Martina relaxing during a photo shoot on her home farm in the West of Ireland where she grew up.
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Martina Finnerty PhD MA CBT; developed the "The Power of Knowing" as a means to share with people in an accessible and empowering manner the reality of the inherent power within. A power that is available to all in the same way the human mind is an inherent aspect of who and what we are.
Martina has learned first hand how powerful our minds truly are; within her own healing journey from severe PTSD, Depression and Chronic pain in her 20's and within her vast experience of client's profound positive change during her years of practice. She has combined this vast range of experience, with her professional skills as a research scientist and her passion for communication. This masterpiece is the result (i.e., The Power of KNOWING Journey). |
A Graduate of the Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (ICHP), and with a First in her Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Martina is a registered, accredited member of both the Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy Association (CHPA) and of the Association of Professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ACP).
Her original academic training was in the sciences. Martina graduated with both an honours, primary degree in Natural Sciences, Majoring in Biochemistry (1989 @ Trinity College Dublin) and a doctorate (PhD in the Animal Sciences 1996 @ University College Dublin).
After graduating with her PhD she worked for some years as a research scientist in the Animal Science field and her work included research into the effects of stress on the immune system. She traded this particular research field for life in the business world where she worked in her own business, from 1999, consulting with corporate bodies and benefiting from her skills at data collection, survey design and data analysis. From 1992 to 1998, Martina underwent some deep personal challenges that took her through the finest University of them all, "The Earth School". After a period of intermittent depression and still suffering symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from an accident in 1992, Martina began to learn, through necessity and experience, how the mind truly works. Having travelled through the conventional Mental Health system with PTSD and Depression and the physical medicine system with Chronic Pain, Martina realised, that in order to heal she needed to know more than what she was discovering on this conventional reductionist route. Reading avidly and attending many and varied therapies, her research began proper. She explored the basics of psychology, alternative healing and the various counselling therapies. She engaged in correspondence courses on Counselling and Psychotherapy while she was running her business and engaged in one to one therapy (as the client!) within many different fields of therapy, e..g., Rogerian, Psychoanalysis and CBT. Engrossed in this incredible journey of healing,
Martina finally decided to dedicate all her professional energies to the field of healing through mind; and in particular the area of creating lasting and empowering positive change. Hypnosis and a training in Hypnotherapy attracted her because she was fully aware at this stage, that "whatever" had been physically manifesting her chronic pain and mentally stirring up acute anxiety for many years had been subconscious and outside of her conscious control at the time. Hooked by the subject matter of the subconscious and how it functions; she qualified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist with a Higher Diploma from the ICHP in 2005. This was followed in quick succession with several further studies within the field of Hpnotherapy; namely, Hypnobirthing with Marie Mongan (USA), Medical Hypnosis with Dr. John Butler (London) & finally learning the skills of Transforming Therapy with it's founding father, Gil Boyne (Founder and then President of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners). Having experienced first hand, this man's dynamism and absolute conviction of people's capacity to heal, Martina began using his Transforming Therapy Techniques with incredible results. This was a fundamental changing point in her whole approach to helping people create real and lasting change. Gil Boyne along with Milton Ericson and Dave Elman pioneered the field of modern Hypnotherapy as we know it today. Her quest to become a leading specialist in the Subconscious and the Human Mind also led her to study medical hypnosis modules in London with Dr. John Butler founder of the Hypnotherapy training Institute of Britain (HTI).
Always pushing her own personal boundaries Martina successfully embraced home births & hypnobirthing herself. On a lighter note she travelled to New Jersey where she enjoyed the Tony Robbins experience and watched the master deliver his message to 3000+ people!!! Having felt the fear and Walked on those burning coals anyway: Martina happily returned to her home practice and her Power of Knowing Project, KNOWING that this was the right track and so she continued with her powerful healing work and continues to do so today!
The culmination of 20 years of personal experience and 12 years dedicated solely to formulating "The Power of Knowing" as an understandable and inspiring message for all, has given us an indepth text book with full diagrammatic displays, up to 50 hours of material for events which include slides, video footage of testimonials, lectures from major Universities worldwide, research data and relevant media footage.....this is a complete, honest, factual and extremely powerful piece of work created by an authentic, passionate person. The Power of Knowing is a truly wonderful and much needed piece of work that any man, woman or child can benefit greatly from. Challenging at times this course is set to shake things up! If we stay within our comfort zone we can stay within our dysfunction too. In order to create a real difference in your life then you need to do something different. This Power of KNOWING course is certainly different! Maybe for you, it's time to step outside the box, question your existing beliefs and habitual ways and embrace real and lasting change in a profound and powerful manner ? Perhaps this course is definitely for you? You will only KNOW when you do it!!
