Mike Neary

I am Mike Neary, the Owner of Life Balance. I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Coach.

My background, I am still a work in progress.

I left school with two qualifications a grade d in art and a CSE grade 1 in English oral. I was fortunate I knew from the age of 14 what I was going to do. I enlisted in the Royal Air Force Regiment on 27th December 1981 and served operationally all over the world for 22 years.

When I left the RAF I left with an honour’s degree in Education and a Post Graduate certificate In Education (PGCE) I worked in a FE College for 3 years, working with teenagers looking to join the uniformed services, and becoming an advanced practitioner, mentoring and developing tutors through their own PGCE qualifications, and then decided it wasn’t for me.

I set up my first company in 2008 which is still running, a training company Managing Excellence Through Training (METT Ltd) www.metttraining.co.uk We deliver high level first aid and Health Safety (H&S) training to Heathrow Airport and the NHS.

In 2019 I decided to launch into the wellbeing industry, which led me to retrain as a Nordic Walking instructor, a sports massage therapist and a Tai Chi Qigong instructor. I combined all of these into a company now known as Life Balance.

In 2023 I retrained as a Neuro Linguistic Practitioner (NLP) Coach and in 2024 I completed my Clinical Hypnotherapy training. In May 2024 I had to have a triple heart bypass, which meant some personal change management decisions, such as managing my own work life balance. Which included a house move to Lincolnshire.

I have a wealth of experience in coaching and mentoring and helping people choose the right path.