Hypnosis is a natural state of mind you experience when you are absorbed in watching a film, reading a good book, just before you go to sleep, as soon as you wake up and when you are daydreaming.

Hypnosis speeds up the progress of therapeutic therapies. Hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation and heightened awareness. There is absolutely no question of being controlled or manipulated, or even induced into a deep trance state.

A person in hypnosis is not 'asleep', indeed they are often more aware of what is taking place than normal. You will just have a feeling of calmness, pleasantness and deep relaxation.

During hypnosis, you are aware of everything around you. You cannot do or say anything contrary to your conscious wishes, behaviour or morality. Hypnosis is pleasurable, calming and relaxing.

Hypnosis is able to help the body strengthen and protect the immune system against disease, to accelerate healing and relieve stress.

How and why hypnotherapy works

Our minds work on two levels, conscious (logical) and the subconscious part of the mind. We make decisions, think and act with our conscious mind. The subconscious is the area of your mind that stores information, experiences and memories, both negative and positive. Most symptoms result from conflict between the conscious and subconscious parts of our mind. During hypnosis, the active conscious part of your mind is completely relaxed. This allows you to tune into your subconscious so that therapy can work at a deeper level.

This can facilitate the successful treatment of conflicts. The use of hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help people overcome many conditions and symptoms which manifest either physically or emotionally.

Therapy provides insight, understanding and clients say is very rewarding. Resolve the cause of your issues so that you are able to make the permanent positive change that you want for yourself. There are TWO different types of hypnotherapy that I offer to clients:

Suggestion Hypnotherapy

This makes use of beneficial suggestions, positive thinking and guided imagery for changing habits, stop smoking, nail-biting, pre-test nerves and confidence boosting. An appropriate hypnotherapy CD is given to clients for self hypnosis and reinforcement.

Analytical Hypnotherapy

(Both therapies are sometimes used during the course of treatment). Analytical therapy (hypno-analysis) is used to discover the cause of psychological problems and can be summarised briefly as the doctrine of cause and effect; every effect (or symptom) must have a cause.

Hypno-analysis reveals and thus removes the cause and consequently relieves the symptoms. This is one of the best methods for treating emotional, psychological or anxiety-related issues.

This type of therapy can help people to overcome many issues which have not responded to other forms of treatment. Where problems are long-standing and go deeper, the way forward is to deal with the underlying cause.