Hi, I’m Joseph Kao, and I’ve been doing hypnotherapy with people for over nine years now. I’ve had people travel to see me from all around the UK, and even from Europe and America, and I’ve witnessed my clients make astonishing changes in their lives, time and again. This is the real joy of the work that I do – seeing someone’s eyes light up as they realise how many wonderful possibilities are open to them once they make certain changes inside.

From an early age I felt drawn to exploring philosophy and psychology, and studying these fields has given me a number of profoundly useful ways to understand how the mind works. I’ve also had a lifelong passion for acting, storytelling, and theatre, which for me is about experientially discovering who you are, and who you’re able to become, on an instinctive level. These two passions come together in the changework that I do with my clients.

I’ve trained in many forms of changework over the years, particularly solution-focused brief therapy and hypnotherapy, and I’m a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register. I’m also a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and my teachers include Paul McKenna and Richard Bandler, the co-creator of NLP. And for the past three years I’ve been delivering advanced hypnosis trainings and storytelling workshops to therapists and coaches wanting to improve their skills.

Experience

• Treated and hypnotised hundreds of people for a wide variety of issues.
• Author of over 170 professional hypnotherapy scripts for trainee hypnotherapists.
• Supervisor and mentor on the Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy diploma course.
• Experienced at assessing and marking trainee therapists’ sessions.
• Hired to give workshops on hypnotic metaphor for NLP Master Practitioner trainings.
• Co-developer and teacher of Precision Hypnosis, an online advanced hypnosis training course.

Training

• Advanced Coaching and Changework with Michael Perez - 2008
• Society of NLP Licenced Master Practitioner with Michael Breen – 2007.
• Integral Eye Movement training with Andrew Austin – 2007.
• Creating Therapeutic Change with Andrew Austin – 2007.
• Trance-endental Journeys - Exploring Altered States workshop – Michael Perez 2007.
• Dance of the Elements - bodywork and personal change with Joseph Riggio - 2006.
• One year diploma in solution focused therapy, hypnotherapy and the human givens with Uncommon Knowledge – 2005.
• Society of NLP Licenced Practitioner course with Paul Mckenna, Michael Breen and Richard Bandler – 2000.
• B.A. in Philosophy from University College London, with a special interest in the philosophy of mind and Wittgenstein.