Our Trainers
Nick Davies (Lead Trainer and Creator of BLAST®) – Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK & Online
Nick is a leading International Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist and Body Language Expert and is known affectionately as “The PTSD Whisperer” because of his specialism in treating trauma quickly and permanently.
He has appeared as an expert guest on ITV News and been published in Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Daily Telegraph, The Times, Sunday Mirror, Daily Express, The Sun, The Mirror, Sunday Post, Daily Star, Russia Today, Women’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Own, VT, Feel Good You, Take a Break, Health & Wellbeing and has appeared on the radio several times championing mental health.
When reviewed by Tatler Magazine, working as the Hypnotherapist at a leading European weight loss retreat, he was described as “Intuitive, passionate and inspiring…a brilliant therapist, one of the main reasons to come here!”.
Once you meet him you will understand how he has created so much positive change, so quickly, in so many people and organisations.
Email: info@blast-technique.com
Phone: +44 (0) 7962 100 942
Website: www.blast-technique.com/training
Fiona Burton (Trainer) – Leicester and Glasgow, UK
On her journey as an Advanced BLAST® Practitioner, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and trauma-informed coach, Fiona has witnessed the profound, life-altering impact that comes from uncovering the hidden wounds of trauma and learning to understand and regulate the nervous system.
She has a passion for helping people release shame, break free from anxiety and heal from trauma. Fiona has a private practice based in Leicestershire, working with adults on a one-to-one basis. She uses a combination of the BLAST Technique®, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and somatic coaching.
Fiona has found that the BLAST Technique® is the quickest and most compassionate way of healing trauma at the root, so that the intense feelings are removed permanently, usually within one session.
As a respected wellbeing specialist, Fiona is regularly a specialist guest on BBC Radio Leicester to discuss mental health, emotional wellbeing and ADHD.
Email: fiona@newinsighttherapy.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 7988 354 635
Website: www.newinsighttherapy.co.uk/blast-technique-training/
Jason Griner (Trainer) – South Georgia, USA
Jason is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who obtained his MSW from Valdosta State University. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of human services and has spent almost 20 years treating people at all levels of care.
Jason is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II, Certified Advanced BLAST® Practitioner, Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (CPNLP), Certified Hypnotherapy Practitioner, a Registered Hypnotherapist (GHR) and is Certified in Sports Performance Mind Coaching. He is skilled in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), as well as Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.
He was a Field Instructor and Adjunct Faculty with the VSU School of Social Work, twice being recognized as Field Instructor of the Year. He has also coached wrestling for over 22 years.
Jason believes that Anxiety, trauma and PTSD do not have to be a life sentence of suffering and that you can truly heal from past trauma and have a higher quality of life.
Email: jason@jasongrinerlcsw.com
Phone: +1-229-251-0264
Website: www.jasongrinerlcsw.com/blast-training
Hannah Hatherell (Trainer) – London and Oxfordshire
Hannah has been a Clinical Hypnotherapist within her own private practice in, London, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and on zoom, since 2009 and is passionate about helping people to move on from anxiety and trauma and feel good again, in order that they can enjoy a successful and happy life.
As an advanced BLAST Technique® practitioner she has treated thousands of clients of all ages, with all kinds of issues, and loves the technique because of its simplicity and the fantastic results her clients have experienced.
Learning the BLAST Technique® has given her immense satisfaction at being able to help her clients move on after being held back by their feelings.
Hannah also has an interest in Corporate work following a 12 year career in the Insurance industry in both London and New York.
Hannah is a mum to two teenagers and loves to travel.
Email: hannah@naturalhypnotherapy.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 7968 191 115
Website: www.mindwelltraining.co.uk
Ruth Anne Adams (Trainer) – London and Oxfordshire
Ruth is a distinguished Clinical Hypnotherapist and expert in women’s mental health. With over 10 years’ experience in the treatment of emotional trauma, clinics in the UK and internationally, as well as a residency at the highly acclaimed Bamford Wellbeing facilities her expertise have been recognised across the media as a thought leader within her profession.
Ruths specific style of therapy is renowned for delivering exceptional results in treatment of anxiety and emotional trauma. Whilst she treats everyone at her standard clinics, she also leads a popular, specialist fertility clinic that has helped hundreds of women to conceive. Through this work, she has hosted talks and presented workshops around the world, as well as being featured in the BBC Radio 4 ‘child’ series.
Additionally, Ruth is the director of an esteemed private, concierge Health and Wellbeing company and is an accredited trainer of the groundbreaking BLAST Technique®.
Email: info@mindwelltraining.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 7462 404 414
Website: www.mindwelltraining.co.uk
Jón Víðis Jakobsson (Trainer) – Iceland
Jón is a hypnotherapist and a hypnosis teacher, who has been helping people making changes in their lives using hypnosis for over 15 years.
Jón is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CHt), Certified Hypnosis Instructor (CI), Certified BLAST Technique® Practitioner and Trainer, Certified Yagerian Therapy Practitioner, skilled in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR).
Jón has a hypnosis practice and runs a Hypnosis School in Iceland, he is a leading teacher of hypnosis in Iceland. He is a former president of The Icelandic Hypnotherapy Society (2017-2019) and has frequently been a guest in Icelandic radio programs talking about hypnosis.
Since being introduced to the BLAST Technique® and discovering how quickly and easily the client can find and heal the roots of their trauma, BLAST has been the go-to method in his hypnosis practice. In Jón‘s experience BLAST Technique® is what gives his clients the best solution for their trauma.
Email: hugarefling@hugarefling.is
Phone: +354 895 3035
Website: www.hugarefling.is/blast