Hypnotherapy – more information
An online session is exactly the same as a face-to-face session – you will be in the comfort and privacy of your own home, without the need to travel, and at a time that suits you. A lot of people have said they feel more relaxed and less self-conscious during an online session at home.
A 2019 study by Manchester University found that online hypnotherapy sessions were as good as face to face sessions – all the people in the study reported significant improvement.
“I do not subscribe to the ‘one size fits all’ model of hypnotherapy where the hypnotist reads from a generic script. Most hypnotherapists make the mistake of assuming they already know what the client should have, instead of delivering what the client needs and really wanted in the first place.
“Today, mainstream psychotherapy is too narrow in its thinking about the human condition. Good psychotherapy has its foundations in the work of psychologist Carl Rogers, who recognised that it is the client who must decide these things, not the therapist. My job to help the client recognise what is important and what is trivial.
“In any event, I don’t believe in long therapy – my aim is the termination of therapy! I can accomplish in ONE SESSION what can take weeks of psychotherapy. Many of my clients come from recommendation. Hypnosis sessions are about more than just hypnosis – addressing emotional or psychological problems always involves examining and interpreting the way we understand ourselves; how we feel emotionally, including our thoughts, feelings, habits and behaviour.
“I disagree with the new fad of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) because that approach does not take into account the individual needs of the client. Clients have things they want to talk about and it’s important to listen. I believe that successful therapy is really just a matter of talking and understanding – hypnosis cements and reinforces what we decide so you can achieve rapid change, retake ownership of your life and live anxiety free.
“Hypnotherapy can be a powerful tool for change – even a cure – for a host of problems. Hypnosis has been subject to intense scientific research at universities and hospitals and has significant academic and medical approval. The positive effects of hypnosis as a natural and effective tool are now understood and accepted as a treatment for a variety of psychological problems. In short, hypnosis and hypnotherapy are now mainstream and no longer just a complementary therapy, but an essential and permanent solution to issues that were once thought incurable!”
This is what 40 years of experience can achieve!
Andrew Newton has a professional, though informal approach to hypnotherapy, based on years of practice and experience, studying and using the most effective treatments available. Some of his academic papers and books on psychology, hypnosis and hypnotherapy are available to read on this website.
Personalised hypnotherapy sessions are based on rigorous scientific psychological principles and research. His approach is all about getting to understand the client’s real needs. Andrew understands that every client is unique, so every hypnotherapy session is tailored to individual needs and addresses the changes that enable you to function the way you want to… and regain ownership of your life. Hypnotherapy can produce fast results by getting directly to the root of the issue.
Andrew is thorough and he listens to what the client actually wants – and delivers it. This is why sessions are between 2½ and 3 hours – his aim is always to get clients to move on as quickly as possible. The aim is to take the time to listen and understand – not to read from a one-size-fits-all generic script. Hypnotherapy is not a fast-food drive-through solution!
Pussy-footing around doesn’t get clients very far either… which is why he never tells clients what they want to hear… he always gets to the heart of the matter – which is why he always gets results… Clients are often surprised by what they have been able to achieve immediately after the session, even if the issue has been buried for years!
Andrew is highly experienced at making changes to the way you think, and creating new and more positive feelings and emotions, reducing stress and anxieties, and improving your physical and mental wellbeing.
“Humans are pre-programmed to react to negative thoughts and feelings and to be cautious, because those behaviours are all part of the survival strategy. In psychological terms, this is called negativity bias. Criticism can have a greater impact on us than a compliment, and bad news more of an impact than good news and negative events make more of an impression on our brains than positive ones. All these things can exert a powerful effect on the way we think and behave, on the decisions we make, on our relationships with others, and ultimately on our lives. But the balance can be restored!
“Sometimes we find ourselves feeling lost and confused about the direction our life is taking. We struggle to overcome mental blocks and find ourselves reminiscing about less complicated times when things weren’t so hectic. It’s at times like these we are at our most vulnerable. Changing the way we think about things can change the way we feel about them. Once we’ve managed to that, making even the most profound changes is just one step away… There’s always a solution.
“Sometimes doubts and irrational fears prey on our minds. Sometimes they are just fleeting, but sometimes it feels as if we’re stuck with all the negativity. Worse… it’s the physical feelings that accompany those doubts that make our lives so much more difficult. Hypnotherapy offers an easy and quick solution.
“If you are struggling with negative habits or compulsions, then now is the time for change. Hypnotherapy provides an opportunity to regain control of yourself, letting go of negative and destructive beliefs, and creating a permanent, powerful shift in your life! It can help you overcome all kinds of worries and anxieties by helping you deal with the debilitating impact of constant and unremitting stress – and it’s all natural and drug-free!
“No issue is too complex or deep rooted to change because all problems have an underlying emotional issue. None of us are born stressed or anxious… stress & anxiety are things we learn… and it’s just as easy to ‘unlearn’ them!
"None of us are born phobic… a phobia is something we learned… so now it’s time to ‘unlearn’ it! Hypnotherapy can help you overcome your deepest fears. Whether it’s claustrophobia, spiders, open spaces, fear of flying – even the most bizarre phobias – You can overcome it! I have dealt with some extreme phobias and as a result, changed lives in just one session.
“Panic attacks can make you feel like the world is ending and your heart’s about to burst out of your chest. So what if I told you there was a way to put an end to them permanently? Hypnotherapy can do just that by teaching you how to manage your emotions in just one session.
"How much more could you achieve in your life if you were just a little bit more confident? Hypnotherapy can rapidly make you a more confident version of yourself! Feeling calmer and more confident helps you think more clearly and feel better about yourself.
“How would you like to feel proud of yourself? How would you like to feel confident, no matter what obstacles life throws at you? Regardless of whatever has happened in your life, you can be strong, powerful, compassionate, and in full control…
“You can discover and learn to apply the strengths that will allow you to continue to learn and develop, and hypnotherapy can help you overcome the barriers to progress because hypnotherapy uses the power of your conscious mind and the latest discoveries in modern neuroscience for personal and professional development.
“I aim to provide you with positive results, not coping strategies or 'just slightly better than before. My client’s emotional welfare and wellbeing is my number one priority. My goal is get every client to achieve a greater sense of fulfilment, connectedness and confidence. Through the latest advances in Hypnotherapy, my clients are able to ‘take the lead’ and regain control of their lives, overcoming the fears, anxieties and doubts which have been holding them back.
"Random negative thoughts can develop into a something that’s very limiting! Just as you trained your brain to think negatively, you can train your brain to think in a completely different way. Just one session of hypnosis can eliminate negative or limiting beliefs, change unhelpful behaviour patterns, and get you to move forward with your life in a more positive and productive way."
Depression
Hypnosis can be a powerful tool to help beat depression because it helps to calm the mind and body. People who suffer from depression have higher than normal levels of the stress hormone cortisol and hypnosis can help reduce this.
Physical signs of depression include lethargy, constant tiredness, loss of appetite, or over-eating and poor sleeping patterns. Sufferers experience symptoms of feeling sad, hopeless, that nothing ever goes right, and that they are useless.
Depression however, should not be confused with grief, which is a perfectly normal and natural reaction to the loss of a loved one or when Manchester United lose against Portsmouth. Only when sadness is disproportionately prolonged does it become depression.
Manic depression, sometimes called bi-polar depression, is a different thing altogether. In these cases, the individual experiences extreme mood swings – from extreme sadness to extreme feelings of elation for no apparent reason.
Depression brought on by a certain event or series of events is known as Reactive depression. If there is no discernible cause for the depression, then it is known as Endogenous Depression.
To complicate matters further, some people find that their depression can come and go – often descending without warning.
About 10% of people experience depression at least once in their lives, although women seem to be more prone to it, especially between the ages of 35 to 45. Creative types seem more prone than others to depression – Robbie Williams, for example, seems to be in and out of The Priory for no other discernible reason. A lot of the great composers and artists suffered interminable bouts of chronic depression – Van Gogh even cut his own ear off!
