Some of the examples are listed below:
Hypnotherapy is increasingly being used to treat a variety of disorders from physical conditions to problems of a psychological or emotional nature, for example:
- Eating Issues
- Blushing
- Pain management
- Alcohol issues
- Crisis control
- Anger management
- Road rage
- Gender and Identity
- Obsessions and addictive behaviour
- Family issues eg parental support, caring for relatives etc
- Sexual and relationship problems
- Feelings of dissatisfaction and under achievement
- Goal setting and personal development
- Exam nerves
- Psychosomatic disorders
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Post traumatic stress
- Presentation and stage fright
- Sleep disorders including sleep apnoea and insomnia
Michael provides professional, caring and confidential help with many different problems.
Please ring Michael if you have any questions or would like to book a Free Initial Consultation.
Or by telephone: 0117 9076 412 or 07967 122 938.
by email:
Are you tired of the same old whirling thoughts and your mind constantly racing? Are you worrying too much? Can’t seem to relax or ‘switch off’? ...Read on...Stress is a constant theme in our lives, its everywhere and all too familiar. Mobile phones, Computers, emails, fax’s, deadlines etc One of the best ways to minimise stress is to relax and get ‘familiar’ again with that feeling.
Hypnotherapy can do that for you...
Short bursts of stress may be good for your immune system but long-term stress can negatively impact your long-term health.
- Increased irritability
- heightened sensitivity to criticism
- signs of tension such as nail-biting
- difficulty getting to sleep and early morning waking
- drinking and smoking more
- indigestion and loss of concentration
These can be caused by a number of factors in our lives be it elements of loss be it bereavement, divorce, separation or the impact of long term illness or disability. Marriage, moving home, a new job or going on holiday can equally be just as stressful. Life can often be stressful and everyone is affected by stress. It is how you deal with those events in your life that makes the difference.
Working together we can create and understanding of your stress and associated triggers for your responses to the stress and your current coping mechanisms. Michael works with you to understand those issues, reduce anxiety and create positive outcomes for your future as you focus on what you want.
- Reduction in stress and anxiety levels
- Lower Blood Pressure
- Increased ability to cope
- To be able to deeply relax
Each client will receive a complimentary relaxation support CD
Many people with start with ‘feeling low’ that can lead to depression and can go through life without seeking help at all, believing that depression is just 'part of them', but in truth, depression is very treatable. People with depression often feel that they are 'alone'
However, depression is now recognised as one of the most common and devastating disorders in the UK. It is estimated that around 1 in 4 people suffer from a depressive episode in their lifetime. More than 31 million prescriptions for drugs for depression were issued in 2006, which increased by 10% from 14.7m to 16.2m and this figure continues to rise.
Depression is an extremely debilitating psychological disorder which can affect not only you, but also your family, your friends, your employment, your self esteem, and ultimately, can restrict the enjoyment of your life.
If you suffer from at least 5 of the following for 2 weeks or more:
- Feeling sad of ‘empty’ or that everything looks ‘dark’
- Feeling nervous, restless, irritable, angry or grouchy on a daily basis
- Feeling overly sensitive to criticism, socially isolated and little interest in relationships
- Feeling apathetic about life, with low interest in current events, food, drink, music, nature and sex or generally feeling that ‘everything is an effort’
- Feeling guilty, pessimistic and negative about your own capabilities
- Fatigue or loss of energy – probably the most common of symptom
- Weight loss or weight gain
- Waking in the early hours of the morning/ insomnia
- Increased substance misuse: Alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, caffeine, red bull etc
If you think you are depressed then there is hope. With hypnotherapy depression is one of the most treatable disorders in the UK and is now thought to be the most effective treatment. It is drug free but if you wish it can be used in conjunction with existing prescribed medication from your GP. Hypnotherapy can help you feel good again and return a sense of purpose, motivation and happiness, so as you can enjoy your life again and thus prevent any relapse.
Each client will receive a complimentary relaxation support CD.
Many people seek hypnotherapy to help them with irrational fears and phobias which can be severely restrictive or debilitating and getting on with your life becomes somewhat cumbersome. Phobias and fears are triggered at a time in your life when your anxiety reached a peak. The subconscious then stores this information and reacts to the memory repeatedly.
Hypnotherapy has an excellent and proven record at successfully treating phobias.
1.Simple Specific phobias (e.g. fear of spiders, fear of flying, heights etc)
2.Social Phobias (e.g. fear of social incompetence, ridicule or embarrassment etc)
3.Agoraphobia – the fear of a difficult or embarrassing situation from which you cannot escape.
While you will experience considerable improvement from a single session usually 3-5 sessions are needed to ensure that you are permanently free from the fear or phobia.
By teaching you relaxation techniques, self-confidence and using visualization exercises whilst under hypnosis to help you gain control.
This is achieved by using specific techniques that disassociate you from the fear/phobia and enables you to remove the emotion from the core that fuels the fear or phobia itself result in the desired change.
And you’ll leave with resources to evaporate those fears away.
Take control and take action.
Each client will receive a complimentary relaxation support CD
A lack of confidence can really restrict your life and stop you from grasping the opportunities that come your way. A confident person seeks out opportunities and as result has more options. This is where you can grow as a person and experience more from your life.
Lack of confidence can often be a result of low self-esteem, negative beliefs and experiences being stored or stuck in your subconscious and fuelled by needlessly ruminating about your past or persistently forecasting a negative future which will exacerbate and increase Anxiety, depression or frustration or a combination of all three.
