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BEd, DipCAH, HPD, PNLP
National Training Manager, Lead Christchurch & Online Trainer
As National Training Manager, Sara’s role is to advocate for our students and ensure you have the best training experience possible.
Once you are enrolled, Sara and her assistant Hannah will be looking after you throughout your training journey. They will provide you with all the information and course materials you will need, be on hand for any questions and are there to help and support you – both during the training and beyond!
Sara completed her Hypnotherapy Diploma in Christchurch and then went on to train as one of our Christchurch Trainers a few years later. So she has a unique perspective on what our students and trainers need to help them be successful.
With a teaching background, Sara is passionate about passing on her knowledge as a trainer, and introducing a new generation of students to these life-changing skills.
Sara runs Mind Garden Hypnotherapy in Christchurch and specialises in the mind-body connection. She works with people to help them recognise the amazing power of their subconscious minds and enjoys empowering her clients to overcome any issues that are holding them back including smoking cessation, weight loss, stress and anxiety.
Sara has a particular focus on working with children especially those who are facing long-term illness and works one-on-one with children who are in treatment for cancer as well as leading relaxation and stress management sessions for parents of children with cancer. Her vision is for every person to be empowered to lead healthy, joyful lives free of unnecessary stress and anxiety.
Sara is also the face of our YouTube channel, and showcases her passion for hypnotherapy in regular “Breakthrough Hypnotherapy Sessions”, where students, graduates and other experts share their stories and techniques.
BA Hons, Co-Founder and Enrolments Director
Ruth is your first point of contact for answering any questions and providing information about the course.
She is always available and happy to chat about how our training options can meet your goals and dreams, and if what we offer is the right fit for you. She’ll also help you with the process of enrolling and getting onboard with the training.
Ruth Co-founded the NZSPH with her husband Ed in 2009 and has been instrumental in its development into the pre-eminent Hypnotherapy Training School in New Zealand today. Because of her long association with the school she is ideally placed to share her experience and knowledge, and share her insight into training with the NZSPH and what it can enable students to achieve.
Enrolments Consultant
Sarah grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. She spent three years working as a database programmer in London and Paris, before returning to Christchurch to take up a business development and sales role in the GPS Agricultural sector.
After many successful years in this professional role, Sarah had a change in career direction to explore her passion for hypnotherapy and life coaching. Her first hand experience of both the in-person and online Diploma in Clinical & Advanced Hypnosis courses, coupled with her talent for building relationships, makes her an ideal person to help you make the decision to explore this exciting path.
Sarah has a keen sense of adventure and her recent travels encompass walking over 800km across Spain with her husband and daughter, gorilla trekking in Rwanda, sailing down the Nile in Egypt on Fluka boats, and rafting down the Tirol River in Austria. She represented her region in both cricket and hockey and is always keen for a spot of friendly sporting banter.
Lead Auckland Trainer
Jo has been coaching & training for over 15 years in both her previous corporate roles & her own private business. She is a certified health and life coach, NLP Practitioner and completed her hypnotherapy training with the NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy. She has also completed training in Executive State Identification & is currently completing a Mindfulness Practitioner Course.
Jo runs two businesses: The Health and Mind Coach working 1:1 with clients using hypnotherapy, coaching and NLP. She specialises in helping people with anxiety, chronic stress and low self worth/confidence. She also runs group programmes and has written an online course. As well as working with personal clients, she works with businesses to develop managers into coaches as well as to build a healthy and inspiring culture.
Her other business is The Happiness Club which runs The Emotional Management Programme in schools, workshops for parents and resilience and mindfulness workshops in businesses.
Jo is passionate about how hypnotherapy can help so many people and will pass on that passion to you on your hypnotherapy journey. The more people we have delivering this life changing work out in the world, the happier the world will be!
When she’s not working in her businesses or training, Jo can be found out with her dogs or out on the water on her SUP board.
Wellington Trainer
Ellie is a Hypnotherapist and coach that enjoys supporting people become the best versions of themselves.
Her qualifications include a focus on how our minds work, nutrition and wellbeing, and getting past inner self doubt and criticism She has a BSc Hons majoring in Psychology.
