A little backgound info: Martina Finnerty is the founder and principal therapist at ProgressTherapy. A Graduate of the Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (ICHP) and a registered member of the Institute: her background is in the sciences. She graduated with both a primary degree (Biochemistry;1989) and a doctorate (1996). She worked for some years as a research scientist and her work included the effects of stress on the immune system. Martina left the science field for a number of years and started a business, working with corporate bodies and benefiting from her skills at data manipulation and survey design. During this time she also studied psychology via correspondence courses. After a series of personal learning experiences including a term of chronic personal challenge following an accident in 1992; Martina finally decided to dedicate all her professional energies to the field of healing-therapy, and in particular the area of creating positive change. She qualifyied as a Clinical Hypnotherapist with the ICHP under Dr. Joe Keaney, the Founder and President (hypnosiseire.com) and followed this up with several studies with world leaders in the field of Hypnosis and Change Therapies.

Overview of Therapies : Over the years she has refined her skills into a specific healing therapy she calls ProgressTherapy. ProgressTherapy is Hypnotherapy at its core; however it has a very specific focus on transmutation of self-limiting-energy embedded in our psyche; this energy which is in essence "bad" energy in that it can drain us, cause anxiety, many and varied symptoms and dis-ease. It is this energy that fuels and maintains the symptoms that are bothering us. The objective is the transmutation of this "bad-energy"  into positive, beneficial, motivational energy. The energy which comes from source. 

ProgressTherapy works on a combination of 3 principles as follows: 

1. Principles of Energy which are utilised to achieve transmutation for permanent healing
2. Principles of Hypnosis; the heightened state of mind ie., our direct access to our Higher Mind
3. The Principles of Clinical Hypnotherapy, i.e., the working of therapeutic techniques to facilitate change
   

Journey to your Powerful Self

: Martina has also developed a Positive Change Course which includes the power of self hypnosis, and this course is provided to groups upon request.

WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM: Martina has also designed a specific Weight Loss Program called the Lighten-Up! Program. This weight loss program encompasses the principles outlined above. This unique and very powerful weight loss program, cleverly combines her extensive experience gained through consultation with clients and extensive literature reviews.  Change is brought about naturally via the transmutation of energy associated with "food-triggers"; these psychological and emotional "triggers" are, in the vast majority of cases, the primary cause of excess food consumption. The results:

1. a beneficial lifestyle change,
2. a life where you are comfortable with and around food,
3. a relationship with food that is enjoyable, healthy and normal.

Since qualifying, Martina is regularly expanding her knowledge and increasing her Professional experience by taking part in a wide variety of workshops and educational courses with leading professionals worldwide, e.g., Transforming Therapy (2009) with the world renowned therapist and teacher Gil Boyne, Core-Belief discovery and realignment (2006) with Georges Phillips (author and founder of Gold Counselling) and HypnoBirthing the Mongan Method (2007) with Marie Mongan herself.

More recently (2010) Martina has trained with Dr John Butler in London in the field of Medical Hypnosis which includes Hypnoanaesthesia.

To find out more, Martina can be contacted at her ProgressTherapy Rooms, Portroe (+353- (0) 67 23518 / 087 6639188). Consultation by appointment only.

Photo of Martina with Gil Boyne after completing his Masterclass in London, May 2009. "GIl passed away in May 2010 and his greatly missed. A wonderful teacher and enlightened, brilliant mind, it was a priviledge to meet and study with this great man."