Leila Edwards Ph.D.

Dr Leila Edwards is the leading consultant hypnotherapist and motivational coach based in Bahrain, where she is Director and Senior Consultant of The Makeover Experience. Leila works in private practice as well as the corporate sector and runs courses in personal and professional development. She established the first international UK-accredited Professional Practitioner Diploma in Hypnotherapy in the Gulf, in association with the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis (EICH). A qualified counsellor and therapist, Leila was personally trained in advanced and clinical hypnotherapy by a number of leading practitioners, including Valerie Austin and Gil Boyne, a renowned hypnotist, educator, and founder of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners.

Leila has been actively involved in promoting holistic approaches to personal development, health and wellbeing for over 35 years, initially as a practitioner of meditation, yoga and tai chi and then as a lecturer, counsellor, therapist, consultant and trainer whose career has spanned the field of human potential. In addition to her academic qualifications, she has trained in a wide range of psychological and other complementary therapeutic techniques, including massage and colour therapy. As a Dean and Director in several prestigious universities and colleges in the UK and Middle East, Leila's research in the field of education and health care has led her to play key roles in setting up innovative provision both in mainstream and alternative settings. She has also supervised and trained many counsellors, therapists, health and medical professionals.

A pioneer of innovative approaches ranging from assertiveness training, communication and creative management skills to active birth, hypnobirthing and rebirthing, Leila has established therapeutic and management development centres in the UK and the Gulf and was a stress management consultant to LBC Radio. As a specialist in creativity, innovation and change, she trained with Robert Fritz as a Fully Certified Instructor in Technologies for Creating and went on to become a Team Leader and Tutor for the Open University Business School. Leila has taught on many MBA and post-MBA Masterclass programmes and also featured in an OU BBC television production as a leading facilitator of creativity groups.

An elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Honorary Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, Leila has advised government ministers and been involved in many professional associations, most recently founding the Middle East branch of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (APHP), and is an Accredited Member and Trainer registered with APHP and the National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapy (NRAH). She has been honoured with a Women of the West Award for her public service and contribution to lifelong learning.

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