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 cope with the loss and heal those scars.
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.
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.
Sport Performance
It is well-known that anxiety affects performance. Therefore, it is no surprise that the greater the fear of failure, the harder it is to deliver optimal performance.
Sport is all about competing and winning. The increased stress of competitions can cause athletes to react physically and mentally, negatively affecting their performance.
They may become tense, their heart rates race, they break into a cold sweat, they worry about the competition's outcome, and they find it hard to concentrate on the task.
These symptoms are all indicative of a level of anxiety, and anxiety is one of the conditions that hypnotherapy can successfully overcome.
David Beckham, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Anthony Watson are all known to use sports visualisation techniques in hypnotherapy to help them prepare for games.
Hypnotherapy can improve and enhance an individual’s mental attitude by helping them to relax, removing anxieties and boosting confidence. If you rehearse something going well, you are setting up your brain with a blueprint for success.
Concentration and focus become easy when one enters the right mental state.
Using a blend of clinical hypnotherapy, NLP & CBT techniques, I can help you
- Access your skills, knowledge and resources in a high pressure situation
- Increase your confidence
- Help you maintain Intellectual Control and avoid ‘freezing’
- Help you remain calm in a high pressure environment
- Calm your mind and rid it of distractions that can get in the way of gameplay
I deliver a Sports Performance specific package. This consists of an Initial Consultation and four further structured sessions.
School Anxiety
For some children the experience of school brings such intense anxiety that attending school becomes an insurmountable challenge. Some people call this “school refusal.”
Experts in the realm of mental health affirm that various factors, such as anxiety, depression, family crises, and traumatic experiences like bullying, can trigger school refusal.
Young Minds, a youth mental health charity reported that 80% of the children they surveyed in 2023 said that their mental health had deteriorated during the Covid Pandemic with many reporting higher levels of anxiety.
If you, as a parent or guardian, suspect that your child is confronting significant anxiety related to school, it’s prudent to consider seeking assistance from a professional therapist.
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.
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.
SFH can help control exam nerves and clear the mind to ensure students maximise their potential.
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.
SFH reduces stress responses and improves sleep, enhancing one's ability to stay calm, focused, and resilient during exams.
Phobias
Hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful tools for retraining the mind to overcome 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 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), bodily (vomit) and environmental (heights).
Complex phobias are usually treated in 6 to 8 session. They tend to be associated with anxiety about particular situations. For example social phobia.
I work with both by using Hypnosis and CBT techniques to reframe negative thought patterns associated with the phobia.
I will also provide you with mindful tools and techniques to help you manage and reduce anxiety effectively.
For more information on about phobias please click this
NHS link.
Relaxation Session - 40 minute ‘Brain Massage’
On completion of a course of hypnotherapy some clients like to visit my studio for a monthly hypnosis session – with no talking therapy – for a relaxing ‘Brain Massage’.
These sessions help to:
- reduce stress
- quieten the conscious mind, helping you to create space in which to think and process properly
- empty your stress bucket, ensuring you are engaging with your Intellectual Mind
Using hypnosis in these relaxation sessions allows you the time and space to relax your entire body and mind.
These sessions have a calming effect on the parts of the brain that control breathing, heart rate and other automimic functions.
You will leave the studio feeling deeply relaxed, mentally clear, and physically rejuvenated. This feeling of well-being can last for hours or even days.
