What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a natural state of highly focused awareness, which enables you to relax deeply and open your mind to positive suggestions, using your imagination to make positive changes in your life. If you daydream you are accessing a hypnotic state. Daydreaming happens whilst driving, reading, watching television etc (sound familiar)? Hypnosis allows you to daydream on purpose, for a purpose. Also see below.

What is clinical hypnotherapy?

Clinical hypnotherapy is the application of effective techniques that enable the untold power of the mind to bring about positive and beneficial change. We can help you to deal with many issues including smoking cessation, weight management, panic attacks, anxiety, depression, fears and phobias, stress, bereavement, pain management, infertility, comfortable pregnancy and childbirth and IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).

Is it possible to get stuck in hypnosis?

No! You might not want the experience to end, however because hypnosis is just an altered state of awareness and deep relaxation, you can be fully alert at any time.

Will I lose control?

Again, the answer is no. You remain in absolute control. You have a protective mechanism of ethics, values, beliefs and identities, which protect you as an individual.

Will I be made to do silly things like you see on tv?

No, definitely not. You will be treated with the utmost respect and we will use our skill and professional integrity to offer you the solutions that are just right for you.

What is Solution focused therapy?

Solution focused therapy is a type of talking therapy that focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem(s) that made them seek help. The approach does not focus on the past, but instead, focuses on the present and future. The therapist/counsellor uses respectful curiosity to invite the client to envision their preferred future and then therapist and client start attending to any moves towards it whether these are small increments or large changes. To support this, questions are asked about the client’s story, strengths and resources, and about exceptions to the problem. Scaling is also used as a tool to measure progress.

Solution focused therapists believe that if a person has the capacity to describe something as a problem that person also has the capacity to describe what better means in his/her everyday life and that since they are able to describe that they also have the resources needed to make it happen. Often people may see signs of a problem before it becomes an actual problem. By bringing these small successes to their awareness, and helping them to repeat these successful things they do when the problem is not there or less severe, their life becomes better and people become more confident about themselves.

What is NLP?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a powerful body of information about how the human mind works built up since the 1970's and continuing to evolve through new research. You are likely to find many different descriptions of NLP.

At the heart of NLP is a wide range of methods and models it offers for understanding how people think, behave and change. It offers a flexible approach which brings about positive, fast change in individuals and organisations and empowers them to adapt to an ever-shifting world.

In NLP we know that each person has a unique style of learning, perceiving and responding to the world. NLP is inherently respectful of differences.