Spectrum For Change

23/02/2026

It was wonderful for Mick to receive a testimonial from someone he helped about 18 months ago.

Mick enabled me to feel alive, calm and able to feel moments of joy after a time of darkness. Life can be very challenging and for me that came in the shape of years of significant chronic illness, followed by the loss my partner and husband.

I have always viewed myself as a strong, professional woman who has held senior leadership positions in a range of organisations over a 26 year corporate career, run my own business successfully for 10 years and raised my daughter alongside my partner, but I found myself experiencing significant grief, PTSD and recovery from life changing illness robbed me of my ability to be me, cope and thrive.

This was when I reached out to Mick because I already had great respect and trust in his abilities. Working with Mick you need to immerse yourself in the experience and trust the process – in doing so big change can happen fast. Since working with Mick. I have felt calmer, able to process my grief without the nightmares and PTSD and I have noticed joy and happy emotions coming back. Deeply grateful for his professionalism and skill.

~ Sarah ~

Often people come to us when they have exhausted other approaches and we want them to know that there is something they may not have tried. Spectrum was specifically designed for complex PTSD and it is those people who come to us via word of mouth.

We celebrate everything that helps people and those who give their hearts doing so and when someone’s nervous systems is overflowing, something more comprehensive is often required. Feelings are debilitating and prevent us from enjoying life to its fullest and can stop us doing things we used to do or going places we used to go. Spectrum dissolves those feelings and releases our mind.

With a motivation for change, anything is possible.

12/02/2026

I thought it was worthwhile providing some background to Spectrum for those who may be interested in this ground breaking approach for mental health that is yet to get out into the world. Maybe you want help or maybe you want to help others.

The man who created it, received a professorship for his incredible solution for mental health last year. Mick is a veteran, who served for thirty years in The Army Physical Training Corps. He prepared every soldier mentally and physically for war.

The army were losing some great recruits, who on the face of it, were very physically capable, yet couldn’t step up to the next challenge. Mick was tasked with looking at why that was. As part of this journey, he became a trainer of performance coaching and introduced it to the British Army but he recognised it never helped 40% of those it was applied to. So, this is where his interest as an analyst, was born about the mind.

He resigned his commission and spent significant sums on learning different approaches some of which he also trains.

Performance coaching/life coaching (trainer)
Master trainer of NLP
Hypnosis (had his own hypnotherapy school and still registered with the ABH)
EMDR
EFT
DBT
IEMT

He explored counselling and CBT and sat with psychiatrists to understand how they came to their diagnosis.

Having applied all of the approaches he trained in within complex demographics, (prison, veteran communities, women’s refuges and young offenders institites), assessed and analysed them for efficacy, and broke them down into their component parts, he realised that there were some great behavioural models and some cognitive models but there was no comprehensive model that dealt with the affective domain, our feelings, beliefs, barriers and conflicts. This was when Spectrum was born.

It’s non trauma focussed so there is no need to relive experience. It deconstructs life’s journey emotionally, layer by layer so that we can let go of the past and take the emotional charge out of our nervous system. It was launched at the University of Central Lancashire in 2012 and positioned as bridging the gap between coaching and therapy. He was actually offered a doctorate back then but they wanted to own his intellectual property, which he refused.

Spectrum has been applied in elite sports, board rooms and the trauma room. It was created for those who had no where else to go but will help from anything like rebuilding confidence, to ADHD, anxiety through to more complex needs such as alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders and complex mental health diagnoses such as CPTSD. 

If you are someone who is interested in research, there are some significant batches of peer reviewed and published research available on our website.

https://www.spectrumforchange.co.uk

We are always looking for new people to join us and train in this incredible approach. We are also looking to apply for a bid with a group of academics from some universities to fund a randomised control trial to get NICE accreditation. We pray that we get it.

It’s not been an easy journey, and there are certainly no guarantees, yet Mick has been persistent and determined and continued to refine it and apply it, changing peoples lives, which we now do together. It’s a real honour taking someone’s heart in your hand and bearing witness to happiness entering their lives and those around them.

I hope you have enjoyed reading these words and please feel free to reach out to us. We are always happy to talk and answer any questions without obligation.

Victoria (and Mick!) 🙏🙂

Helping people move from one mindset to another using a research based model designed for all. Whatever your goal, whatever the complexity, at Spectrum for Change, we not only identify the mental and emotional blockages which limit true potential and happiness, we help you change them to create a br...

05/02/2026

If you are looking to get deeper results for your clients, maybe you are an EFT practioner, EMDR specialist, coach, NLP Prac, hypnotherapist, counsellor or psychologist, this might be of interest to you.