Hypnosis can help recoup lost energy, practice new positive behaviours, and build motivation. Hypnosis can focus on reducing anxiety, getting better sleep, improve self-esteem and self-confidence, and help depressed clients regain ownership of their lives.
Anxiety
Anxiety is typified by unusually debilitating apprehension or continuous dread, usually about imagined problems or events. General Anxiety Disorder is now a recognised mental illness and is more than just an overreaction to normal life and events. People can easily become continually overanxious because they are unable to cope with excessive stress – especially stress caused by job-loss, financial worries, kids on drugs, spouse having an affair with her boss, etc.
I can’t solve your financial problems, get you your job back, get your teenage daughter off drugs or stop your wife having sex with people she’s just met in a bar every time she consumes more than five cans of Stella Artois. But I can give you the tools to cope better. If that’s any consolation.
Anxiety is quite common, and it can be dealt with. Where the cause of the anxiety can be traced to a specific cause, it can be successfully treated with hypnotherapy. Part of the process is teaching clients the exercises that will help them regulate their own anxiety.
Anxiety is a subjective experience. We all get anxious at some times in our lives – anxious when the kids are late home from school, anxious when you suddenly get a much bigger than expected bill from the lawyers, that sort of thing.
Everyone gets anxious on occasion and this is normal and natural in most circumstances. But constant excessive anxiety with no reasonable cause should be treated. Some people find anxiety unbearable… but there is a way out.
Hypnosis has long been proved successful in overcoming stress and anxiety, and fears and phobias. Many hypnotherapists use a powerful hypnotic technique called disassociation which has been shown to reduce fear by making troubling memories feel ‘safer’. This can be referred to as creating ‘emotional distance’ where overcoming fears and anxieties becomes an entirely natural and comfortable process.
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine carried out a study on 44 children who were anxious about invasive medical examinations. The children had already been through at least one painful examination and reported being fearful when they had to undergo these procedures again. But the children who had been taught self-hypnosis were much less anxious, and the examinations also took less time.
Phobias & Fears
A phobia is an irrational and uncontrollable fear of something specific. Most phobias are animal phobias, especially a fear of things like spiders, snakes, rats, etc. because these animals are unconsciously associated with unclean, slimy things or rotten food. Of course, a healthy respect for things which can do us harm is a good thing! No one in their right mind is going to mess about with a rattlesnake or jump in the sea when the sharks are circling.
Other phobias, for example, fear of flying or a fear of bananas [a real client of mine had that one] are learned and can be unlearned equally quickly and easily. Many people become conditioned to their Phobias. Hypnotherapy is a fantastic cure for phobias that normally takes about thirty minutes! Hypnotherapy for Healing, Pain Management and Immune Response.
Hypnosis really can have a profound beneficial effect on the workings of your body. Physicians and psychologists agree that we are a mind with a body, not a body with a mind. In other words, the way we think can affect our physical as well as our mental health, and there are volumes of scientific evidence to back this up.
For example, a 2007 study found that women who were hypnotised before undergoing breast biopsies required less sedation during the procedure, experienced less pain, nausea, and emotional distress. Major operations have been carried out with hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic.
Hypnotherapy is effective for controlling pain caused by accidents, post operative pain, and the ordinary aches and pains that accompany old age and illness, as well as chronic long-term pain or disease.
There is also a considerable body of evidence that hypnosis can enhance the effectiveness of the immune system. In a study at Washington State University, volunteers who underwent hypnosis specifically to boost their immune systems showed significant increases in their levels of immune cells.
Self-esteem and Self-confidence
Emotional problems stem not just from what people think, but also from how they misuse their imagination. It’s often easier to imagine all kinds of negative things about ourselves and socially anxious people tend to focus less on other people and more on their own [imaginary] shortcomings.
Hypnotherapy utilises your own imagination to harness self-confidence and encourage a more healthy and optimistic sense of who you are – and what you can be. It also helps to increase confidence in social situations and focus in the same way that naturally self confident people do.
Anger
Anger can be very damaging to relationships as well as your own peace of mind. Chronic anger is the biggest predictor of early death through heart disease – perhaps surprisingly, even more so than chronic smoking. Anger, jealousy, hypochondria, pessimism, can be generated and aggravated through the misuse of the imagination.
In a study conducted at Stanford Medical School, heart patients were asked to recall times when they had been angry. Although the patients said that the anger they felt on recalling the events was only half as strong as it had been originally, their hearts started pumping, on average, 5% less efficiently. Cardiologists view a 7% drop in pumping efficiency as serious enough to cause a heart attack.
Imagination and recall are processed in the same parts of the brain. You can generate angry feelings by remembering past anger, or even imagining you are angry – both create very real physical changes, so it makes sense to use hypnosis constructively to stop anger being triggered too easily or too often.
Eating Disorders
Over-eating is the most common eating disorder, which might go some way to explaining why there are so many fat people around. That, and the ready availability of cheap, offal-based, animal products masquerading as fast food. This 21st century deluge of salty, sugary, lardy, crap gives people instant access to the type of short-term gratification known as comfort eating.
The obvious resultant health problems are obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and not being able to find anyone willing to be seen in public with you.
Bulimia and Anorexia are both ways of binge eating followed by vomiting or abusing laxatives so you can eat what and as much as you want and lose weight at the same time.
Anorexia Nervosa is now an enormously popular disease, thanks to the media and most especially teen magazines, and is often linked to Bulimia, which involves stuffing your face then making yourself vomit before your body has time to digest the contents of your stomach. Both occur when young girls erroneously think they are fat, or when they find themselves marrying into Royalty. It is really a form of self-harm, and is considered as such by many health professionals.
Self-harm
The tragedy of self-harm, or self-inflicted injury, is prevalent mostly amongst teenage girls.
Again, these vulnerable youngsters are far too easily persuaded by the girlie magazines they are encouraged to buy and more recently, harmful things on the internet masquerading as fashion tips. Youngsters often find themselves susceptible to the ghastly delusion that supermodel posh spice stick figures are the norm, which they are not.
Self-mutilation generally goes hand in hand with feelings of extremely low self-esteem. The symptoms are easy to spot because self-inflicted injuries are easy to spot. The current and conventional wisdom is that self-inflicted injuries are ways of relieving anger or frustration and the physical damage reinforces the individual’s feelings of low self-worth.
Other forms of self-harm are more mundane and more familiar – alcohol abuse, excessive smoking, or drug use. Self-harmers are often in denial; they nearly always claim they know what they are doing and somewhat laughably, they also claim they are in control. Although I can find no reliable research on this, I believe tattoos and body piercings must fall into the same category. Fashion is one thing, but a fashion statement that stays with you forever is a rather different matter. Self-mutilation is does not you a better or greater person.
Motivation
Lack of motivation, procrastination, fear of success and even plain laziness can all be turned around with hypnosis. One highly successful technique is ‘third person motivational visualisation’. Research has proved that people are more able to do something they’ve already rehearsed under hypnosis, just like watching themselves do it in a movie.
Hypnosis can assist with all kinds of motivational issues, from starting a business, practicing a musical instrument, getting slimmer and fitter – even just getting out of bed inn the morning and starting the day!
Insomnia and Sleep Disorders
Insomnia can be caused or worsened by anxiety and stress. A vicious cycle of stress, exhaustion and insomnia can build up, with one feeding off the other.
Hypnotherapy can offer a natural approach to calmness and rest, without the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs. Several studies have confirmed that hypnotherapy sessions and progressive hypnotic relaxation exercises can significantly improve the quality of sleep.
Addictions and Bad Habits
The National Council for Hypnotherapy recently circulated University of Iowa research about the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a way of stopping smoking. The study, involving 72,000 people, investigated the most effective ways of kicking the habit. Hypnotherapy was shown to be three times more effective than nicotine replacement therapy.
Overcoming addictions involves instilling hope and optimism. Hypnotherapy can successfully treat all sorts of addictions – not just smoking, but also alcohol and drugs, shopping addiction and social media addiction.
