Vicki
Watson
RGN FNSPH FNCP MGHR SQHP
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Founder
of the National Society of Professional Hypnotherapists & of
the Original Twa Acres Clinical Hypnotherapy
Training Centre.
The original Twa Acres Clinical
Hypnotherapy Training Centre was founded
by Vicki Watson in 1978 with the Clinical
Hypnotherapy Training Course, as a natural
progression, coming into existence in 1989.
Vicki had spent over twenty years in general
and intensive care nursing as a registered general
nurse, before finally deciding to make her long
standing involvement in hypnotherapy known and,
having completed a training course in England,
began practicing as a Clinical Hypnotherapist.
Many years previously as a young student nurse
Vicki was privileged to witness hypnosis being
instrumental in helping save a young girl's life.
This triggered her interest in the subject and
encouraged extensive study into the phenomena
of hypnosis as a very effective treatment modality.
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Over the years Vicki has unrelentingly promoted
hypnotherapy for the superbly influential tool
that it is in the fight against illness and operated
a highly successful hypnotherapy practice for
several decades. She was often called upon to
give workshops and to lecture groups within the
health service and other related bodies.
Interest in hypnotherapy and its uses is such
that, apart from being interviewed on local and
national Radio & Television, Vicki has been
guest speaker at Dundee University Medical Society
Annual Symposium and Abertay University. She
also had a number of articles on hypnotherapy
published in various magazines including Scottish
Nurse.
She lectured on a regular basis to student nurses
at the University of Dundee School of Nursing & Midwifery
and to Perth Palliative Care Course nurses on
the role hypnosis can play in the control of
chronic pain in the Health Service.
In 1989, due to an increasing demand from the
general public for hypnotherapy, Vicki and her
husband Neil decided that, if they were to see
the calibre of hypnotherapists they desired,
they must set up their own training school thus,
the original Twa Acres Clinical Hypnotherapy
Training Centre came into being and became the
then official Training School for the National
Society of Professional Hypnotherapists (NSPH). |
In 2001 Vicki was awarded a Life Fellowship
of the National Council of Psychotherapists.
This prestigious award was given in recognition
of Vicki's long and unstinting dedication to
the field of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.
Also in 2001 Vicki took the decision to step
down from the forefront of training full time
though she continues to maintain an active
role in ensuring that the highest standards are
adhered to through the approved Clinical Hypnotherapy Training
School & Postgraduate Hypnotherapy
Training Centres of the NSPH.
As a recognised and well-respected
authority on Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
Training, Vicki remains on the NSPH
Advisory Council and is also on the
board of the General Hypnotherapy
Standards Council.
Although Twa Acres HTC is
no longer recognised as an acceptable
training organisation for admission
to the NSPH, the Clinical Hypnotherapy
Training Course, in its original
form, continues to go from strength
to strength under the tutelage of
Kate Scott BA (Hons), MNSPH, SQHP,
MNCP & John McEwen MNSPH, SQHP,
MNCP. The Scottish School of Hypnotherapy |
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Neil Watson BSc CBiol
MIBiol FNSPH.
SQHP
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