Spectrum was specifically designed for complex trauma but can deal with anything from improving performance, anxiety, depression to more complex needs.

Professor Mick Stott was awarded his professorship for his solution for mental health, a solution that he came up with having trained in many modalities including coaching, master Prac of NLP, trainer of hypnotherapy, EMDR, IEMT, DBT, to name a few as well as sitting with psychiatrists to understand how they came up with diagnoses.

He analysed and applied them all for efficacy within in complex demographics, assessed what worked and didn’t work, dissected them to understand their component parts and came up with a conclusion that as a society, we have a some great cognitive and behavioural models but nothing that comprehensively deals with the effective domain (our feelings) to shift people from one mindset to another.

He named it Spectrum as he wanted something that could deal with a spectrum of people and a spectrum of problems. It is non trauma focussed, ao people don’t have to relive their experiences to be able to leave them behind where they belong. Spectrum gets to the core components of the mind; changes behaviours, take down barriers safely, gets rid off any limiting beliefs and any internal conflicts (part time problems such as there’s a part of me that believes I can and a part of me that believes I can’t) so that you can free you minds from past experiences allowing you to live a happier and more enriching life.

He has two large sets of peer reviewed and published data from very complex demographics including veteran communities, young offenders institutes, women’s refuges and prisons. He has spoken at the BACP conference amongst other things.

We are currently working with universities to apply for funding to run a randomised control trial to get NICE accreditation which will make this much needed approach available to more and increase the awareness of its presence. In the meantime, we continue our work, and everyone who comes to us does so through recommendation. With a willingness and motivation for change, there is nothing that Spectrum can not change at the level of our emotions and behavioural traits and the impact of that at a personal level is extraordinary. There’s an irony that those who have the most complex needs seem to shift quicker and we think that is because they have been so desperate for change and to feel better.

We have people who come to us who have spent years and years and thousands on trying to get well, yet the shifts they feel on a programme is more than all those years put together and costs them far less. Some people who have come to us have spent £30,000 over the years and nor have nothing left and the problem is still there.

For anyone wanting to learn this approach, we are running our level one Spectrum course at the end of this month and will be scheduling more. If this is something you would like to learn more about, to join us in our quest to help people become happier and spread those ripples to their families and broader community, then please reach out to us.

You can contact me on 07793 366838 or Mick on 07834 914220

This our website

https://www.spectrumforchange.co.uk. We als have a Facebook group from which I have posted from.

Thank you for reading
Victoria 🙏🙂

Helping people move from one mindset to another using a research based model designed for all. Whatever your goal, whatever the complexity, at Spectrum for Change, we not only identify the mental and emotional blockages which limit true potential and happiness, we help you change them to create a br...

17/01/2026

Our next immersive change programme is scheduled for March 3rd to March 6th. The programme is a combination of education, which is as helpful, and personal change. There is a maximum of four on the programme and it is run in a homely environment. Personal change is always done in a private one to one space. There is no requirement to share but we find this way has the most impact as people learn and gain insights from each other.

No one can tell you the power of Spectrum until you experience it. If you are struggling and want to feel better, the best way is to change the feelings. Get rid of any sadness, any anxiety, fears etc. because, the biggest shifts comes from disconnecting our emotions from our past, and that is what Spectrum is brilliant at doing. It can all go, layer by layer. People might find that hard to believe, but anyone who has experienced Specrrum knows it to be true.

The process involves doing a full consultation, with a pack of cards, where you literally lay your life experiences on the table - bullying, abuse, abandonment, rejection, loss, isolation, bullying, disappointment, divorce, adoption, prison, etc etc. these represent the layers of life we have accumulated and Spectrum deconstructs them emotionally. If we want to change how we think, feel and act, then we have to get to the core components which drive those and we show you how.

You might say that you don’t know what you are holding - that is our job to help you and the beauty of it is, there is no requirement to relive experiences.

We may not even realise these are impacting us, or be aware of how they make us feel or behave until they are gone.

If you want a space or want to ask further questions, please email me or Professor Mick Stott on info@spectrumforchange.co.uk

Or call me on 07793 366838 or Professor Mick Stott on 07834 914220 so we can answer any questions.

Best wishes
Victoria

15/01/2026

Are you someone who has found it difficult to achieve you goals, or are currently trying to achieve a goal or get to the next level of performance, whatever that may be, and are struggling? Are you someone who self-sabotages and doesn’t know why, or someone who lets their self talk get in the way and it doesn’t matter what you do, you can’t seem to get passed it?

