DAN JONES

Transforming Understanding of Neurodiversity & Hypnotherapy

Media Inquiries

If you are a journalist, podcaster or blogger, or someone else, looking for a hypnosis or hypnotherapy expert or someone autistic or an autism and neurodiversity expert, whether to contribute to, be a guest, or comment on a story or to hold a talk or training course in the UK, Dan Jones can help.

Dan is an autistic autism and neurodiversity expert and Clinical Hypnotherapy trainer, with over 25 years professional experience with hypnotherapy (with his main focus in private practice on treating depression and anxiety disorders, including sleep problems, OCD, PTSD and Phobias), and working with children, families and training professionals.

Dan Jones is an expert in therapeutic storytelling, mind-body healing, autism, neurodiversity and hypnosis. He is a successful YouTuber, content creator and digital influencer empowering change.

Dan Jones has:

  • Sold over 200,000 copies of his books
  • Had three number one bestselling books on the topics of hypnosis and autism
  • Wrote and published Neurodiversity magazine from 2019-2020
  • Over 135,000 students from 198 countries who have taken his eCourses
  • Had over 8,000,000 downloads and streams of his self-hypnosis and sleep meditation bedtime stories
  • Appeared on BBC radio, Sky News, and in local, national and international press including the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, At Home magazine and Reader’s Digest
  • Over 22,000,000 views on YouTube and almost 150,000 subscribers on his main channel, with thousands more subscribers on other channels and across other social media platforms
  • Presented at the UK Hypnosis Convention twice and at Comic-Con, Summer in the City, and YouTube Space London

Dan Jones is author of bestselling autism autobiography Look Into My Eyes and has also written various other books on the topic, addressing tips for autistic people, tips for parents, carers, teachers, employers, psychological therapists and other professionals. He has over 20 years experience working with children, teens and families, many of whom are autistic, and he is NHS-diagnosed autistic himself and was diagnosed as an adult, so he can talk about his personal perspective of what is helpful, what isn’t, discrimination, and challenges etc…

Contact Information:

Email: dan@danjoneshypnosis.com LinkedIn

Dan has written for the Daily Telegraph about ‘How I Use Hypnosis To Cope With Asperger’s Syndrome‘ and his wife wrote an article for the Sunday Mirror about her experiences being in a long-term relationship with someone autistic ‘What’s It Like To Be Married To A Man With Asperger’s Syndrome?‘ and Dan had a five-part BBC radio interview about living with autism (listen to each part here: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five), and has appeared on Sky News talking about discrimination and raising autism awareness.

Dan Jones Background

Dan Jones has worked therapeutically with a wide range of client groups since 1997. Between 1997 and 2000 he worked with adults with mental health challenges (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc) within a residential setting. He worked with young children and teenagers (including children and teens diagnosed with ADHD and Autism) in residential children’s homes between 2000 and 2005 including helping to set up a therapeutic children’s home (involved in staff training and writing many of the companies policies and procedures, linking them with The Children’s Act and National Minimum Care Standards, and between 2007 and 2015 he worked extensively with parents and families including looking at the efficacy of using a Human Givens Approach to supporting parents to reduce their teens youth offending and anti-social behaviour. He has worked closely with and trained Social Workers, Troubled Families Workers, Family Link Workers, Family Intervention Project Workers, Parenting Support Workers, Family Resource Team Workers and Children’s Homes Staff. Dan focused heavily over these years on teaching and developing a programme (based on a Brighton programme called Break4Change which was developed based on based on a Pan-European research project by the Responding to Child to Parent Violence (RCPV) movement, which he developed and taught with a range of professionals from other agencies within family support, social care and youth work, to other staff to be trainers of the programme and ran the programme with families) about teen to parent violence which is a rarely discussed yet common issue, and has trained staff in a variety of settings about managing behaviours of distress and conflict resolution, restraint and breakaway techniques and stress management as well as holding classes for parents and families around parenting techniques, family relationships and supporting their neurodiverse children.