Obsessions and Compulsions
Obsessions and Compulsions are recurrent and persistent ideas that affect not only the behaviour of the individual, but those around them. Obsession easily leads to compulsive behaviours and there is an emotional component to obsessional ideas – think Howard Hughes, people who wash their hands twenty-seven times a day, people who can’t get through life without indulging in pointless and bizarre rituals etc.
The good news is that compulsions, no matter how bizarre, can be treated.
Sports Performance
There is plenty of evidence to show hypnosis can help you master a skill and generally improve your performance – giving you ‘the edge’. Have you ever watched Olympic athletes ‘limbering up’ before a race? The chances are they are mentally goIng through the steps they practised under hypnosis.
Hypnosis has long been proved to improve focus, reaction time, confidence and even physical strength. Hypnosis can enhance skill as well as actual practice! Of course, rehearsal under hypnosis will never replace actual practice, but an ability to increase concentration could improve your game!
Trauma / PTSD / Childhood trauma
'The past is not a life sentence…'
They say that time is a great healer, and in a lot of cases ‘they’ are right! The pain of trauma can wear off over time – a little. But the memory of the event will still be there – ask any war veteran. Unfortunately, not even the world’s most accomplished hypnotherapist, psychologist or mind-magician can erase the memory of a peak experience. But we can create ‘Emotional Distance’ which means that the memory is no longer hurtful or triggering.
The hypnotherapist often works with feelings and emotions to help clients achieve a change in the way they perceive. The brain often hides behind the heart, so using a combination of relaxation, visualisation and imagination, it’s possible to banish the painful part of the trauma, leaving only an inert memory!
Stress & Anxiety
'It’s only a short walk to freedom…'
Stress, anxiety, worry… all affect the way you feel. Anxiety is common in people who suffer from exaggerated worry and tension – even in normal situations. It can feel like a prison that’s impossible to escape from – but this prison is easy to break out of, because it exists only in your own mind!
Anxiety in particular can be like having someone constantly looking over your shoulder, watching everything you do, watching your every move. It’s time to remove that dictator from your life.
Hypnosis is a wonderfully relaxing experience – you don’t lose consciousness, you don’t go to sleep… instead, you learn how to change the way you think and feel about the things that bother you. If you can do that, you can change the way you think and feel about yourself… you can forget about the things that used to bother you, because the change can be natural, easy and automatic.
Teenagers' anxiety, confidence and perspective –
PLUS – dealing with bullying
Teenagers often struggle to make sense of the world. This is an ongoing process and it’s understandable that from time to time they may hit the odd bump in the road. However, it’s important that these temporary blocks are addressed so your child can continue to learn and develop. A common problem is that teens often worry about things that adults would find trivial.
The answer is to give them the confidence to overcome these hurdles – whether it’s a question of getting along with others in their peer group, or having trouble with schoolwork, the mental processes are the same.
Hypnotherapy offers reassurance and the knowledge to put things in perspective. Importantly, it provides the confidence to understand that no problem lasts forever and no problem is insurmountable.
Grief and Loss / Loss of a Loved One
Most people try to forget – or get over grief – and that’s a mistake, because it’s contrary to the purpose of grief. Rather than trying to forget, it’s better to remember and accept what the emotion is trying to convey. There are many ways to remember. You can remember what you learned from the person you lost, remember what you enjoyed, and even cry if you feel like crying. Even if your grief is about a relationship gone bad, there is always something you can learn through recollection.
Hypnosis helps you to reconcile grief and make space for it. In doing that, you will find it much easier to move forward.
Abusive relationships / Assault
'They weren’t worth it it the first place… it’s time to cut loose and live your life… You deserve better!'
They say that time is a great healer, and in a lot of cases ‘they’ are right! The pain of trauma can wear off over time – but the memory of the event will still be there – ask any war veteran. Unfortunately, not even the world’s most accomplished hypnotherapist, psychologist or mind-magician can erase the memory of a peak experience. But we can create ‘Emotional Distance’ which means that the memory is no longer hurtful or triggering.
Hypnotherapy often works with feelings and emotions to help clients achieve a change in the way they perceive. The brain often hides behind the heart, so using a combination of relaxation, visualisation and imagination, it’s possible to banish the painful part of the trauma, leaving only an inert memory!
Failed Relationship / Letting go of the past
'Moving on is not as hard as you think… the road ahead can be easy…'
Most people try to forget – or get over grief – and that’s a mistake, because it’s contrary to the purpose of grief. Rather than trying to forget, it’s better to remember and accept what the emotion is trying to convey. There are many ways to remember. You can remember what you learned from the person you lost, remember what you enjoyed, and even cry if you feel like crying. Even if your grief is about a relationship gone bad, there is always something you can learn through recollection.
Hypnosis helps you to reconcile grief and make space for it. In doing that, you will find it much easier to move forward.
Rejection
'Moving on is not as hard as you think… the road ahead can be easy…'
When people are rejected, they often feel jealous, or lonely, or anxious. Worse, we tend to interpret the hurt we feel and view rejection as an indication of our self-worth. This can make us feel even worse! But as painful as it may be, rejection can actually benefit you. Rejection can build resilience and help you grow and apply the lessons you learn to future setbacks. To reap the benefits, you have to deal with it in the right way. Hypnosis helps us use the past as a lesson for the future.
Thinking the worst can be habit forming. But the worst hardly ever happens. Beating the habit is really a matter of putting yourself in the right frame of mind. Once we learn to do this we can also stop sabotaging ourselves because worry and self doubt is really just a misuse of the imagination. Like a prison we have created in our own minds, it’s the hardest one to break out of. But there is a way…
Self-Sabotage / Thinking the Worst
'It’s time to turn your back on limiting beliefs…'
When people are rejected, they often feel jealous, or lonely, or anxious. Worse, we tend to interpret the hurt we feel and view rejection as an indication of our self-worth. This can make us feel even worse! But as painful as it may be, rejection can actually benefit you. Rejection can build resilience and help you grow and apply the lessons you learn to future setbacks. To reap the benefits, you have to deal with it in the right way. Hypnosis helps us use the past as a lesson for the future.
Thinking the worst can be habit forming. But the worst hardly ever happens. Beating the habit is really a matter of putting yourself in the right frame of mind. Once we learn to do this we can also stop sabotaging ourselves because worry and self doubt is really just a misuse of the imagination. Like a prison we have created in our own minds, it’s the hardest one to break out of. But there is a way…
Insecurity
'It’s time to turn your back on limiting beliefs…'
When people are insecure, they often feel jealous, or lonely, or anxious. Worse, we tend to interpret the hurt we feel and view rejection as an indication of our self-worth. This can make us feel even worse! But as painful as it may be, rejection can actually benefit you. Rejection can build resilience and help you grow and apply the lessons you learn to future setbacks. To reap the benefits, you have to deal with it in the right way. Hypnosis helps us use the past as a lesson for the future.
Thinking the worst can be habit forming. But the worst hardly ever happens. Beating the habit is really a matter of putting yourself in the right frame of mind. Once we learn to do this we can also stop sabotaging ourselves because worry and self doubt is really just a misuse of the imagination. Like a prison we have created in our own minds, it’s the hardest one to break out of. But there is a way…
Confidence / Self-Esteem / Self-Respect
'Confidence means making better decisions… the right decisions…'
It’s time to stop worrying about what others might think – they do not determine who you are! The truth is, you are better than you think you are! Healthy self-esteem means having an honest respect for your own abilities, potentials and values. It also means recognising your own strengths and trusting in them.
Hypnotherapy can awaken your self-confidence and encourage a more healthy and optimistic sense of who you are and what you can be. Hypnotherapy helps increase confidence and determination – especially in social situations – and focus in the same way naturally confident people can.
Social Anxiety
'It’s easy to make new friends!'
Stress, anxiety, worry… all affect the way you feel. Anxiety is common in people who suffer from exaggerated worry and tension – even in normal situations. It can feel like a prison that’s impossible to escape from – but this prison is easy to break out of, because it exists only in your own mind!
