After leaving school Dave worked in the building trade with his father until he was old enough to join the army. He served for three years in the British army and then moved to Africa and joined the then Rhodesian Army. He served in Africa for three years and then returned to the UK for a short time, before travelling over Europe and the Middle East and finally residing and working on an Israeli kibbutz for 5 months.

During this time he saw a great deal of life, different cultures and many people. Upon return again to the UK Dave enrolled in the London Fire Brigade serving for over seven years as a fireman.  Then finding life a little dull decided to join the Metropolitan Police where he served for seven years.  During his latter years with the Police he became a scuba diving instructor and enjoyed the sport to the full, diving mainly in British waters on wrecks.

Dave retired from the police service and it was at this time he became a self employed businessman. He enjoyed this challenge and set up several businesses then sold them on.  Selling and marketing being areas he particularly enjoyed, quickly learning how to use these to his best advantage. But, even then he felt unfulfilled feeling there was something more challenging awaiting him.  It was at this time he became interested in hypnosis after watching Paul McKenna, he quickly realised that he didn't want to work on stage for entertainment but to use these skills to help real people in real life situations.

After extensive research on the Internet he became less interested in stage hypnosis and more interested in the concept of Hypnotherapy, using the power of hypnosis to help people overcome and recover from lifelong problems. Research led him to Terence Watts and the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis. After thorough training with Terence Watts at the Institute, Dave became a qualified Hypnotherapist and Hypnoanalyst. As well as this he qualified to Diploma level with the National Council for Hypnotherapy after another further year of training. Dave then spent a year learning the skills of EFT ( Emotional Freedom Technique ) and qualified to the advanced level under the guidance of the founder Gary Craig in the USA

Over the years Dave has evolved his therapies and uses Hypnotherapy, Hypnoanalysis, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (E.F.T). Sometimes combining one, two or all three to achieve the desired outcome for client centred therapy. He has also taught EFT to over a thousand clients empowering them with a life long tool. Dave's varied life experiences have shown him how he can help many people achieve life long ambitions and remove mental blocks, in these stressful times he has noticed the increase in anxiety based disorders and has enjoyed great success in removing these issues for his clients, in the last 3 years he has evolved a new style quit smoking programme which is very powerful with lasting results and a very high success rate, it is comprised of a single 2 hour session, using a combination of skills, clients leave feeling empowered and at last in control of their lives once more.

Dave is a registered member of the following organisations:

            The Hypnotherapy Society

            The National Council for Hypnotherapy

       The National Council for Psychotherapy

  UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations  Registered number 80382

To contact Dave direct       info@hypnorelate.com