How Can Hypnotherapy Help?

Anxiety can take many different forms including excessive feelings of fear or worry, panic attacks, tension headaches  and dizziness to name just a few.

We will all have feelings of anxiety at some time in our lives, but for many of us it’s inconsequential and short-lived. When anxiety escalates, slowly or quickly, it can become severe and can take over a persons life.  Using Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, I help my clients to take control and find long term solutions to their problems.  I teach techniques that clients can use long in to the future, enabling them to live a more positive, calm and confident life.  

As Stress builds up, it can present itself in different ways.  Some people create habits such as nail biting or may suffer from physical symptoms such as IBS or overwhelming fatigue.  Also people can become irritable, more sensitive to criticism, and sometimes even as far as to suffer mental breakdowns, strokes and heart attacks.

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is designed to help people by focusing on future events in their life. My job is to help someone move forwards in their life by looking at ways to  make tomorrow better than today.

 Low self-confidence can hold us back and stop us enjoying all kinds of life experiences. Hypnosis is very effective at building confidence, public speaking, preparing for exams and interviews.  I have a specific technique that I can teach clients how to use if they are feeling nervous about a particular event that's coming up. It has been shown to be very effective in calming nerves, allowing you to be seen as confident and in control. 

 Changing phobic responses can be life-changing, freeing you to do all kinds of exciting things we have previously missed out on or avoided. It can be as simple as booking a holiday on a plane to going outdoors without the stress of seeing a spider. What’s more, with phobias, we can go one step further than merely changing the phobic response. With reframe techniques, we can create a whole new, more positive thought pattern around what was once so terrifying.  Most phobias can be treated in just 4 sessions.  

 Smoking is a major cause of mental and physical stress with around 120,000 smokers dying as a result of their habit each year in the UK alone. The latest research indicates that 80% of all cancers are caused by smoking. The stop smoking therapy is really fast and effective, it takes just one 1.5 to 2 hour session and allows you to give up smoking for life by convincing your subconscious that you are a non smoker. 

We all need a good night sleep and sleep can be improved dramatically with hypnotherapy.  People can easily get into negative cycles of sleeping such as insomnia or waking up throughout the night. Solution focused hypnotherapy can get your sleep patterns back on track, help you to get to sleep easily and prevent broken sleep. 

My hypnotherapy relaxation track will help you get into a deep state of relaxation and encourage and enable a better-quality sleep.
Using it as part of your healthy sleep routine can have you falling asleep, and staying asleep, in as little as a week. For some people it can take longer, usually because there are some other things they have to work through first that are causing them stress.

Hypnotherapy mimics Rapid Eye Movement dream sleep, when we process emotional memories and turn them in to narrative memories. During REM sleep, the brain moves in to the theta state, producing the same brainwaves we see during hypnosis and meditation. Dream sleep, or Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, allows the experiences of the day to be processed, turning emotional memories and upsets into narrative memories over which you have control. By helping to get your sleep routine into a healthy pattern, Hypnotherapy has a powerful impact on a number of serious health issues, as well as improving your concentration, your performance at work, relationships and more.

A migraine is a severe headache, which the NHS describes as: “usually an intense headache on one side of the head. The pain is usually a moderate or severe throbbing sensation that gets worse when you move and prevents you from carrying out normal activities. In some cases, the pain can occur on both sides of your head and may affect your face or neck.” Some people with migraine also experience nausea and vomiting and sensitivity to light and sound. And some people report seeing spots or flashing lights or have a temporary loss of vision.  Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) has a proven track record of helping people understand how stress affects their thinking, and it can help people to relax, feel more confident, eliminate the stress they are carrying around with them all the time, and make them better able to use their intellectual brain for decision-making and coming up with innovative behaviours. A relaxed person reports ‘feeling’ less pain than a tense person.

Depression is a long lasting low mood disorder. It affects your ability to do everyday things, feel pleasure or take interest in activities.  Stressful events, such as problems at home or work, a relationship ending or financial issues may also make it more likely to experience depression.
Solution focused hypnotherapy can be a powerful tool in breaking the grip of depression, helping move your mind towards a more positive upwards cycle of thinking.  Better still, it can help to give you the tools you need to maintain a positive outlook on life by supporting the intellectual part of your mind and increasing motivation and drive. 

It is true that eating fewer calories and burning more of those calories will result in weight loss. However, as we have seen, a sole focus on eating less and exercising more might not be the solution.  Solution focused hypnotherapy can create a clear picture in our minds of what success is to us, then it becomes a motivational force and the brain will work hard to ensure the picture we have becomes reality. We can then develop healthier behavioural templates for situations that might have previously seemed stressful, thereby creating new neural pathways in the brain, so that we no longer default to the sabotaging behaviour of the past.

Suggestion techniques can also be used in hypnosis to encourage us to develop a positive relationship with food and exercise which is key to a healthy diet and long-term weight management.

Treatment of addictions are a straightforward process as they are behaviour patterns stored in the Hippocampus area of our brain which compels us to repeat these habits over and over again.  The sufferer will have little or no control over this and not following the habit or behaviour will create anxiety and can also have a physical reaction, especially where chemicals are involved such as certain drugs or alcohol, but anyone can stop with the right treatment.  Solution Focused Hypnotherapy helps by changing the belief systems in the hippocampus at a subconscious level and strengthening your resolve and determination to quit.

  Unlike traditional counselling methods Solution Focused therapy focuses on the present and the future in a positive way, how you want things to be, rather than dwelling on the problems which caused clients to seek help. Thinking about life in a positive way helps rewire your brain, an integral part of the process because it helps build new healthy patterns of behaviour which means you’ll be less likely to dwell on things in life, breaking the often-debilitating cycle of negative thinking and helping you to become more calm and relaxed.

 Whatever the cause of pain might be and assuming you have seen your GP, Hypnotherapy can be very helpful. You learn what is happening in your brain that is making you feel worse and you learn relaxation techniques and strategies that can bring you considerable relief.