Services
I work mainly help people who experience addictions, anxiety, phobia and trauma. I help people when they experience these things as a problem or when they are 'getting in the way'
Addiction/s
Let's face it we are all probably addicted to, or use something to 'self soothe'. Some people with more intense addictions will have many things they use. Some addictions are much more socially acceptable to than others.. Look at smoking when it was first a phenomenon - it wasn't a problem to anyone, in fact it was 'cool' or 'sophisticated'. Nowadays smoking is not really seen this way.
An addiction said to be when something has more control over you, than you feel over it. You may experience physical cravings and obsessive thoughts around the substance you like to use, and then shame afterwards. Sometimes addictions are more in the form of binging behaviours, where we go weeks without and then binge. The alcoholic says I have gone months without a drink, only to go back to it after a night out. This is because the addiction or cause has not been delt with, it has lied dormant like a virus all that time.
Many additive behaviours are formed in childhood as we attempt to 'self soothe' through an external stimulus. At other times it could just be something we get into doing that that we get enjoyment from, we may then start to use it as a coping mechanism for feelings of stress or anxiety. We may even use something to preempt and prevent us from feelings of anxiety, depression, loneliness, or stress.
Most common ones I work with are: alcohol, cleaning, cocaine, food, pornoghraphy, self harm, social media, work. Hypnosis should be thought of as an aid to helping you not feel the need as much and give more control over it.. Often behind one addiction there are many more...Hypnosis cannot make you give up if there are parts of you that really don't really want to. The good thing about the way I work is that I work with any resistant parts of you, not against them.
Anxiety
What a pain anxiety is! It gets in the way of performance at work, sport and makes just about any interaction feel so awkward. The thing is that anxiety is not coming from your thinking, otherwise you would of thought yourself out of the problem (contrary to what CBT therapists may say). Anxiety rises up from your midbrain & unconscious through to your conciseness which then affects your thinking, it also goes from the midbrain out to your body and up your thinking brain. The Hypnotherapy I practice helps to get to the root of where the anxiety is coming from, to help heal it for good.
As well as your mood anxiety can feed into many other areas in your life leading you to feel dissatisfied with life.
Phobias
Phobia can either be 'trauma' or 'non-trauma' based.
Trauma based phobia is when a phobia stems from a historical event. E.g you have had a car accident on the motorway and now you fear driving, especially on motorways.
Non-trauma based phobia is when you have a phobia and have no idea where it comes from. E.g you might be scared of worms. You were never attacked by worms - it seems irrational to you, but terrifying non the less.
Trauma & C/PTSD
Traumatic memories often have a lot of emotion accompanying them, they usually have a strong physical element to them also. Sometimes the physical element can be 'not feeling' or feeling 'shut down'
C/PTSD is when there has been more than one trauma, and there is more to the trauma, there may be a sense of grief or loss attached to the trauma.
Hypnosis helps you to to process the trauma more effectively so it does not have a power over you. Hypnotherapy can help when combined with talking therapies. However talking therapy alone may be limited in what it can offer. Sometimes there are no words for the trauma, or simply talking about it doesn't change anything.
Unexplained Physical Problems inc. Sexual
These kind of problems can be very frustrating because you have no idea what to do about them, or possibly no idea about what to do. You can't seem to make it go away by thinking it better. This is because the problem is coming from elsewhere - your unconscious. The unconscious is a vast and very powerful part of your brain. It stores in it memories, emotions, and all your physical senses. It is also the part of the brain that keeps you alive without having to think about it. If there problem was in your conscious mind you'd simply be able to think your way better, you've probably tried thinking it better already. Hypnotherapy helps you 'tap into' your subconscious and heal what needs healing.
Let's face it we are all probably addicted to, or use something to 'self soothe'. Some people with more intense addictions will have many things they use. Some addictions are much more socially acceptable to than others.. Look at smoking when it was first a phenomenon - it wasn't a problem to anyone, in fact it was 'cool' or 'sophisticated'. Nowadays smoking is not really seen this way.
An addiction said to be when something has more control over you, than you feel over it. You may experience physical cravings and obsessive thoughts around the substance you like to use, and then shame afterwards. Sometimes addictions are more in the form of binging behaviours, where we go weeks without and then binge. The alcoholic says I have gone months without a drink, only to go back to it after a night out. This is because the addiction or cause has not been delt with, it has lied dormant like a virus all that time.
Many additive behaviours are formed in childhood as we attempt to 'self soothe' through an external stimulus. At other times it could just be something we get into doing that that we get enjoyment from, we may then start to use it as a coping mechanism for feelings of stress or anxiety. We may even use something to preempt and prevent us from feelings of anxiety, depression, loneliness, or stress.
Most common ones I work with are: alcohol, cleaning, cocaine, food, pornoghraphy, self harm, social media, work. Hypnosis should be thought of as an aid to helping you not feel the need as much and give more control over it.. Often behind one addiction there are many more...Hypnosis cannot make you give up if there are parts of you that really don't really want to. The good thing about the way I work is that I work with any resistant parts of you, not against them.
Anxiety
What a pain anxiety is! It gets in the way of performance at work, sport and makes just about any interaction feel so awkward. The thing is that anxiety is not coming from your thinking, otherwise you would of thought yourself out of the problem (contrary to what CBT therapists may say). Anxiety rises up from your midbrain & unconscious through to your conciseness which then affects your thinking, it also goes from the midbrain out to your body and up your thinking brain. The Hypnotherapy I practice helps to get to the root of where the anxiety is coming from, to help heal it for good.
As well as your mood anxiety can feed into many other areas in your life leading you to feel dissatisfied with life.
Phobias
Phobia can either be 'trauma' or 'non-trauma' based.
Trauma based phobia is when a phobia stems from a historical event. E.g you have had a car accident on the motorway and now you fear driving, especially on motorways.
Non-trauma based phobia is when you have a phobia and have no idea where it comes from. E.g you might be scared of worms. You were never attacked by worms - it seems irrational to you, but terrifying non the less.
Trauma & C/PTSD
Traumatic memories often have a lot of emotion accompanying them, they usually have a strong physical element to them also. Sometimes the physical element can be 'not feeling' or feeling 'shut down'
C/PTSD is when there has been more than one trauma, and there is more to the trauma, there may be a sense of grief or loss attached to the trauma.
Hypnosis helps you to to process the trauma more effectively so it does not have a power over you. Hypnotherapy can help when combined with talking therapies. However talking therapy alone may be limited in what it can offer. Sometimes there are no words for the trauma, or simply talking about it doesn't change anything.
Unexplained Physical Problems inc. Sexual
These kind of problems can be very frustrating because you have no idea what to do about them, or possibly no idea about what to do. You can't seem to make it go away by thinking it better. This is because the problem is coming from elsewhere - your unconscious. The unconscious is a vast and very powerful part of your brain. It stores in it memories, emotions, and all your physical senses. It is also the part of the brain that keeps you alive without having to think about it. If there problem was in your conscious mind you'd simply be able to think your way better, you've probably tried thinking it better already. Hypnotherapy helps you 'tap into' your subconscious and heal what needs healing.
