​Most people hear the word hypnotherapy and immediately picture swinging watches, stage performers, and someone clucking like a chicken on command. Clinical hypnotherapy couldn’t be further from that. I have found it to be really useful change tool particularly in combination with somatic work or EMDR. It's a deeply calming modality and allows you to experience 'changed states' such as confidence, which you can bring more easily into the everyday. 

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Clinical hypnotherapy by-passes the logical mind so that you can go deep and work directly on the unconscious mind at the root of the issue, the part of you that stores habits, trauma, triggers, beliefs and patterns. It is also deeply calming and regulates the nervous system. Hypnosis is a relaxed and focussed sate (sometimes called a trance). In this state your unconscious is more open and receptive.

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 Most people know what their problem is but they just can't seem to change it. Your logical brain knows you shouldn't be anxious but you can't help it. You know you shouldn't people please, but it keeps happening. You  know you shouldn't comfort eat, but you do.

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We believe we make choices with our conscious mind but evidence shows the unconscious is responsible for 95% of your choices. For example you may be aware you choose unhealthy relationships and want to change but somehow that old unhealthy pattern keeps re-occurring in new ways.

Real lasting change happens in the unconscious mind. That's where hypnotherapy comes in.

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