Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy consists of hypnosis and therapy and is an empowering process that can facilitate change and help you to take more control over your life. It is a holistic therapy treating the whole individual.

The mind has two parts, the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is the part you are aware of most of the time - it is the part that records all new experiences. These experiences are then passed to the subconscious (your memory bank).where they are permanently stored. The subconscious mind (your memory bank) also controls and regulates the involuntary functions of your body, such as breathing, circulation, digestion, etc. These functions occur naturally without you having to consciously think about them.

Hypnosis is a natural altered state of awareness that all of us have experienced many times before, for example, when you have been driving and realise you cannot remember parts of the journey. All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis. It is the power of your own mind that enables you to relax, let go. It’s a very natural process which you control.

Therapeutic hypnosis is simply a series of ever-deepening relaxations, you neither go to sleep nor become unconscious - you can talk quite easily, be aware of your surroundings and remember everything that has taken place. It can be defined as a pleasant feeling of relaxation, calmness and comfort, when it is possible for you to access the stored information in your subconscious mind. I facilitate the process and guide you to the areas which we choose to explore at a subconscious level (not unconscious level). If I give you a suggestion that you don’t like, you either ignore the suggestion, or bring yourself out of hypnosis.

Everything about you begins as a thought which affects your behaviour, and thereby your actions. When you change the thought, you change the action. Through you gaining access to your subconscious mind, you use the power of your subconscious mind to concentrate and focus on new thoughts, words and images to establish new habits, attitudes and behaviour that are chosen by you as being acceptable. These new thoughts over-ride your old thoughts enabling change to take place.

These are some of the areas where hypnotherapy can be used to help you:
• Smoking cessation: public speaking: sports enhancement: examination nerves: stress: confidence boosting: nail biting, etc

Hypnoanalysis/Regression Therapy

Hypnoanalysis/Regression Therapy is used when symptoms arise from deep-seated emotional or psychological origin that need to be resolved before the changes you wish to achieve can happen. The cause usually stems from an emotionally traumatic event in your life that happened when you were young, immature or inexperienced. At that time the event was so painful or shocking that it was buried or repressed from your conscious mind. However, by being buried it has not gone away, but may fester inside you until it manifests itself later in your life as an internal anxiety or symptom/problem.

Once you have discovered and understood the original root cause and the same event has been reviewed by your more mature self, your reaction to it is more rational and logical, thereby allowing the symptoms to be dealt with and resolved.

Hypnoanalysis/Regression Therapy can help you to release old, debilitating habits, beliefs and/or traumas, thus making way for new and more positive ways to deal with the issues in your life and can be used to help with:

• panic attacks, fears, phobias, anxiety,
• weight control, lack of confidence, low self-esteem, sexual problems,
• negative beliefs, eg My opinions don’t matter, What others say is more important than what I think, I don’t deserve to be loved, to be happy - the list is endless

As a Member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and the Hypnotherapy Association I abide by their strict codes of conduct.