Pain that outlived the injury by eight years. Exhaustion with perfectly normal bloods. The hypervigilance, the phobia, the flinch, the people-pleasing that's quietly costing someone their life.
Next course · 24–25 April · Northallerton
The last two courses sold out. The next is 24–25 April, join the list and you’ll hear before booking opens.
Three people, one fault
Knee repaired in 2016. Surgeon calls it textbook. Scans are clean. It still screams every time he kneels, which, being a plumber, is most of the day.
Bloods normal. Thyroid fine. Iron fine. Sunday evening arrives and her body starts shutting down like a laptop on two per cent.
Left the job years ago. Still scans every room for exits, still won't sit with his back to a door, still wakes at sounds his neighbours sleep through.
Different symptoms, different bodies, different stories. The same thing underneath, a protection system running on out-of-date information.
The department
Harold is the health and safety officer who works in your client's head. Hi-vis, hard hat, clipboard, permanently earnest. His entire job is keeping them alive, and he takes it far too seriously.
He carried out a risk assessment once, after one bad day, years ago. He has never reviewed it. The cordon tape is still up, the alarm is still wired in, and he is still, very sincerely, protecting them from something that finished a long time ago.
He isn't the villain. He has kept them alive this far and he's good at his job. He simply never throws anything away.
Internal memo, H&S Dept (Brain Division)
Following the incident of 2009, a cordon has been erected around the lower back.
The repair was completed in 2009. The cordon remains in place indefinitely, pending a review that has not been scheduled.
Any attempt to lift, bend or garden will trigger the alarm. The alarm is working perfectly.
Signed, Harold, Head of Health & Safety.
Why willpower fails
Harold doesn't report to the part of your client that reads and reasons. He reports to the part that runs their heartbeat, their breathing and their reflexes, something far older and considerably larger.
You can stand in front of an elephant telling it to calm down for as long as you like. It will not calm down, and you will get tired.
That is what has happened every time they've told themselves to snap out of it. It was never a willpower problem. They were arguing with the wrong part.
The catalogue
Whatever walks through your door runs on one of these, usually two, one sitting on top of the other.
None of them are faults. Every one is the department doing its job, just from a risk assessment nobody has read since it was written.
The method
Nothing gets deleted and nobody gets sacked. The protection stays; it just gets handed today's information, and the risk assessment goes back to the adult it belongs to.
Medically checked, settled, nothing new. This sits alongside their medical care, never instead of it.
Sincerely. It has been trying to protect them, badly timed and over the top, but trying.
Is it willing to update now? Then wait. A no is information, and you never push through it.
Give it the news, honour what it's guarding, hand the risk assessment back, and replace anything the symptom was quietly providing.
Test it in the room. Score it. Then one small, specific proof in the week that follows.
Next course · 24–25 April · Northallerton
Both courses sold out.
The next is 24–25 April, capped at 14. Booking opens in the new year.
Where this comes from
Current pain neuroscience. Predictive processing. The 2022 randomised controlled trial of Pain Reprocessing Therapy in JAMA Psychiatry. The trauma-response literature behind the six Fs. All of it referenced, with a real bibliography.
And where something is a working model rather than settled fact, it says so, because the point is to be able to explain this to a sceptical GP without wincing.
No guru. No mysticism. No quantum anything.
Before you ask
No. It's built to bolt onto whatever you already do, hypnotherapy, counselling, coaching, bodywork, nursing. You do need to be working with people already; this isn't an introduction to therapy.
That's the design. Supervised practice runs through both days, and you leave with the manual, the pocket card and the session materials. Most people use it the following week.
You get a certificate of attendance. Certified Practitioner is a separate pathway with supervised cases and assessment, because a certificate should mean somebody watched you work and said yes.
There'll be more dates through the year. Drop me a line and I'll tell you when they're set, before they go public.
Yes, five monthly payments, starting whenever suits you. No forms, no extra charge, and it costs no more than paying in one go.
Never, and the method says so at the front door. Everything here works alongside medical care. Undiagnosed or changing symptoms get referred on, every time.
Practitioner training
For therapists, hypnotherapists, NLP practitioners, coaches and health professionals who work with people carrying persistent pain, fatigue, anxiety, hypervigilance, phobias or the everyday over-reactions of a system stuck on.
You'll learn the model, the six-F map and the Stand-Down end to end, with supervised practice throughout, so you leave having done it, not having watched it.
We start on the simple, stable ground: persistent pain, fatigue, hypervigilance, phobias, people-pleasing. Not trauma, not the complicated end, and that's a design decision, not a limitation.
And a word about where this is. The model sits on current pain science and the method works; I've used it, and so have the people I've taught it to. But the training itself is young, and the rooms running now are actively shaping how it's taught. If you'd rather wait for something fully bedded in, that's a fair call. If you'd rather be one of the people who shaped it, come.
Booking isn’t open yet. The list hears first, and given how the last two went, that’s worth being on.
Works alongside medical care, never instead of it. Diagnosis first, referral on, built into the front door of the method.
