What to Expect

It is important to take advantage of my free ½ hour session; this can be seen as a two way meeting. Where I find out a little of your problem, along with any medical history then tell you how I can help and explain my process of therapy work. Also for you to feel comfortable with me, so we can work together on getting the result you want.

After this with your permission we can go into a session. Here I shall gather some history of how you got where you are today, gathering this information is necessary so I guide you through my work to give you that positive result that you need.

When it is time to receive your trance induction, here are just some of the signs of hypnosis you may be able to notice: fluttering of the eyes or eyelids; swallowing; feelings of heaviness or lightness, breathing more rhythmic and slower, time distortion; little muscle jerks in your hands, arms, feet or legs. There are other signs that I look for to know how your trance state is deepening.

It is not always important to be put into trance - there are many techniques which are very powerful without trance induction.

When you are hypnotized, with a wonderful relaxed body, your unconscious mind will follow. From here your subconscious mind can be free to learn and discover new ways of behavior. This is a pleasant sensation, however you are totally aware of where you are, and more important that you are in control. Clinical hypnosis is not stage hypnosis, as you are not asked or told to do anything embarrassing.

When the hypnotic session is over you come back to full awareness, where you feel good, refreshed and relaxed…

Is Hypnosis Safe?

Hypnosis is safe. Yes in the right hands and used in the right way then hypnotherapy is very safe. Hypnosis is used to bypass the logical, reasoning, conscious element of your brain in order to communicate directly to your subconscious mind. Your subconscious is very powerful on its own, and monitors all of your actions and even controls those actions you don't even think about, such as heartbeat, blood pressure, skin temperature, etc.

How Many Sessions Will I Need?

A good question, however we have all experienced different things in our world and no one has the same feeling or vision of anyone else. Therapy in its generalization will have a set structure, but its approach must be fluid. This is to say that if I have to stop a client smoking in one session, I can but it will be important to find out why that person started to smoke, and this may not be possible to do in one session, because their could be a lot of emotional baggage. When this is put right, stopping smoking is a simple process.

Can hypnotherapy cure my phobia?

Yes it can... Many of our negative inputs that we experience as children, we have learned from our parents. So if we see our parents fear a spider or a mouse for instance by screaming, we then copy this and our unconscious mind thinks this is the right thing to do!

Will hypnotherapy make me a perfect person?

No it will not; however what is a perfect person?, there is no instant magic wand to wave over you, but the change can begin soon as you decide to make those changes, and this become reality when you take those first steps to visit me. These problems will either reduce or be eliminated and you will be able to achieve to be the person you want to be.

Will hypnotherapy always work?

This does work because people have come to see me to help them, and if you really do want it, it will happen for you. I receive a lot of referrals through word of mouth; these recommendations are brought about by satisfied clients. The only time when it doesn’t work is when clients don’t follow my procedure, this is the same as when you are given instructions on how to get to some place and you don’t follow them, e.g. on a map or recipe. So you get lost don’t you!…

So you get lost don’t you!…

Can I get trapped in the hypnotic state?

No; its as simple as that, when you are in your trance state you can come out of it at anytime, however if you went even deeper into it and you wish to stay their, you would just drop off to sleep, and wake up either in a few minutes or in a few hours, with no side effects.

Will I lose control?

It depend what lose control means to you. If you mean do I lose the natural control of my bodily functions the answer is No! But to lose control of that old habit of living your life on auto pilot then the answer is Yes! Because it comes down to lack of choice. At this moment in time you feel you have no choice, which is why you wish to see me.

What does it feel like to be in a hypnotic state?

We are all going in and out of trance states on a daily basis. When you go to sleep you are in a sleep state, when you cry, happy, sad and angry these are all altered states, children in a day-dream are in that altered state. Have you ever driven your car somewhere and when you get there you can’t remember how you did it, but you would have been on red alert if some incident would have happened. So now knowing this everyone’s experience of this is down to the individual.

Precautions

Hypnosis is a complementary therapy and not a substitute for your doctor's expertise. If you have an illness or injury always seek your doctor's advice.