Anxiety in particular can be like having someone constantly looking over your shoulder, watching everything you do, watching your every move. It’s time to remove that dictator from your life.
Hypnosis is a wonderfully relaxing experience – you don’t lose consciousness, you don’t go to sleep… instead, you learn how to change the way you think and feel about the things that bother you. If you can do that, you can change the way you think and feel about yourself… you can forget about the things that used to bother you, because the change can be natural, easy and automatic.
Depression
'… and time to restore your self esteem…'
It used to be thought that hypnotherapy was not a suitable treatment for people with depression. We now know that hypnosis is a powerful tool to help beat depression. Hypnosis helps to calm the mind and body – something that is extremely beneficial. Depressed people have higher than normal levels of the stress hormone cortisol and hypnosis can be used to reduce this.
Hypnosis helps you recoup lost energy, rehearse new positive behaviours, and build motivation. These hypnotherapy sessions not only focus on better sleep and reducing anxiety, they also improve self-esteem and self-confidence, helping depressed clients regain ownership of their lives.
Virtual Gastric Band / Weight Loss / Dieting / Healthy Eating / Comfort Eating / Sugar Addiction
'Fad diets don’t work… setting achievable goals does… it’s easy to do it right!'
A session of hypnotherapy will start by addressing the subtle – and often unrecognised – unconscious reasons behind unhealthy eating patterns, effectively changing them, enabling you to move toward a more healthy lifestyle. Eating is not a conscious, deliberate choice. It operates at the unconscious level, and this is where it must be addressed.
This is not a diet plan… it focuses on how to boost psychological motivation to make, and keep making, the right food choices. It addresses comfort eating and sugar addiction. Most important it concentrates on making better decisions – making the right decisions about food.
In addition, we will instal a ‘virtual gastric band’ which will help you feel fuller and more satisfied quicker.
Pain Management / Aches & Pains / Post Operative Pain Rheumatism, etc…
'Pain is nature’s way of telling us there’s something wrong… but you are a mind with a body, not a body with a mind!'
Hypnosis really can have a profoundly beneficial effect on the workings of your body. Physicians and psychologists agree that we are ‘a mind with a body, not a body with a mind!’ In. other words, the way we think can affect our physical health as well as out mental health, and there are volumes of scientific evidence to back this up.
Major operations have been carried out with hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic. There is also a considerable body of evidence that hypnosis can enhance the effectiveness of the immune system. In a study at Washington State University, volunteers who underwent hypnosis specifically to boost their immune systems showed significant increases in levels of immune cells.
Hypnotherapy is effective for controlling pain resulting from accidents, post operative pain, the ordinary aches and the long-term pains of age, illness and disease.
Guilt and Shame
'You’re not a terrible person… so stop punishing yourself'
Guilt or shame can be soul-destroying emotions. Shame isn't necessarily linked to a particular perceived wrongdoing, it's more a sense of doubt about one's core identity being bad or inferior. Feeling chronically guilty is painful because the pain of guilt also serves as its own punishment.
It's time to take off the shackles that bind you…
Motivation
'It’s time to stop holding yourself back…’
Lack of motivation, procrastination, fear of success and even plain laziness can all be turned around with hypnosis. Research has proved that people are more able to do something they’ve already rehearsed under hypnosis.
Hypnosis can be used for all kinds of motivational issues, from starting a business, practicing a musical instrument, getting slimmer and fitter – even just getting out of bed and starting the day!
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
'It’s time to escape from the tyrant watching everything you do…’
We all use repetitive behaviours every day. They help us structure our lives and keep things predictable and manageable. But for some people, the ability to determine that a behaviour has accomplished its purpose and can now be discarded becomes unreliable. They can find themselves in a nightmare of repeating the same pattern over and over, with no sense that it's 'enough'.
Hypnosis can help us quickly develop a growing and deepening sense of physical and mental distance between reality and obsessive compulsive disorder, changing the relationship the client has with their OCD problem. The client is then taught a powerful process for modifying their experience in situations that used to trigger their compulsive behaviour.
Cannabis Addiction
'It’s time to terminate the relationship… and regain control of your life…’
The National Council for Hypnotherapy recently circulated research from the University of Iowa on the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a way of stopping smoking. The study, involving 72,000 people, investigated the most effective ways of stopping. Hypnotherapy was shown to be three times more effective than nicotine replacement therapy.
Overcoming addictions involves instilling hope and optimism. Hypnotherapy can successfully treat all sorts of addictions – not just smoking, but also alcohol and drugs, shopping addiction and social media addiction.
Exercise Motivation
'Get fitter… feel better… be proud of yourself!’
You already know how much exercise benefits you, and you already know about the good feeling you get when you complete a workout or a walk. You maybe already belong to a gym or have an exercise routine of your own. But sometimes it just feels like all those positive benefits are not quite enough to motivate you to exercise today.
Hypnosis can programme your unconscious mind to build a powerful exercise habit that you won't break!
Body Dysmorphia
'The mirror is wrong… people are more interested in inner beauty…’
Almost everyone has felt dissatisfied with their nose, or their chin, or their elbow, or some other body part, at some time or another. They may even have become depressed about it for a while. But in most cases such concerns usually fade with time or when they realise that it isn't as significant as they first thought. But the situation is different for someone experiencing Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). The preoccupation with the supposed 'wrongness' of some physical feature becomes so overwhelming that the sufferer can think of nothing else. When they look in the mirror, they actually fail to see what others can see, and instead see and believe in a completely distorted image of themselves.
These negative beliefs and emotions can be overcome using hypnosis using a state of dissociated relaxation, getting you to see yourself in a different way.
Better Posture
'Head up… shoulders back… Instant confidence!’
In times past, posture was taken so seriously that classes were given in how to stand, walk and sit correctly. Correct structural use of the body is beneficial in terms of efficiency and physical health. In terms of well-being, there is a strong correlation between posture and feeling good about yourself.
The session will help correct any postural imbalance or strain and teach you how to deport yourself well.
Exam Stress
'Forget the 3 ‘R’s… It’s the 3 ‘P’s that matter… Proper Prior Planning!’
There is nothing worse than, after all your hard study, you walk into your exam and your mind goes blank. Your nerves and anxiety get the better of you and your brain simply won't work properly! Psychologists call this phenomenon state-dependant memory. Put simply, the state you're in determines what you can remember. One reason is because you're in a very different state to when you learned, it's now hard to remember stuff. If you're very anxious, your brain is simply in the wrong state for thinking.
The fact is, memory and recall depends on you not being stressed. If you're anxious, your unconscious senses there's something dangerous going on - when that happens, it starts to operate in survival mode, and this is not the right state mind for recalling information or tackling complex problems. When your emotional centres are activated, it's much harder to remember what you learned.
Hypnosis is great for re-training your brain to respond with the sort of emotional response that will help your exam performance. In an exam, you need to feel calm, but with maybe just a little sense of excitement to give you that extra edge. This is how to get that balance…
Sports Performance
'As strong as a lion... as fast as a cheetah... Get your game-face on!’
There is plenty of evidence to show hypnosis can help you master a skill and generally improve your performance, giving you ‘the edge’. Ever watched Olympic athletes ‘limber up’ before a race? They are mentally going through the steps they practised under hypnosis.
Hypnosis can improve focus, reaction time, confidence and even physical strength. Hypnosis can also enhance skill just as well as actual practice! An ability to increase concentration could improve your game...
Relaxation
Imagine being able to just do nothing - and feel good about it. Imagine being able to sink into relaxation almost instantly, regardless of the noise and hubbub going on around you and still be able to shut out the stresses and strains of life. Learn how in one easy session.
Tuning in to your emotions
'Embracing feelings and emotions - problem solving the natural way…’
Imagine being able to get in touch with your inner self... to make the connection with your inner self and permanently make that connection secure and strong for whenever you need it. Learn how in one easy session.
Self Hypnosis
'Practice makes perfect… Self-hypnosis is the therapist in you pocket.’
