00:00I'm Daniel McDermid and I run Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic.
00:04Can you just tell us a little bit about the business?
00:06Well, I've been running it for just under 16 years and through those years I've worked with
00:11tens of thousands of people and I've helped many, many people
00:15overcome a variety of conditions from anxiety, depression, lots of OCD,
00:24helped lots of people lose weight and I've written books on smoking cessation
00:29and I've helped many people become non-smokers as well.
00:32What sparked your interest in the business?
00:34Well, I was always interested in human conditions since I was a child.
00:39It always interested me, why do people respond like they do in life?
00:44And I enjoyed history as a child because of that.
00:48And then when I got to college I decided to do psychology and I wasn't the most academic
00:55and that I managed to get through, you know, those years as a child
01:01and I then developed into doing psychology at university.
01:07Now, it was a bit different because I wanted to understand why hypnotherapy works.
01:12I wanted to demystify it in fact when I got into it.
01:15So I'm a bit different from other therapists because of that.
01:17So I went to learn with the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and I learnt a lot there
01:22and I realised there's something really profound about this type of treatment
01:26and I'm going to utilise it and help people.
01:29So that's how I got into it.
01:31Has the industry changed?
01:33The industry has changed.
01:35Like every industry, there's fantastic builders out there
01:40and there's what you call your cowboy builders.
01:44But it doesn't mean architecture is a bad thing just because there's some people
01:48who are not as competent as others.
01:50So it can be quite a saturated industry at times.
01:53So there's lots of therapists out there
01:54and there's some incredibly good people out there who really do life-saving work.
02:01And are you able to tell us a little bit about the work that you've done
02:04or your involvement with Chris Carmel?
02:07Well, Cammy came in and the first thing I want to say,
02:10what a wonderful human being, you know.
02:13He really is an incredible person.
02:16And when he first came in to see me, he was in a desperate situation.
02:22He hadn't told anybody about his condition as he's already told the media about.
02:28And he wanted a cure.
02:32I had to be very ethical and explain,
02:34I can't cure your condition because it's a biological condition.
02:37But I can help you adapt to it.
02:39And I was trying to get him to come out to the public, explain what's happening.
02:47But he felt ashamed of it, which we all know he shouldn't have done.
02:52From day one, he acknowledges that now.
02:55I should have come out on day one and just told everybody what was happening.
02:59So I had to help him build his confidence.
03:02And I hope that I achieve that with him, to help him build his confidence
03:06and feel happy and secure.
03:10And he's doing such incredible work now.
03:12I'm so proud of the man that he's, you know,
03:14taken on board what we discussed in the treatment.
03:16And he's now a pioneer helping other people with speech difficulties.
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