Helping you create positive change.
Sometimes you know what you would like to change, but changing the way you think, feel or respond isn’t always easy. You might be struggling with anxiety or confidence, experiencing an unwanted fear or finding yourself caught in patterns of thought or behaviour that seem difficult to change consciously.
Hypnotherapy combines deep relaxation with focused attention, creating an opportunity to work with thoughts, feelings and responses in a different way.
I am a fully qualified Hypnotherapist, offering a safe, supportive and personalised approach to hypnotherapy – guiding you towards a relaxed state where your mind becomes open to positive suggestions, encouraging healthy behavioural change.
A deeply relaxed state with a therapeutic purpose.
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation to help you enter a calm, focused state in which your attention becomes more concentrated.
This relaxed state is sometimes referred to as hypnosis or trance. Despite what you may have seen in films or entertainment, hypnotherapy isn’t about being asleep, unconscious or under somebody else's control. You remain fully aware and in control.
The purpose of therapeutic hypnotherapy is to create a focused environment in which we can work with the thoughts, feelings and responses that may be contributing to the difficulty you are experiencing. Hypnotherapy is collaborative. We work towards goals that we have discussed and agreed together.
People consider hypnotherapy for different reasons. You may have a particular issue you would like to address, a fear or phobia or simply feel that certain thoughts, feelings or behaviours are preventing you from living life in the way that you would like to.
Depending on your individual circumstances and suitability, hypnotherapy may be used to support areas such as:
Using relaxation and focused therapeutic techniques to support a calmer response to thoughts, feelings or situations that create anxiety.
Exploring and working with responses to particular situations, experiences or triggers that create disproportionate fear or anxiety.
Working with unhelpful beliefs or patterns of thinking that may be affecting the way you see yourself and what you feel capable of achieving.
Helping you work with repetitive or unhelpful ways of thinking and supporting the development of more constructive responses.
Creating space to slow down, relax and develop greater awareness of the way your thoughts and emotions affect you.
Supporting you when you want to change an established behaviour or response that you have found difficult to alter through conscious effort alone.
You may be more familiar with it than you think. The word hypnosis can make the process sound mysterious, but the experience itself is often much more ordinary.
Most people experience periods of deep concentration or absorption in everyday life – perhaps becoming completely engrossed in a book, a film or a piece of music, or arriving somewhere and realising that part of a familiar journey passed almost automatically.
During hypnotherapy, relaxation and focused attention are encouraged intentionally and used for a therapeutic purpose. You can still hear what is happening around you. You can communicate with me, and you can bring the session to an end if you choose. You remain you throughout the entire process.
Two approaches, centred around one person – you.
As both a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Hypnotherapist, I am able to consider your needs from more than one therapeutic perspective.For some people, counselling provides the opportunity to explore experiences, emotions and patterns in greater depth.
For others, hypnotherapy may provide a more focused way of working towards a particular change. There may also be circumstances where the two approaches can complement one another. There is no need to decide for yourself which therapy you need before contacting me.
We can begin by talking about what you're experiencing, what you would like to change and what approach may be most appropriate for you.
Perhaps you've been trying to change something for some time. You understand consciously what you would like to be different, but you keep finding yourself returning to the same thoughts, feelings or behaviours. Hypnotherapy may offer another way to approach that change.
The first step is simply finding out whether it could be right for you.I offer a free 20-minute introductory call where you can tell me a little about what you would like help with, ask questions about hypnotherapy and decide whether you feel comfortable taking things further.
