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Andy Griffiths is a clinical hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and mental health trainer based in Glasgow, and the founder of Piece of Mind. He is happy to help journalists, producers and podcast hosts with comment, interviews and background on anxiety, phobias, stopping smoking, hypnotherapy and mental health at work.
As heard and seen on
BBC CWR
Interviews with Phil Upton for World Mental Health Day and World Suicide Prevention Day, in 2024 and 2025.
BBC Scotland
Not Your Average Influencers (2021), where Andy provided hypnotherapy to one of the people featured in the documentary.
Tickety Boo podcast
Andy co-hosts a weekly podcast with the Piece of Mind team about anxiety, burnout, people pleasing and the everyday side of mental health, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. One episode, in which one of the co-hosts spoke about losing a family member to suicide, reached so many listeners that it led to Andy being invited onto BBC CWR.
About Andy
Short bio
Andy Griffiths is a psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist in Glasgow and the founder of Piece of Mind. He works with clients every day, mainly with anxiety, trauma and depression, and works with large organisations on staff wellbeing and mental health first aid.
Full bio
Andy Griffiths is a psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist based in Glasgow, and the founder of Piece of Mind. He has worked with clients for nearly a decade and is in the therapy room every day, working mainly with anxiety, trauma and depression, as well as panic, phobias, fear of flying and stopping smoking. He spends much of the rest of his week inside large organisations, working with them on staff wellbeing and training their teams in mental health first aid, on programmes accredited at SCQF Levels 4 to 6. Andy also trains new hypnotherapists, co-hosts the Tickety Boo podcast, and sees himself as a working therapist first and an ambassador for mental health second. He is registered with the GHR, GHSC, CNHC and ACCPH.
Andy’s own story
Andy came to this work through his own experience.
After a serious health scare around 25 years ago, he lived for years with anxiety and panic attacks, including a long haul flight he was convinced he would not survive. Hypnotherapy was what finally helped him, and it led him to train as a therapist. He speaks openly about this, which makes him a good fit for stories about lived experience, health anxiety and fear of flying.
What Andy can talk about
- Anxiety, panic attacks and health anxiety
- Trauma and depression
- Phobias, including fear of flying
- Stopping smoking, and why it only works when you have decided for yourself
- Performance anxiety at work, in exams and on stage
- What hypnotherapy is, and what it is not
- What to do when CBT has not helped
- Staff wellbeing and mental health first aid in large organisations
- Choosing a therapist and the different options in Scotland
Photos for press use
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Media contact
Email hello@piece-of-mind.co.uk or call 0141 340 9870. Andy is based in Carmyle, Glasgow, and is available for studio, phone and video interviews.