the issue. You really feel that you are important to Tam and that she really cares about you.
I am the happiest I have been for a very long time! Now, I am heading to my target weight with ease, I am exercising more and have taken up dance lessons to get me more active and widen my social circle. Relationship-wise, I feel confident and ready to meet someone and have an amazing, fulfilling relationship with them. So yes, I am happy, smiling and looking forward to every day and the excitement it holds. Thankyou.
I really enjoyed our session it was pretty awesome frankly! I was blown away by today and what we covered and am happy, excited and feeling amazing. Thank you!
Tam is provocative, astute and gentle in her approach. She listens carefully and asks skillful questions to help you to untangle your thoughts. I always leave a session with new insights, strengthened resources and trust in myself to make the changes that I want to make. She rocks!
My integrative approach and methodology
I work with an ‘integrated, multi-therapeutic’ approach. Below are some of the modalities I draw upon. These aren’t separate approaches used in isolation (unless what we’re working on or your preferences call for it). They are blended together withing sessions to create the most direct route to change, specifically for you. You can find out more about what it’s like working together here.
HYPNOTHERAPY
Working directly with the unconscious mind, hypnotherapy creates the conditions for deep and lasting change, often in ways that feel surprisingly natural and effortless.
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TIMELINE THERAPY
A gentle technique that guides you through time to work with blocks and emotions in the past. It ensures you keep your memories of events, yet releases the effects of limiting emotions, decisions or beliefs, enabling you the freedom from emotion to move forward with new choices.
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COACHING
Woven through everything, the coaching element keeps the work grounded in what you actually want. Your goals, your version of change, and how to get you there.
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NLP
NLP works with the coding beneath your patterns and responses. It helps us work with how your mind represents your experience and what drives automatic responses. Change at this level tends to feel immediate.
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HAVENING TECHNIQUES ®
A psychosensory approach that works gently to permanently recode trauma responses, anxiety and other unhelpful and outdates responses. No prolonged exposure required. It is also a highly effective technique for building resilience, and wellbeing.
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APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE
As an Applied Neuroscience Practitioner, a neuroscience framework underpins all my work. In understanding how the brain encodes experience, responds to threat, and rewires, shapes how all our work is done.
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Key Certifications
Get to know me
Find out more about the person beyond the session rooms. It’s only right, I’ll be finding out a lot about you if we work together, so let’s start on an equal footing.
Specialist areas I help with
Click to read more about my unique approach to working with specific issues with you.
Anxiety
PHOBIAS
SELF esteem
ptsd
trauma
stress
confidence
breakthroughs