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Hypnotherapy is similar to a guided meditation with positive affirmations. It's just like daydreaming; when you tune out external activities and drift off into your own thoughts. This enables you to achieve your goals and make choices for yourself. It's an opportunity for you to take time out and experience deep relaxation whilst receiving beneficial therapeutic suggestions, helping you to become the person you want to be.
What Conditions Can it Help?
- Weight Management (including weight loss, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, etc)
- Stopping Smoking
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Irritable Bladder Syndrome
- Personal Stress Management
- Occupational Stress Management
- Depression
- Sleeping Disorders
- Speech difficulties (including stammering)
- Dental (including teeth grinding, gagging, fears relating to dental equipment etc.)
- Anxiety (including panic attacks, bed wetting, etc)
- Pain Control
- Skin Disorders (including eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis & vitiligo)
- Phobias & fears (including heights, flying, water, spiders, etc)
- Self Esteem & Self Confidence
- Fertility, Pregnancy & Hypno-birthing
- Performance Enhancement (including sports, public speaking, music & drama, examinations, driving tests, occupational performance, and more)
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Some Popular Misconceptions
The client loses control during hypnotherapy
At no time does the client lose control. In fact hypnotherapy is designed to empower you therefore control remains firmly with the client.
The hypnotherapist holds power over the client
The client is in full control at all times and the therapist never has any power over a client, regardless of what is projected by stage hypnotists and the media.
The client can be forced to do or say things against their will
This myth is again perpetuated by stage hypnosis, but also by various films and television dramas. No one can say or do anything against their will or nature while undertaking hypnosis or hypnotherapy.
Only certain people can be hypnotised
Everyone can be hypnotised to a greater or lesser degree. We all experience hypnosis on a daily basis, such as day dreaming or staring into space while being relaxed.
Only weak-minded people can be hypnotised
Anyone can be hypnotised to some degree. In fact we hypnotise ourselves everyday by becoming engrossed in a good book so much that we forget what's happening around us, enjoying a nice relaxing bath that we forget the time, or driving down the motorway and becoming transfixed at the road ahead.
People can be hypnotised against their will
No one can be hypnotised against their will. This has been proven many times. If you're told to do something against your nature you simply don't do it.
One can become stuck in hypnosis
No one has ever been 'stuck' in hypnosis or hypnotherapy. This just cannot happen as you're in full control at all times.
The client is asleep or unconscious during hypnosis
This myth has transpired due the term 'trance' or 'sleep' state being used. While hypnotherapy is being experienced the client enters a relaxed state, which to casual observers appears similar to being asleep or in a trance. In fact the client is in a deep state of relaxation
The client loses control during hypnotherapy
At no time does the client lose control. In fact hypnotherapy is designed to empower you therefore control remains firmly with the client.
The hypnotherapist holds power over the client
The client is in full control at all times and the therapist never has any power over a client, regardless of what is projected by stage hypnotists and the media.
The client can be forced to do or say things against their will
This myth is again perpetuated by stage hypnosis, but also by various films and television dramas. No one can say or do anything against their will or nature while undertaking hypnosis or hypnotherapy.
Only certain people can be hypnotised
Everyone can be hypnotised to a greater or lesser degree. We all experience hypnosis on a daily basis, such as day dreaming or staring into space while being relaxed.
Only weak-minded people can be hypnotised
Anyone can be hypnotised to some degree. In fact we hypnotise ourselves everyday by becoming engrossed in a good book so much that we forget what's happening around us, enjoying a nice relaxing bath that we forget the time, or driving down the motorway and becoming transfixed at the road ahead.
People can be hypnotised against their will
No one can be hypnotised against their will. This has been proven many times. If you're told to do something against your nature you simply don't do it.
One can become stuck in hypnosis
No one has ever been 'stuck' in hypnosis or hypnotherapy. This just cannot happen as you're in full control at all times.
The client is asleep or unconscious during hypnosis
This myth has transpired due the term 'trance' or 'sleep' state being used. While hypnotherapy is being experienced the client enters a relaxed state, which to casual observers appears similar to being asleep or in a trance. In fact the client is in a deep state of relaxation
