I am often asked by people who have survived trauma if I can hypnotise them to forget traumatic memories. It's a good question, but not good therapy.

After three sessions of slow progress Christie really turned things around on the fourth by stepping into my territory. She mentioned the body holding on to trauma, and I scoffed at the suggestion – she knew what I did for a living – I'm not harbouring trauma! I know better than that. Notice a little ego creeping in there?

I have a number of different hypnotic ways to disarm traumatic memories, and one that I have been using for a few months now involves Donald Duck.