Mental Health Conditions
That We Can Treat
Addiction
Addiction is controlling. We have a feeling of guilt associated with it, whether it be gambling, substance abuse or alcohol.
Hypnotherapy can and will help take back control of your life, it will help you to understand that you can make the right choices to be successful and overcome the problem that you are faced with.
As a client, you need you to want to change and to make that difference you need to be motivated to make that difference.
Motivation is the key, you will need to attend every session if you want to succeed.
Adolescent Issues
Being a child sometimes can be tough. Hypnotherapy for children firstly needs to be fun, and it’s about changing each session to help them understand the process.
Hypnotherapy can help with anxiety, phobias and OCD. Hypnotherapy helps children and adolescents get back to how they should be.
Life for children can be full of stress, for example: school; family; friends and relationships. They don’t realise that they can cope, be happy and carefree. Hypnotherapy can, and will, help with this.
Children can undertake hypnotherapy treatments from the age of 6 years. All children, and teenagers below the age of 16, must be seen in the first instance (initial Consultation) with a parent or legal guardian.
You will be required to provide a signature of consent for ongoing treatment.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a natural response that everyone will feel from time to time, after all no one can avoid routine life situations. We may feel anxious when we need to attend a job interview or swerve for a car that is heading in our direction and for some people it may be the worry that people will think badly of them.
Not everyone reacts to an experience in the same way and not everyone experiences anxiety at the same level. Anxious people may remind themselves of the particularly scary or upsetting situation by imagining things happening and the anxiety can run away with them.
Through trance the Hypnotherapist can provide space for internal focus when a person’s mind can redefine the perceived threats and facilitate a process of de-cluttering. This allows rational thought to become easier.
During the sessions you will help you regain your confidence, feel calmer and feel more in control. Helping you develop a new positive and robust outlook.
Confidence
We all like to be confident, sometimes we forget how to be confident. Hypnotherapy can provide that confidence boost we need to be able to do present a speech at a meeting, or just to stand out from the crowd.
With Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we can start to rediscover your self-confidence and self-esteem again. By helping you to achieve your goals again. This will make you feel a lot better with yourself and bring back the positive you.
Depression
Depression is something significantly more than simply feeling unhappy or fed up for a few days.
From time-to-time most people go through periods of feeling down, a little unhappy. But when you're depressed you feel persistently sad for weeks, months, and in extreme cases, for years rather than just a few days.
Some people think depression is trivial, a sign of weakness and not a genuine health condition. They're wrong – it is a real illness with real symptoms. Depression isn't a sign of weakness or something you can "snap out of" by "pulling yourself together". Depression will affect – and infect – every part of your everyday life. Your depression can also have a profound effect upon your family, friends and loved-ones.
The good news is that with the right treatment and support, most people with depression can make a full recovery. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help your overcome your depression and thus get you back into full control of your own life. It is a fast and easy process that will change your life forever.
IBS
IBS is recognised by the NHS and National Institute of Healthcare as a chronic condition. Hypnotherapy helps with his condition.
IBS is a common and very uncomfortable disorder to live with. People who suffer know the embarrassing and painful symptoms, ranging from very mild to extreme and severe.
Hypnotherapy is used to treat and overcome these problems. It’s a swift and gentle process, giving IBS sufferers the freedom to feel comfortable in any situation.
There are many articles for example:
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Insomnia
The consequences of, and through lack of sleep, can have far reaching knock-on effects.
Examples of poor sleep patterns are caused by the inability to get off to sleep; constantly waking in the middle of the night; waking too early; sleep walking and; disturbing dreams and nightmares!
This can affect your performance at work and around your daily life. By developing good sleep and sleep patterns, with the aid of hypnotherapy, this can help reduce poor work performance, irritability and fatigue. Your general wellbeing and mental health will be renewed, and you can get on with living your life.
During the first initial consultation you will receive a free Hypnosis relaxation CD. This will help you sleep. It will quietly and calmly transport you into a deep sleep, increasing the recuperative effects and value of renewed sleep patterns.
Managing Weight Loss
Managing weight for some people is easy; It looks easy on TV or in magazines. For other people the battle can last a lifetime and can make you feel bad about yourself, even have an effect on you, not wanting to leave the house, or go out to socialise, even to not go on holiday etc. With the aid of hypnotherapy we can help you achieve a change and effect positive results.
S.F. Hypnotherapy does not apply the usual focus on food, instead we concentrate on achieving results through understanding your negative ‘drivers’ and impulses; achieving results gradually, but effectively!
As we are all aware, losing weight happens when we eat sensibly and take a little more exercise. Solution focused therapy can help you find the motivation for making the necessary changes.
It is a modern approach through using the best combination of psychotherapy techniques and hypnosis, and ultimately aimed at encouraging you to focus on how good the future can be when it’s more satisfying to you.
Pain Management
Hypnotherapy can help the sufferers of chronic pain. Pain is a message that is transmitted to the brain, that contains a redundant message. Is compared to the acute pain that tells us to take our finger away from a flame. When our brain recognises that the message has no value, then we can control it.