If this applies to you, you might find this article about the performance equation an interesting read. It explains what gets in the way, how it manifests itself and ultimately what you can do to change it.

Tim Gallwey, author of the Inner Game, defines the performance equation as “performance = potential - interference’. He recognises that it is always the level of interference that will inhibit our ability to perform to full capacity. This equation is central to his coaching method, which is known as the Inner Game and a coach will help you identify the interference and help you create strategies to overcome them. Let us explore this equation further and help you understand the driving forces behind interference but also what you can do to change without the need for strategies or coping mechanisms, freeing up more energy and mind space to increase your potential.

So what is interference? I wonder whether you realise that every goal you set - no matter the area of life - acts as a mirror, reflecting where you have been. The richness or hardship of your past experiences shapes your ability to reach your goals and determines how easy or stressful the journey is. When we ask our mind for something, it instinctively wants to deliver, but first, it must reveal the obstacles in our path. It does this in varying degrees of subtlety, as we are all different, surfacing as thoughts, emotions, or even physical sensations which demand our attention. Some people may know this as the Chimp paradox. If you have an awareness of your internal world, you will probably know that some of your self talk can be unhelpful and self effacing and sometimes filled with criticism or judgement. Of course, we can have conversations with ourselves to direct our thoughts to more positive ones, but that robs us of energy which we could better directed and utilised. Some people might say that these thoughts drive them to do better and that is great, but who would you be without the thoughts and how much more mind space would you have?

Let’s explore interference in greater depth. The thoughts that tell us we can’t do things, the thoughts which judge our selves or place expectations upon us or cause us to compare ourselves to someone else. Thoughts which might tell us that we aren’t good enough, create doubt or undue pressure and so much more. Have you ever wondered what drives this internal rhetoric and wished you could be without it? The three common denominators of under performance, and therefore interference, are the presence of a negative emotion, a limiting belief, or an internal conflict which are part time problems, for example, part of me believes I can succeed, part of me believes I will fail; part of me wants to leave my job and part of me wants to stay. We can be filled with many conflicts and contradictions when we really explore and observe our mind and behaviours. Sometimes we may see contradictory behaviours in ourselves or others. For example, someone who was bullied may never have been able to stand up for themselves, yet, when they saw others being bullied, could easily step forward, and question why that is. Different layers of experience drive these situations, unbeknown to ourselves. They create different personalities. When being bullied, sadness and hurt might be more present, which drives a person to withdraw, hide and lack courage. This is what sadness and hurt do - they take us inside. Conversely, maybe injustice drives the other situation of being able to defend someone else. This is likely because it is field by anger. Anger is an outward emotion, as is fear and anxiety and tend to make us aggress others.

We are all completely unique and have different levels and depths of interference which is determined by the emotional quality of our past and the expectations we place upon ourselves. Our interference presents itself in the form of negative self talk, overwhelm, confusion or a bodily response such as a panic attack, shaking, or sweating and is supported by the layers of life experience we gather. Imagine someone who played tennis and all they ever did was lose, or panic, or constantly entered a negative mindset. This would not set them up for success in that area later of their life. So imagine them playing tennis again or setting a goal around tennis, what level of interference do you think they would have? What would their self talk be like? How easily do you think they would achieve their goal? This is where a goal becomes a trigger and every trigger has a driving negative emotion and limiting belief which results in a behaviour or performance. In this instance, the interference could be the fear of failure; pressure to win; worrying about the competition and criticising or judging themselves for losing and making comparisons to their peers. They may place expectations upon themselves and then feel disappointment for not achieving what they set out to do. This is where our thoughts can have a habit of predicting the outcome or make the journey more stressful. Each of these words we speak, like judgement, criticism, competition, comparing, disappointment, pressure all hold feelings and beliefs and each word represents the layers of experience we accumulate, like layers of an onion. Some layers are bigger than others and hold more feelings.

Playing again or setting a goal around tennis would simply trigger a neurological stimulus response as the mind reminds us of our previous experiences, which in this case, meant they lost. It is the emotional attachment to the word that creates the story and imagination in our mind. Now compare that to someone who has had positive experiences around tennis. The level of interference would be much less and therefore, the quality of their performance would be higher and their ability to achieve their goal would be greater. We have discussed tennis but tennis could equally represent a new relationship, a new job, taking an exam, moving house - everyday life experiences which gather feelings, and in each of these different situations, we see different parts to us which creates a different personality. In some situations we may be more outgoing and confident yet in others, more withdrawn.

