Hypnotherapy

(All about hypnotherapy and what a Hypnotherapist does!)

Hypnotherapy in Summary

In Hypno-Psychotherapy we can bring about positive change for many individuals seeking help with conditions such as Stress, Phobias, low Confidence and Self-esteem, Anxiety, Exam Fear, Nail Biting, Improving Athletic Performance, Sleep Problems, Pain Management, Weight Loss and Stop Smoking related issues, Fear of Flying and many more.

Hypno-Psychotherapy treatment can help you explore the underlying issues of those symptoms and bring about integration at a deep and profound level.

Your subconscious will always release the information you need to move on in life in a way that makes it accessible and easy for you to understand. Sometimes the gentle and peaceful energy of Reiki can be incorporated into Hypnotherapy to help access suppressed emotions and assist in their gentle release and integration.

Any problem you as an individual are faced with always creates an opportunity for personal growth and overcoming the problem will make you stronger and more confident within yourself.

Hypno-Psychotherapy often gets to the root cause of a problem faster than more conventional methods and the more committed and ready an individual is to changing the better it works. 

Each treatment is tailored to your individual needs. To help facilitate your journey and assist in your process of change, I have various techniques available such as dream work, guided imagery, NLP techniques, EFT and regression therapy which can take you to a past life regression experience to shed light on a current problem.

Sessions will be spaced to suit your needs, some people move on faster than others and that is o.k., treatment can take place on a weekly or fortnightly basis, sometimes a longer or shorter gap is required.

I may ask you to do some ‘homework’ in between treatments such as visualisations, breathing techniques or just being more observant of your emotions, feelings and habits.

Coming for Hypno-Psychotherapy treatment involves you in a process of change and insight and is especially useful if a problem seems to be recurring or one seems to be going round in circles. Hypnotherapy treatment can then help you to break through and move on.

Some private Health Insurance providers may contribute to the cost of Hypnotherapy treatment. Please check with your insurer. I am an associate 3 member of ‘The National Register of Hypnotherapists & Psychotherapists‘.

More about Hypnotherapy

Please be assured that hypnotherapy is a perfectly safe, natural and entirely beneficial process. As Dr Hilary Jones observes “Firstly, any misconceptions a potential patient may have about hypnosis should be dispelled. The technique does not involve the patient being put into a deep sleep, and the patient cannot be made to do anything they would not ordinarily do. The important thing is that the patient wants to change some behavioural habit or addiction and is highly motivated to do so. They have to want the treatment to work and must establish a good clinical rapport with the therapist in order for it to do so.”  [‘Doctor, What's the Alternative?’ Hodder and Stoughton: London (1988)]

As a form of psychotherapy, hypnosis aims to re-programme undesirable patterns of behaviour, enabling fears, phobias, negative thoughts and suppressed emotions to be released and replaced by a much more positive state of mind. To achieve this, the client is guided into a progressively more relaxed state of body and mind, with the aid of deep breathing and some very calming and pleasant visualisations (using the mind’s eye). The effect is very similar to drifting into a daydream, something we do many times during the day, when the conscious mind takes a rest, as when we are engrossed in a book or a film, without even realising that we are then in a light state of self-hypnosis! In therapy, the patient remains awake and in control at all times, but once the gateway between the conscious and the subconscious is opened, the usual critical filters can be by-passed, enabling the hypnotherapist to plant the desired positive suggestions and affirmations directly into the inner mind.

 The British Institute of Hypnotherapy explains:

“People try to rely upon the limited capacities of their conscious mind for direction and support, even though the unconscious mind has more resources and a better sense of reality. Consciously we tend to be very critical and will often over analyse when attempting to problem solve. This will then produce unproductive results such as anxiety, worry, confusion and in some cases a loss of belief. We then become locked in a feedback loop of negative thinking, which in turn encourages us to believe we have no longer a sense of control. Then that old habit negative self talk cuts in to remind us how "it won't work for me", or "what's the point it will probably go wrong", or "I'm a failure" and so on. Many people, often through the experience they had while growing up, develop defensive negative attitudes, forever minimising the benefits and maximising the difficulties in situations past, present or future.”

Hypnotherapy & what problems a Hypnotherapist may help

Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis to bring about a therapeutic change in how we think and feel about ourselves, those around us and our environment. The aim is to bring about positive changes to how we act and react to certain situations, people, substances, etc.

 An external influence - the Hypnotherapist - assists in activating the inner strength and resources of a person - the Client - with the aim of achieving realistic goals.

The problems that Hypnotherapy is best placed to help fall into the following groups:

People can suffer from thoughts & feelings of low self-esteem or obsessive thoughts about someone or something. They may not be able, for example, to let go of an unhealthy attachment to an ex-lover or that a partner is unfaithful. Hypnotherapy can help the client to change this.

Many people experience irrational fears of a variety of insects, animals, objects or situations and Hypnotherapy is renowned for its effectiveness in assisting sufferers to overcome these potentially very distressing and inhibiting conditions.

People can suffer from a wide variety of distressing feelings such as panic attacks, anxiety, jealousy, guilt, anger or inadequacy. Whatever the problem feeling, Hypnotherapy can help deal with it more specifically than  drug therapy and without risk of any associated & potentially harmful side effects.

People can find themselves gripped by any of a huge range of  habits, that they seem unable to control. These can range from something like nail biting, smoking to more deep-seated compulsive disorders. Hypnotherapy, using hypnotic techniques, can help to remove habits with precision and without the side effects associated with 'so called' anti-psychotic drugs.

Hypnotherapy can help with a wide range of issues. The following are just some of the issues that may be helped through professional hypnotherapy: