Ursula James

Ursula James is one of the leading hypnotherapy practitioners and teachers in the U.K. She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Oxford University Medical School and an Honorary Lecturer at Bart's and The London Medical School. With her company Thames Medical Lectures she lectures at eleven UK medical schools including both Oxford and Cambridge. She is a Patron of Anxiety UK and the National Centre for Domestic Violence, and is also Chair of the Medical School Hypnosis Association, the only association in the UK to actively promote research into clinical hypnosis. In addition to clinical hypnosis, Ursula also teaches personal development skills at medical schools, including stress management and goal setting.

Ursula wrote the first textbook for medical practitioners in clinical hypnosis, The Clinical Hypnosis Textbook (Radcliffe Publishing). Her second book How To Be Amazing - Transform your Life with Hypnosis (Century, Random House) was published in January 2007 and her most recent book You Can Think Yourself Thin (Century, Random House) was published in June 2008.

Ursula has considerable broadcast experience (for full details of her media work please follow the link to Ursula's website), including This Morning (ITV 1) treating phobias using hypnosis, Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 talking about trichotillomania, and has been interviewed for various newspapers and countless magazines. She regularly appears on Macaulay and Co on Radio Scotland and her TV series, Sex, Lies and Hypnosis, where she uses hypnotherapeutic techniques to help couples understand their relationships with themselves and their partners, was broadcast on Channel 5 in the summer of 2007.

As a highly qualified and experienced clinical and medical hypnotherapist, Ursula uses her skills to help her patients stop smoking, lose weight and tackle phobias and obsessive compulsive disorders and to work through relationship issues. She has a special interest in working with individuals that self-harm. Her approach is highly motivational, and her clients include some familiar names, particularly in the sporting arena. She is evangelical in her desire for the clinical applications of hypnotherapy to be better known, and, as far as success is concerned, she uses hypnosis to be successful herself - she believes that you have to practice what you preach. In the last two years she has set up three successful companies, written and published three books, presented her first TV series... oh, and got married!

Born in Yorkshire, Ursula James now lives and works in London.