If we are clever, we can observe the quality of our internal self talk and explore how much it is supporting or hindering our ability to achieve what we want out of life. We are setting goals all the time, some we set more consciously than others. Even a statement like I want to be happy is goal; applying for a new job. Of course, some people can push through their negative self talk, but it will make the journey harder and more stressful; it will take more energy and the more interference there is the more stressful it will become and some may never achieve what they want. There is a direct correlation between the level of our interference and our emotional loading. The busier and more negative our mind, the more neurology we have accumulated in life.

So how much of our behaviour is conscious choice? According to the psychodynamic perspective, started by Freud, very little of our behaviour is controlled by our conscious mind. It states that our behaviour depends on unconscious powers over which we have very little control. According to cognitive neuroscientists, we are conscious of only about five percent of our cognitive activity, so most of our decisions, actions, emotions, and behaviour depends on the ninety five percent of brain activity that goes on beyond our conscious awareness. This is what we have found at Spectrum for Change; when people start to deal with the layers of gathered experiences at the unconscious level, they begin to realise that they had never dealt with them. Instead, they were buried, pushed to one side or compartmentalised; a very natural thing to do until we become too emotionally full that we can no longer function. This really explains why it is very difficult to consciously change unwanted behavioural patterns because they are driven by unconscious drivers.

So, if we really want to change, we have to dive into the unconscious as this is what determines our responses which are driven by our emotions (positive and negative) our beliefs (positive and negative) and our values. Our behaviours are our values in action and our values are supported by our emotions and beliefs and can be pain or pleasure driven. Values are the unconscious tick list that is running all the time and are represent what is important to us in any given situation. As we accumulate experiences, those values and what is important to us can become finely focussed which can be witnessed in the form of hypervigiliance. On the tennis court, someone’s values might be winning, strength, acknowledgement, fun yet in a relationship, it might be trust, safety, love. This is the reason any relationship breakdown whether it be our relationship with our favourite sport or the relationship with a loved one. The moment those values are not supported, we start to become unhappy. Just because a value seems positive, it is often the opposite that shed light on what is driving that value. For example, if we take a value of trust in a relationship, the moment we ask “compared to what”, we can identify whether the value is positively or negatively motivated. For example, if someone says trust compared to betrayal, we now know that the person is holding feelings around betrayal. We call this the comparative deletion, and if we want growth, provides insight into what we hold. Whenever the emotions are resolved around whatever the opposite is, the value of trust will disappear because its a give in side of use. The feelings around betrayal are resolved. Equally, if someones value in tennis is winning and we ask compared what, and the answer is losing, disappointment or failure, we know they have had some experiences around those words which is now impacting on their play. Of course, winning is important, and when we can relax around it, it becomes easier to achieve and that is done by severing the emotional connection to losing, disappointment or failure.

The unconscious holds the glue to everything we think, feel and do; it holds the interference. This is why it can be difficult to change a behaviour. We can spend a lifetime practicing a new behaviour and it still not change or it requires a lot of effort - either in our mind or physically, both of which take energy which could be used elsewhere. Of course, having the theory around what is getting in the way is great but imagine how empowering it would be to know that you can change it to create a different reality; a new performance. The most misunderstood component of performance is mindset and yet it has the greatest impact on our ability to get what we want out of life, whatever that is.

We have discussed a lot of theory, and there is plenty more that can be written on this subject, and you might be asking your self how to change your interference? This is where the real magic is. Having an awareness is great and knowing how you can change it is even more empowering. At Spectrum for Change, we use Spectrum, which is a tool to make transitioning from one mindset to another, one place in life to another, easier. That could be from one job to another, it could be leaving home, coming out of the army and transitioning to civilian life, or going to university. Life is full of transitions and it is our mindset that will determine how well we do it. At Spectrum for Change, we get to the glue of the problem; it provides the unconscious an opportunity to reevaluate itself and it’s experiences that have held us back until this point. Spectrum changes our negative emotions and limiting beliefs to positive ones, in whole areas of life such as mum, dad, loss, rejection, competition, disappointment, divorce, bullying etc, creating immediate new and adaptive behaviours. It reduces the interference, increases performance and facilitates a smooth transition from one mindset to another at the unconscious level.

If you want more from any area of your life, Spectrum Transition Coaching was designed to help you achieve this. If you would like to discuss how we can help you, please do make contact at info@spectrumforchange.co.uk

Thank you for reading and as usual, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thank you for reading
Victoria

13/01/2026

A Monk Once Asked His Students A Simple Question.

“If you’re holding a cup of coffee and someone bumps into you, why do you spill the coffee?”

“Because someone bumped into me,” the class replied.

“No,” said the monk.
“You spilled the coffee because coffee was in your cup.
If it had been tea, you would’ve spilled tea.”

