Anxiety is a survival instinct that was needed to help keep us alive in any dangerous environments where predators could be present.
Our brains don't understand that the modern stresses in our lives, are not predators trying to eat us!
Therapy will teach you how to regulate these overactive primitive responses, and regain intellectual control over your emotions.
Depression is caused by past or current negative experiences in your life. Often which have been endured for extended periods of time
In the most severe cases, depression can become completely overwhelming. With the sufferer unable to engage with life or even get out of bed.
Talking and thinking about the problem can simply act as a reminder, often making things worse.
We will avoid talking about the problem, instead focusing on finding solutions and moving forward at a pace that is comfortable to you.
Working together to gradually rebuild your confidence, creating a sense of safety so you can start to re-engage with life.
People tend to think that PTSD can only be caused by a single, extreme, traumatic experience. While this can be the case, PTSD can also develop as the result of multiple repeated traumas over time. This is known as ‘complex PTSD’ (cPTSD).
Whatever the cause, PTSD is an extremely intrusive condition.
Even when its not severe enough to cause PTSD, trauma can have a profound effect on people's lives
Simple things can trigger emotional flashbacks at any point during the day, forcing you to re-live your traumatic experiences.
Using hypnotherapy and NLP, we can target and treat each individual trigger... bringing you relief, without ever having to revisit the original traumatic event.
Phobia treatment is the closest thing to ‘magic’ that hypnotherapists perform.
Phobias can be crippling for people to try to live with.
The phobic response is a template of behaviour, that the mind has associated with a particular fear, in an attempt to keep you safe.
We will work together to break that template of behaviour, so your brain no longer understands that you are afraid.
We can then create a new pattern of behaviour to put in place of the original reaction.
‘Ego death’ or ‘ego dissolution’ is a mental state that is often described as a ‘complete loss of subjective self-identity’
Commonly linked with the use of psychedelics, an ego death can also be triggered by other causes, such as extensive meditation, an extreme traumatic event, or even a simple spontaneous realisation.
Some people can find this experience to be euphoric, but It can also leave you in a very scary place, where you lose all sense of purpose and ‘zest for life’, as a deep sense of nihilism (relentless cynicism) towards existence takes hold.
This can be incredibly isolating and lonely. But despite their struggle, many people do not seek assistance due to a fear of being misunderstood and labelled psychotic or crazy.
While it can feel hopeless at first... when managed correctly, ego death can be the start of a profound journey of self discovery and positive growth. Leading you to a new and improved version of yourself.
Therapy will help you to analyse and integrate your new life perspective, keeping you grounded while you explore the things that really matter to you, and find a productive direction for your future.
(My services are not intended as guidance for someone seeking an ego death. It is for those who are struggling AFTER)
OCD is an anxiety disorder where you suffer from extreme fear responses to one or multiple triggers.
OCD not only controls the life of the sufferer, it can often start to control the lives of the family and friends they spend time with.
OCPD is a personality disorder similar to OCD. The main features being a preoccupation with extreme perfectionism (around anything from cleanliness to order) even at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency, regardless of the impact on others.
It is possible to suffer from both OCD and OCPD at the same time.
Hypnotherapy helps to calm the mind and reinforce a feeling of safety. Allowing you to start to gain intellectual control over your emotions and begin managing your unwanted behaviours.
OCD is unfortunately incurable. However, hypnotherapy can be extremely effective at reducing and managing the symptoms, allowing you to live the best life you can.
In some cases, there is a genuine medical reason why you are unable to get pregnant. (eg. If you have no ovaries, I can't magically give you ovaries) In these situations, unfortunately hypnotherapy cannot help.
Often however, it is simply excess levels of cortisol in the woman’s body that is preventing pregnancy.
When our ancestors were living in a dangerous environment, they would produce a lot of cortisol. The body would recognise these high levels of stress hormones and prevent pregnancy. (Due to a high chance of the infant dying from predators or a lack of food.)
Only when they moved into a safer environment and cortisol levels reduced to normal, would pregnancy be possible.
This natural mechanism is still working today. Our modern lives produce high levels of cortisol, which your body recognises as a dangerous environment.
Hypnotherapy helps you to reduce stress and manage your cortisol, returning your body to a safe place where pregnancy can be naturally achieved.
Solution focused hypnotherapy works by promoting a natural chemical balance in your mind and body. Because of this, it can be effective at helping remove or to improve the symptoms of a huge variety of health issues.
Conditions that are helped by SFHT include, but are not limited to:
Assisting Chemotherapy
Bereavement
Bio-psychological issues
Chronic pain
Claustrophobia
Climate anxiety
Eating disorders
Exam nerves
Fears
Grief
Guilt
Habits
(promoting good and removing bad)
Hoarding
Hypersomnia (oversleeping)
Imposter syndrome
Interview nerves
Insomnia (trouble sleeping)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Low confidence
Low mood
Memory (improving)
Menopause
Migraines
Misophonia
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
(chronic fatigue syndrome)
Nail biting
Obsessing
Panic attacks
Perfectionism
People pleasing (stop)
Personal growth
Procrastination
Public speaking
Rumination
Self-esteem
Shame
Shyness
Skin problems
Social anxiety
Sports performance
Stress
Tinnitus
(If you are suffering from something that is not on the list...
solution focused hypnotherapy may still be able to help. Feel free to get in contact to find out more)
I know how it feels to be struggling. For over 15 years, I lived with severe depression, anxiety, and trauma, so I understand firsthand just how hard, exhausting and isolating that can be.
It was my own journey toward healing that led me into therapy, and ultimately into training as a therapist myself.
At the heart of my practice is a simple belief: that you already hold the capacity for change within you. My role is to create a safe, non-judgmental space where you feel truly heard, and where your own strengths and resources can come to the surface.
I am a qualified Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and a trainee integrative counsellor. Blending humanistic, person-centred, Gestalt, NLP and CBT approaches into a unique therapy that is both evidence-informed and deeply human.
I believe no single approach fits every person, which is why I draw on a range of methods and frameworks, always led by what feels right for the individual.
I offer both practical tools and support to help you manage what life throws at you, and the emotional space to explore what lies beneath.
Whether you are navigating anxiety, low mood, trauma, or simply a sense that something needs to change, you don't have to face it alone.
I know how hard the first step can be. I also know that you don’t have to feel like this forever.
(Registered member of the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH),
fully supervised and fully insured.)
