“From the research at St Mary’s from the 1990s, it has been shown quite clearly that a proactive, positive approach does have beneficial outcomes. I find that they are actually putting substantial obstructions in their own way. That’s the sort of thinking that has to be turned around.”But are there really thousands of women suffering infertility and miscarriage who need do nothing more than change the way they think? Certainly, the idea of “mind blocks” will ring bells. This woman worked with me for a few months, and on her fourth natural cycle fell pregnant.

She had a little girl late last year.”I have never had a client who has miscarried after using the programme. One woman started bleeding heavily after a number of previous losses. I worked with her, talked her through the traumatic time, focusing on all the work we had previously discussed, and she got through it. Previously, she had been so obsessed with the thought of miscarriage that she was never surprised when it happened. As soon as these mind blocks are recognised, it opens the way to successful pregnancies.”Thomson believes she can help any woman to get pregnant. “One 41-year-old came to me after having tried to conceive her second child for eight years. She had been through IVF and had been advised by doctors that there was no point continuing as she was starting an early menopause.

The programme I’ve developed uses the power of the subconscious mind, which, I believe, governs absolutely every system in our body. I would argue that many women have mind blocks that effectively stop them from getting, or staying, pregnant To me, they are nature’s contraceptives. This has been shown to be intimately related to the nervous system: it sends communicating chemicals throughout the body via the circulatory system to affect the function of every cell, playing a hugely important role in physical and emotional health. Chemical mediators are released as a result of the frequencies of nerve centres in the brain and nervous system. Any action – chemical, emotional or physical – that stimulates nerve receptors and improves neuroreceptor function will temporarily relieve or alter symptoms. “As a lawyer, I was very much concerned with the practical side of things I wanted evidence, I wanted proof I read all I could, I did searches and reviews. And I couldn’t come up with any feasible reason why this wouldn’t work if I applied it to my own ‘problems’.”Thomson’s interest took her into the field of psychoneuroimmunology and the effects of the neuroendocrine-immune system.