Hello! I'm Mel
I'm obsessed with one question: why do brilliant, capable women still doubt themselves?
For years, I believed success was something you built entirely on the outside: a good career, a happy family, a beautiful home, financial security, and a life that looked exactly as I'd planned.
Before I was 30, I'd advised the Welsh Government on legislation, lectured at university, and was raising 2 incredible children while renovating an old Victorian house, and had a long term relationship. On paper, I'd achieved everything I'd set out to achieve.
Then, almost overnight, everything changed. Following the breakdown of my relationship, the children and I were moved for our own safety by the police. The “successful life” I'd worked so hard to build had disappeared, and with it, I believed I'd lost the successful part of me too.
I'd always believed my successful life was what made me feel like me - full of confidence, energy, optimism and joy. It turned out to be the other way round entirely.
How I Work With You
Clarity
Get clear on what success actually looks like for you, beyond what you were taught to want or what looks impressive from the outside.
Subconscious Shifts
Understand and change the beliefs and patterns that keep pulling you back towards what feels familiar, even when you consciously want something different.
Identity Moves
Turn those shifts into real-world decisions and actions, so you begin creating a business and life that actually reflect what matters to you.
Why I Care:
Trying hypnotherapy changed everything for me.
It helped me understand that my external circumstances had never been what created my internal world; my subconscious beliefs had been creating the life I'd built all along.
When those beliefs changed, I stopped trying to rebuild the life I lost and got clear on what I really wanted, without giving other people’s judgement a care. To this day, my facebook bio is still ‘Your Opinion of Me, Is None of My Business’!
Now, I'm a Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner and IEMT Practitioner, following 25 years in Health and Social Care, from front line support to scaling teams and businesses.
I'm happily married, living in the beautiful Cheshire countryside, spending time with Olivia the Office Manager every day, and watching my now grown-up children build lives they love. And doing that while building a business that supports the life I want to live.
That looks very different to how I was taught success looks, and that's exactly the point.
Success has become less about ticking boxes and more about building a life that genuinely feels like mine.
I’m still ambitious - but now I'm intentionally ambitious.
About helping other women, earning a good income, having no boss to answer to, spending ridiculous amounts of time with Olivia, travelling and being with the people I love.
I’m simply much more deliberate now about where that ambition takes me.
My business matters, the income it provides matters and fulfilment from the work matters.
But it is all there, to help me live the life I actually want to live.
That is my version of success.
The work I do now is about helping you uncover yours, and change the subconscious patterns that keep getting in the way of creating it.
Working Together We Can
Get clear on your version of success - what you actually want your life and business to give you
Understand the subconscious beliefs and patterns that keep pulling you back towards what feels familiar
Shift those patterns so different choices start to feel possible
Turn those subconscious shifts into real-world decisions and identity moves
Build and grow your business in a way that supports the life you actually want to live
Testimonials
See what the Women I have worked with say about me:
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The 'Clarify Your Version of Success' hypnosis audio is for the woman who has created a business that looks successful on the outside, but doesn't feel good on the inside.
Use it to reconnect with what you actually want, in your business and your life, before building a future based on someone else's definition of success.
M.S.
About Mel
I'm a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner who specialises in subconscious shifts, identity moves, and success on your terms. I help women building successful businesses create subconscious safety around their own version of success, so they can build a business that supports the life they actually want to live.
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