Ursula James is one of the leading hypnotherapy practitioners and teachers in the UK, lecturing at eleven medical schools including Oxford and Cambridge. She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Oxford University Medical School and Honorary Lecturer at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Ursula is Patron of Anxiety UK and also the National Centre of Domestic Violence, as well as Chair of the Medical School Hypnosis Association, and she is actively involved in research into the affects of altered states of consciousness. Ursula is currently conducting her own PhD research in the fields of biomedical science and psychology.