Dan Jones has worked with the Youth Offending Service offering parenting support, Family Intervention Project offering support to families and managing a team of family support staff, and with a Troubled Families Team offering support to families and managing a team of family support staff, as well as offering clinical supervision to these staff, and offering training to charity organisation’s family support staff.

Dan Jones has written many books on hypnosis and therapy including two books on family support Human Givens Approach to Working with Parents of Challenging Teens which was aimed at professionals working with parents and families, and Parenting Techniques That Work which was a short direct book getting to the point about what is most likely to work when parenting children and teenagers with behaviours of distress, and children diagnosed with ADHD and autism. The book covered strategies for getting children to fall asleep at night, teaching his sleep storytelling technique and other sleep techniques Dan developed over the years working in children’s homes and with families, boundary setting, managing anger, and a number of other key issues. He has also written books of stories to help children fall asleep and relax, and wrote and published Neurodiversity magazine from 2019-2020.

Being autistic gives Dan a unique perspective on social communication and his work with families and understanding the autistic mind.

Dan has been interviewed a number of times for audio interviews, podcasts and interviews for websites, newspapers, magazines and journals.

Articles Dan has contributed to, and written:

Various audio interviews: here is an interview with Mark Tyrrell from Uncommon Knowledge about my experiences being autistic, and an interview with Adam Eason from Hypnosis Weekly where I discuss hypnosis and autism, an interview with Antonio Perez from Hawaii Hypnosis, and written interviews and book reviews: Author spotlight with Autism Mom about why I wrote my book Look Into My Eyes, JD Editorial’s book review of ‘Look Into My Eyes’, One Autism Mom’s Notes book review of ‘Look Into My Eyes’.

Hypnosis Bio: Other than educating about autism and neurodiversity, hypnosis is Dan Jones main passion, his mission is to demystify and advance the field of hypnosis and help hypnosis go mainstream and gain the acceptance it deserves.

Dan Jones set up the Sussex Hypnotherapy Centre in Bognor Regis in 2002 (now based in Chichester) offering one to one hypnotherapy. By 2004 he was offering training in traditional hypnosis and indirect ‘covert’ conversational hypnosis based primarily on the works of Milton H Erickson MD.

By 2007 Dan was offering unique training and personal development courses and a clinical hypnotherapy practitioner diploma course, quickly these spread internationally and were also being held on-line as live interactive webinars. Dan was also offering Hypnotherapy via his Playstation 3 on Playstation Home using an avatar (virtual version of himself) and had been offering telephone therapy, but as internet speeds and connections increased he started to offer on-line hypnotic therapy via email, audio and video calls. As technology progressed, Dan also progressed, he created PsyEnTech (Psychological Enhancement Technologies) where he offered streaming webinars before the term had really become known or popular, he has created hundreds of hours of self-help products, written over 40 books and made hundreds of hours of videos for self-help and training. Dan Jones is highly regarded within the professional hypnotherapy field for his hypnotherapy knowledge, especially on the works of Milton H Erickson MD and has an extensive library of Erickson’s works, his students works, and therapeutic approaches based on aspects of Erickson’s work, with probably one of the largest hypnosis-related book collections in the world, with almost 1,000 hypnosis related books, covering topics from hypnosis research, to clinical hypnosis, stage and street hypnosis, to hypnosis use within the fields of psychic phenomena and past-life regression, and hypnosis use within mind control, and many hypnosis works of fiction. His books date back to 1786 and his collection includes many rare and obscure books.

Dan Jones has written a number of books on Hypnotherapy including Hypnotherapy Revealed: Introduction to Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy Revealed: The Ericksonian Approach and Hypnotherapy Revealed: Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts and contributed a chapter to the third edition of Professor Ursula James book Clinical Hypnosis Textbook.

Dan Jones has also created two Hypnotherapy tools Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Training Tool which is essentially a client profile generator so that students can practice how they would treat a range of random clients, and Hypnotherapy Script Creator which is a tool that allows a hypnotherapist to tick answers a client gives to a series of clinical and hypnosis related questions and they then get a hypnotherapy script and treatment plan created which is tailored to the options they selected for that specific client.