Advanced Hypnotherapy
What is hypnosis? Hypnosis is simply a state of highly focused concentration and heightened awareness. You unknowingly experience this natural state every day. It's just a way of tuning out distracting thoughts, and focusing your attention, just as you do when you're daydreaming, or when totally absorbed in a film, book, TV show, or favourite hobby, or even when driving. Hypnosis is thought to work by altering your state of consciousness, in such a way that the analytical parts of the brain are quietened down, while the non-analytical parts are made more alert. This allows the unconscious mind to come to the fore, where it is able to accept suggestions more easily. The unconscious mind contains all your memories and experiences, and controls your automatic thoughts and behaviours, and this is the part which has to change for your behaviour and physical state to alter. What is hypnotherapy? In hypnotherapy you are guided into hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. It is literally therapy done while in hypnosis and can be thought of as an effective and speedy form of psychotherapy. Hypnotherapy can change your patterns of behaviour and perceptions, enabling irrational fears, phobias, habits, negative thoughts and suppressed emotions to be overcome. With the help of the hypnotherapist, you are able to look at problems differently and maybe discover solutions to problems that had been missed before. My training As well as my psychotherapy training, I also have extensive training in various styles of hypnosis, including traditional and indirect approaches, Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy and conversational hypnosis. I have received additional specialist training in working with anger, addictions, IBS, using nature therapeutically, human development, psychopathology, managing pain, stress management, and ethical practice. I am also a fully trained and accredited supervisor and am able to offer supervision to other complementary therapists.