Treatments
Stress & Anxiety
Stress tends to be a short-term response due to external pressures and immediate demands.
Stress leads to feelings of overwhelm, frustration, or tension.
Anxiety is more future-oriented, linked to worries about what might happen and tends to be a reaction to stress.
Anxiety leads to persistent fear, nervousness, and dread.
Both anxiety and stress can be beneficial in the right situation, but for many, they can manifest as a problem that needs to be addressed.
For most of us, fully removing the stress and anxiety from our everyday lives is just not possible. So, how we manage it is key, and this is where I can help. I will show you how to recognise and understand your unique responses, you will also discover how to apply your own solutions to your problems through understanding and utilising the tools and techniques that hypnotherapy will give you.
Using a blend of clinical hypnotherapy, NLP & CBT techniques, I can help you:
Feel calmer and more at peace
Sleep Better
Feel more confident
Enjoy life more
Depression & Low Mood
Leading a happy life, free from feelings of depression and low mood is a key goal of solution focused hypnotherapy.
Through a mixture of talking therapy and hypnosis I will help you to reach your goal of where you want to be by increasing self confidence and self belief.
We work together on techniques to boost positive brain chemicals such as serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin that make you feel happier and more able to cope with life and its challenges.
The tools I give and the techniques I teach help to break the negative cycle of depression and provide skills to staying in control of positive emotions and thoughts.
Using a blend of clinical hypnotherapy, NLP & CBT techniques I can help you:
- Feel calmer and more at peace
- Sleep Better
- Feel more confident
- Enjoy life more
Grief
Many people struggle to overcome feelings of loss or bereavement, I can help you understand what is happening in your brain during grief and support you in processing those emotions.
Simply ignoring the pain or keeping it buried does not lessen the grief or sense of loss. It takes some time to work through the grieving process, but some people may struggle to deal with their loss which can impair their healing and lead to deep-seated feelings of heartache and depression.
For some people, time is enough to help them come to terms with their loss. However, this does not always happen.
Together, we can work on easing the pain, managing overwhelming thoughts and beginning to heal those emotional scars. Hypnotherapy can give you positive suggestions to help cope with anxiety, insomnia, deep sadness and depression, and other symptoms of grieving and help you to find ways of coping in the future.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
I work with people who are experiencing the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, including ongoing anxiety, hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, emotional overwhelm, disturbed sleep, and a sense of being stuck in the past rather than fully present in everyday life.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder develops when the brain and nervous system remain in survival mode after a distressing or overwhelming experience.
Even when the event has passed, the brain continues to respond as if danger is still present, which can affect emotions, thoughts, physical sensations, and behaviour.
My work focuses on helping the nervous system feel safe again. Using a gentle, practical approach grounded in psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy, we work to reduce the brain’s threat response, strengthen emotional regulation, and restore a sense of control and stability.
Hypnotherapy supports the brain to process experiences without reliving them, while solution focused and mindset-based techniques such as CBT and NLP help build confidence, resilience, and forward movement.
Sessions are always paced carefully and collaboratively. There is no pressure to talk in detail about past events. The focus is on helping you feel calmer in the present, improving sleep and emotional balance, and supporting your brain to move out of survival mode and into recovery.
Support is available for adults and teenagers, with sessions offered in person and online.
School Anxiety
For some children the experience of school brings such intense anxiety that attending school becomes an insurmountable challenge.
If you, as a parent or guardian, suspect that your child is confronting significant anxiety related to school, and are considering seeking assistance from a professional therapist I am happy to have a free phone consultation with you.
Clinical hypnotherapy offers a unique pathway to address stress and anxiety. Unlike pharmaceutical interventions, hypnotherapy delves into the subconscious mind to untangle negative thought patterns and cultivate positive reactions to challenging situations.
Hypnotherapy helps teens experiencing school refusal by giving them an understanding of what is happening in their brain — and helping them feel a sense of calm, control, and choice again.
The NCH articulates this, stating that hypnotherapy “unlocks the potential you have to break free of negative thought patterns, and to react more positively and more confidently to situations in your life that may have previously made you anxious.”
Exam Anxiety
Young people are under a lot of pressure to do their best and get good results throughout the year. The strains of school life can sometimes get on top of them, making it harder for them to continue with their work.
Exam stress, in particular, can cause problems with eating, sleeping, anger and anxiety levels. If the student is already experiencing emotional problems or mental health difficulties, exam stress can be the last straw.
A rising number of UK youngsters are seeking help to cope with the stress of exams, according to the charity ChildLine. They state that young people consistently told counsellors exam stress was contributing to ‘depression, anxiety, panic attacks, excessive crying, low self-esteem, self-harming and suicidal thoughts’.
Solution focused hypnotherapy helps with exam anxiety by engaging relaxation techniques, building confidence, strengthening resilience and focusing on positive outcomes.
Through visualisation and tailored sessions, we replace negative thoughts with empowering beliefs and practical coping strategies.
Fears & Phobias
Hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful tools for retraining the mind to overcome Fears & Phobias.
Since these challenges originate in the sub conscious mind, hypnotherapy can create rapid and lasting change by directly addressing their root causes.
There are two types of fear/phobia: Simple and Complex.
Simple phobias are usually treated in 3 to 4 sessions. They tend to centre around animals, activities or situations. For example animals (spiders, dogs, insects), bodily (vomit, blood, injections) and environmental (heights, flying, enclosed spaces).
Complex phobias are usually treated in 6 to 8 session, but can take more. They tend to be associated with anxiety about particular situations. For example social anxiety or driving anxiety.
I work with both Simple and Complex by using:
- Hypnosis to calm the nervous system and reframe subconscious responses
- CBT and NLP techniques to reshape unhelpful thought patters and build confidence
You will also learn mindful tools and techniques to help you manage and reduce anxiety effectively, giving you practical strategies to stay calm and in control in everyday situations.
For more information on about phobias please click this
NHS link.
Top Up Session
These 60 minute sessions help to:
- reduce stress and release accumulated tension
- quieten the conscious mind, creating space for reflection and clarity
- empty your stress bucket, ensuring you are engaging with your Intellectual Mind
- reinforce positive changes from previous hypnotherapy work
