Nicola Martin DCH DHP FICH
Nicola is the Principal of the ICH and is responsible for all professional and ethical standards. She has been involved in hypnotherapy for over twenty years, both as a noted private practitioner and a lecturer. She has trained extensively in the United Kingdom and the United States and is now Board Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) in the USA. In 1998, Nicola became an Ultra Deep Trance Trainer. As an expert in hypnotherapy, she has made several radio and television appearances.

Dr Anna Brocklebank BM FICH
Lady Brocklebank is the medical and legal adviser to the ICH. She practised psychiatry at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, worked in general practice as well as in private practice at the Cromwell and Lister Hospitals. She is a member of a Government "think-tank" and has been voted "best lecturer" by the medical students of London University. She is also a qualified lawyer as well as a writer and broadcaster. She is currently working at St George's Hospital, specialising in sexually transmitted diseases and psychosexual disorders.

Darren Marks DCH DHP FICH
Darren first became involved in altered states of consciousness when studying contemporary shamanism. After training as a hypnotherapist with the ICH, he specialised in the area of cancer care and psychoneuroimmunology, the science which concerns links between mind and body, brain and immune system. He worked for the South East Cancer Help Centre for seven years and now has a thriving private practice in London. Darren assists people in dealing with a wide variety of difficulties and his work has featured in both the specialist and popular media. Darren has also recorded some video interviews about hypnotherapy and has created an amazing range of hypnosis recordings available at http://www.hypnotherapistdirect.com

Bernadette Jaye BA (Hons), LCT (Dip), NFSH, FICH
Bernadette is one of the UK's leading practitioners in past life regression therapy, in addition to being a highly respected hypnotherapist and one of the ICH's most appreciated lecturers. Her warm and down to earth approach to her specialism enables her to conduct Certificate and Diploma courses in past life regression, both in conjunction with the ICH as well as under her own banner. She runs a hypno-analytical practice in which she combines counselling skills and hypnosis from a psychodynamic and transpersonal perspective. Bernadette also heads the team of ICH supervisors responsible for assisting students during their training.

Roger Plummer DCH DHP
Roger qualified through the ICH and is in private practice in Essex. With a background in financial systems, Roger has held numerous positions within some of the world's leading financial institutions. He has provided stress management training for employees of JP Morgan, Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill Lynch and UBS. Roger specialises in advanced learning techniques, confidence building and assertiveness training. Roger is a student supervisor, lecturer and examiner for the ICH.

Henry Whitfield BA MSc CTF
(Certified TIR Facilitator )
Henry trained for his Master of Science degree in Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy with Windy Dryden at Goldsmiths College, London University. His background is in Humanistic and Cognitive Behavioural approaches to counselling. Henry is also an accredited and advanced trainer of Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), a brief therapy for PTSD. As well as lecturing on overcoming trauma, Henry also runs Schema workshops. The Schema training involves innovative ways of developing motivation and direction to enable clients to realise their goals in life effectively.

Deborah Bromley BSc (Hons) DCH MCH
Deborah worked in housing and homelessness for many years in Local Government. She trained with the ICH and now runs a private practice in Bedford specialising in women's issues, particularly weight control, depression, anxiety and stress. More recently, Deborah trained with Michael Newton (Journey of Souls) to be a Life between Lives Regression Therapist and now concentrates on this fascinating therapy. She recently organised the first UK training event, run by the Michael Newton Institute, to train other hypnotherapists to facilitate this work. Deborah is also an enthusiastic advocate for the energy therapies, including EFT and Instant Be Set Free Fast. She teaches these subjects on several ICH masterclasses.

Patrick Browning MA, LLM, DCH, DHP, MCH
Patrick originally qualified as a barrister and chartered accountant and became an investment banker and later a finance director. Since qualifying with the ICH, Patrick has built a general hypnotherapy practice in Kensington and he also works as a practitioner at the Cancer Support Centre in Battersea. He has a particular interest in medical issues such as cancer, hypertension, eating disorders and IBS. Patrick lectures on Creating Hypnotic Language and on Eye Movement Therapies and on hypnotherapy generally to lay groups. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Sue Turner DCH DHP
Sue is a successful hypnotherapist who trained with the ICH. She runs her busy Candela Clinical Hypnosis practice in Henley-on-Thames and also works within the Lewis Practice in Harley Street. Sue owns and runs The Hypnosis Bookshop, an established bookshop which specialises in hypnosis books and other related titles. Her bookshop now supplies books to ICH students at discounted prices. She has had many years' experience in sales and marketing, including a period working for Cassell Plc. At the start of her career, Sue worked as an NHS administrator, mainly working in hospitals and medical centres.

John Hutchings DCH DHP MCH

John qualified through the ICH and is in practice in the Bournemouth/Poole area of Dorset.  He has a military background having served 23 ½ years in the Army during which he served in many operational theatres.  John covers a wide range of issues that can be assisted with the use of hypnosis, energy therapies such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), but it was his own experience with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and seeing colleagues suffering the same that motivated him to specialise in the area of Psychological Trauma.  John has developed many interventions with which he can assist in this area and also assists and advises veteran’s charities.  He is a prolific speaker in the Dorset area and and has lobbied the Government on many veterans’ mental health issues.

Kim Robinson DCH

Kim is a qualified ICH trained Clinical Hypnotherapist.  Prior to this he spent his career in live entertainment as a Touring and Production Manager dealing with many major performing artists as well as working on large-scale musical productions.

His interest in hypnosis started over 30 years ago when he developed a fascination for stage hypnosis.  He now entertains audiences using hypnosis, magic and mentalism as well as seeing clients in his private practise.