Joy Gower
Diploma in Cognitive Hypnotherapy
Master NLP Practitioner and Trainer
Certified Instructor in Hypnosis
EFT Practitioner
Joy’s experience of helping people to become empowered goes back more than 20 years. She founded a company which encouraged women to become more assertive and independent through classes and weekends away. It was through her voluntary work in the later 1990s when she was part of the Independent Monitoring Board at HM Prison Norwich that she realised her skills with people were directing her towards NLP and Hypnosis. At that time she was also a Trustee at the Norfolk Mediation Service.
Since training with one of the country’s top therapists and trainer, she has increased her skills in the world of therapy by becoming a Master Practitioner of NLP, completing her trainer’s training in both NLP and Hypnosis and is an Accredited member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy and Accredited Supervisor. Other qualifications include Emotional Freedom Technique, Pain Management, Past Life Regression and Tinnitus Relief and Master Specialist working successfully with Drug Addiction.
More recently Joy has completed an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) level 5 course in Coaching and Mentoring in Management, and has become one of the first people in the UK to qualify as a Certified Hypnotension Practitioner.
Joy has run Hypnotherapy and NLP training courses since 2006 with the East Anglian Institute of NLP and Hypnosis, and continues to run them as Joy Gower Training.
She runs a busy practice in Norwich and writes articles for magazines and newspapers and has presented at the National Council for Hypnotherapy annual conference.
Mark Barber
Naturopathic Practitioner and Cosmatologist
Guest Tutor
Mark comes with a wealth of healthcare knowledge and experience spanning over 15 years. With a background in pharmaceutical research and development, his attention to care and detail is unsurpassed, later training in the art of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural healthcare techniques.
He is an Accredited Healthcare provider (Chinese Medical Institute & Register – London) and a member of NHS CAM Practitioners with speciality training in Natural Cosmetic Aesthetics. He is also an authorised Dermaroller practitioner.
Mark holds training from Imperial College London School of Medicine, University of Brighton, Loughborough University of Biotechnology and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine & Pharmacology.
Robert Gower
Training Co-ordinator and Internal Verifier
As well as being married to Joy, Robert is also a qualified hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner. He is also a certified practitioner in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and Life and Business Coach.
Robert spent many years in IT as an information security manager. He is invaluable to Joy Gower Training as he deals with all the administration, training materials, general enquiries, and questions from the students.
As the Internal Verifier, Robert monitors the quality and standard of all submissions to the various quality control bodies that qualify the students to practice. Therefore he is our key contact with the NCH and NCFE ensuring the standards set to be a recognised training school are followed.
He also advises students on creating CDs and data protection.
