So What is Hypnotherapy?
Treatment for stress, depression, self confidence, 
self esteem, anxiety and addictive behaviours

Well, I guess the easier way to define hypnosis, is by describing it’s characteristic as a single, limited focus of attention……or a relaxed state of awareness experienced by the subconscious mind. It can help alleviate many stress symptoms from depression, anxiety, low confidence, low self esteem, and any addictive behaviours.

Hypnotherapy is a little like ‘guided day-dreaming’, because every time a person focuses down their attention, in any ordinary and daily duty where different levels of awareness is experienced, they actually enter a state of Hypnosis….. An increased concentration of the mind, often comes about from the elimination of outside stimuli….

Think about the time when you really concentrated on reading a good book…you familiarised yourself with the main characters in your mind….you knew what they looked like….you could picture the environment they lived in…..felt the emotions they felt…..and while you were reading, you managed to completely ‘zone out’ what was going on around you.  So effectively, you were narrowing down your attention  and allowing yourself to become less aware of other movements or sounds within your immediate surroundings. Calming down the stress symptoms.

How many of you have watched a compelling and powerful film, and cried real tears?…..Even though your conscious mind knew that the film was not real, and you were watching actors and actresses…the tears flowed quite freely. So why was that? You were actually making the transition from your conscious awareness to your subconscious awareness……..and your subconscious mind accepted them as real characters, because you were in the state of hypnosis.

Were you asleep? Of course not…you were very aware of what was happening…..and even though you managed to ‘zone out’ everything else around you, by being so engrossed in the film itself…..the actual motion pictures or the characters involved, didn’t control you at all….they only guided you through the story. Just like the hypnotherapist  guides you though the experience of relaxation.

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic treatment which conveys the importance of creating the health, happiness and well being of an individual. Continuous assessments are carried out, in relation to a client’s needs, motivations, skills and limitations……..and further assessments help to clarify a client’s goals…..their vision and values, as well as helping to alleviate stress, and calm anxiety, depression, confidence, and addictive behaviours 

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So How does Hypnotherapy work?

Hypnotherapy is a condition of being relaxed…..so then relaxation is a state of being, where a person is aware, but resting quietly with their eyes closed….As the guide, it’s not really the Hypnotherapist who hypnotises the client, but it is actually the client who hypnotises himself, by merely following the beneficial suggestions administered during the therapy session

At no time during a session of hypnosis is a person’s awareness or consciousness ever lost……

In fact a person in hypnosis can come out of it whenever he wishes…. he can readily accept or reject any suggestion or instruction given at any time, regardless of the depth of hypnosis,  and he can also remember things he couldn’t remember consciously.

So, although the conscious analytical mind is dormant during hypnosis, it is always functioning.

We are all made aware at some point in our life, how the subconscious mind can recall deep-seated or buried information, from sometime in a persons lifetime, and then uses this information in the form of automatic responses, like those of anxiety or unwanted behavioural patterns.

Well, once these have been traced and identified, the therapist is then able to address and explain these events to the client during hypnosis, using rational analysis so that the client can gain a degree of self-understanding of these events, before removing them from the persons mind so they can no longer bother them in the future.

My goal is to help my clients claim their power of choice, by guiding them and teaching them how to allow the subconscious to accept the choices of the conscious mind, or to attain their ideal empowerment.

Therefore the client must choose to change, then I can help them help themselves , by making them aware of the benefits of hypnotherapy, and determining whether or not the benefits of overcoming the problems, are important enough to themselves for that commitment to change.

So the power of change lies only within the mind of the person who enters hypnosis. 

So then, Clinical Hypnotherapy can actually help a client become the architect of their own destiny….. and those who can both imagine and believe in their ability to maintain long-term success in breaking their unwanted habits, will expect that success to be permanent, therefore the greater the positive presence of these ingredients, the greater the possibility of success