That’s the lesson.

Life will bump into you.
Pressure will show up.
Stress, conflict, disappointment they’re guaranteed.

What spills out isn’t caused by the bump.
It’s caused by what you’re carrying.

If you’re carrying anger, fear, resentment, or jealousy, that’s what leaks into conversations, decisions, and leadership moments.

If you’re carrying kindness, humility, compassion, and clarity that’s what shows up instead.

This is where leadership becomes deeply personal.

Manifestation isn’t mystical.
Abundance isn’t magic.
It’s perspective, repeated daily.

The lens you choose to see life through becomes the energy you project onto others.

Thoughts become actions.
Actions become habits.
Habits shape culture.

That’s why great leaders pause.
They check what’s in the cup before the day starts.

What am I carrying today?
And is it worthy of spilling onto others?

Fill your cup with intention.
Lead from service.
Lift others.

Because when life shakes you and it will, what’s inside is what the world will see

What spills out of us is what we are often in deny of. That’s our job to help people get in touch with it, with permission and motivation, so that something different can spill out, because that benefits all.

Of course for some, it will always be tea or coffee, until they take ownership.

If you want to turn it to love, let us help you find what is getting in the way and more importantly, change it, because with Spectrum, anything can change.

I hope you enjoyed the metaphor
Victoria 🙂

11/01/2026

“A very significant thing happened to me last evening, and that was leaving my back door key in the back door.
For years I have had the impending doom of someone breaking in and harming us (even though our garden is secure with 7ft high fences and almost impossible to pe*****te), so I have always taken the key out and placed it on a hook away from but close enough to the door.

This morning I looked for the key in its usual place but it wasn’t there because it was still in the back door. I cried so hard.

I cried so hard because I felt safe, I cried so hard and released all those years of fear of safety for my children that someone was going to hurt them, it was almost inevitable to me.

I am love, I am strength and I am safe.
This is massive guys 🥰🙏🏽🥰”

Anonymous

These are the words of lady who attended our 3.5 day change programme. What might seem like an innocuous, simple and small behavioural shift is actually very significant at the level of how someone feels on the inside. Behaviours are driven by our past experience and this lady had had some pretty horrific things happen to her by those who were supposed to love her, which drove the need for her to provide safety for her children.

What she never realised was that her imagination around her children being harmed was driven by her own experiences and the feelings and beliefs she held keeping her in constant hyper vigilance. A classic example of “we don’t see the world the way the world is, we see the world the way we are”.

Until her experiences were resolved emotionally, she would always feel unsafe and it mattered not how much she told herself she was safe, her feelings told her something else and drive her behaviour. This is the reason why, for some, talking will never help because l feelings are too over powering and remain unchanged, and therefore, so does the behaviour, which can take our effort and energy.

Whatever it is we are seeking in life, it can never be filled from the outside world - shopping, going out, drinking, or something else. The outside might help and offer respite, and they are short lived and never fills the void inside. Who would we be without those external things? Would we still be happy? That is the true test of the metal!

It always warms my heart to read things like this and I hope it does yours too. The ripples of happiness will undoubtedly be felt in her home and the hearts of those she touches.

Our minds create our prison and it is only us that can release us, with the right key for the right lock, and Spectrum is the master key.

Thank you for reading
Victoria 🙏🙂

11/01/2026

We have just finished another incredible 3.5 day change programme. It is a simple truth that when our inner world changes, the perspective on our outer world changes. Life experiences can change how we enjoy life and when our emotional connection to those experiences change, which is what Spectrum does so elegantly, our enjoyment of life increases.

Everything that happens outside of us, when we become aware, simply reflects what we hold inside. When we can no longer enjoy our day, it’s only ourselves that stop us - yes there maybe something outside of us that “make” us feel something, when actually, with self awareness and self enquiry, we begin to realise that they are simply showing us see what we hold on the inside. We can move from a mindset of, everything is happening to me, to everything is happening for me. Now imagine being able to change what is shown to you?

Sometimes, we have no control over what goes on around us, and with Spectrum, we can absolutely change how we feel about it. Life will always throw its curve balls and Spectrum allows our mind to adapt to the days challenges with greater strength and ease.

One of the people who came on our programme shared this with us.

“As I walked down the street toward home, I noticed that it smelled different, but familiar. It took me back to when I first moved there, at the happiest time in my life.

Despite the sleep deprivation 🥴, I felt utterly joyful 🥰”

This is a classic example of how our outer world changes when our inner world does ❤️

True and lasting personal developments comes when we deconstruct ourselves emotionally 💜