• Smoking cessation
• Weight management/body image issues
• Pain management
• Medical investigation or treatment nerves
• Goal setting and achievement
• Stress and/or anger management
• Anxiety responses
• Wedding bliss – create calmness on your big day
• Public speaking or presentations
• Unwanted habits and responses
• Sporting performance maximisation
• Insomnia and poor sleep pattern
• IBS
• Confidence and self esteem
• Traumatic thoughts or memories
• Panic attacks and sweating
• Managing irritation or discomfort
• Fears and phobias and social discomfort
• Depression/low mood
• Fulfillment and identification of potential
• Exam or interview nerves
• Concentration, clarity and motivation
• Some skin conditions
• OCD

Please note: Where a condition could have a medical origin it is essential that a medical diagnosis is made prior to hypnotherapy for that condition. However, I am always able to work to increase calmness and coping skills in the pre-diagnostic phase.

The experience of hypnosis
In hypnosis the conscious and subconscious minds work together but with the critical part of the mind taking a back seat allowing rapid changes to be made. Hypnosis is both associative and disassociative thus allowing unwanted reaction patterns, responses or habits to be released and the reactions or responses which form the client’s desired changes or solution state to be rapidly installed.

Please be reassured hypnotherapy is not stage hypnosis and you would not do anything you do not wish to.

Hypnosis is very pleasant and is described by many clients as being akin to the experience of drifting towards sleep, knowing they could wake up if they wished but simply not wanting to. Another way clients describe hypnosis is as a state of focused attention akin to concentrating fully on a film and then not initially noticing someone coming into the room and yet being aware at the same time. Other client’s describe the experience as “blissful like floating in a warm pool”, or as “concentrating absolutely and feeling totally motivated but with no feeling of effort”.

Did you know:
There is a significant body of scientific evidence supporting the concept that using hypnosis to “rehearse” a skill enables that skill to be performed with greater ease, at a higher level and with greater probability of accurate repetition. This applies equally whether the desired peak performance is to occur in sport, an exam, or some other field of endeavour.

Hypnotherapy is recommended by NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) for medically diagnosed IBS.

A study at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York revealed the very positive input of just one session of hypnotherapy prior to breast cancer surgery (reported upon in the Daily Telegraph of 29 August 2007). The hypnotised patients not only had less pain, nausea and emotional distress than those who had a single session with a psychologist they also on average cost £384.48 less to treat mostly because they required less time in the operating theatre.