Solution focused hypnotherapy can help by changing your negative thought patterns, associations and emotional responses, as well as reducing your overall level of anxiety allowing you to remain in control. We can then work towards creating greater motivation, focus and the ability to be yourself again ...gaining that self-confidence, a renewed self assurance, resources and abilities to get on with your life.
- Confidence!
- Self-Belief
- That positive feeling in your body
- That mindset where you know you can do it
Each client will receive a complimentary confidence support CD.
The British Psychological Society reported:' There is evidence from several studies that its [hypnosis'] inclusion in a weight reduction program may significantly enhance outcome.' (BPS, 'The Nature of Hypnosis', 2001)
Hypnosis is a natural, safe and drug-free way to lose weight by communication direct with your subconscious mind to bring into line your conscious intention to lose weight to achieve your ideal weight. Many of my clients have spent many years dieting and damaging their body by yo-yo dieting to achieve short-term results. The weight comes off, then goes back on again...fundamentally, diets don’t work, which is where hypnotherapy is different.
Recent studies have shown that one of the primary functions of cortisol, a stress hormone, is to help mobilize energy in times of acute stress by releasing glucose into the blood. But when cortisol remains at chronically elevated levels it acts in conjunction with high insulin levels to send fat into storage at the waist.
Hypnotherapy lowers stress and therefore the production of cortisol, positive suggestion can increase the chemical serotonin which increases your motivation and self-esteem that are integral to the programme’s success. Each person is different, as are your eating habits, size, weight and beliefs you hold about your body/self image. Hypnotherapy can be cost effective by as the long-term benefits are ideal for shedding excess weight without having to spend a fortune of fad diets, diet pills, weight loss clubs and other associated diet products, books etc.
Re-education concerning dietary factors, exercise, goal setting and weight monitoring are all included with an understanding of how, when and why you eat whilst reprogramming your subconscious, to adopt new strategies and obtain fresh perspectives surrounding your relationship with food.
Michael has years of experience in helping people to gain control and achieve their desired weight, making people feel good again about their body, self-esteem and confidence which all have a positive impact on the rest of your life.
- Regain control of your weight/ lose weight
- Control hunger and appetite
- Increased motivation
- Regulate metabolism
- Adopt healthier eating habits/ portion control
- Stop emotional eating
- Overcome Boredom eating
- Curb Cravings
Each client will receive a complimentary weight control support CD.
The New Scientist has reported on a recent study by the University of Iowa covering 72,000 smokers/ ex-smokers from America and Europe. It concluded that hypnosis was the most effective way to give up smoking.
Nearly nine years ago The Which? Report concluded that of all the methods available for stopping smoking, Hypnotherapy was the most successful, and the only one with no cravings, no irritability, no bad temper and no weight gain.
However, a smoker will have years of information built up in his or her memory store, such as 'I am a smoker'. 'I can't stop smoking', 'I have to smoke to alleviate stress', and ‘it gives me confidence'. These are subconscious responses and we know the subconscious has been faultily programmed.
Addiction only accounts for 10% which is physical, the remaining 90% is psychological, stored in your subconscious, where your unconscious fervently promotes smoking, despite knowing the dangers and 1 in 5 deaths in the UK attributed to smoking.
Conscious intention and willpower are often not enough as our unconscious mind interferes and persuades us to have another cigarette. This is why hypnosis can be so successful.
Hypnotherapy is able to access your subconscious mind to fine tune your mind and remove your 'automatic' desire to smoke completely. It's totally safe, fast, and highly successful and research shows that with hypnotherapy you are at least five to fifteen times more likely to succeed than by conscious willpower alone.
- You will be a non-smoker
- Improved health and peace of mind
- You will have more money
- Healthier teeth and gums and no yellow stains!
Almost every smoker gives up during their lifetime. As long as you have a genuine desire to quit, give yourself the best chance to stop smoking the easy way and call now.
Tel: 0117 9076 412 or Mob: 07967 122 938.
Anti Smoking is done in a single session and lasting up to 2 hours and costs £150 and this includes a back up CD. No Initial consultation is necessary.
Each client will receive a complimentary Anti-smoking support CD.
Fibromyalgia has and M.E can pose a negative impact on the quality of your life and it requires learning how to manage it to accomplish the necessary adjustments in your work, family and social life. Imagine being able to change that?
A study conducted by the NIH showed that fibromyalgia sufferers undergoing hypnosis reported 80% fewer pain symptoms than those who received no hypnosis treatment. 40 patients with refractory fibromyalgia were randomly allocated to treatment with either hypnotherapy or physical therapy for 12 weeks with follow up at 24 weeks. Compared with the patients in the physical therapy group, the patients in the hypnotherapy group showed a significantly better outcome. Pain is a learned response that can be changed by distraction and a review of focus. This is why hypnotherapy is becoming an increasing choice in utilising methods of focused
hypnotic analgesia (pain control).
-Journal of rheumatology
The studies reviewed suggest that hypnosis can improve the efficiency and/ or efficacy of the psychological treatments of fibromyalgia, with hypnosis being a promising intervention. Researchers conclude that hypnosis can be an effective pain management technique in people who suffer from M.E Fibromyalgia. For people who are looking for an effective method, they may want to consider hypnosis to assist in the management of Fibromyalgia pain and M.E.
Through relaxation techniques and suggestion, you are able to access your subconscious mind and stop behaviours or thoughts that may be contributing to pain or other unpleasant symptoms.
- decreased muscle pain
- decreased morning fatigue
- fewer sleep difficulties
- increased relaxation
- A renewed confidence to help you get on with your life.
Each client will receive a complimentary pain management support CD.
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