Her corporate background is in Human Resources and training and she has a passion for supporting growth and positive cultures in the workplace.
Her hypnotherapy style is focussed on evidence-based techniques that support the clients goal and their internal dialogue.
Wellington Trainer
Tony Yuile trained with the NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy in 2010/11 and has been in practice as a life coach and hypnotherapist ever since, having attained his HPD and DipCAH qualifications. He also holds a Master Practitioner certificate in NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and is a certified NLP Coach. He served on the NZ Association of NLP Management Committee for seven years and held the position of Treasurer.
One of Tony’s core values is ‘continuous and never-ending learning’ and since qualifying with the school he has gone on to train with many other recognised hypnotherapy trainers. Amongst his certifications he holds a Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma issued by the UK based Jacquin Hypnosis Academy and a Master Practitioner Diploma in Indirect Hypnosis, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Hypnotic Language with Clients (Distinction) issued by the British Hypnosis Research and Training School.
Tony is passionate about helping people overcome stress and anxiety related issues including phobias and traumas. He is the author of ‘7 Ways to Reduce Anxiety in 7 Minutes or Less’. He also specialises in Gut Directed Hypnotherapy, for disorders of the gut-brain interaction. He works with people in the greater Wellington area, and throughout NZ and the world via the internet.
Tony is dedicated to sharing his knowledge and understanding of hypnosis and its benefits with people and has for several years delivered self-hypnosis workshops and hypnosis trainings.
When not hypnotising and coaching people, Tony can be found practicing and performing improvised theatre in, and around, Wellington.
Christchurch & Online Trainer
Bec is a certified hypnotherapist trained here at the Professional School of Hypnotherapy and a trained Nutritional Health Coach. Her passion lies in helping individuals overcome stress, anxiety, and limiting beliefs, as she firmly believes that everything in our lives is rooted in what we believe about ourselves.
She takes joy in reflecting people’s strengths back to them, guiding them to unlock their true potential and ascend to higher ground. Her journey into hypnotherapy was shaped by her own health challenges which led her to discover her true passion for this work.
Bec also holds a teaching diploma in speech and drama, which enhances her ability to connect with students and facilitate transformative experiences.
With an in-depth knowledge of the nervous system, Bec understands how our physiological responses significantly influence our emotions, behaviours, and overall well-being.
As a lifelong learner, Bec is deeply interested in human behaviour, optimising our potential, the mind-body connection, neuroscience, energetics, spirituality, and health and wellbeing.
She runs Be hypnotherapy in Christchurch behypnotherapy.co.nz
DCAH, BA Hons, HPD, MPNLP
Founder
Founder Ed Lester is an experienced and respected hypnotherapist and trainer who has helped many hundreds of private clients to overcome problems and achieve their goals. He believes in giving hypnotherapy students all the tools they need to build a thriving and sustainable hypnotherapy practice in the quickest time possible. He understands that all students' needs and personal experiences are unique and that our training courses must always reflect that diversity. Here are some of Ed's qualifications and achievements:
The Professional Diploma Course is run in association with the UK Academy. Although UK academy staff will not be actively involved in the training programs, their input by way of course content and support is pivotal.
Principal
Shaun Brookhouse is a Psychotherapist, a Board Certified Hypnotherapist, a Certified Professional Coach, Educator and Author. He is known by many as 'a therapist's therapist'.
He is a MasterTrainer of NLP and a Certified Master Instructor of Hypnotherapy. His skills as an instructor and trainer make him very much in demand internationally at conferences and workshops. His lively and provocative style of lecturing makes training a memorable experience. Shaun is a strong believer in personal empowerment and that hypnotherapy and coaching is a means to this empowerment. Some of Shaun's credentials include:
Managing Director and Vice-Principal
Fiona Biddle is a Certified Professional Coach, a Board Certified Hypnotherapist, and a Humanistic Counsellor. She assists her clients on a number of levels regarding better health, well-being, success and fulfilment. Fiona is the Chair of the National Council for Hypnotherapy. Originally trained in computer systems, she has applied this systemic knowledge to the assistance of her clients in achieving their full potential. Some of Fiona's credentials include: