I remember years ago that you would go to the hypnotherapist to help with phobias such as flying and fear of spiders or to stop smoking and lose weight. Today hypnotherapists see clients that have deep rooted traumatic emotional experiences. Invariably clients have had trauma and difficult experiences in childhood or have ongoing challenging interactions that has pushed the bar of tolerance levels relating to anxiety to higher levels.

As life progresses the bar is raised more and more with the ups and downs of life until it gets to a stage that the underlying emotions such as anxiety, imposter syndrome, feeling inadequate and so on becomes too much to cope with. The body is also affected by the constant stress in everyday life resulting in physical pain, digestive issues, headaches and other conditions which clients haven’t linked to the high levels of stress and anxiety.

The subconscious mind is a huge library of all the events and happenings of our life. As children all we want from our parents is a safe environment – to be loved and cared for. Often though this doesn’t happen as parents have their own concerns and worries about the future and this may result in rows and turmoil within the family life. Coupled with perhaps challenging school life and the world of learning for many can be difficult without receiving sufficient support or understanding and these early emotions have an incredible inpact on our perceptions of life.

Through hypnosis and EMDR the underlying cause of the stress and anxiety can be reduced leaving the body and mind room to process and evaluate what is happening and to be able importantly to accept the past – not forgive – and be able to appreciate the now and move on to be oneself.

What happens in a consultation:

First consultation: this is the time that the client and I talk and as the therapist I can begin to understand the concerns of the client, without judgement. We talk about the client’s childhood, school life and the influences good and bad that have steered their journey in life. We explore the triggers that cause the client to be anxious or have negative emotions or develop phobias. At this stage we don’t look at the future, purely the past and the here and now. The reason for this is that the client often doesn’t know what they want and therefore setting goals is unrealistic to them.

We then start the hypnotherapy and relaxation which allows me, the therapist to see how analytical the client is or how ready are they to feel that they are in a safe space. I purely want the client to relax – no more.

The follow up session is based on what was said in the first consultation. We might do EMDR eye motion desensitisation and reprocessing, or go into deeper hypnotherapy. The hypnotherapy maybe in the form of parts therapy, or anchoring beliefs, or swish technique or hypnotic suggestions only. Regression is not done this early on in hypnotherapy sessions. Usually about sessions 3 or 4 we will look at regression back in time of the client’s life.

At the end of the session the client is forwarded a bespoke hypnotic recording for them to listen to between therapy sessions. This is for them to re-affirm what has been done in the session.

I always ask the client to think about having at least 3-4 sessions – any less is in my opinion, is a waste of their time and money. Often clients want more sessions but perhaps not every week after they have done the initial 3-4 sessions or to come and see me when they need additional support.

Academic achievements:
Counselling level 2 and 3
Diploma in EMDR eye motion, desensitisation and reprocessing.
Diploma in Parts Therapy
Diploma in Emotional Hypnotherapy
Diploma in Hypnotherapy
Certificate in Kinesiology
Post Graduate Diploma in Dermatology
Diploma in Iridology
BSc degree in Herbal Medicine

Specialist Subject using Hypnotherapy and EMDR:

Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse

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