...Your Therapist
Linda Candy is a warm and welcoming person who is easy to talk to, you will find her direct way of working quite refreshing. I would caution you, however, not to let her easy manner lull you into thinking that she is a 'slouch' as she is highly qualified in the field of childbirth, women's issues and clinical hypnotherapy, having studied with the BST Foundation in London to attain their highest qualification; The Advance Certificate in Strategic and Clinical Hypnotherapy.
Being a mother of two children and having an interest in the psychological fears surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, Linda recognised early on that mind-body methods were the very tools needed to help with all pregnancy and childbirth related issues and set about becoming an expert in this area. Her philosophy of; 'to become an exper you have to be trained by experts' lead her to train with some of the top professionals in this field. Experts such as Michel Odent (the world renowned obstetrician and author of many books relating to natural childbirth and primal health) personally taught her the best doula techniques conducive to having a calm and natural birth.
Believing that natural childbirth is the best possible way of bringing a new life into the world Linda decided to become a HypnoBirthing® practitioner using the Mongan method and studied their techniques with Jessica Porter. Jessica is one of HypnoBirthing's® top USA trainers and spends her time teaching HypnoBirthing® in America, Canada, South Africa as well as in England.
Linda was one of the very first and few therapists in the UK to have studied with Lydsi Eastburn, the creator of the HypnoFertility® programme, and is now a registered, practicing therapist helping many women to conceive. Not content with taking on board one theory for helping women with fertility issues she went on to study the problems and solutions to infertility further with Sjane Hugo (the creator and author) of The Fertile Body Method, a mind-body approach to fertility.
She is also a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register, registered as specialising in issues relating to women. As you have probably gathered by now that anyone contacting Linda can feel quite secure in the knowledge that they have contacted someone who is professional and very knowledgeable in all issues surrounding childbirth.