Meet Our Team
Britain Stelly
Britain Stelly is the founder of Creature Courage, the UK’s leading animal phobia specialists. For nearly a decade, she has been helping thousands of people break free from phobias and anxieties with her creative and unique therapeutic workshops. She has then used this knowledge to expand into general anxiety coaching. Using the power of neuro-science, she is dramatically helping people overcome life limiting anxiety, stress and worry.
Britain specializes in animal phobia therapy, anxiety coaching and therapeutic creativity. She is a fully qualified life coach with the ICF, specialising in anxiety. Due to the international success of Creature Courage, Britain has been featured on the media several times with appearances on Good Morning Britain, Sky News, BBC Radio 2, ITV, The Daily Mail, and many more.
By uniquely combining several different therapeutic techniques, Britain creates a more holistic and well rounded approach to animal phobia therapy and anxiety coaching.
Britain is also a published academic writer for the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development. Her paper is ‘The Journey of a Hero and Sustainable Development’ published by Inderscience Publishers. You can check it out in more detail HERE.
Previous Experience:
Britain gained her experience as a therapist running a charity for over a decade that focused on helping people build confidence and explore themselves in creative group therapy settings.
She is also a passionate animal lover with over twenty years of experience in exotic animal husbandry. Her vast knowledge of the animal kingdom is helping many people exchange fear for fascination. Britain is especially passionate and knowledgeable about animals usually feared and misunderstood such as spiders.
Britain has also worked with the YMCA to deliver Creative Wellness workshops. These sessions helped people achieve positive breakthroughs in their mental health by learning new creative ways to address stress and explore new outlooks on life. This workshop has been hugely successful and is being expanded to different parts of the country.
Adam Michael Cox
Adam is a qualified UK Clinical Hypnotherapist. He has a degree in psychology, studied with the London College of Clinical Hypnosis at
Adam also produces audio and video content. He hosts the world’s most popular hypnosis podcast ‘The Hypnotist’ and has over 7 million downloads. He is regularly asked by the media to comment on subjects such as hypnosis, phobias, weight loss and emotional issues. He is regularly featured on UK radio.
Adam became fascinated with hypnosis from an early age and was quickly inspired by the work of Milton Erickson and Richard Bandler. He studied Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) extensively and more recently DHE (Design Human Engineering) and NHR (Neuro-Hypnotic Patterning).
Adam works in all aspects of hypnosis. He works with clients to tackle issues such as phobias, anxiety, addictions
Peter Kirk: Chairman of The British Tarantula Society
Peter Kirk is the Chairman of the British Tarantula society and has decades of experience and knowledge about arachnids, insects and snakes. He even discovered a new species of bush cricket in 2016!
He lends his expertise to our workshops and his excellent supportive manner has helped many overcome their phobias.
John William McCarroll: Co-founder
John co-founded Creature Courage alongside Britain Stelly and is a dedicated member of the Creature Courage team. John holds a level two and three in Counselling and a diploma in educational psychology. He assists with animal handling and emotional support during the workshops. His passion for animals and helping people was a big inspiration for starting this business.
Having overcome his own spider phobia using the same methods we use on the Creature Courage workshops, he believes that only through immersion and interaction can we break through the barriers of fear within us.