WHAT IS HYPNOTHERAPY?

 Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic practice that uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to help individuals enter a state of heightened awareness, often referred to as a trance. In this state, a person is more open to suggestions, which can help them address various issues such as anxiety, stress, phobias, pain management, or unwanted behaviours (like smoking or overeating). Hypnotherapy aims to tap into the subconscious mind to encourage positive changes, improve emotional well-being, and promote personal growth. 

In hypnosis you will access the beliefs that directly relate to the issue you want to resolve; this is where the key to your freedom is held. By understanding how and why these beliefs are causing your issue, you can change the meaning behind these beliefs; you can understand, heal, and recode new, more empowering, healthy beliefs and patterns. 

Breakthroughs are achieved by discovering the root cause, rather than just addressing the symptoms of the presenting issue. This is why hypnotherapy can have such a powerful and positive impact. 

The changes and freedom are life-changing. You will have gained an understanding and freedom around your issue that is yours forever, and once you have this new understanding, you will never go back to believing in the old beliefs that had you stuck in suffering. 

The biggest misconception about therapy is that it is complicated, drawn-out, and painful. With hypnotherapy, you have an outcome-forced solution capable of delivering transformative results within 1-3 sessions. We’re all unique, so sometimes it may take another session for that issue. Weight loss/eating disorders, depression, and anxiety may require several sessions.

Sometimes you will end the session feeling amazing and totally different, knowing that everything has changed, instantly. More often you’ll notice day by day that things have changed cumulatively. For other people, after a month or so, you’ll realise that the thing that used to bother you just isn’t there anymore, retroactively,

In conventional talk therapy, you are using your conscious mind to discuss an issue in your life. Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind. The function of the subconscious is to store and retrieve data and ensure you respond to your environment exactly as you have been programmed. It makes everything you say and do consistent with your programming, which was predominantly developed within the first 7 years of your life. These beliefs are not necessarily apparent to you. We spend a significant portion of our day operating from the subconscious mind—estimates suggest it's around 90-95% of our daily mental activity. The subconscious mind controls automatic functions, such as breathing, habits, and learnt behaviours, allowing the conscious mind to focus on present tasks. While we are consciously aware of our thoughts and decisions, much of our actions, emotions, and reactions are guided by the subconscious mind, often influenced by past experiences, beliefs, and patterns. Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind, allowing self-limiting beliefs, fears and phobias, and physical conditions to be identified, understood, and changed, with new life-affirming beliefs and habits being installed.

Hypnotherapy aims to get to the root cause of an issue, giving clients the most liberating understanding and transformative power to bring positive change into their lives. You cannot fix what you don’t understand, and in order to overcome the struggles that hold us back, it is very important for us to discover the root, the cause, and the reason for why we have the issue. Once you have that understanding, I believe that you can heal rapidly with the right support and the right tools.

Hypnotherapy offers a comprehensive range of transformational techniques, including command cell therapy, to activate the body’s innate ability to restore itself to wellness from a cellular level. Science has proven with neuroplasticity that we can rewire our minds, which is why it has the most powerful potential on the planet. Using hypnotherapy to access the almighty subconscious mind, we can create new neural pathways and replace old limiting beliefs and behaviours with new empowering ones.

Anyone, the key is that you are 100% committed to finally changing for good; you have tried to change repeatedly but have been unsuccessful. If you want to improve a specific area of your life and haven’t been able to get there yourself, then hypnotherapy is for you.

It’s incredibly relaxing, it’s healing, and it’s transforming. Don’t expect to feel hypnotised; just expect to feel very relaxed, yet very alert. Most people don’t realise they are hypnotised until they come out of it. In fact, we go into hypnotic trances all the time—driving along a motorway, watching TV, or cooking our favourite meal—no doubt you remember feeling ‘zoned out.’ The experience is different for everyone; some people feel a floating sensation, some people feel sleepy, but most people feel relaxed and at ease.  Hypnosis is simply a deep state of relaxation where your conscious (thinking) mind is quietened and your subconscious mind is made more alert. 

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind; it is completely safe, and nothing bad can happen to you. It is not woo-woo or trickery; it’s a science. Your subconscious will never allow you to do anything that will harm you or not be in your best interest. That is our primal wiring, and that is why humanity has survived. Our minds are hardwired to keep us safe.

Absolutely not! You are in charge. You cannot be made to do anything against your will. You are awake and alert and aware of everything that is happening throughout the session. You are in control at all times.

You can. Everyone can. As long as you are willing to enter hypnosis, you will. It’s an easy, enjoyable, and thoroughly relaxing process. It's more like being in a trance.

No. That’s a myth. You will maintain full control the entire time, and when you do let go and go into hypnosis, your subconscious will only let you go so far, as it will always protect you.

If you go back to traumatic memories or a life event that is painful, there are some things to consider. One, know that if your subconscious mind has brought this scene to your awareness, it is very important to resolving the issue. It is showing you the source of the subconscious beliefs or behaviours that have to do with your issue. Two, I will be there to remind you that you are safe, with me (or in your home), and you are simply reviewing the scene as if it was on a TV screen. You will not be reliving the scene. If you want to end the session, all you have to do is open your eyes.

If you regress back to traumatic memories that are too uncomfortable to share, you do not have to share them with me. Remember, you are in complete control. All you need to share are the feelings you are experiencing in that scene.

There are three types of change from hypnotherapy—every person is different.

• Instantly: You feel a massive shift straight away. You feel a change in your physiology, thoughts, and behaviours. Right in the session.
• Cumulatively: You see consistent shifts every day, or over time.
• Retroactively: You don’t see shifts right away, and then one day you suddenly look back and see all of the things that are different in your life.

Absolutely. Confidentiality is a fundamental aspect of any therapeutic process. It ensures that all personal information shared during sessions is kept private and secure, fostering a trusting and safe environment for clients to express themselves openly. Exceptions to confidentiality may apply only in specific situations, such as if there is a risk of harm to the individual or others. 

Yes, absolutely. I believe that online sessions can be even more effective than face-to-face sessions. It is the new norm to have hypnosis and counselling online. Online sessions give you the luxury to participate from the comfort of your own home. You are able to relax more after your session, and this is a big benefit.

Your biggest responsibility is to commit to listening to your personalised transformational audio every day for at least 21 days after your session. Listening to the recording reinforces the new beliefs you acquired in your session. It is most effective to listen to the recording before falling asleep at night.