About Sina Bowyer

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Even before I was born, my arrival into the world was shaped by hypnotherapy. During the last three months of pregnancy, my mother decided that she wanted a pain-free home birth and went to see a Harley Street hypotherapist. I was successfully delivered at home with the help of a midwife, and my mother tells me that the pain was no more than a mild stomach ache.

In my early childhood years I was surrounded by my father’s therapy clients and the “encounter” groups that he ran. From age ten I was avidly reading psychology, philosophy and literature from his extensive library on a range of topics from the Occult, Zen, psychoanalysis, existentialism and Greek mythology, to relationships and sexuality, anthropology and psychedelically altered states of consciousness. I was particularly fascinated by the superconscious mind, and daydreamed constantly. It has taken me many years to value the unique start I had in life, and to learn how to use it effectively.

Disaffected with my degree in Developmental Psychology, I took up Buddhist meditation and went on some lengthy retreats before undertaking a foundation in psychotherapy with the Karuna Institute aged 22. As I continued to work in social care and education, other trainings followed that included a Certificate in Group Work Skills, a Social Education Degree focusing on Early Years in Denmark, and a Higher Diploma in Working with Adolescents from WPF.  I have also taken numerous short counselling/mediation/treatment trainings related to working with numerous voluntary organisations and charities: Sussex Aids Helpline, Release Drugs Helpline, Camden Mediation and the National Deaf Children’s Society. This eclectic career in counselling, mentoring, social care and the education sector has defined my transition to being a coach and hypnotherapist, in particular by continuing to work with children and teenagers.  

I've been a client of therapists trained in various modalities at significant transitions in my own life, and concluded that hypnotherapy is far more effective than conventional talking therapy: it goes straight to the root of the problem and avoids the stress of the client growing dependent on the therapist by the swiftness of intervention. 

It has been a joy to train more recently in Spectrum Transition Coaching to experience new ways of working with clients in a process of more concrete and measurable emotional change, and to become a part of the Spectrum Coaching community.

For creative fulfilment, I completed a Screenwriting Masters at Royal Holloway (2010-12), wrote numerous screenplays (also as a writer for hire), and had representation by a literary agent for several years. I have a film company, Red Rug Productions and have produced short films, worked on music videos and have won film festival awards. 

Cross pollinating my love of screenwriting with psychology, I utilise storytelling techniques and mythical archetypes (such as the Hero’s Journey) as highly relevant in mapping human drives and finding meaning in the trials and phases of human life. When humans invented stories, they summoned gods, heroes, villains, and magic. The roots of psychology, of teaching, of religion, of cultural and societal bonding, are all within stories. Storytelling unites the conscious with the unconscious mind and stimulates the same alpha brain frequencies as hypnotic suggestion: when used together, they are phenomenally powerful.