EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Nineteen years in emergency medicine. Everything since.

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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

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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. 

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.

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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 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

Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming, the Association for Integrative Psychology  — Tam Johnston.
Master Practitioner in NLP, NLP University  —  Tam Johnston.
Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner.   Havening Techniques  — Tam Johnston.
Certified Practitioner in Applied Neuroscience, International Teaching Seminars  — Tam Johnston
Timeline Therapy Practitioner, Transformations International Consulting and Training  — Tam Johnston.
Certified new coach practitioner, John Grinder Associates and NLP Academy  — Tam Johnston
Diploma in Hypnotherapy, the European College of Hypnotherapy  —  Tam Johnston.

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

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