About Diane

Diane Muller Dip.Hyp (Adv) MIAH (Accr) MHPA

Prior to becoming a hypnotherapist, I owned a busy Central London
court reporting company (verbatim reporting for court hearings). I was also a trained court reporter. It was a very stressful job, meeting deadlines for transcript deliveries being the most stressful of all.

Additionally, because of the nature of the court cases (usually at the Old Bailey), there were many distressing stories, which led to burn-out with many of the reporters.

I became the unofficial ‘sounding board’ for these reporters, as I was their boss, offering them help with stress-management. As a consequence I embarked on a training course in transcendental meditation. This is a posh way of say ‘deep relaxation techniques’.

However, I found meditation too time-consuming and decided to study hypnotherapy (which, again, is deep relaxation).

Having felt that clinical hypnosis in itself was not an adequate tool, not really ticking all the boxes, I decided to further my training and did so with the International Association of Hypno-analysts (IAH), through their training school The Hypnotherapy Control Board. I had finally found what I was looking for; a means of ridding the my clients’ symptoms, rather than just papering over the cracks or, far worse, the client experiencing symptom substitution; this means they rid themselves of the initial problem but another equally unpleasant symptom will wheedle its way in.

Having gained my Diploma in Hypnoanalysis, I subsequently successfully completed eight advanced residential training courses, demonstrating to the IAH Council of Management that I have the necessary skills, experience and insight to be practicing Hypnotherapy and Hypnoanalysis at an advanced level.

However, that doesn’t mean the training stops there; no, far from it; in order to maintain my practicing certificate, I am required to attend residential courses throughout the year to ensure that I keep up to date with the original training as well as up-dating certain aspects of the therapy. When you think about us as drivers, we take the test and that’s it, we learn loads of bad habits on the way. In much the same way, some therapists do their initial training and that’s it, they are not monitored in any way nor do they keep abreast of all the latest developments in therapeutical treatments.

In order to protect the welfare of clients, the IAH operates a very stringent code of conduct.