🧑‍🏫 About Your Hypnotherapy Course Tutor

Gary Smith — Course Leader & Senior Lecturer

Gary Smith is a clinical psychotherapist and hypnotherapist with decades of experience helping people overcome anxiety, phobias, trauma, depression and many other psychological challenges. He is the founder of Best Mind Therapy, an award-winning clinical practice in Swindon dedicated to solution-focused, compassionate care. 

Gary’s approach combines solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, neuro-linguistic programming, neuroscience-informed methods and hypnosis into a powerful framework for positive change. 

He began his therapeutic journey driven by a personal mission to support a family member struggling with fears and sensory issues — a journey that deepened his commitment to effective, client-centred therapy. Gary brings over 35 years of professional experience in people-focused leadership and development, now applied to training the next generation of hypnotherapists. 

As senior lead lecturer at Inspiraology hypnotherapy training in both Swindon and South Wales, Gary combines high-quality teaching with real practice insights — giving students the confidence, competence and mentorship they need to succeed in professional practice.