Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy is a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and evidenced based Clinical Hypnotherapy. This powerful integration is proven to be more effective than using either approach on its own. I also use Mindfulness techniques which further enhance treatment.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy uses imaginative visual suggestions and evocative words to affect real change in clients' lives. Our bodies are powerfully affected from day to day by the things that we think, recall how your heart rate can increase whilst watching a horror film! When understood and used in the right way, harnessing the power of suggestion can have incredible benefits.
Clients can have imaginative experiences in therapy that are almost as powerful to the mind and body, as they would be if they had experienced them in real life. In hypnosis, you can use your imagination to picture your goals and change the way you think, feel and behave to achieve them.
Hypnosis is proven to help with a wide range of issues and is shown to be particularly helpful for dealing with anxiety management, pain management, sleep problems, stress-related issues and breaking habits.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is a form of talking therapy which helps you identify negative patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving and replace them with more helpful ones. It is based on the approach that our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and how our body feels are all connected. By changing one of these we can alter the others.
The focus is on dealing with your problems in the here and now rather than analysing the past, which helps to make treatment faster. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the NHS recommend CBT in the treatment of anxiety and depression, and there is also good evidence that CBT can help with many other conditions such as panic attacks, phobias, sleep problems and stress-related conditions.
Research shows that hypnosis, in combination with CBT, can be more effective than CBT alone for many conditions.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is about being fully present and aware of your emotions, physical sensations and everything that’s going on around you, from moment to moment. Sometimes our attention can become focussed on unhelpful thoughts, for example worrying about something that might happen in the future.
By practising mindfulness, you can learn to recognise when this happens, and choose when to pay attention to your thoughts and when it’s more helpful to let them go. Mindfulness is increasingly recognised by many, including the NHS as having significant and wide-ranging benefits, especially if you’re dealing with stress and anxiety.