Are you unhappy with your weight or stuck in a cycle of dieting and starting again? Do you sabotage your efforts, even when you know what you should be doing? Do you eat emotionally, reaching for food when you’re stressed, tired, or overwhelmed? Do you train hard and eat well but still feel disappointed with your results? Or perhaps you’re in your 40s or 50s, noticing changes in your body, energy, or weight due to perimenopause or menopause and wondering if it’s too late to start, while knowing how important strength, mobility, and health are as you age.

If any of this feels familiar, you’re in the right place.

Personal Training with a Deeper Understanding

I’m Nikki, one of Oxford’s leading female personal trainers, with over 10 years’ experience supporting people of all ages, sizes, and abilities particularly women who want to feel stronger, more confident, and more in control of their bodies.

Alongside personal training and nutrition, I’m also a soft tissue therapist, which means I have a deep understanding of how the body moves, adapts, and responds to training and I can help rehab injuries or pains. This allows me to coach in a way that’s not only effective, but intelligent, safe, and tailored especially important during midlife and beyond.

I work with complete beginners, those returning to exercise after a long break, clients seeking significant weight loss, and women navigating menopause who want to build strength, protect their joints, and future-proof their health.

I’m based in Oxford, working from a private studio in North Oxford, supporting clients locally and across the surrounding areas.

Weight Loss, Emotional Eating & Mindset Support

For many people, weight loss isn’t just about food or ex-ercise, it’s about what’s happening under the surface.

In addition to personal training, I’m also a Solution Fo-cused Hypnotherapist, specialising in weight loss and HypnoGastric Band therapy. This approach can be par-ticularly helpful if you:

Eat in response to stress, fatigue, or emotions
Feel guilty, frustrated, or out of control around food
Recognise patterns of self-sabotage, despite your best intentions

Many clients choose to combine personal training with hypnotherapy, allowing them to build physical strength while also addressing emotional eating, motivation, and mindset. Often they notice that weight loss becomes eas-ier and they feel calmer, more empowered, and less stressed too.

You can find more information on my Weight Loss & Hypnotherapy page, including my special introductory offer.

Calm Reset – A Flexible Starting Point

Not ready for 1:1 sessions right now?

Calm Reset is a flexible guided programme combining practical advice with hypnosis to support sustainable change around food, weight, and wellbeing.

Get Started

Whatever your starting point, I’d love to help.

I offer zoom consultations and or taster sessions from a private studio in North Oxford, close to Summertown.

Let’s build strength, resilience, and lasting change for your body and your mind.

Nikki

What's New...

April 2018

Nikki's Food Tips *

Food Myths

A number of my new clients come to me with many misguided beliefs about dieting, so I wanted to write a quick article to correct 5 of the most common “mis beliefs" that I have come across.

Hopefully you find it interesting.

1. You need to[...]
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Jan 2023

Exercise Ideas & Advice *

6 SUREFIRE WAYS TO STICK TO YOUR HEALTH AND FITNESS RESOLUTIONS THIS NEW YEAR

So here we are at the beginning of a new year, and probably, like most people including myself, you have set yourself ambitious and exciting health and fitness resolutions for 2023. Possibly, again like many others, you didn’t mange to stick to last years resolutions, either because you[...]
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Feb 2024

Fitness in my fifties

So, I'm in my 50's , actually closer to 60 than 50 now, plus I'm menopausal and was recently diagnosed with arthritis in my hip . BUT I'm still going strong and in fact I'm stronger and leaner than I have ever been. My fitness journey started later than most but I have still[...]Read More »

Disclaimer:

* The material on this website is provided for educational purposes only. We cannot guarantee any weight loss or fitness results.

Testimonials

Nikki is brilliant at what she does . After only 10 sessions I’m just over 9kg lighter and overall I feel stronger, happier and healthier and it’s all thanks to Nikki’s guidance and support. She tailored our 1:1 sessions and gave me nutritional advice to help me reach my goals. If you’d asked me to do a press up 10 weeks ago, I would have laughed in your face but now I can do press ups and planks! Nikki will push you to do more because she knows that you can do it and genuinely wants you to succeed . Thank you Nikki , I’m so grateful.

- LC 5 stars - Mar 25

have struggled with my weight for over fifty years, and over that time my eating has been either chaotically out of control, or severely restricted. I have had a pattern of being seriously overweight interspersed with, every five or ten years, restrictive diets (I have tried them all!) leading to between four and six stones of weight loss – but never sustained for more than a few months.

I wanted SF Hypnotherapy to give me the silver bullet which would magically make my eating sensible so the weight would drop away, and was disappointed to learn it couldn’t do that! Nikki explained that what it could do, was clear my brain of stored years of extreme stress, and make it easier for me to make better decisions about food.

In our talking sessions we mostly focused on positive things I could do (eg recording moments of joy, creativity, noticing beauty around me), and on visualising what would be different if I lost weight. We also talked a little about changes I could choose to make in my decisions about food. I loved the trance sessions, which were restorative and gave me a sense of peace.

Our sessions finished about a month ago, and for the past six weeks I have found it relatively easy to make better decisions about what I eat. So far, I have lost over a stone and am delighted by that.

- KH 5 stars - January 2025

As a single mum running a super busy business and managing staff that have pretty much taken over all my physical tasks whilst at the same time contending with an ongoing runner's knee, I found myself in an exercise-free, static, seated, office-based, miserable rutt. For 20 years I had pretty much put my own needs on the back burner and this summer I realised that my weight was going to continue to pile on, and my priorities weren't going to change without some serious help. Enough was enough. The help I turned to was Nikki, and I'm so glad I did. Nikki has encouraged and inspired me, pressured me and supported me over the last four months. Both instinctively and through her huge amount of knowledge and expertise she helped me make time for and enjoy exercise to the point where I missed my sessions terribly if I was away. Exercise is now something I have made a priority. In four months of two sessions a week I lost 7 kilos and I'm well on the way I reaching my target weight and have made the lifestyle changes I was seeking help to make. Thank you so much Nikki for everything, and the laughs! I'll definitely be back when finances are better, in the meantime I'm swimming and have joined a gym near the office where I'm training next to nubile young men in the weights room without feeling too out of place!! Can't recommend Nikki enough.

- Tania 5 stars - Jan 2020

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