Clinical research has consistently demonstrated that hypnotherapy can be a highly effective therapeutic technique which can be used to address a wide range of presenting issues.
 
The hypnotic state is often thought of as being mysterious; often people feel daunted or frightened by the term, but hypnosis is a completely natural state that we enter into, on average, at least four times per day. Daydreaming, becoming completely absorbed in a film or book, meditating, or even arriving at your destination whilst not quite remembering how you got there are all examples of us entering into this slightly altered state of mind. 
 
Your session will begin with an induction; primarily consisting of breathwork, progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), intermittent concentration, and / or imaginal imaging techniques. A deepener then follows, which allows us to physically and mentally relax even further through allowing our brainwaves to slow down to the alpha / theta border, which is the brainwave state we are naturally in just before we fall asleep. At the alpha / theta border, our minds are more free to use our creative abilities, our imaginations, and are naturally more receptive to the positive suggestions that will follow. During the next stage, the 'treatment phase,' a variety of techniques may be used including neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), psychoanalysis, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, straight-forward suggestion, and cognitive behavioural-based strategies. Once this stage of your session is complete, you are gently brought out of hypnosis and reoriented to the environment around you.
 
Sometimes, and always with prior consent, regression techniques may also be incorporated into your hypnotherapy sessions. Regression can be used as a remarkably powerful tool; assisting with the exploration and removal of unconscious blocks which might be hindering you. There may be introjections, core beliefs, or learned behaviours from your childhood or even your recent past that may be beneficial to target; thoughts, feelings, and emotions which may have been denied, repressed, or supressed from your conscious mind. Processing these thoughts, feelings, and emotions in a protective hypnotic state can help you to discover which parts of your unconscious mind your habit is supporting, what makes you avoid certain situations or objects, what caused your anxiety or lack of confidence, or facilitate the release of stress, negativity, and other unhelpful emotions in order to change the way that you feel in the present. Whatever the case may be for you and whatever changes you wish to achieve, a multi-approach, bespoke hypnotherapeutic treatment plan will be created especially for you, with only you, your individual needs, and your preferences in mind. Please note, I do not practice past life regression.

A hypnotherapist who practices ethically will never claim that they can "cure you" and hypnotherapy should never be considered to be a "magic bullet." You will not cease to be phobic of needles or flying, nor stop biting your nails without also being truly motivated toward positive change. What hypnotherapy can do is assist you to make the required changes more easily; through removing mental blocks to success, increasing insight and self-awareness, giving you the knowledge and skills that will empower you, and resetting habits, phobias, social anxieties, or self-defeating behaviours from within the unconscious mind. If you really want to make positive gains within your life, then hypnotherapy can be remarkable in assisting you to do so, however, in line with ethical practice, hypnotherapy is not suitable nor beneficial for everyone and everything. If this is the case, counselling may be recommended if it seems that you would benefit more from taking a different approach to your presenting issue.
 
Please feel free to read more about hypnotherapy in the Hypnotherapy FAQs section of this website and on my Social Media links, and to contact me if you don't find answers to any questions you may have. 
 
If you feel that hypnotherapy is the right approach for you and you'd like to book an initial, 15 minute video / voice call to discuss your needs, please click on the Get in Touch button below and fill out a short Contact Form.
 
I look forward to meeting you and working with you soon.