Issues I work with

Have you tried everything you can think of to give up? Been through every option – gum, patches, nicotine replacement therapy, fake cigarettes, support groups and so on – yet nothing’s worked?

Hypnotherapy is a safe, natural and effective treatment to help you become a non-smoker and remain that way.

The process is natural and relaxing. I am proud that most of my clients leave as non-smokers after one session. If you feel a more intensive therapy would be required to enable you to give up, a two session package is available. The second session uses hypnotherapy and technology combined to create a powerful therapeutic effect.

Still need some convincing? Find out more about the treatment

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Weight control and food management can be highly effective as part of a re-education process. The fundamental fact is: diets don’t work as a long-term weight control solution. Many of my patients come for treatment having been on numerous diets over a period of many years, but when they diet their weight comes off then goes right back on again.

Many commercial diets and schemes are designed to keep you coming back, encouraging a mindset of dependence. It doesn’t have to be like that. Using hypnosis I will help re-educate your unconscious mind with a new, healthier belief system. Its all about you, and enabling you to take control over how you eat, how you perceive food and how you live your life.

My weight control treatment is over a minimum of three sessions. However each package can be tailored to the individual, so if you decide you need more ongoing support we can discuss a treatment appropriate to your needs.

Poor self-confidence affects most people at some time in their lives. It means your pattern of feelings, thoughts, and behaviours are not in balance, which sets you up to expect failure or disappointment in your abilities.

The good news is that hypnotherapy is a highly effective means of giving you back control over your emotions and helping you move forward in your life.

During your therapy we will identify the cause of your poor self-confidence. We’ll then build on your confidence by working with your conscious and your unconscious mind using a combination of hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming (NLP) techniques.

Generally, treatment takes place over a minimum of three sessions. Your course of hypnotherapy will help build your self-esteem and will incorporate anxiety management, assertiveness training and ego-boosting.

Speaking in public or giving professional presentations can make many people feel anxious – butterflies in your stomach, sweaty palms, speaking too quickly. We’ve all been there.

A fear of public speaking can hold us back in our careers and in social situations. The root cause varies from person to person. Through hypnosis you can quickly and comfortably uncover the cause of the symptom, allowing you to tackle your fears.

Your treatment will allow you to remain calm, confident and relaxed, whether it is speaking at a wedding, presenting on stage, or in the boardroom.

Treatment combines hypnotherapy and neuro linguistic programming techniques and generally requires a minimum of three sessions. Each case is treated on an individual basis to ensure you get exactly the right support for your needs.

Do you find it difficult to achieve optimal performance and focus? Training your mind to be free from distractions and focus on your goals is essential to success.

Hypnotherapy has been used by top performers for many years in order to help them focus, to be ‘in the zone’. Clients come from a variety of disciplines: golf, athletics, football and so on. Whatever your sport, whatever the issue you have with your performance, hypnotherapy can help you make the vital difference. You don’t even have to be an athlete. Clients come from all walks of life; musicians, teachers and managers amongst others.

Treatment combines hypnotherapy and neuro linguistic programming techniques and generally requires a minimum of three sessions. However each case is treated on an individual basis to ensure you get exactly the right support for your needs.

Most of us have lives in which stress can play a major part. But it can often overwhelm us and affect every part of our lives.

Some tension is important for us as it helps drive us to do things we really need or want to achieve. However, when tension gets too much, turns to stress and begins to affect our lives in negative ways, it’s time to take control. Don’t ignore stress as it can lead to serious mental, physical or emotional problems.

Hypnotherapy offers a variety of techniques and tools to allow you to manage your life and situations in a more controlled manner.

The number of sessions you may require will depend on the extent of the issue. Generally, you should notice an improvement after anywhere from one to three sessions.

A large percentage of the population suffers from a phobia of one type or another. You may find it mildly distressing, or it could be seriously debilitating. A phobia can trigger panic attacks and in severe cases the phobia can control your life.

Treatment using hypnotherapy generally takes about three sessions. However the number of sessions required to effectively deal with phobias can vary. The length of treatment can depend on several factors, including how long you have had the phobia, how severely the phobia affects you and how determined you are to be free from the phobia.

There are few instances of phobias that can’t be effectively treated, regardless of how illogical your phobia may seem to you.

Comfort Eating or emotional eating is a common reason for gaining weight. The underlying feelings which cause emotional eating can be deep seated and difficult to access on a conscious level. These feelings are experienced as an illogical and unconscious urge to eat, even when you’re not hungry.

Comfort eating can become a habit or addiction, making you feel out of control. The more you rely on food to regulate your mood the more food you consume to feel comforted. Hypnotherapy can help you solve the underlying emotional cause which leads to comfort eating.

Treatment usually takes around three sessions. However the reasons which caused you to develop the habit of emotional eating are personal and unique to you, so your treatment will reflect your individual needs.

