About
Chris Barton is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Chartered Physiotherapist, Transformational Coach, TEDx speaker and two-time Amazon #1 bestselling author who has spent more than four decades helping people challenge limitations, create meaningful change and discover what may still be possible.
His professional journey spans hypnotherapy, neurological rehabilitation, physiotherapy, coaching, personal development and transformational work. Throughout his career, Chris has worked extensively with disabled people and individuals living with neurological conditions, brain injury, long-term health challenges and significant changes in function, confidence and independence.
This experience has shaped one of the central philosophies of his work: there can be an important distinction between the reality of a person's disability, health condition or circumstances and the additional beliefs, expectations and perceived limitations that can develop around that reality.
Chris describes this philosophy as “Disability to Possibility.”
It is not about denying disability, illness or adversity, nor suggesting that every limitation can simply be overcome through positive thinking or hypnosis. Instead, Chris encourages people to become curious about what may still be possible and to question whether every boundary they have come to accept is necessarily fixed.
His approach brings together hypnotherapy, rehabilitation, coaching and more than four decades of experience working with human behaviour and change. He explores how language, imagination, belief, subconscious patterns and identity can influence confidence, behaviour and our perception of what we are capable of achieving.
Chris's own life has also influenced this approach. Diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 26 after experiencing his own challenges with learning and communication, he developed a question that would eventually become central to both his personal and professional philosophy:
“What if I can?”