Book a Free Initial Consultation. I always advise coming for a free initial consultation, except with the straight forward Quit Smoking Therapy. The consultation can last up to an hour and during that time I will take down some basic information about you and explain in more detail how hypnotherapy works and how it can help. You may ask questions and then you can make an informed decision as to whether to enter into a course of treatment.
If you decide to go ahead with a course of treatment I will give you a CD to listen to at home before we meet again. The service I provide is completely confidential and you are under no obligation to book further appointments.
Hypnotherapy is a natural state, comparable to that of daydreaming, which is induced by concentration on a single idea or concept. Like when you are listening to music, absorbed in a book or concentrating on a challenging piece of work that you are so focussed that you become oblivious to everything else around you.
Generally there is no such thing as a ‘hypnotised feeling’ and contrary to popular belief we do not ‘lose control’ or awareness of what we are doing. You only make the changes you want to make and that are beneficial to you.
During this experience many people report a feeling of deep relaxation and calm and a general feeling of heaviness and everyone enjoys hypnotherapy as it's safe and effective.
A Hypnotherapist is a skilled and highly trained helping professional who induces a hypnotic state to help you harness your own powerful mind to increase motivation or change behaviour patterns by inducing a trance state.
Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis combined with CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) to help give you new ways of thinking about things coupled with fresh attitudes and clarity. This is achieved by bypassing the critical faculty of your conscious mind, which is where all our logical thought processes take place and where there is the most resistance to change, in order to access the opinions stored in the subconscious.
In the hypnotic state you are not really “thinking” but “experiencing” without questioning, without rhyme or reason, without critical judgement or analysis of the positive suggestions as your conscious mind is bypassed and not interfering. Nobody can be forced into hypnosis, you have to want to enter into the relaxed state and you remain in control at all times.
In effect you are given the opportunity to reassess any faulty programming that you may have received in the past in order to create a positive new approach. When you are in this relaxed state of trance it is easier for suggestions to be absorbed more easily in your subconscious to enable you to overcome mental obstacles to healthier thinking and incorporate positive changes.
What happens in the first session?
After having an initial consultation and booking your first session; prior to hypnotherapy taking place, I discuss the goals that you wish to achieve or the problem you want to resolve in detail by asking specific questions and assess your responses. The more specific and detailed information you give, the more individualized the therapy can be and the greater its impact. I will then prepare you to enter the relaxing state we call hypnosis and incorporate tailor made suggestions to help you with your goal or problem.
There are different types of therapy for different problems:
Is useful for promoting positive messages such as confidence building, ego-strengthening, stopping smoking, exam nerves etc.
Is concerned with goal achievement, changing perspectives and identifying causes and solutions, it is effective for treatment of fears, phobias, weight-loss, anxiety, depression and many more.
And regression works on the basis that every symptom has a cause. By effectively reliving certain events in a safe environment we can allow ourselves to re-assess situations that have affected our psyche, and then to be re-evaluated in an adult light.
Of all psychotherapies CBT has the strongest evidential backing and is now the treatment of choice under the NHS and the main core referral basis from GP's. CBT aims to help change the cycle of faulty thinking and change thoughts and behaviours to bring about positive changes.
Clinical hypnotherapy works by taking you into a state of heightened suggestibility where your critical mind takes a break and we can work directly and deeply with your imagination and subconscious to create new beliefs, patterns and habits. (Read more about hypnotherapy here.)
CBT & Hypnotherapy combined
Research shows where CBT and hypnotherapy are applied together that they are strongly complementary and their effectiveness in dealing with reframing thoughts and behaviours.
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Life Coaching principles; primarily goal setting.
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