TARA ECONOMAKIS  Dip.Adv.Hyp (N-SHAP), MCRAH UKCP Registration Number 015899

TELEPHONE  01488 - 685151 / 686881 (Practising in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire, England)

EMAIL  info@lastingchanges.co.uk

INITIAL CONSULTATION This is a half hour long and is free of charge

CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME  Tara Economakis

DATE OF BIRTH  September 1945

PLACE OF BIRTH  USA

MARITAL STATUS  Married

LANGUAGES  Greek, French, English

EDUCATION 

Primary School - Green Vale School, Long Island, New York, USA

Secondary School - St. Timothy's School, Stevenson, Maryland, USA

University - Bachelor of Arts Degree, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, USA

COUNSELLING & THERAPY QUALIFICATIONS

2005 Qualified as Fertility Therapist and Happiest Baby Educator

2004 Certification as HypnoBirthing Practitioner

2003 - Diploma in Performance Coaching

2002 - Specialist Training in Managing Addictive Behaviours (including Eating Disorders)

2001 - Specialist Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

2000 - Registration with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

2000 - Six Month Research Project at Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton - Pilot Study on the use of Hypnotherapy for Detrusor Instability

1999 - Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Hypnosis & Psychotherapy (N-SHAP)

1998 - Specialist Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Hypnotherapeutic Interventions for Pain Management, Terminal Illness, and Bereavement

1997 - Diploma in Therapeutic Hypnosis & Psychotherapy (National School of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy N-SHAP)

Full Member of the Central Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists

1996 - Intermediate Practitioner of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy (N-SHAP)

1994-1997 - Accredited and Practising Cruse Bereavement Counsellor

1991-1993 - Two Year Course in Clinical Theology (Based on the work of Frank Lake)

EMPLOYMENT

2004-5 Inaugurated HypnoBirthing and Fertility Programs

2003 - Inaugurating Program for using Hypnosis as an adjunct to Natural Childbirth within local NHS hospitals

1997-2005 - Private Practice, including work on consultant's referral at the Hampshire Clinic, GP referral at The Ramsbury Surgery and three months voluntary practice at the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Farnham, Surrey

1988-1996 - Founder and CEO of wholesale/ retail costume jewellery business