The Team

Maria Doherty

Maria holds an honours degree in Psychology(1977) with a strong leaning towards the work of Jung. She undertook three years of part-time study to obtain her diploma in clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy in 1985 while she worked full time in retail management.

Maria takes the best from many schools of psychotherapy and blends them with her knowledge and experience of  hypnotherapy,guided visualisation, NLP, counseling, EFT and Reiki, to provide each client with whatever is most effective for bringing about the changes they desire to make in their lives. She brings this eclectic and effective tool box to her coaching practice as well as to therapy. She regards its as essential not to be limited to one school, but to take the best from each and apply it where appropriate. In this way she facilitates effective change in her clients.

Maria spent twenty years in retail management in a broad range of roles, from Service and Logistics, Credit Control, Customer Service, Retail Sales Management and ultimately ten years as a Board Director responsible for Human Resource Management, Training and Development. However esoteric some of the therapeutic practices may seem at first encounter, they are always grounded in the real world in a very down to earth pragmatic way.

Maria believes that although we cannot always chose the external circumstances of our lives , we can chose our attitude towards them. That makes a huge difference in our feeling of being in control of our lives and our day to day happiness.

Isobel Dinwoodie