Initial Consultation.

A free one-hour free initial consultation is offered to all prospective clients, either in clinic or online.

This is an informal and friendly meeting and enables getting to know you, and what you need help with and how hypnotherapy can help.

Information is collected using a form. The information collected starts off with basic information and questions – address and date of birth for example.
More in-depth information is collected to help understand your physical and mental health with questions relating to things like quality of sleep, level of exercise, family situation, health conditions and medication.

Questions are asked about ailments, conditions and illnesses you may suffer from or are diagnosed with.

Questions are asked about what has brought you to seek hypnotherapy and what your hopes and expectations are.

This information gives background information and insight into you, your health state, your needs and wishes with hypnotherapy and also the type of personality you are so the treatment approach can be tailored individually to you.

This information creates a client record.  All records are protected and secure under the data protection legislation and no records or information within them is given to anyone else.

From the initial consultation,  a treatment approach can be decided and discussed together with how many sessions should be needed.

Therapy Sessions.

Depending on the individual and their needs such as how deep-rooted an issue or problem is, only one session may be required, otherwise, several sessions may be needed.

Treatment can take place either in hypnosis under trance or out of hypnosis.

The majority of clients report a significant improvement after the first session, and on average find 3-5 sessions bring about lasting change.

For simple or general pain, simple fears, phobias or addictions, a person may not need any therapeutic intervention, so plain hypnotic suggestions may be all that is required. So in the case of someone who smokes 20 cigarettes a day, they might need 3-4 sessions to be able to become a non-smoker.

However, someone who smokes 100 cigarettes a day, may need therapeutic hypnosis to go and look for the underlying cause of what is a debilitating habit. That’s going to take more sessions.

For weight loss a number of sessions are needed due to the extent of required behaviour change – to help someone understand why they may struggle to maintain or lose weight, as well as to recognise ways they might be sabotaging themselves with unhealthy choices of behaviours, breaking down unhealthy eating attachments and methods of coping and healthy and supporting an eating plan and portion size change and exercise regime motivation.

However, unlike psychotherapy, hypnotherapy can help people achieve their goals in just a few weeks.

The Hypnotherapy Process – What’s Involved?

Hypnotherapy involves several stages or steps to prepare, carry out, and finish the hypnosis process.

Informed consent: Before beginning, the process is explained so that a client knows what to expect, has an opportunity to ask questions, and can consent to the therapy.

An Induction: To get a person into an initial state of trance,  where they are ore open to suggestion, through encouraging focused attention, disattention to surroundings, and absorption in inner mental world.  Different techniques can be used such as with a focus or fixation on an object, image, thought, awareness and focus on breathing and attention to parts of the body and bodily sensations from head to feet.  This beginning step promotes relaxation that enables an escalating level of focus.

A Deepener: To get a person into a deeper state of trance using deepening focus: Hypnosis requires intense focus, so once a person is calm, further instructions enhance attention on the calming imagery.

Therapeutic Techniques e.g. Suggestions: Once a person is in the trance-like condition, different techniques such as specific suggestions, changing perceptions, visualisations etc… are offered that are tailored to address the person’s issue/s they have come for help with e.g. medical problem or symptoms.

Ending hypnosis: In the final step, the client is guided to return to being fully awake conscious and alert.