Michelle Denness | Beyond Your Story

About Michelle Denness | Beyond Your Story

I’m Michelle Denness, an HNLP Master Practitioner offering one-to-one support for people who want to understand themselves more deeply and create meaningful change in their lives.
My work is about exploring what sits underneath the patterns, beliefs and experiences that may be shaping how you feel and how you see yourself today.
I offer a calm, supportive place where you can talk openly, feel heard without judgement and begin to see things with greater clarity.

Sessions are available in person on the Isle of Wight and online throughout the UK.

For almost 40 years, my work has involved supporting children, young people and adults. I began my career as a qualified NNEB, working in early years, and later went on to work in special needs, intensive behaviour support and youth mentoring.
Over the years, my curiosity about why we think, feel and behave the way we do led me much deeper into the study of change, behaviour and personal development. I qualified as a Master Practitioner of NLP and HNLP, with training in hypnosis, Time Based Techniques™ and Time Line Therapy™. I have also completed training in Counselling Skills.
But not everything I bring to this work comes from training.
I lost my father when I was a child, and the grief I carried from that loss affected me well into adulthood. My own experiences have given me a very personal understanding of how what happens to us can shape what we come to believe about ourselves, often without us even realising it.
My work today has grown from both sides of that journey: nearly 40 years of experience working with people, and my own journey of understanding myself.
I am fully insured and committed to working safely, ethically and within the boundaries of my professional training and experience.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to the work I do. Every person brings their own experiences, beliefs and understanding of the world, so our sessions are shaped around you.
We talk honestly about what is happening in your life and explore what may be sitting underneath it. Often the patterns we have lived with for years can begin to feel like who we are, when they may actually have developed from what we experienced and what those experiences came to mean.
We cannot change what happened, but we don't have to live there anymore. Greater awareness can create choice, and with choice comes the possibility of something different.