Anxiety/Depression/Phobias

Some doctors say that 1 in 3 consultations are for anxiety. Whether its mild to acute anxiety/panic attacks/General anxiety . It could be money worries,learnt behaviour,early life trauma or the cause is just unknown. There are many people who suffer from panic attacks/stress/General anxiety.These attacks can mimic even the symptoms of a heart attack. This is how stressful a panic attack can seem to a sufferer. Anxiety, whether its general anxiety or panic attacks manifest itself in physical symptoms. Hypnosis helps you get to the root cause in order to stop the physical symptoms. Therapy of any kind is about understanding negative behavioural patterns, thoughts and changing them to positive patterns. This is the same for hypnosis In trance. I help the client access the subconscious and weed out negative beliefs/behaviours.Many clients access very deep states of relaxation during trance.This is so useful for treating anxiety.Encouraging the parasympathetic nervous system to kick in more.Hypnosis is particularity great for helping clients with anxiety to feel calm.This is so important for anxiety sufferers.Helping them to release their minds/body’s own natural antidepressant.

Hypnosis can be very effective for desensitising your body and mind from traumatic memories and feelings. Our amygdala can store these traumatic feeling and memories from the past as if it is still happening. Using active psychotherapy/hypnotherapy techniques to get the amygdala to let go and put those trauma feeling into the past. Talking can be very helpful, but often not enough on its own. These feelings are trapped, frozen in our reptilian brains. Logic doesn’t really work here, its the emotional brain we need to work with.So I use psycho-sensory techniques to help you reprogramed these feelings combined with elements of talk therapy and CBT.

Sleep disorder is a very common complaint heard in the doctor’s surgery. Hypnosis is a close relative to sleep and is designed to improve your sleeping patterns. Often our minds are busy when we are in bed. Maybe we are over stimulated. I believe we can learn to change this habit. By Calming are thoughts at a subconscious level. Taking charge of our behaviours.Sometimes we have worries on our mind.Often have clients where worries are the real issue,not the insomnia.

Hypnosis can help you relax,reduce adrenaline levels when undergoing IVF. Hypnotherapy can help you increase your immune system.Stress reduces the secretion of oestrogen.Hypnosis encourages deep states of relaxation.Controlling the adrenaline dump.Which is very important for successful outcome..Also visualisation and positive suggestions can be delivered to the subconscious.Helping create belief. Belief can also be very helpful component for success.

In the last 5 years I have been treating more and more teenagers for issues of Anxiety, stress, low self esteem. Sometimes these issues cause these young clients to miss a lot of school. Parents ask me “do I work with teenager, will hypnosis work for someone of that age” I do understand why they ask this. But in my experience Teenagers usually respond quicker than adults. The teenage years is a great time of neuro plasticity, the brains ability to change. They don’t have the same amount of baggage as an adult. Even though they are suffering they don’t have as much cynicism as us adults. A 15 year will often change their minds so often about their interests. This ability for change can be greatly utilised in therapy.Often the teenage client comes in with the attitude , I’m here to let go of this issue. They often seem to fully engage and respond to the techniques. Even if they’ve been traumatised , their belief in the ability for positive change is very strong. They often expect it to work. Even if they don’t show this at first. They have an incredible ability to create new neural pathways. Of course everyone responds at different rate, no one client is the same .In short the teenage years is a great time for positive change when pointed in the right direction.