About Ruby

For a long time, PTSD and grief were things I managed rather than things I thought I could change. It crept in quietly — avoiding what set it off, negotiating with myself to do ordinary things, living a slightly smaller life each month until I couldn't ignore how far it had drifted from the one I wanted.

I came to hypnosis early. My father worked in trauma-based psychotherapy, and it was through him that I first saw what it could do. Years later, after standard therapies had taken me part of the way and then stalled, I tried hypnotherapy for my own PTSD. It did something the others hadn't. I kept going — for focus, for sleep, for pain — then studied it properly, and started helping family and friends, then other hypnotherapists and theirs.

In 2020 I went looking for something that worked on harder patterns, and found the combination I use now: strategic psychotherapy alongside clinical hypnotherapy. The change held in a way it hadn't before, for me and then for other people, with problems that had nothing to do with mine. That's when this stopped being something I did for people I knew and became the work.

I trained under Gordon Young, who created the Gordian Pillars at the Institute of Applied Psychology and who trained under one of Milton Erickson's students. My father's own mentor studied under a student of Carl Jung. It's a roundabout inheritance, but it means the methods I use have been tested by a lot of people for a long time before they reached me.