Paul's Biography and Training    

 

When my Mother ran out of the house shrieking I did not  realise then the impact it would have on my future career.

 

Yes my mother was terrified, really terrified of ... Frogs and in my childlike innocence I had brought her one to see (that was the first and last time). I later discovered that she also hated snakes.

 

The Kay household was largely dominated by Sport. My Father had been an excellent athlete and footballer and my older brother was also although he would go on to be a very talented cricketer.

 

I loved sport and still do, but of course one of the downsides of sports is getting injured. One year when we were living near Blackpool, I visited an Osteopath who had been recommended to me. During the course of the treatments, we talked about training in physical therapy. Turned out that he was one of the lecturers at a college nearby.

 

I popped over and picked up a prospectus from the Northern Institute of Massage. As I read through it was if the words on the page sang to me...this was what i wanted to pursue as a career.

 

So without further ado i signed up for their Remedial Massage course. Little did I know that I would be spending so many hours with my nose in books. As you can imagine I had lots of willing volunteers to practice on, it was also a time when my mother had developed arthritis in her hands so she was always first in line! I also had a friend from my karate club who had also decided to take the course, so we were able to practice on each other and quiz each other on anatomy and physiology.

 

The first part of the course was body massage, and when I had completed that I approached the owner of the health club where I worked out to see  if i could do a few hours a week there which he said yes to.

 

In 1991 I completed the Remedial Massage course and opened my first clinic up in the front room of the house and continued to work from there for the next three years.

 

Like most people, I have wanted to travel and see the world and an opportunity came up to work as a massage therapist as part of a team on a cruise line ship. I worked on the ships for almost two years and it was while there that my interest was stirred in the direction of mind therapies.

 

A hypnotist had come to do a few shows and one day he showed up for a massage treatment so naturally we got talking. I found it quite fascinating and was fortunate that he was willing to share some of his techniques and experiences with me and I experienced a hypnotic trance for the first time.

 

After I returned to dry land I set up a physical therapy clinic in Holywell in North Wales and continued my education in this field. Something though was nagging away at me...

 

Why was it some people should have been getting better but weren't? I realised  there was a psychological element to it but I had no idea just how big a part it was playing.

 

In 2003 I started a hypnotherapy course with Robert Shields, a very experienced and talented hypnotherapist. It was fascinating and had me enthralled from the start. I remembered some of the techniques the guy on the ship had shown me and i was away gaining my diploma in 2004.

 

Since then I have been thoroughly absorbed in this fascinating subject and have learned from some great teachers such as Gil Boyne, Tom Silver and the  controversial but brilliant Dr Jonathan Royle Phd. Then something else started to appear in a lot of hypnotherapy discussion groups, it was just three letters...EFT

 

Well of course I had to investigate, I downloaded the free manual that is available and read it from cover to cover. I'd seen enough I wanted to know more about this so I sent to America for a DVD training set and locked myself away for a few weeks studying them!  this was truly amazing and I could see how it would improve what i was already doing.

 

Since then I have spent hundreds of hours studying this remarkable system of healing, its applications I believe are truly limitless.