Mark R. Davis
Mark R. Davis
Therapist, trainer, author and the founder of Hypno-CBT® — a category-of-one model for human change, imagination, self-efficacy and human potentialities.
Therapist since 2007. Founder of Hypno-CBT® since 2012.
I am a therapist, trainer, author and the founder of Hypno-CBT®. I trained in cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy with Donald Robertson in 2006 and have been in full-time practice since 2007, with a practice in Central and North London.
I am Director and Principal of The UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, and Chairman of the Register of Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. The College has trained more than 2,500 practitioners since 2006 and has passed the milestone of 1,000 qualified Hypno-CBT® therapists.
My background is in psychology and philosophy, and my work integrates modern psychological science with phenomenology, Stoicism, existentialism and non-dual contemplative depth.
In the late 1980s I spent five years in India studying yoga, meditation and philosophy, and a further ten years in America deepening that study under a renowned meditation teacher. This contemplative background informs everything I do — including the deeper model of Hypno-CBT®.
Hypno-CBT® is not an improvement inside an old category. It is the beginning of a new one.
Creator of the Hypno-CBT® model — a category-of-one approach to human change integrating CBT, hypnosis, mindfulness, imagery and values-based action.
The UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy — training more than 2,500 practitioners since 2006, with over 1,000 qualified Hypno-CBT® therapists.
The Register of Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy — promoting evidence-based standards in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy practice.
Hypno-CBT® is not only about symptom reduction. It helps people develop the skills, self-efficacy and freedom to change — to clarify their deepest values and live more in service of those values, rather than fear, habit or a limited self-concept.
Whole-system settling. Musculature, breath, autonomic arousal and mental noise quieten together.
Reconnection with presence, first-person experience, being and wholeness.
Self-efficacy expands the horizon of perceived possibility and affordance.
Clarifying what matters most. Living in service of values, not fear.
Values-led, expressive, embodied action. Imagination become life.