Tansy Forrest

Tansy Forrest is a clinical hypnotherapist based in Wimbledon, London. She sees clients in person and online via Zoom. Her approach blends traditional therapy methods with clinical hypnotherapy and NLP coaching, with sessions tailored to each person. She specialises in alcohol moderation and cessation, anxiety, weight management and insomnia, and also works with stress, confidence, fears and phobias, and habit change.

Her career began in education. She taught Social Sciences for over ten years, rising to Head of Department, and completed an MA focused on individual and group motivation. Outwardly her career and home life looked well, but she was struggling inside. She had panic attacks and constant worry, and she used food and alcohol to cope. After trying many approaches without success, she turned to hypnotherapy. She describes it as a life-changing experience that retrained her body and mind and changed how she sees herself, and it inspired her to share the approach with others.

Her philosophy is progressive rather than regressive. Some history matters, she says, but the more important task is to train the mind to move on from old, habitual thought patterns. She works in a compassionate, solution-focused way, and she notes that clients do their own part between sessions. Her qualifications are listed as DHyp, MNCH, BA (Hons), PGCE and MA.

She is the author of the book Ten Steps to Drink Less and Live Well. She also runs a YouTube channel with hypnosis recordings for sleep, weight loss, relaxation and stress relief, alongside educational videos on anxiety, alcohol moderation and weight loss.