Hypnotherapy
in Shropshire

Hypnotherapy can help with a wide range of personal problems which can be influenced by, or originate in, the mind. The power of positive suggestion to the subconscious mind can bring about quite life-changing results.

Some of the most common problems that we can treat with hypnotherapy include:

Weight Control

This is a major area of hypnotherapy, and there can be a number of different approaches. As in all areas of hypnotherapy, you begin by learning that your subconscious mind can be your friend just as easily as it can become your enemy. The subconscious is where our automatic behaviour patterns become hard-wired and through trance it is possible to change the way we behave and react for good.

In trance, you can learn to start "thinking thin", changing your whole attitude to your bodies and eating habits. Often the key will be to lessen the importance of food in your general wish to "feel good", and to build up confidence so that you are actually ready to be slimmer.

In hypnosis your subconscious can be programmed to stop thinking about food, to break bad habits and form good ones. Powerful visualisation techniques can be employed in hypnotherapy which can help establish a whole new outlook towards eating habits while helping prevent comfort eating or binging.

Hypnosis for weight loss should be looked upon as a "reinforcer" of other behavioural changes including dietary changes and exercise routines. Independent research shows that hypnosis works best for weight control when it is part of an integrated programme. Self hypnosis can also be taught so that clients can continue to use trance to enforce behavioural changes over the long term.

Losing weight is a very personal thing, which is why the hypnotherapy must be tailored to suit the individual. Some people, for example, may respond best to suggestion that they always leave half of every meal they have. The subconscious mind can be instructed to regard eating the whole meal as unacceptable.

Others may need to build up their self-esteem so that they can accept the idea of themselves being slimmer. Sometimes it is necessary to pin down when and why people over-eat and to program alternative actions at such times or occasions. There can also be a need to make healthy foods more appealing.

Weight loss hypnotherapy will usually take place over a number of sessions and your serious commitment to the programme is very important. But hypnotherapy remains one of the safest ways to lose weight steadily and permanently without having to resort to drugs or fad diets.

Giving Up Smoking

The UK still has 5 million smokers and the habit remains very difficult to break. Hypnosis has become a major therapy route for smokers to strengthen their willpower and live tobacco-free lives. During trance you will be instructed how to programme yourself to react differently in situations where you would normally want to smoke, and to see yourself as a non-smoking person.

Stress and Anxiety

Three quarters of all illnesses reported to a GP are stress related. Stress is the most common cause reported for workplace absenteeism, and more than one in ten of us leaves our jobs due to stress.

Hypnosis is the assured way to lead you towards a calm, inner-self and to find you centre from which you can combat the stresses and anxiety that are so commonplace in modern day life.

Hypnoanalysis can identify the causes of your stress and teach how new responses can be built into the reaction to stressful circumstances. The use of guided imagery can also help you learn to transport yourself to a pleasant location, effectively re-writing the way you respond to stressful events.

You can also learn self-hypnosis to help control things like breathing and heartrate, and a CD recording can be provided so that you can practise relaxation techniques at home.

Low Self Esteem/Low Self Confidence

There can be many reasons why people experience low self-esteem. In hypnotherapy we can go back and find the origins of such feelings and establish new positive patterns of thought. Even people who seem to be confident can still suffer from low self-esteem, which is one of the most common presenting problems seen by hypnotherapists.

Overcoming Depression

Depression will affect most people at some point in their lives and will often be short-lived. But it is when it takes root and becomes a permanent condition that the sufferer should seek help and it is where the "talking therapies", including hypnotherapy, can be the most effective treatments.

Depression can have many causes and very often it will be linked to feelings of low self-esteem and lack of confidence. In hypno-analysis we can establish where the feelings of depression come from and then apply suggestion as appropriate to your particular issues.

Very often depression will stem from the way you have come to view the world, and how you react to events. Hanging on to depression may be a coping mechanism - a way of not facing up to certain realities in life. In hypnosis, I can lead you to find contentment without worrying about what is going to happen, letting you visualise casting off the problems as either "all in the past" or not worth worrying about.

In hypnosis we can also reframe the whole way you experience reality through the practice of mindfulness. The widely used therapy of mindfulness encourages you to focus on the moment before you, rather than spread your awareness over a past and a future about you can do little. In hypnosis, I can help you sharpen their consciousness in a similar way to meditation and allow you to feel the elation of existence and your unique specialness in the conscious universe.

Health Problems/Pain Management/Lack of Energy

Hypnosis has long been used for pain relief but studies have recently demonstrated its effectiveness for chronic ailments, such as lower back-pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Conditions that have a neurological dimension are particularly appropriate for hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis can also be very effective in strengthening the immune system through detailed visualisation techniques. In a similar way, hypnosis can be used to treat chronic fatigue syndrome by sharpening your sense of your own energy pathways and functioning of cellular mitochondria.

Childhood Trauma

In hypnosis, I can help you to regress and 're-run' incidents from earlier in your life which have left a scar and which contribute to produce neurotic symptoms. Releasing trauma and re-phrasing it is a fundamental part of hypnotherapy and one which can change lives and set you free.

Phobias/Fears

Phobias and fears usually have their roots in our life experiences but hypnosis can successfully allow you to regress and examine these moments so that you can reconsolidate them and permanently change your undesired automatic response.