Meet the Team
Phil, Kate Gare and Jude Hogarth have over 55 years of experience between them helping clients to resolve their issues with the Lightning Process. They run courses regularly and would be happy to help you decide if the Lightning Process is the right option for you. Find out more about our team below…
“I highly recommend working with Phil Parker! He is an incredible practitioner with the ability to guide clients through the most complex issues in order to find seemingly simple and lasting solutions. Unlike other conventional therapies, Phil’s skills produce swift, appropriate and highly effective results. Collaborating with Phil is a game-changer – if you were to do one amazing thing this year, make it be to work with Phil!”
“I took the LP training with Phil because I was stuck in my life and in my health. Phil’s seminar was fun and his stories and sense of humour kept everyone engaged. It was fascinating to see people in the group with different issues to mine make great changes using the same tools. After the first day I felt different and I knew that I could influence my health and life for the better.
“Phil is the most incredible, extraordinary practitioner. An expert at making complex things simple, and training in creative, engaging ways. He teaches the LP by referencing back to the science and has pulled the best of the best knowledge and techniques out there to create the LP. What he teaches is extremely effective, quick, and useful. He has total belief in his clients and is a fantastic teacher!”
“Working with Dr Phil is an easy, effective and kind way of becoming the better version of yourself. It has helped me in building and sustaining the life I want, through the ups and downs that life is offering. The LP has also been specifically igniting joy, wellbeing and flourishing.“
“I highly recommend working with Phil Parker! He is the leader of this field by a distance. Thanks to Phil, I am healthy, happy, living a life I love with a family I thought I might not get to have. I owe him my life and will be forever grateful for his life-changing work!”
During the 1990s when working with many patients and clients who were incredibly stuck and had been told to accept there was no answer, I designed the Lightning Process. My background as an Osteopath, my PhD in the Psychology of Health and as a Personal Development Expert provided me with an opportunity to approach health issues from a totally new perspective.
Since then over 75,000 people have taken the LP to change their lives for the better.
I would love to work with you personally, but I only run 2 or 3 seminars a year. Have a look here to see if I have a course coming up soon which would work for you. If not, I would highly recommend Kate and Jude who both run seminars much more regularly.
“Judith really helped me to overcome my anxiety prior to an operation and helped me deal with anger and stress during a very emotional time in my life. She is an amazing lady and extremely committed to the work she does.”
“After suffering with various health problems, the techniques Judith has provided me with have helped enormously with my symptoms and managing my pain. After partaking in the course, I have felt I have been given a new lease of life and would recommend it to anyone suffering with chronic pain.”
“This program has helped me to become a better person. It has allowed me to have the tools to deal with so many things and better myself. I am forever thankful to my sister for recommending it and to my coach (Jude Hogarth) for being available when I needed a bit of additional support.”
“Jude’s warmth and deep experience make her an outstanding practitioner.”
Before taking the Lightning Process myself as a client, I practiced as an employment solicitor, for 20 years, as a specialist in mediation and conflict resolution.
I discovered the transformative power of the Lightning Process after years of struggle with my own, sometimes paralysing, anxiety and PTSD issues (which I had been an expert at hiding); feeling stuck in a rut, I thought my life was only going one way – down-hill. In doing the Lightning Process though I quickly learnt how to flourish instead and expand my horizon in ways I never dreamt possible.
So enthralled was I by what I learnt, I decided to train with Phil Parker so that I too could share these tools with others. I am eternally grateful for having had this opportunity to reshape my world and it is a privilege now to help guide others in learning these techniques.
As well as running Lightning Process seminars and the TRP (the Rediscovery Process), I have a varied practice blending the many strands in my life – including corporate trainer, mediator, coach, Master NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist.
“Kate was brilliant. Bought loads of positivity and energy to the room and filled us all with belief we will recover. I slept better, am happier and have a new optimism for the future and enjoyed the positive outlook it brings.”
“Kate was wonderfully empathetic, understood why I have been stuck moving forward and has helped me have belief in my power to effect real change!”
“Kate is great – calm, warm, inspiring… I’m feeling positive about living a full healthy life again. My favourite positive changes are energised re-focus and positive planning. Kate – lovely person/trainer.”
“Kate has helped and guided me to apply the Lightning Process resulting in a life-changing experience! Thank you, Kate!!”
“Kate is so much fun and encouraging. She is supportive and helped me find the best me when I had lost sight of that person.”
“I feel confident that it has worked and will continue to get me to the life I love. Kate is amazing, so approachable, kind and knowledgeable. Thank you for everything.”
“Kate’s compassionate, positive attitude helped our group get on really well. I’ve learned so much and now know I have the power to influence my health. I feel so excited about the future now! I finally have my life back.”
“Kate has great energy! She was great at keeping the energy up in the room, ensuring we all got a voice and actually got success. I liked the balance of encouragement and challenge.”
“I was calm after the trainings, I slept well and woke up refreshed. I loved the group and Kate.”
As an Advanced Lightning Process practitioner, since 2007 I have supported nearly 1000 people to transform their health and life. I love my job. It is amazing to see how my clients, who come to see me for many different reasons, transform from the kind of ‘stuckness’ that stops them from living their best life to become healthy, powerful and resilient people with choices available to them that had been taken away for so long. And it’s so great to hear how they continue to live these great lives years later.
I love the science behind the mind body connection and I keep up to date with the latest findings which I incorporate into my Lightning Process training.
My courses are compassionate and fun as well as challenging when they need to be as I understand how important the changes are to my clients lives. I know what it’s like to be ‘stuck’ having been ill for seven years along with experiences of low self-esteem, anxiety and a life with many challenges. The Lightning Process helped me to become the confident, healthy, happy and resilient person I am today and to thrive at work and home with my young twins. I’m passionate about supporting others to do the same.
I’m really proud that over 70% of my Lightning Process clients find me through personal recommendations.
Relevant Training and Qualifications:
- Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP and Life Coaching – training by Dr Phil Parker, PhD
- Resilience Practitioner Training – training by Dr Chris Johnstone
- Resilience Training for Practitioners – training by Boing Boing, part of the University of Sussex
- Realising Resilience – training by Dr Hugo Alberts, PhD, Pscyhologist, Positive Psychology
- Polyvagal Theory & the Endorphin Effect – training by Dr William Bloom PhD
- Understanding Pain for Practitioners – training by David Butler, Associate Professor
- Visionary Business School – awarded partial scholarship for my work supporting people to live powerful lives
During my career, I have worked for, and with, a number of health and disability charities including NSPCC, Cancer Research UK, National Autistic Society (NAS), as well as Vodafone, Sky and BP. I was a director of The Disability Partnership a European-wide charity that included working across 18 government departments to develop leadership opportunities amongst civil servants with disabilities as well as supporting profoundly disabled children to reach their potential.
I am a member of the British Institute of Hypnotherapy and NLP (BIH) and registered by the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations (UKCHO) – number 80707.