Learn how to hypnotise yourself any time you want! In just one three hour session, I can teach you the techniques to do just that, and... programme your own suggestions to make you a brighter, happier human being.
A 2019 study by Manchester University found that online hypnotherapy sessions were as good as face to face sessions – all the people in the study reported significant improvement.
“I do not subscribe to the ‘one size fits all’ model of hypnotherapy where the hypnotist reads from a generic script. Most hypnotherapists make the mistake of assuming they already know what the client should have, instead of delivering what the client needs and really wanted in the first place.
“Today, mainstream psychotherapy is too narrow in its thinking about the human condition. Good psychotherapy has its foundations in the work of psychologist Carl Rogers, who recognised that it is the client who must decide these things, not the therapist. My job to help the client recognise what is important and what is trivial.
“In any event, I don’t believe in long therapy – my aim is the termination of therapy! I can accomplish in ONE SESSION what can take weeks of psychotherapy. Many of my clients come from recommendation. Hypnosis sessions are about more than just hypnosis – addressing emotional or psychological problems always involves examining and interpreting the way we understand ourselves; how we feel emotionally, including our thoughts, feelings, habits and behaviour.
“I disagree with the new fad of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) because that approach does not take into account the individual needs of the client. Clients have things they want to talk about and it’s important to listen. I believe that successful therapy is really just a matter of talking and understanding – hypnosis cements and reinforces what we decide so you can achieve rapid change, retake ownership of your life and live anxiety free.
“Hypnotherapy can be a powerful tool for change – even a cure – for a host of problems. Hypnosis has been subject to intense scientific research at universities and hospitals and has significant academic and medical approval. The positive effects of hypnosis as a natural and effective tool are now understood and accepted as a treatment for a variety of psychological problems. In short, hypnosis and hypnotherapy are now mainstream and no longer just a complementary therapy, but an essential and permanent solution to issues that were once thought incurable!”
This is what 40 years of experience can achieve!
Andrew Newton has a professional, though informal approach to hypnotherapy, based on years of practice and experience, studying and using the most effective treatments available. Some of his academic papers and books on psychology, hypnosis and hypnotherapy are available to read on this website.
Personalised hypnotherapy sessions are based on rigorous scientific psychological principles and research. His approach is all about getting to understand the client’s real needs. Andrew understands that every client is unique, so every hypnotherapy session is tailored to individual needs and addresses the changes that enable you to function the way you want to… and regain ownership of your life. Hypnotherapy can produce fast results by getting directly to the root of the issue.
Andrew is thorough and he listens to what the client actually wants – and delivers it. This is why sessions are between 2½ and 3 hours – his aim is always to get clients to move on as quickly as possible. The aim is to take the time to listen and understand – not to read from a one-size-fits-all generic script. Hypnotherapy is not a fast-food drive-through solution!
Pussy-footing around doesn’t get clients very far either… which is why he never tells clients what they want to hear… he always gets to the heart of the matter – which is why he always gets results… Clients are often surprised by what they have been able to achieve immediately after the session, even if the issue has been buried for years!
Andrew is highly experienced at making changes to the way you think, and creating new and more positive feelings and emotions, reducing stress and anxieties, and improving your physical and mental wellbeing.
“Humans are pre-programmed to react to negative thoughts and feelings and to be cautious, because those behaviours are all part of the survival strategy. In psychological terms, this is called negativity bias. Criticism can have a greater impact on us than a compliment, and bad news more of an impact than good news and negative events make more of an impression on our brains than positive ones. All these things can exert a powerful effect on the way we think and behave, on the decisions we make, on our relationships with others, and ultimately on our lives. But the balance can be restored!
“Sometimes we find ourselves feeling lost and confused about the direction our life is taking. We struggle to overcome mental blocks and find ourselves reminiscing about less complicated times when things weren’t so hectic. It’s at times like these we are at our most vulnerable. Changing the way we think about things can change the way we feel about them. Once we’ve managed to that, making even the most profound changes is just one step away… There’s always a solution.
“Sometimes doubts and irrational fears prey on our minds. Sometimes they are just fleeting, but sometimes it feels as if we’re stuck with all the negativity. Worse… it’s the physical feelings that accompany those doubts that make our lives so much more difficult. Hypnotherapy offers an easy and quick solution.
“If you are struggling with negative habits or compulsions, then now is the time for change. Hypnotherapy provides an opportunity to regain control of yourself, letting go of negative and destructive beliefs, and creating a permanent, powerful shift in your life! It can help you overcome all kinds of worries and anxieties by helping you deal with the debilitating impact of constant and unremitting stress – and it’s all natural and drug-free!
“No issue is too complex or deep rooted to change because all problems have an underlying emotional issue. None of us are born stressed or anxious… stress & anxiety are things we learn… and it’s just as easy to ‘unlearn’ them!
"None of us are born phobic… a phobia is something we learned… so now it’s time to ‘unlearn’ it! Hypnotherapy can help you overcome your deepest fears. Whether it’s claustrophobia, spiders, open spaces, fear of flying – even the most bizarre phobias – You can overcome it! I have dealt with some extreme phobias and as a result, changed lives in just one session.
“Panic attacks can make you feel like the world is ending and your heart’s about to burst out of your chest. So what if I told you there was a way to put an end to them permanently? Hypnotherapy can do just that by teaching you how to manage your emotions in just one session.
"How much more could you achieve in your life if you were just a little bit more confident? Hypnotherapy can rapidly make you a more confident version of yourself! Feeling calmer and more confident helps you think more clearly and feel better about yourself.
“How would you like to feel proud of yourself? How would you like to feel confident, no matter what obstacles life throws at you? Regardless of whatever has happened in your life, you can be strong, powerful, compassionate, and in full control…
“You can discover and learn to apply the strengths that will allow you to continue to learn and develop, and hypnotherapy can help you overcome the barriers to progress because hypnotherapy uses the power of your conscious mind and the latest discoveries in modern neuroscience for personal and professional development.
“I aim to provide you with positive results, not coping strategies or 'just slightly better than before. My client’s emotional welfare and wellbeing is my number one priority. My goal is get every client to achieve a greater sense of fulfilment, connectedness and confidence. Through the latest advances in Hypnotherapy, my clients are able to ‘take the lead’ and regain control of their lives, overcoming the fears, anxieties and doubts which have been holding them back.
"Random negative thoughts can develop into a something that’s very limiting! Just as you trained your brain to think negatively, you can train your brain to think in a completely different way. Just one session of hypnosis can eliminate negative or limiting beliefs, change unhelpful behaviour patterns, and get you to move forward with your life in a more positive and productive way."
Depression
Hypnosis can be a powerful tool to help beat depression because it helps to calm the mind and body. People who suffer from depression have higher than normal levels of the stress hormone cortisol and hypnosis can help reduce this.
Physical signs of depression include lethargy, constant tiredness, loss of appetite, or over-eating and poor sleeping patterns. Sufferers experience symptoms of feeling sad, hopeless, that nothing ever goes right, and that they are useless.
Depression however, should not be confused with grief, which is a perfectly normal and natural reaction to the loss of a loved one or when Manchester United lose against Portsmouth. Only when sadness is disproportionately prolonged does it become depression.
Manic depression, sometimes called bi-polar depression, is a different thing altogether. In these cases, the individual experiences extreme mood swings – from extreme sadness to extreme feelings of elation for no apparent reason.
Depression brought on by a certain event or series of events is known as Reactive depression. If there is no discernible cause for the depression, then it is known as Endogenous Depression.
To complicate matters further, some people find that their depression can come and go – often descending without warning.
About 10% of people experience depression at least once in their lives, although women seem to be more prone to it, especially between the ages of 35 to 45. Creative types seem more prone than others to depression – Robbie Williams, for example, seems to be in and out of The Priory for no other discernible reason. A lot of the great composers and artists suffered interminable bouts of chronic depression – Van Gogh even cut his own ear off!
Hypnosis can help recoup lost energy, practice new positive behaviours, and build motivation. Hypnosis can focus on reducing anxiety, getting better sleep, improve self-esteem and self-confidence, and help depressed clients regain ownership of their lives.
