In this moving episode, Rob Goodwin speaks with therapist and author Zetta Thomelin.

Zetta became interested in hypnotherapy after having some sessions for stress-related insomnia that worked for her. So, she wanted to understand further, how it works, why it works and became so fascinated by its potential to create change that she decided that this was what she wanted to do with her life and so left the business world behind.

As she delved deeper into planning sessions for her clients, Zetta became increasingly intrigued by the power of the language that we use, how it impacts on our subconscious, particularly in trance but outside of trance too, otherwise advertising would not be so successful. As an English graduate she was well placed to begin to create her own language patterns and metaphors to help her clients and to reflect on the language she used in her own environment. This led to her developing books that reflect her approach to therapy utilising metaphor, creative imaginative language, and poetry.

Zetta's new book, The Trauma Effect moves a little away from language patterns and looks further into the influences of our family experiences, into whom we become and how traumas affecting people long before we are born can impact on our own lives, though of course that does still involve language - the language we hear growing up. Zetta tells a story in this book, the family story that she believed to be hers, but turned out to be somewhat different.

Zetta is involved in the governance of hypnotherapy and complementary medicine, as Chair of the British Association of Therapeutic Hypnotists, Vice Chair of the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations and also served as a trustee for the Research Council for Complementary Medicine.

Prior to her career in therapy, she was CEO of Children with AIDS Charity and Vice Chair of the charity Mama Biashara and also worked in the media as a Director of Chronos Group Publishing and as Group Head at News International, working mainly on The Times and The Sunday Times.

She still sees a limited number of private patients online and in person and also offers supervision to accredited hypnotherapists.

www.zettathomelin.com

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