Hi, I’m Dave, founder and lead clinician of the Confidence Control program.
I’m a certified hypnotherapist and hypnotic life coach, vocationally trained and experienced in delivering evidence-based psychoeducation, including CBT and solution-focused therapy.
I am a clinical member of the Australian Guild of Hypnotherapists (GoAH) and the Hypnotherapy Council of Australia (HCA). I am also a member of the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association.
I’m excited to be able to offer you my unique confidence control program, which I developed to help people like you who are struggling with confidence and the issues created by this.
In my professional life, I’ve held senior management positions in one of the world’s largest and most influential communications companies. I have also been a drug and alcohol outreach caseworker, homelessness outreach caseworker, youth homelessness caseworker, residential youth worker, psychosocial disability worker and youth justice program development officer. I currently also lead a publicly-funded mental-health program, supervising a team of Community Mental Health Practitioners and Peer Practitioners.
Above all, I love helping people make positive changes in their lives through personality development coaching, whilst ensuring they remain firmly in control of their recovery journey.
In my personal life, I am a single father, confidante, friend and mentor.
Over the years, I’ve had some really amazing experiences (both good and bad!), and I’ve learnt to fit as much as I can into my life. For years, I travelled and lived overseas – I even built and ran a nightclub in the South Pacific. I’m also a published author, I practice martial arts and have played drums in various bands over the years. For a time, I was also a rock journalist and interviewed some well-known international musicians.
But growing up, I was intensely shy and suffered terribly from low self-esteem, insecurity and a chronic lack of confidence. This carried on into my early adult life, and it defined who I was.
However, my life dramatically changed when I discovered the power of hypnosis for confidence. This was at a time when I found myself struggling badly with chronic anxiety.
A good friend of mine had just graduated as a hypnotherapist and said he’d take me on as a client.
I was pretty sceptical at first, to be honest. I’m university educated and someone who requires evidence before I can put my trust in something. But after reading the available research,
I put my trust in hypnosis, and I’m glad I did. The results were absolutely life-changing.
The hypnotherapy sessions got rid of my severe anxiety, and I no longer needed to do those destructive things (such as self-medicate with drugs and alcohol) I thought were helping me to cope with my fears. Hypnotherapy really changed my life, and I’m grateful I took the opportunity.
Suitably impressed, I then studied to become a clinical hypnotherapist in order to help others, and I started up Frontier Hypnotherapy. I later became a certified hypnotic life coach and vocationally trained in psychoeducation at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.
I’m privileged to have been able to help people with all kinds of debilitating issues, such as chronic substance abuse, anger, unhealthy eating, nightmares, insomnia, trauma and severe anxiety, amongst others.
Along the way, I observed that in many cases, there was one common underlying theme with the people that I had helped. They suffered a lack of self-esteem and confidence.
It was then that I decided to concentrate on helping people rebuild their confidence in order to help address and ameliorate their substantive issues. This led me to develop my unique confidence control program.
My mission is to empower people to embrace their true selves, overcome self-doubt and cultivate confidence from within. Through personalised interventions and compassionate support, I will guide you on a journey of self-discovery and transformation, enabling you to realise your true worth and live authentically.
Are you ready to make that big change in your life? Can you really afford not to? Get in touch to see how, together, we can help leave behind your fears and insecurities to enable you to reach your true potential.
