Hello, and thank you for visiting my website.
I’m Valentina Petkova and I’m a fully accredited Clinical Hypnotherapist and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner.
I have been working for 30 years as a nurse. While working in an intensive post-operation department I witnessed first-hand how stress and anxiety in such a fast-paced environment affect people at all levels.
Psychological issues such as stress and anxiety can lead to a wide range of severe symptoms that include pain, digestive disorders, skin problems and much more. These psychosomatic problems are very real and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Even conditions that do have an underlying physical cause can be made worse by stress and anxiety, in this respect, every disease has a psychosomatic component.
I realised that the missing piece of the puzzle when trying to help people to keep these conditions under control is the emotional and psychological aspect of our approach.
This motivated me to complete a course in Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP with one of the leaders in this field The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy.
I have the life experience to understand what individuals may be experiencing from the effects of stress and anxiety, the transferable skill to communicate with different types of people and a real passion to help people improve their lives.
I use hypnotherapy and NLP to help people make changes to their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. I have been trained to recognise change-resistant behaviours and to uncover the root cause.
Hypnotherapy is safe and relaxing and allows these changes to happen easily and permanently. I tailor my sessions to meet the client’s unique needs. It is important to say that my conduct is congruent, non-judgmental, empathetic and outcome orientated when it comes to providing therapy.
My goal is the therapeutic process to be as pleasant and empowering as possible.