
Meet Slee
Certified Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist
& Mindfulness Now Teacher
I'm Slee Parrish, founder of True Thoughts. I work with clients across Southeast London and Thanet on the south coast, and over Zoom with people anywhere, helping them manage anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm and unhelpful patterns of thinking — so they can move forward and thrive.
Alongside my private practice, I'm a Senior Nurse within the NHS, with over 40 years' experience — including many years as a Consultant Nurse. My nursing background isn't in mental health, but it gave me a close-up view of how much stress, anxiety and emotional overwhelm affect people — myself, colleagues and patients alike. That's what led me to retrain in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy eight years ago, and it's shaped how I work ever since: with real clinical understanding, alongside genuine, first-hand appreciation of what people are going through.
I work collaboratively with every client, building a treatment plan around your specific goals — never a one-size-fits-all approach.
How I Can Help
Since founding True Thoughts, I've helped people work through anxiety, worry, stress and emotional overwhelm — identifying the negative self-talk and limiting beliefs that hold people back from reaching their goals.
Together, we address the thoughts and behaviours that get in the way — procrastination, avoidance, perfectionism — and replace them with new, more helpful ways of thinking and acting.
As a nurse, I also understand the link between mind and body — how physical symptoms can be shaped by stress and emotion, and how learning to manage that link can make a real difference to how you cope, and even to how symptoms progress.
Bringing Cognitive Behavioural techniques together with Hypnotherapy helps these new, healthier patterns take hold — so managing stress, emotions and anxiety becomes second nature, and you're left feeling more in control and more capable.

In 2020, alongside my NHS role, I worked with fellow CBH & mindfulness teacher Alex James to create [NHS in Mind](http://www.nhsinmind.co.uk) — a free resource offering support and exercises for NHS staff during the pandemic. It was adopted not only by NHS trusts but by emergency services and frontline staff internationally.
Alex and I went on to create a similar resource for NSPCC staff, supporting those working tirelessly with children throughout the pandemic.
Working Together
I continue to work part-time within the NHS, but my main focus now is helping people find peace, calm and confidence in their lives — drawing on decades of clinical experience alongside specialist training in CBT, hypnotherapy and mindfulness.


