Hypnotherapy is effective in many different situations, so you will often see long lists of symptoms and conditions that can it be used to alleviate. In general, if you find you can’t do something that you know you should be able to do, or can’t stop yourself doing something that you don’t need to do and wish you didn’t do, hypnotherapy will be able to help.
The following paragraphs highlight some areas where I have found hypnotherapy to be particularly useful. If your situation isn’t covered but you think that hypnotherapy may be beneficial please contact me to talk about your needs – together we can decide if hypnotherapy will offer you a way forward. Click on the links below:
Confidence issues
Low self esteem and/or low self confidence can be a life limiting problem. Hypnotherapy can be used to improve the way you feel about yourself, increasing your sense of self worth and allowing you to regain your natural confidence and assertiveness.
Anxiety, stress and depression (and symptoms that are worsened by anxiety, eg IBS, panic attacks, some skin conditions, compulsive behaviour and obsessions)
Every day we encounter situations that cause us to become anxious. They may be simple things like trying to cross a busy road, or more complicated things like trying to juggle our work and home lives. Anxiety is part of life, and as long as we deal with it appropriately it doesn’t cause us a problem. Unfortunately, sometimes anxiety builds up and can affect the way we run our lives. It can cause us to feel anxious, panicky, short-tempered or depressed. Sometimes it can cause physical effects, for example worsening skin conditions or irritable bowel syndrome.
Hypnotherapy can be used to reduce anxiety and provide your unconscious mind with alternative ways of dealing with things and new solutions to situations that you have found problematic in the past.
Hypnotherapy is not an alternative to conventional medicine, but it does complement it. If you are experiencing physical symptoms my advice will always be that you should consult your GP as well. Hypnotherapy will not cause you any ill effects, but ignoring a physical illness might.
Fears and phobias
If you are extremely frightened by things that don’t worry most people it is because your subconscious mind believes that particular thing or situation is a threat. You probably know intellectually that your fear is unfounded, but you are afraid anyway. It doesn’t matter how or why your subconscious mind came to believe in the danger, using hypnotherapy we can re-educate your subconscious mind, so that you can learn more appropriate and useful responses to the things you have feared.
Habits
Habits are things that we do repeatedly, without thinking about them. Unwanted habits (like biting our nails, chewing pens, pulling our hair out and many others) can be embarrassing and sometimes harmful, but sometimes we find that no matter how hard we try, we just can’t seem to stop. This is usually because, unconsciously, we hold an unhelpful belief about the habit. Hypnotherapy can be used to re-educate your unconscious mind so that the need to indulge in the habit disappears.
Hypnotherapy is effective in many different situations, so you will often see long lists of symptoms and conditions that can it be used to alleviate. In general, if you find you can’t do something that you know you should be able to do, or can’t stop yourself doing something that you don’t need to do and wish you didn’t do, hypnotherapy will be able to help.