Her original academic training was in the sciences. Martina graduated with both an honours, primary degree in Natural Sciences, Majoring in Biochemistry (1989 @ Trinity College Dublin) and a doctorate (PhD in the Animal Sciences 1996 @ University College Dublin).
After graduating with her PhD she worked for some years as a research scientist in the Animal Science field and her work included research into the effects of stress on the immune system. She traded this particular research field for life in the business world where she worked in her own business, from 1999, consulting with corporate bodies and benefiting from her skills at data collection, survey design and data analysis. From 1992 to 1998, Martina underwent some deep personal challenges that took her through the finest University of them all, "The Earth School". After a period of intermittent depression and still suffering symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from an accident in 1992, Martina began to learn, through necessity and experience, how the mind truly works. Having travelled through the conventional Mental Health system with PTSD and Depression and the physical medicine system with Chronic Pain, Martina realised, that in order to heal she needed to know more than what she was discovering on this conventional reductionist route. Reading avidly and attending many and varied therapies, her research began proper. She explored the basics of psychology, alternative healing and the various counselling therapies. She engaged in correspondence courses on Counselling and Psychotherapy while she was running her business and engaged in one to one therapy (as the client!) within many different fields of therapy, e..g., Rogerian, Psychoanalysis and CBT. Engrossed in this incredible journey of healing,
Martina finally decided to dedicate all her professional energies to the field of healing through mind; and in particular the area of creating lasting and empowering positive change. Hypnosis and a training in Hypnotherapy attracted her because she was fully aware at this stage, that "whatever" had been physically manifesting her chronic pain and mentally stirring up acute anxiety for many years had been subconscious and outside of her conscious control at the time. Hooked by the subject matter of the subconscious and how it functions; she qualified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist with a Higher Diploma from the ICHP in 2005. This was followed in quick succession with several further studies within the field of Hpnotherapy; namely, Hypnobirthing with Marie Mongan (USA), Medical Hypnosis with Dr. John Butler (London) & finally learning the skills of Transforming Therapy with it's founding father, Gil Boyne (Founder and then President of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners). Having experienced first hand, this man's dynamism and absolute conviction of people's capacity to heal, Martina began using his Transforming Therapy Techniques with incredible results. This was a fundamental changing point in her whole approach to helping people create real and lasting change. Gil Boyne along with Milton Ericson and Dave Elman pioneered the field of modern Hypnotherapy as we know it today. Her quest to become a leading specialist in the Subconscious and the Human Mind also led her to study medical hypnosis modules in London with Dr. John Butler founder of the Hypnotherapy training Institute of Britain (HTI).
Always pushing her own personal boundaries Martina successfully embraced home births & hypnobirthing herself. On a lighter note she travelled to New Jersey where she enjoyed the Tony Robbins experience and watched the master deliver his message to 3000+ people!!! Having felt the fear and Walked on those burning coals anyway: Martina happily returned to her home practice and her Power of Knowing Project, KNOWING that this was the right track and so she continued with her powerful healing work and continues to do so today!
The culmination of 20 years of personal experience and 12 years dedicated solely to formulating "The Power of Knowing" as an understandable and inspiring message for all, has given us an indepth text book with full diagrammatic displays, up to 50 hours of material for events which include slides, video footage of testimonials, lectures from major Universities worldwide, research data and relevant media footage.....this is a complete, honest, factual and extremely powerful piece of work created by an authentic, passionate person. The Power of Knowing is a truly wonderful and much needed piece of work that any man, woman or child can benefit greatly from. Challenging at times this course is set to shake things up! If we stay within our comfort zone we can stay within our dysfunction too. In order to create a real difference in your life then you need to do something different. This Power of KNOWING course is certainly different! Maybe for you, it's time to step outside the box, question your existing beliefs and habitual ways and embrace real and lasting change in a profound and powerful manner ? Perhaps this course is definitely for you? You will only KNOW when you do it!!