My story

Growing up with a stammer was a real challenge. I spent most of my life trying to hide it, not very successfully. This really effecting my self esteem and my self confidence and it was a huge barrier to daily life.

In my late teens i found that when working in a bar that my confidence grew when actually speaking to people. In turn my speech improved but my stammer was always there waiting to show itself when most unwanted.

I then made a decision that many people may find crazy considering the fact I had a stammer. I became a teacher, teaching 11-18 year olds. Yes a job that involved me speaking infant of groups of people everyday. Again my speech improved and I could speak fluently a lot of the time but my stammer was still there at the back of my mind.

In 2007 I took the decision to enrol on the McGuire Programme, an intense four day course to improve your speech. I begun the course stammering out of control and finished standing on a soap box in Wigan town centre making a speech in front of hundreds of people speaking fluently. This had a huge impact on my life and I thought that I had conquered my stammer and was in control.

Unfortunately this wasn’t the case and fast forward a few years the stammer was still there but now I had some tools to deal with it.

I then retrained as a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, I applied these evidence based principals and came up with the “From stammering to success” programme. My programme gives you the tools to be in control of your stammer and live life on your terms.