Anxiety
Anxiety is typified by unusually debilitating apprehension or continuous dread, usually about imagined problems or events. General Anxiety Disorder is now a recognised mental illness and is more than just an overreaction to normal life and events. People can easily become continually overanxious because they are unable to cope with excessive stress – especially stress caused by job-loss, financial worries, kids on drugs, spouse having an affair with her boss, etc.
I can’t solve your financial problems, get you your job back, get your teenage daughter off drugs or stop your wife having sex with people she’s just met in a bar every time she consumes more than five cans of Stella Artois. But I can give you the tools to cope better. If that’s any consolation.
Anxiety is quite common, and it can be dealt with. Where the cause of the anxiety can be traced to a specific cause, it can be successfully treated with hypnotherapy. Part of the process is teaching clients the exercises that will help them regulate their own anxiety.
Anxiety is a subjective experience. We all get anxious at some times in our lives – anxious when the kids are late home from school, anxious when you suddenly get a much bigger than expected bill from the lawyers, that sort of thing.
Everyone gets anxious on occasion and this is normal and natural in most circumstances. But constant excessive anxiety with no reasonable cause should be treated. Some people find anxiety unbearable… but there is a way out.
Hypnosis has long been proved successful in overcoming stress and anxiety, and fears and phobias. Many hypnotherapists use a powerful hypnotic technique called disassociation which has been shown to reduce fear by making troubling memories feel ‘safer’. This can be referred to as creating ‘emotional distance’ where overcoming fears and anxieties becomes an entirely natural and comfortable process.
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine carried out a study on 44 children who were anxious about invasive medical examinations. The children had already been through at least one painful examination and reported being fearful when they had to undergo these procedures again. But the children who had been taught self-hypnosis were much less anxious, and the examinations also took less time.
Phobias & Fears
A phobia is an irrational and uncontrollable fear of something specific. Most phobias are animal phobias, especially a fear of things like spiders, snakes, rats, etc. because these animals are unconsciously associated with unclean, slimy things or rotten food. Of course, a healthy respect for things which can do us harm is a good thing! No one in their right mind is going to mess about with a rattlesnake or jump in the sea when the sharks are circling.
Other phobias, for example, fear of flying or a fear of bananas [a real client of mine had that one] are learned and can be unlearned equally quickly and easily. Many people become conditioned to their Phobias. Hypnotherapy is a fantastic cure for phobias that normally takes about thirty minutes! Hypnotherapy for Healing, Pain Management and Immune Response.
Hypnosis really can have a profound beneficial effect on the workings of your body. Physicians and psychologists agree that we are a mind with a body, not a body with a mind. In other words, the way we think can affect our physical as well as our mental health, and there are volumes of scientific evidence to back this up.
For example, a 2007 study found that women who were hypnotised before undergoing breast biopsies required less sedation during the procedure, experienced less pain, nausea, and emotional distress. Major operations have been carried out with hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic.
Hypnotherapy is effective for controlling pain caused by accidents, post operative pain, and the ordinary aches and pains that accompany old age and illness, as well as chronic long-term pain or disease.
There is also a considerable body of evidence that hypnosis can enhance the effectiveness of the immune system. In a study at Washington State University, volunteers who underwent hypnosis specifically to boost their immune systems showed significant increases in their levels of immune cells.
Self-esteem and Self-confidence
Emotional problems stem not just from what people think, but also from how they misuse their imagination. It’s often easier to imagine all kinds of negative things about ourselves and socially anxious people tend to focus less on other people and more on their own [imaginary] shortcomings.
Hypnotherapy utilises your own imagination to harness self-confidence and encourage a more healthy and optimistic sense of who you are – and what you can be. It also helps to increase confidence in social situations and focus in the same way that naturally self confident people do.
Anger
Anger can be very damaging to relationships as well as your own peace of mind. Chronic anger is the biggest predictor of early death through heart disease – perhaps surprisingly, even more so than chronic smoking. Anger, jealousy, hypochondria, pessimism, can be generated and aggravated through the misuse of the imagination.
In a study conducted at Stanford Medical School, heart patients were asked to recall times when they had been angry. Although the patients said that the anger they felt on recalling the events was only half as strong as it had been originally, their hearts started pumping, on average, 5% less efficiently. Cardiologists view a 7% drop in pumping efficiency as serious enough to cause a heart attack.
Imagination and recall are processed in the same parts of the brain. You can generate angry feelings by remembering past anger, or even imagining you are angry – both create very real physical changes, so it makes sense to use hypnosis constructively to stop anger being triggered too easily or too often.
Eating Disorders
Over-eating is the most common eating disorder, which might go some way to explaining why there are so many fat people around. That, and the ready availability of cheap, offal-based, animal products masquerading as fast food. This 21st century deluge of salty, sugary, lardy, crap gives people instant access to the type of short-term gratification known as comfort eating.
The obvious resultant health problems are obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and not being able to find anyone willing to be seen in public with you.
Bulimia and Anorexia are both ways of binge eating followed by vomiting or abusing laxatives so you can eat what and as much as you want and lose weight at the same time.
Anorexia Nervosa is now an enormously popular disease, thanks to the media and most especially teen magazines, and is often linked to Bulimia, which involves stuffing your face then making yourself vomit before your body has time to digest the contents of your stomach. Both occur when young girls erroneously think they are fat, or when they find themselves marrying into Royalty. It is really a form of self-harm, and is considered as such by many health professionals.
Self-harm
The tragedy of self-harm, or self-inflicted injury, is prevalent mostly amongst teenage girls.
Again, these vulnerable youngsters are far too easily persuaded by the girlie magazines they are encouraged to buy and more recently, harmful things on the internet masquerading as fashion tips. Youngsters often find themselves susceptible to the ghastly delusion that supermodel posh spice stick figures are the norm, which they are not.
Self-mutilation generally goes hand in hand with feelings of extremely low self-esteem. The symptoms are easy to spot because self-inflicted injuries are easy to spot. The current and conventional wisdom is that self-inflicted injuries are ways of relieving anger or frustration and the physical damage reinforces the individual’s feelings of low self-worth.
Other forms of self-harm are more mundane and more familiar – alcohol abuse, excessive smoking, or drug use. Self-harmers are often in denial; they nearly always claim they know what they are doing and somewhat laughably, they also claim they are in control. Although I can find no reliable research on this, I believe tattoos and body piercings must fall into the same category. Fashion is one thing, but a fashion statement that stays with you forever is a rather different matter. Self-mutilation is does not you a better or greater person.
Motivation
Lack of motivation, procrastination, fear of success and even plain laziness can all be turned around with hypnosis. One highly successful technique is ‘third person motivational visualisation’. Research has proved that people are more able to do something they’ve already rehearsed under hypnosis, just like watching themselves do it in a movie.
Hypnosis can assist with all kinds of motivational issues, from starting a business, practicing a musical instrument, getting slimmer and fitter – even just getting out of bed inn the morning and starting the day!
Insomnia and Sleep Disorders
Insomnia can be caused or worsened by anxiety and stress. A vicious cycle of stress, exhaustion and insomnia can build up, with one feeding off the other.
Hypnotherapy can offer a natural approach to calmness and rest, without the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs. Several studies have confirmed that hypnotherapy sessions and progressive hypnotic relaxation exercises can significantly improve the quality of sleep.
Addictions and Bad Habits
The National Council for Hypnotherapy recently circulated University of Iowa research about the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a way of stopping smoking. The study, involving 72,000 people, investigated the most effective ways of kicking the habit. Hypnotherapy was shown to be three times more effective than nicotine replacement therapy.
Overcoming addictions involves instilling hope and optimism. Hypnotherapy can successfully treat all sorts of addictions – not just smoking, but also alcohol and drugs, shopping addiction and social media addiction.
