Barry David Cooper

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Barry Cooper
For many years I considered myself a “lapsed psychologist”. In my mid-teens I regularly read articles on popular psychology - what would now be called “self-improvement” - and also developed an interest in psychical research. The common factor was the potential of the human mind – what “makes us tick”. I decided to become a psychologist, and enrolled for a psychology degree at Reading University in 1970. The course had a strong experimental bias, and was far from the practical subject that I had had in mind. In fact, the course succeeded in putting me off psychology as a career, and I was talked into becoming an accountant! I discovered within a few weeks that I hated auditing, and as soon as I qualified I specialised in taxation. With the increasing complexity of the UK tax system, due to messing about by successive governments, I eventually began to loathe my work as a tax adviser. When my wife died in 2001 I was able to consider a change of profession and a return to applied psychology. I started with an NLP Practitioner course, followed by a full practitioner’s diploma course in clinical hypnosis. More recently, I became interested in meridian energy therapies (MET), particularly Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a versatile tool now used by many hypnotherapists, and qualified as an MET Practitioner. I am now an Advanced MET Practitioner and a Practitioner in another MET, EmoTrance. I was also the first to qualify in LifeMapper Coaching – a brand new concept for personal development and success. I also have diplomas in stress management training and organisational stress management, and I'm a certified past life regression specialist. I now consider myself to be a “lapsed accountant”!

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