Nearly everyone has experienced test or exam nerves – it’s perfectly natural. However some people find these feelings so intense they can have a profoundly negative effect on their performance.

Taking control over your exam nerves is much easier than you might imagine. Feeling calm, relaxed, focused and confident when sitting an exam means you are more likely to achieve your full potential. Being able to access this state of mind during exams is a skill which can be learned through different techniques.

Using hypnotherapy and NLP techniques, it’s perfectly possible to enter the exam room with confidence and just the right amount of adrenaline to keep you bright and focused.

Addictions can take many forms, whether it is drugs, alcohol, gambling or prescription medication. Addiction can affect you on many different levels and can adversely affect your life opportunities.

Drug testing has become an occupational health and safety tool for many employers and in some cases it is now required as part of the insurance cover. Don’t let your addiction stop you from getting that great job.

Hypnotherapy can be a highly successful means of helping you to become addiction-free. However, hypnosis can only be effective as a treatment for addiction if you really want to give up your destructive habits and behaviours.

Treatment is tailored to the individual and based on your specific underlying needs.

A fear of flying can make life truly miserable, especially when you can’t enjoy the experience of visiting distant relatives or taking holidays that require a flight. It can also be career-limiting when the very thought of getting on a plane fills you with dread.

The fear of flying, like all other fears and phobias, can be effectively treated with hypnotherapy. The easiest way to overcome your fear of flying is to program your unconscious mind to overcome your fears. You can free yourself from the fear of flying in just a few sessions.

If you have a trip planned and need to overcome fear of flying quickly, intensive therapy is also available.

We’ve all been unable to fall asleep or couldn’t get back to sleep once woken up. But a consistent lack of sleep can affect your ability to cope and function in our everyday activities.

Hypnotherapy can help you overcome the obstacles preventing you from sleeping. Most patients should expect to see an improvement after three sessions, some with less. Hypnotherapy will provide you with techniques to help you relax, slow down your thought patterns and dissociate yourself from environmental distractions.

There are a number of possible causes of insomnia, some psychological, some physical. Before beginning treatment it is essential to consult your GP in order to eliminate any possible physical or genetic factors.

IBS is an extremely common disorder, but can greatly affect the quality of your life. You may find yourself emotionally distressed and unable to participate in your normal daily activities. IBS can be a costly disease in terms of health care but also because of your inability to work while you have symptoms.

Psychological stress can make IBS harder to tolerate. Relaxation techniques and hypnotherapy can help you deal with the emotional stress and have a positive impact on symptoms for many IBS patients.

Hypnotherapy can help you take control of your body and create a life for yourself that you know you can have.

Read an overview of research carried out into the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome using hypnosis.

Living with pain can be debilitating, depressing and a major factor affecting work, life, and social relationships.

Pain management hypnotherapy offers a variety of mechanisms using the techniques of hypnosis and NLP to change the way in which pain signals are processed by the brain. Although there are numerous factors that can impact the effectiveness of the treatment, provided you are motivated enough, hypnotherapy could very well provide the relief you’re looking for.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can manifest itself in a number of ways and can of course have a variety of causes. PTSD generally results from experiencing a traumatic event. Many years after the event people with PTSD may relive the event through nightmares or flashbacks, almost as if it were happening all over again.

Using a combination of hypnotherapy, neuro linguistic programming and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) techniques, you can resolve post traumatic stress disorder quickly and gently.

Blushing: we all do it, it’s natural, but for some, it’s turned into something far more significant.

Erythrophobia, or an extreme reaction to the act of blushing, is far more common than you might imagine. Extreme blushing is a self-fulfilling prophecy; the more you blush, the more sensitive you become to it and so the pattern continues. There are, however, ways you can take control over your blushing.

There are good and bad habits, and both have been programmed to help us. Nail biting for example may have originally been a way to deal with nervousness or anxiety. That anxiety may now be gone, yet we still carry on the habit of biting our nails.

Whether your habit is nail biting, hand washing or another unwanted habit, hypnotherapy can be highly effective in helping you overcome it once and for all. As a general rule many habits are hangovers from a past behaviour that at one time may have served a purpose. That purpose is now no longer necessary and what you’ve been left with is something that’s unnecessary, annoying, and often painful on every level.

By helping you to unlearn this behaviour, hypnosis can give you back control over your life. Treatment is generally done over three sessions, although depending on the extent of the habit behaviour, occasionally it can take less or perhaps a little more.

Bruxism (teeth or jaw grinding) taken to extremes can result in acute pain and significant implications for the teeth, joints and bones of the mouth.

The good news is the treatment for bruxism is remarkably straightforward and effective. Teeth grinding can occur at any time of the day or night, but to stop, you need to change your thought and behaviour patterns. Through hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming you will deal with any underlying anxiety or stress that could be contributing to your bruxism.

Treatment usually takes around three sessions. However the reasons which caused you to develop the habit of bruxism are personal and unique to you, so your treatment will reflect your individual needs.