Areas of support

We can help with the following:

Managing anxiety: A key area that will help you identify both naturally occurring states of anxiety and stress and when and how to manage your thoughts and feelings more productively

Stress relief: learn to spot the triggers and tap into a range of approaches that will allow you to de-stress quickly and more effectively

Self esteem: in many ways, the starting point of all therapy work – rediscover your true value and worth

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Fears and phobias: uncover their origins and replace with acceptance and positive reactions

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Habits and addictions: recognise their patterns and their effects and benefits and replace with less harmful approaches, more rewarding benefits, and even greater sense of clarity and self

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Pain control: develop strategies for reducing and managing effects of pain

· Weight management: rediscover reasons for change

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Giving up smoking/vaping: reaping the financial and emotional benefits

What's Hypnotherapy got to do with it?

What is Hypnotherapy?

Have you not googgled this? My view is that hypnotherapy is an interesting combination of two words: 'Hypnosis' and 'Therapy'.

There is no one agreed definition of hypnosis; my preference is for a definition of hypnosis that includes the notion that it's a focussed attention on a suggestion or suggestions. It does not automatically involve relaxation, although relaxation may a product or even a 'side effect' of hypnosis. The 'therapy' part relates to the therapeutic intervention(s) that may be included as part of the hypnosis (or even before or after the hypnotic suggestion(s) have been made).

How does it work?

Content and approaches of sessions will vary depending on your needs and goals. I may invite you to go into hypnosis, and offer positive suggestions to reframe things you previously found difficult and make new neural connections that support you more effectively. In reframing, you will be encouraged to tap into the underlying confidence and well being that is always a part of you (however well hidden) and create new patterns of positive behaviours for yourself. It may all sound a little ‘woo woo’ but consider all the thoughts you are currently experiencing and how they are influencing your current behaviours….hypnosis allows you to interrupt unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more positive, beneficial ones.

The other approaches (whether grounded in NLP, EMDR, EFT, Positive Psychology, as well as Solution Focused and Transformational Therapy techniques, for example) follow a similar interrupt and replacement pattern designed to allow you to focus on going forward pursuing your goal(s) and thriving as an individual.

I work mainly online (usually through ‘zoom’) nowadays which has been shown to be as equally effective as face to face.

Can I be hypnotised?

Yes, of course. The vast majority of us can be hypnotised. And, just as easily, we can choose not to be hypnotised. The more interesting idea is whether all hypnosis is self hypnosis. I believe it is and part of my role within our sessions will be to encourage you to develop your own self hypnosis practice. It can be a fantastic tool for supporting you on your journey.

Why does every hypnotherapist offer managing anxiety?

Anxiety lies underneath many of the other issues we face (phobias, fears, addictions, etc). Because anxiety is the most natural occurring state, if it can be managed well and appropriately it can offer us a pathway to regaining or achieving balance in our lives. Hypnotherapy will not ‘cure’ all your problems once and for all. Anxieties will occur, pop up, surface all the time. But the tools and approaches of hypnotherapy can help reduce your anxiety on that particular issue or that specific challenge for you. So that you can regain your confidence to handle a future situation or circumstance.

In some ways, given the way the outside world is, is it any wonder there is anxiety…..that we all feel anxious from time to time. And yet even more than that, given our own internal world is it not entirely natural for us to feel uneasy or at some level worried or concerned. Indeed, as a species, wasn’t – isn’t - a certain level of anxiety useful to us? Did it – does it - not help us to pay attention to our surroundings and potential threats? Whether we like it or not, or whether we are consciously aware of it, we are always having to pay attention to our surroundings. Where once we heard rustling in the undergrowth and fearfully imagined a sabre tooth tiger coming to attack us or our family, now a creaking floorboard, or a random knock on our front door at 2.00am, can provoke a similar reaction. An email from our manager asking for a quick catch up can suddenly produce an anxious thought. We fear the worst because once the worst was to be feared (and sometimes still is). So, anxiety is both a natural occurring state and, at times, useful to us.

If I walk towards a barking dog, or have been tasked with giving a presentation at work or even invited to attend a job interview, a certain amount of worry or concern would seem natural. It might even be useful as a way to ensure I am fully focussed on the situation. But what if I begin to worry about the dog before I even see it (or even just the thought of a dog makes me worried) or I get bogged down in stress and worry thoughts every waking moment about my up coming presentation or job interview. To the extent that I’m not able to complete any preparation work for either activity. Even more, the worries start to affect my breathing, my sleeping pattern or even my eating habits (as coping ways to distract myself from the stress and worry). So, the question is when does anxiety becomes an ‘issue’ or a problem for that particular person at that particular time or in that situation. What is the perceived threat? Why? And that’s when a hypnotherapist can offer their support.

Does it work?

No hypnotherapist can offer 100% guarantee. Why? There are several factors that influence the outcome of individual therapy, including levels of motivation and willingness. However, benefits are typically observed in the majority of cases. There is in fact a wealth of clinical evidence that hypnotherapeutic interventions can improve people’s emotional and physical well being across a wide range of issues such as habits, addiction, anxieties, pain control, depression, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and other issues.

What makes you qualified to do hypnotherapy?

I've been researching, studying and practising since 2010 (and since 2008, if you include achieving NLP Practitioner status). Over the years, I've realised the techniques, tools and approaches within hypnotherapy are simply ways of achieving 'aha moments' for the client. They may be interesting or even unusual or just downright bizarre and yet they work (Tapping each of my fingers five times, what's that about?)! Those moments when you've been searching for your glasses and then suddenly realise they were on your head the whole time. Not being able to find your house keys in your bag and then searching again and, lo, there they are! However you got there isn't important so much as being there, in the moment. That sudden relief and realisation (that all is ok). Yes, sometimes you need someone else to point out something you may have been deleting, distorting or even assuming about yourself. Maybe a friend, a family member or even someone you trust. But if you're stuck right now and if I can help you, I will. If you think I can, reach out.

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After just a few sessions, I felt lighter and more in control—dmcd hypnotherapy truly helped me break free from old patterns.

Anna K.

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