Obsessions and Compulsions
Obsessions and Compulsions are recurrent and persistent ideas that affect not only the behaviour of the individual, but those around them. Obsession easily leads to compulsive behaviours and there is an emotional component to obsessional ideas – think Howard Hughes, people who wash their hands twenty-seven times a day, people who can’t get through life without indulging in pointless and bizarre rituals etc.
The good news is that compulsions, no matter how bizarre, can be treated.
Sports Performance
There is plenty of evidence to show hypnosis can help you master a skill and generally improve your performance – giving you ‘the edge’. Have you ever watched Olympic athletes ‘limbering up’ before a race? The chances are they are mentally goIng through the steps they practised under hypnosis.
Hypnosis has long been proved to improve focus, reaction time, confidence and even physical strength. Hypnosis can enhance skill as well as actual practice! Of course, rehearsal under hypnosis will never replace actual practice, but an ability to increase concentration could improve your game!
Trauma / PTSD / Childhood trauma
'The past is not a life sentence…'
They say that time is a great healer, and in a lot of cases ‘they’ are right! The pain of trauma can wear off over time – a little. But the memory of the event will still be there – ask any war veteran. Unfortunately, not even the world’s most accomplished hypnotherapist, psychologist or mind-magician can erase the memory of a peak experience. But we can create ‘Emotional Distance’ which means that the memory is no longer hurtful or triggering.
The hypnotherapist often works with feelings and emotions to help clients achieve a change in the way they perceive. The brain often hides behind the heart, so using a combination of relaxation, visualisation and imagination, it’s possible to banish the painful part of the trauma, leaving only an inert memory!
Stress & Anxiety
'It’s only a short walk to freedom…'
Stress, anxiety, worry… all affect the way you feel. Anxiety is common in people who suffer from exaggerated worry and tension – even in normal situations. It can feel like a prison that’s impossible to escape from – but this prison is easy to break out of, because it exists only in your own mind!
Anxiety in particular can be like having someone constantly looking over your shoulder, watching everything you do, watching your every move. It’s time to remove that dictator from your life.
Hypnosis is a wonderfully relaxing experience – you don’t lose consciousness, you don’t go to sleep… instead, you learn how to change the way you think and feel about the things that bother you. If you can do that, you can change the way you think and feel about yourself… you can forget about the things that used to bother you, because the change can be natural, easy and automatic.
Teenagers' anxiety, confidence and perspective –
PLUS – dealing with bullying
Teenagers often struggle to make sense of the world. This is an ongoing process and it’s understandable that from time to time they may hit the odd bump in the road. However, it’s important that these temporary blocks are addressed so your child can continue to learn and develop. A common problem is that teens often worry about things that adults would find trivial.
The answer is to give them the confidence to overcome these hurdles – whether it’s a question of getting along with others in their peer group, or having trouble with schoolwork, the mental processes are the same.
Hypnotherapy offers reassurance and the knowledge to put things in perspective. Importantly, it provides the confidence to understand that no problem lasts forever and no problem is insurmountable.
Grief and Loss / Loss of a Loved One
Most people try to forget – or get over grief – and that’s a mistake, because it’s contrary to the purpose of grief. Rather than trying to forget, it’s better to remember and accept what the emotion is trying to convey. There are many ways to remember. You can remember what you learned from the person you lost, remember what you enjoyed, and even cry if you feel like crying. Even if your grief is about a relationship gone bad, there is always something you can learn through recollection.
Hypnosis helps you to reconcile grief and make space for it. In doing that, you will find it much easier to move forward.
Abusive relationships / Assault
'They weren’t worth it it the first place… it’s time to cut loose and live your life… You deserve better!'
They say that time is a great healer, and in a lot of cases ‘they’ are right! The pain of trauma can wear off over time – but the memory of the event will still be there – ask any war veteran. Unfortunately, not even the world’s most accomplished hypnotherapist, psychologist or mind-magician can erase the memory of a peak experience. But we can create ‘Emotional Distance’ which means that the memory is no longer hurtful or triggering.
Hypnotherapy often works with feelings and emotions to help clients achieve a change in the way they perceive. The brain often hides behind the heart, so using a combination of relaxation, visualisation and imagination, it’s possible to banish the painful part of the trauma, leaving only an inert memory!
Failed Relationship / Letting go of the past
'Moving on is not as hard as you think… the road ahead can be easy…'
Most people try to forget – or get over grief – and that’s a mistake, because it’s contrary to the purpose of grief. Rather than trying to forget, it’s better to remember and accept what the emotion is trying to convey. There are many ways to remember. You can remember what you learned from the person you lost, remember what you enjoyed, and even cry if you feel like crying. Even if your grief is about a relationship gone bad, there is always something you can learn through recollection.
Hypnosis helps you to reconcile grief and make space for it. In doing that, you will find it much easier to move forward.
Rejection
'Moving on is not as hard as you think… the road ahead can be easy…'
When people are rejected, they often feel jealous, or lonely, or anxious. Worse, we tend to interpret the hurt we feel and view rejection as an indication of our self-worth. This can make us feel even worse! But as painful as it may be, rejection can actually benefit you. Rejection can build resilience and help you grow and apply the lessons you learn to future setbacks. To reap the benefits, you have to deal with it in the right way. Hypnosis helps us use the past as a lesson for the future.
Thinking the worst can be habit forming. But the worst hardly ever happens. Beating the habit is really a matter of putting yourself in the right frame of mind. Once we learn to do this we can also stop sabotaging ourselves because worry and self doubt is really just a misuse of the imagination. Like a prison we have created in our own minds, it’s the hardest one to break out of. But there is a way…
Self-Sabotage / Thinking the Worst
'It’s time to turn your back on limiting beliefs…'
When people are rejected, they often feel jealous, or lonely, or anxious. Worse, we tend to interpret the hurt we feel and view rejection as an indication of our self-worth. This can make us feel even worse! But as painful as it may be, rejection can actually benefit you. Rejection can build resilience and help you grow and apply the lessons you learn to future setbacks. To reap the benefits, you have to deal with it in the right way. Hypnosis helps us use the past as a lesson for the future.
Thinking the worst can be habit forming. But the worst hardly ever happens. Beating the habit is really a matter of putting yourself in the right frame of mind. Once we learn to do this we can also stop sabotaging ourselves because worry and self doubt is really just a misuse of the imagination. Like a prison we have created in our own minds, it’s the hardest one to break out of. But there is a way…
Insecurity
'It’s time to turn your back on limiting beliefs…'
When people are insecure, they often feel jealous, or lonely, or anxious. Worse, we tend to interpret the hurt we feel and view rejection as an indication of our self-worth. This can make us feel even worse! But as painful as it may be, rejection can actually benefit you. Rejection can build resilience and help you grow and apply the lessons you learn to future setbacks. To reap the benefits, you have to deal with it in the right way. Hypnosis helps us use the past as a lesson for the future.
Thinking the worst can be habit forming. But the worst hardly ever happens. Beating the habit is really a matter of putting yourself in the right frame of mind. Once we learn to do this we can also stop sabotaging ourselves because worry and self doubt is really just a misuse of the imagination. Like a prison we have created in our own minds, it’s the hardest one to break out of. But there is a way…
Confidence / Self-Esteem / Self-Respect
'Confidence means making better decisions… the right decisions…'
It’s time to stop worrying about what others might think – they do not determine who you are! The truth is, you are better than you think you are! Healthy self-esteem means having an honest respect for your own abilities, potentials and values. It also means recognising your own strengths and trusting in them.
Hypnotherapy can awaken your self-confidence and encourage a more healthy and optimistic sense of who you are and what you can be. Hypnotherapy helps increase confidence and determination – especially in social situations – and focus in the same way naturally confident people can.
Social Anxiety
'It’s easy to make new friends!'
Stress, anxiety, worry… all affect the way you feel. Anxiety is common in people who suffer from exaggerated worry and tension – even in normal situations. It can feel like a prison that’s impossible to escape from – but this prison is easy to break out of, because it exists only in your own mind!
Anxiety in particular can be like having someone constantly looking over your shoulder, watching everything you do, watching your every move. It’s time to remove that dictator from your life.
