Pete Luce Profile

HOW I BECAME INTERESTED IN HYPNOTHERAPY. I've been helping people with their personal and psychological problems for over 30 years. As a mental health nurse in Inner London in the 1980s, I tried to understand why my patients behaved the way they did. Gaining their confidence, I learned that their bad life experiences often underlay their problems. Medications calmed the patients, enabling them to live outside the hospital, but didn’t solve their underlying problems.

TRAINING AS A HYPNOTHERAPIST. In search of greater understanding, I began hypnotherapy training in 1987. I developed a fascination for hypnosis, learning many methods of effective hypnotism. In 1993 I obtained my hypnotherapist diploma, quit nursing, and returned to my roots to open my Plymouth hypnotherapy and counselling practice.

WORKING AS A HYPNOTHERAPIST. I’ve mainly worked in private practice, but I’ve also been a counsellor for Employee Assistance Providers and in the free counselling service formerly provided by Plymouth MIND. I’ve been admitted to several hypnotherapy organisations, and have continued to enhance my hypnosis skills and my knowledge of psychology through extensive further hypnotherapy training and discussions with other hypnotherapists. However, my greatest source of learning has always been my clients. Every client is different, so my way of working requires an individualised approach to every client’s needs.