Husband and Wife Hypnotherapists
Welcome to Aspire Therapy Manchester, offering hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT and life coaching in South Manchester and Hale in Cheshire for stress, anxiety, confidence, weight-loss and a range of related conditions.
We are Julian and Michaela Gill, a husband and wife team, based in Levenshulme, close to Didsbury, Chorton and Stockport. We are also now offering hypnotherapy sessions at Precious Health holistic therapy centre in Hale, Cheshire, near to Altrincham and Timperley.
We have been working together as qualified hypnotherapists since 2006. As well as offering one-to-one sessions with the choice of a male or female therapist, if you have a preference, we work with groups on issues including weight-loss, stress and confidence.
Education, Training and Guidance Backgrounds
We are both highly qualified professionals with extensive additional experience in education, training and guidance.
Julian has previously taught in a sixth form college and is now involved in the professional training of new hypnotherapists in Manchester, working as a tutor for Chrysalis, one of the UK’s leading nationwide trainers of hypnotherapists, psychotherapists and counsellors.
He teaches on the Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills, training students in the use of hypnotic technique, regression and counselling approaches.
Michaela lecturers at Manchester Metropolitan University, working with adult students on the Postgraduate Diploma in Careers Guidance. She has a special involvement in the training of interview and guidance skills.
Before becoming a practising hypnotherapist, Michaela obtained more than 20 years experience of working in local authority and educational environments in a variety of roles, including professional careers counsellor, training & development manager and adult education tutor.
She has also practised as a successful independent consultant, training practitioners and senior managers involved in the delivery of children and young peoples’ services.
Specialisms and Interests
Julian has experience of treating clients with a wide variety of problems. He now works primarily in South Manchester, but has also worked at physiotherapy and complementary health clinics in Preston, Garstang and Longridge.
He has extensive experience of working with clients suffering from stress, anxiety, depression and confidence problems, including related conditions such as phobias, panic and OCD.
With Michaela he has also devised specialized programmes of treatment for weight-loss and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. He works both with groups and individuals.
As well as being a hypnotherapist, Julian is qualified in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and offers this both as a stand-alone treatment and in combination with hypnotherapy, where the client feels this might be helpful.
Prior to becoming a full-time hypnotherapist, Julian taught in a sixth form college for a number of years and still enjoys working with teenagers as well as adults. He has an MA and a PhD.
Michaela has been working in private practice as a qualified hypnotherapist, life coach and NLP practitioner since 2006. She has worked with a wide range of clients of all ages and has particularly expertise in working with teenagers and young people.
Her specialisms include confidence and self-esteem, weight loss, and problems and issues commonly arising in teenage years, . As well as working with individual clients, Michaela also enjoys running workshops with small groups on topics such as weight management, confidence building and life coaching.
Hypnotherapy Qualifications
We both have Professional Hypnotherapy Diplomas In Clinical and Analytical Hypnotherapy with Psychotherapy and are registered with the GHR (General Hypnotherapy Register), the largest professional registering organisation for practising hypnotherapists in the UK. This means that we comply with their professional standards.
We run clinics from our home in Levenshulme, Manchester within easy reach of Didsbury Chorlton and Stockport and a five minute walk from Levenshulme train station.
We also offer telephone or skype sessions if we feel this is suitable to your particular needs. These can be supported by the provision of audio recordings.