Hypnosis is a wonderfully relaxing experience – you don’t lose consciousness, you don’t go to sleep… instead, you learn how to change the way you think and feel about the things that bother you. If you can do that, you can change the way you think and feel about yourself… you can forget about the things that used to bother you, because the change can be natural, easy and automatic.
Depression
'… and time to restore your self esteem…'
It used to be thought that hypnotherapy was not a suitable treatment for people with depression. We now know that hypnosis is a powerful tool to help beat depression. Hypnosis helps to calm the mind and body – something that is extremely beneficial. Depressed people have higher than normal levels of the stress hormone cortisol and hypnosis can be used to reduce this.
Hypnosis helps you recoup lost energy, rehearse new positive behaviours, and build motivation. These hypnotherapy sessions not only focus on better sleep and reducing anxiety, they also improve self-esteem and self-confidence, helping depressed clients regain ownership of their lives.
Virtual Gastric Band / Weight Loss / Dieting / Healthy Eating / Comfort Eating / Sugar Addiction
'Fad diets don’t work… setting achievable goals does… it’s easy to do it right!'
A session of hypnotherapy will start by addressing the subtle – and often unrecognised – unconscious reasons behind unhealthy eating patterns, effectively changing them, enabling you to move toward a more healthy lifestyle. Eating is not a conscious, deliberate choice. It operates at the unconscious level, and this is where it must be addressed.
This is not a diet plan… it focuses on how to boost psychological motivation to make, and keep making, the right food choices. It addresses comfort eating and sugar addiction. Most important it concentrates on making better decisions – making the right decisions about food.
In addition, we will instal a ‘virtual gastric band’ which will help you feel fuller and more satisfied quicker.
Pain Management / Aches & Pains / Post Operative Pain Rheumatism, etc…
'Pain is nature’s way of telling us there’s something wrong… but you are a mind with a body, not a body with a mind!'
Hypnosis really can have a profoundly beneficial effect on the workings of your body. Physicians and psychologists agree that we are ‘a mind with a body, not a body with a mind!’ In. other words, the way we think can affect our physical health as well as out mental health, and there are volumes of scientific evidence to back this up.
Major operations have been carried out with hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic. There is also a considerable body of evidence that hypnosis can enhance the effectiveness of the immune system. In a study at Washington State University, volunteers who underwent hypnosis specifically to boost their immune systems showed significant increases in levels of immune cells.
Hypnotherapy is effective for controlling pain resulting from accidents, post operative pain, the ordinary aches and the long-term pains of age, illness and disease.
Guilt and Shame
'You’re not a terrible person… so stop punishing yourself'
Guilt or shame can be soul-destroying emotions. Shame isn't necessarily linked to a particular perceived wrongdoing, it's more a sense of doubt about one's core identity being bad or inferior. Feeling chronically guilty is painful because the pain of guilt also serves as its own punishment.
It's time to take off the shackles that bind you…
Motivation
'It’s time to stop holding yourself back…’
Lack of motivation, procrastination, fear of success and even plain laziness can all be turned around with hypnosis. Research has proved that people are more able to do something they’ve already rehearsed under hypnosis.
Hypnosis can be used for all kinds of motivational issues, from starting a business, practicing a musical instrument, getting slimmer and fitter – even just getting out of bed and starting the day!
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
'It’s time to escape from the tyrant watching everything you do…’
We all use repetitive behaviours every day. They help us structure our lives and keep things predictable and manageable. But for some people, the ability to determine that a behaviour has accomplished its purpose and can now be discarded becomes unreliable. They can find themselves in a nightmare of repeating the same pattern over and over, with no sense that it's 'enough'.
Hypnosis can help us quickly develop a growing and deepening sense of physical and mental distance between reality and obsessive compulsive disorder, changing the relationship the client has with their OCD problem. The client is then taught a powerful process for modifying their experience in situations that used to trigger their compulsive behaviour.
Cannabis Addiction
'It’s time to terminate the relationship… and regain control of your life…’
The National Council for Hypnotherapy recently circulated research from the University of Iowa on the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a way of stopping smoking. The study, involving 72,000 people, investigated the most effective ways of stopping. Hypnotherapy was shown to be three times more effective than nicotine replacement therapy.
Overcoming addictions involves instilling hope and optimism. Hypnotherapy can successfully treat all sorts of addictions – not just smoking, but also alcohol and drugs, shopping addiction and social media addiction.
Exercise Motivation
'Get fitter… feel better… be proud of yourself!’
You already know how much exercise benefits you, and you already know about the good feeling you get when you complete a workout or a walk. You maybe already belong to a gym or have an exercise routine of your own. But sometimes it just feels like all those positive benefits are not quite enough to motivate you to exercise today.
Hypnosis can programme your unconscious mind to build a powerful exercise habit that you won't break!
Body Dysmorphia
'The mirror is wrong… people are more interested in inner beauty…’
Almost everyone has felt dissatisfied with their nose, or their chin, or their elbow, or some other body part, at some time or another. They may even have become depressed about it for a while. But in most cases such concerns usually fade with time or when they realise that it isn't as significant as they first thought. But the situation is different for someone experiencing Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). The preoccupation with the supposed 'wrongness' of some physical feature becomes so overwhelming that the sufferer can think of nothing else. When they look in the mirror, they actually fail to see what others can see, and instead see and believe in a completely distorted image of themselves.
These negative beliefs and emotions can be overcome using hypnosis using a state of dissociated relaxation, getting you to see yourself in a different way.
Better Posture
'Head up… shoulders back… Instant confidence!’
In times past, posture was taken so seriously that classes were given in how to stand, walk and sit correctly. Correct structural use of the body is beneficial in terms of efficiency and physical health. In terms of well-being, there is a strong correlation between posture and feeling good about yourself.
The session will help correct any postural imbalance or strain and teach you how to deport yourself well.
Exam Stress
'Forget the 3 ‘R’s… It’s the 3 ‘P’s that matter… Proper Prior Planning!’
There is nothing worse than, after all your hard study, you walk into your exam and your mind goes blank. Your nerves and anxiety get the better of you and your brain simply won't work properly! Psychologists call this phenomenon state-dependant memory. Put simply, the state you're in determines what you can remember. One reason is because you're in a very different state to when you learned, it's now hard to remember stuff. If you're very anxious, your brain is simply in the wrong state for thinking.
The fact is, memory and recall depends on you not being stressed. If you're anxious, your unconscious senses there's something dangerous going on - when that happens, it starts to operate in survival mode, and this is not the right state mind for recalling information or tackling complex problems. When your emotional centres are activated, it's much harder to remember what you learned.
Hypnosis is great for re-training your brain to respond with the sort of emotional response that will help your exam performance. In an exam, you need to feel calm, but with maybe just a little sense of excitement to give you that extra edge. This is how to get that balance…
Sports Performance
'As strong as a lion... as fast as a cheetah... Get your game-face on!’
There is plenty of evidence to show hypnosis can help you master a skill and generally improve your performance, giving you ‘the edge’. Ever watched Olympic athletes ‘limber up’ before a race? They are mentally going through the steps they practised under hypnosis.
Hypnosis can improve focus, reaction time, confidence and even physical strength. Hypnosis can also enhance skill just as well as actual practice! An ability to increase concentration could improve your game...
Relaxation
Imagine being able to just do nothing - and feel good about it. Imagine being able to sink into relaxation almost instantly, regardless of the noise and hubbub going on around you and still be able to shut out the stresses and strains of life. Learn how in one easy session.
Tuning in to your emotions
'Embracing feelings and emotions - problem solving the natural way…’
Imagine being able to get in touch with your inner self... to make the connection with your inner self and permanently make that connection secure and strong for whenever you need it. Learn how in one easy session.
Self Hypnosis
'Practice makes perfect… Self-hypnosis is the therapist in you pocket.’
Learn how to hypnotise yourself any time you want! In just one three hour session, I can teach you the techniques to do just that, and... programme your own suggestions to make you a brighter, happier human being.