THERAPIES

Hypnotherapy is becoming a more and more popular way of helping clients to give up smoking. It enables the client to break down negative behaviours and thinking patterns associated with smoking. The thoughts and behaviours of a smoker is often what prevents them from giving up successfully. However, it is important the client knows the reasons why they wish to quit. It is also important that they are choosing this for themselves and not to please others as it is most effective when the client themselves want to quit.

Hypnotherapy for weight management may change how you feel about what you eat, you might find it hard to imagine turning down your favourite food i.e chocolate for something healthier but by using various hypnotherapy techniques it is possible to change thinking patterns. You may gain control over cravings in a way that doesn't make you feel like you are missing out. By making powerful suggestion techniques to your subconscious mind, it may help you to develop a positive relationship with food and exercise. Hypnotherapy for weight management may help you feel confident about your body and help to change any negative thought patterns regarding eating without impacting your emotional wellbeing.

Phobias are extremely common and are often irrational, it can be a situation or an object which will generally cause no danger. The most common phobias include Acrophobia (fear of heights) Aviophobia (fear of flying) and Arachnophobia (fear of spiders). Phobias may occur for a number of reasons, it can run in the family or be a learned behaviour, for example a child may learn a phobia by observing family member's reaction to an object or situation. Traumatic experiences and brain chemicals are also believed to influence the development of phobias. Hypnotherapy works to identify the root cause of a phobia and helps to enable the individual to react to the particular object or situation they once feared in a calmer manner when encountering it in the future. Hypnotherapy may also help with relaxation and visualisation techniques for desensitisation and forming new habits and behaviours.

Hypnotherapy may help clients overcome social phobias and generalised phobias. Whether you suffer from mild anxiety and fear of social events or full blown panic attacks it can make life very difficult. Many people may feel a bit nervous, anxious about meeting someone new or going somewhere different etc. which is quite normal, but when the fear is out of proportion to the situation then it becomes social anxiety or social phobia and I understand that can ruin your quality of life. Anxiety can be experienced on different levels, anxiety disorders can be severe and disrupt the day to day life of an individual. It can be brought on by fear of something that happened and dread it happening again. The good news is hypnotherapy sessions may make things better for you. Hypnotherapy has an aim to seek out the root cause of the anxiety and change an individuals perception of a past event or release emotion from it. 

Hypnotherapy may help with overcoming driving test or exam nerves. Preparing for an exam or driving test and successfully completing it is not just about how knowledgeable an individual is, but also about the state of mind. Feeling calm, relaxed, focused and confident when studying and sitting the exam or doing the driving test, means an individual will be much more likely to achieve their full potential. Assessing this state of mind is a skill and can often be learned by implementing new ways of thinking using different techniques. During hypnosis we may be able to bypass the conscious mind and help put suggestions into the subconscious to enable the two to work together. By doing this we may be able to start training the imagination to work for you, rather than against you.

Being confident is an attractive quality. What more could you achieve in your career, for example, if you were more confident in meetings and presentations? What would happen to your social life if you had greater confidence? Confidence is a learned behaviour and hypnotherapy may help with working to create positive new behaviours and attitudes that you can be in control of. Having high levels of confidence can have huge benefit for all areas of an individuals life (including relationships, career, social life and state of mind) and many people who lack self confidence wish to be more confident. Hypnotherapy tries to determine the root cause and find ways to resolve it.

If you are experiencing pain, you are always advised to see your doctor. They will be able to investigate further to find out what is causing it and how best to treat it. Pain is the number one reason why people seek medical attention and painkillers are the most commonly used prescriptive drug. Pain can be due to surgery, injury, illness or disease. Stress and anxiety are common side effects and can even make the sensation feel worse. The way the mind responds to pain also links to the perception of physical sensations.  The medical profession can help you to practically manage your condition, while therapies like hypnotherapy may help manage related symptoms and change the way you cope with pain.