Solution focused hypnotherapy has helped many pain sufferers work together through guided hypnotic sessions.
The hypnosis treatment helps to change the way you perceive the pain messages and as a result the intensity of the pain you are feeling. This process helps where tablets don’t.
Phobia
A phobia is a very simple, debilitating and life-limiting fear of a thing; an object; a place; a situation; a feeling or; an animal.
Phobias can be as simple as the fear of spiders; snakes; birds; heights; wasps; bees; needles; hospitals; dentists; flying on a plane; driving a car; examinations; etc.
Phobias are very much more pronounced than a simple fear or unease of a situation. A phobia will develop and embed itself as a life limiting condition when the person develops an exaggerated and unrealistic sense of danger about a relatively innocuous situation or object/thing. If the phobia becomes so severe then it may cause a person to organise their life around the avoidance of the situation or thing that is causing them an anxiety.
As well as restricting their own day-to-day life, it can also cause a lot of distress to others (spouse and family) and limit their life choices too.
Happily, phobias are very easy to treat through the intervention of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy. Through the use of a treatment called ‘Rewind and Reframe’ we can reprogram the brain to create a new ‘template’ that makes the phobia sufferer develop a new understanding of that thing that has become a fear. Including the Initial Consultation (which is free of charge) this process takes only 4 sessions to complete.
PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder which initially is initiated through a very stressful, disturbing and distressing event in one’s life
Someone with PTSD will often relive those initiating, stressful events through nightmares, flashbacks and panic attacks, and as such will result in experiencing feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt. The sufferer may show and exhibit outward projections of extreme anxiety, fear, verbal and physical aggression. They will also experience sleep disorders and concentration issues. These symptoms and behaviour outbursts are often so severe, and persist enough, so as to have a significant effect upon the person’s day-to-day life. The resulting behavioural issues and conditions also have life limiting effects upon the sufferer’s family and friends. PTSD is a significant illness.
Causes of PTSD can be simple or complex and disturbing. PTSD can result from being involved in a road accident; witnessing upsetting situations and events; violent personal assaults; traumatic birth; serving armed forces personnel returning from active service within a war zone; etc.
More complex forms of PTSD can arise from severe traumas involving severe neglect; physical abuse; parental violence and; sexual abuse within the family home. Severe trauma within the family home, committed against a minor in early life can bring on the effects of PTSD later in life.
PTSD can develop immediately after experiencing trauma. It can, however, takes weeks, months and even years to develop, post traumatic event! It is estimated that about 1 in 3 people who have experienced a traumatic event, will develop PTSD at varying levels of seriousness.
The good news is that PTSD is curable. Using Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we can help to disassociate you from your PTSD. PTSD outwardly projects through conditions and issues such as sleep disorders, anxiety and stress (anger outbursts). PTSD can be cured, or at least managed, through treating those disorders, and by correcting these various imbalances within the mind and body. We cannot make the ‘historic’ events a non-reality, but through hypnosis we can lessen their powers and control over you and your life.
Relaxation
Our lives can be so busy and at times we can battle on to the detriment to our body and mind. At times there doesn’t seems be enough hours in the day!
Our own well-being can often be at the bottom of our list as we tend to put other people first.
Hypnotherapy is one of the easiest ways to ‘empty our stress bucket’ and reach a deep level of relaxation.
Stress levels can be lowered, and a sense of calm and control can be rediscovered.
Relaxation is an important and valuable part of a healthy and well-balanced life style.
With regular practice we can feel the benefits of the session.
Sports Performance
and Visualisation
We are all familiar with stories of professional sports people, for example: footballers; racing car drivers; rugby players; golfers and athletes. For a variety of reasons, they lose their nerve, letting the competition get the better of them, and fall down the world rankings for their sport.
Solution focused hypnotherapy has been enormously successful in enabling people who face stressful situations within the need and desire to perform better. You can get the most out of your ability and dedication with hypnotherapy and visualisation techniques.
Hypnotherapy can, and will, help you achieve what you can do; free from anxiety, stress and disappointment; be newly empowered in bringing you and your sports performance to a new level of achievement.
This is a treatment for any sports person, be they professional or amateur.
Stop Smoking:
Smoking Cessation
Stopping smoking sessions will last approximately 2 hours. This includes an initial consultation.
You will also be given beforehand, hand-outs to read and a cd / mp4 recording to listen to. This is a powerful and effective therapy for those people motivated to give up smoking.
Smoking can be difficult to give up on your own, but with the help of hypnotherapy the process is simple and quick.
Hypnotherapy works by changing your minds dependency on cigarettes at a subconscious level. The trance therapy allows this change to be accepted without resistance or distortion.
Please note: if you smoke marijuana and you are not willing to quit that also, this process will not work.
You are required to commit to this process 100%.
Tailored Treatments
Whatever your issue, we can tailor our treatments and approaches to meet your needs.
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