How we can help

Making a start

Here’s what you can expect in a typical treatment session. We start off sitting in comfortable armchairs, often drinking tea or coffee, discussing which stress related condition you have, how long you have had it, what medications you take…

Clinical hypnosis

I then encourage you to lay out flat on the treatment couch and relax. We then use clinical hypnosis. I keep this very simple and straightforward. I simply count from 1 to 10 in a relaxing voice. This usually works for most people and leaves you feeling very relaxed.

Understanding your symptoms

One of the benefits of clinical hypnosis is that it gives you a greatly increased ability to feel and understand what is happening within your body. We call this ‘body hyper-awareness’.

So if you have anorexia, for example, you can feel and understand in remarkable detail what is happening with your digestive system when you have symptoms of anorexia. Or if you have asthma you can feel and understand in greatly increased detail what is happening with your breathing. So on and so on for bulimia, Crohn’s disease, eczema …

Uncovering the roots

Another benefit of clinical hypnosis is that you can access in surprising detail many memories of when your body felt or reacted like this over the years. I encourage you to explore often forgotten memories of when you suffered from your stress related condition and what was happening in your life at the time. Ultimately, we want to discover what was happening when you first developed your condition.

Making a change

Once we have uncovered the roots of your problem, I very straightforwardly ask you to visualise what you actually really wanted to happen at these troubling times. We do this in an attempt to develop new healthy habits and reflexes.

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