What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy allows you to enter a state of focussed attention to relax you and allow access to the subconscious mind, where old unwanted patterns of behaviour can be changed.

It can help you eliminate unwanted negative habits, like smoking or overeating, or it can improve your ability to achieve your goals.

In case you are concerned, you can't be hypnotised unless you want to be and you can't get "stuck" in hypnosis. You are in control at all times, able to hear what I'm saying, just very relaxed and comfortable.

Hypnotherapy within solution focused therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, will firstly lower your levels of anxiety, and secondly allow you to understand how your subconscious has learned to wrongly interpret situations, with your behaviour following accordingly. Old unwanted patterns of behaviour that cause you to lose belief in yourself can be changed and your confidence & self esteem is boosted. In fact, improving low self esteem is my speciality and I’ve helped both men and women in all walks of life at all ages with enormous success.

Usually your course of hypnotherapy will be completed successfully within 4-6 sessions, one per week. However, the Quit Smoking, Driving Test, Exam Fears or Interview Nerves therapies can be completed within one or two sessions.

At the end of a session people feel very relaxed, calm and usually quite surprised at the length of time that has passed while they've been in hypnosis.

In counselling sessions, we explore various aspects of your life together and the feelings connected with them, talking about things freely and openly in a non-judgemental environment - which isn't always possible with friends or family. You are free to identify and express your real feelings ( like anger, grief, anxiety) and to explore the issues that are causing you stress. People come for counselling for a variety of different reasons- which can all be helped by having someone to share your thoughts and feelings with.

In order to understand your feelings we may need to look at the past and see where they originated and developed. I use an integrative approach, combining Cognitive Behaviour, Client Centred Therapy and Transactional Analysis to suit you individually and together we can identify & evaluate various ways to resolve your issues or problems. You could also be able to begin to start changing patterns of thoughts or feelings or behaviour, which may have caused difficulties.

A free initial consultation gives us a chance to find out about each other, to see if we think we can work with each other and to agree an initial plan of how we want to progress, whether in a limited number of sessions or a more open ended contract.

Updated 28.12.07