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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.

News

  • Japanese rights to The Source by Ursula James have been sold to Taiyo Shuppan

  • Preface acquires THE SOURCE by Ursula James

    Trevor Dolby, Publisher of Preface, Random House UK, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) to The Source by Ursula James. The deal was brokered by Jonathan Conway at Mulcahy Conway Associates Ltd. North American rights have been sold to Tarcher, Penguin US, French rights have been acquired by Belfond, and Italian rights by Mondadori. Commenting on his acquisition, Trevor Dolby said: "Ursula James' The Source is not a book I would normally publish. But then a publisher should, now and again, publish books that take them off their piste. It has always been the unclassifiable books which have, over the years, turned into phenomena, in particular those books offering morsels of spiritual nourishment such as Tuesdays with Morrie, The Secret, and perhaps The Celestine Prophecy. I have a feeling The Source is going to be the next." The Source is an inspirational work of non-fiction that threads together two stories. The first is of Ursula Southwick (known as Mother Shipton), a 16th century Yorkshire prophetess and healer. The second is Mother's prophecies themselves, as channelled to the reader by the 21st century therapist Ursula James. The prophecies speak of relationships, love, the power of forgiveness, how to heal your own world and then make the connections with others to help them heal theirs. Part fable, part spell-book, The Source has true magic laced through it, and the magic can heal those who read it well. 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. 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 onlyassociation in the UK to actively promote research into clinical hypnosis. Born in Yorkshire, Ursula James now lives and works in London.

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