Are you unhappy with your weight? Do you feel like you are always on a diet? Do you struggle with motivation? Are you an emotional eater or yo-yo dieter? Are you nervous about starting your fitness regime and just want a little help? Do you eat well, train hard and still feel disappointed with your results? Do you just want a little help getting started? Are you looking for more than just a personal trainer?*

If you have answered yes to any of the above or have other fitness, weight or diet issues, I can help.

I have been a personal trainer and nutritionist for over 10 years. I work with people of all ages, sizes and abilities, from clients requiring extreme weight loss, to the complete beginner who is nervous, to the more senior client who wants to stay mobile, get stronger and increase their life expectancy, to the client who struggles with emotional eating. I believe that truly sustainable changes require a completely holistic approach, which encom-passes exercise, nutrition and motivation.

Please take a look around the site and also have a look at the Feedback from some of my clients.

More than just one of Oxford’s leading female personal trainers, I am also a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist specialising in weight loss and also Hypnogastric band therapy. Could solution focused hypnotherapy help you? Well, if you can relate to any of the following then yes it is very probable. Do you find yourself reaching for food when you are stressed, tired, angry, upset or feel that you need a treat? Do you feel guilty, annoyed or embarrassed about your eating habits? Perhaps you recognise that you self sabotage, you know what you should be doing but for some reason you find yourself doing the exact opposite? Maybe you even recognise a little rebellious voice that goes off whenever you’re forced to address your weight, a voice that says “Nobody is telling me what to do even if I am cut-ting my nose off to spite my face”

If you have answered yes to any of the above then it would definitely be worth having a chat about solution focused hypnotherapy. Many of my clients combine both personal training and solution focused hypnotherapy which allows them to build physical fitness, overcome emotional eating and stay motivated. Often many of them have struggled for years with weight loss and then notice that not only are they losing the weight, they are feeling empowered and less stressed too. Do check out my Weight Loss & Hypnotherapy page for more information about the service and also my special introductory offer.

Whatever your requirements, please contact me for a face to face consultation and taster session. I work from a small private studio in north Oxford, close to Summertown.

Get in touch and let me help you reach your health and fitness goals.

Nikki

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April 2023

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Jan 2023

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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 »

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Testimonials

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

Early in my first meeting with Nikki, she asked me to set a goal. “I want to be able to cut my own toenails” was my response. I should explain, I am a 77 year old male, terribly overweight, chronically unfit and noticeably lacking physical flexibility. I have high blood pressure and an impressive medical history. My 70’s have not been kind to me.

I was able to greet Nikki at my 7th session with the news that I had indeed just cut my own toenails.

Time for a new target .”My GP would be happy if I could lower my blood pressure”. Not really a target, i appreciate but more of an aim. My GP however was very happy at the 20 point drop irrespective of the distinction between “target” and “aim”.

I could go on but I would really like to stress the five star award from every reviewer. I, like them I’m sure, would want to add a “plus”

Nikki Carrol is definitely 5 stars plus .

- John 5 stars - Aug 19

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