Eating disorders come in many forms, including but not limited to Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia and Obesity. All these disorders are fully treatable and once any physical issues have been ruled out, the answer lies in the psyche.

Hypnotherapy can be hugely effective when dealing with controlled weight loss or gain and, in order to help you achieve your goal, we will look at eating habits and relationship to food as well as starting to change any unhelpful thoughts or beliefs that are limiting you. This will not only help your physical health and fitness but boost your mental health too.

As we work through this therapy together, you will find that your eating patterns begin to naturally change, and you become much more confident as you gain control over what you eat.

Giving up smoking can be a real challenge but fear not, hypnotherapy can help!

Hypnotherapy has had real success helping people to give up and works by challenging unhelpful mindsets and the negative behaviours associated with smoking.

Most people only require a single hypnotherapy session.

You’re probably already aware of some of the long-term health benefits you can expect by giving up smoking, such as:

• Your hair, skin, and breath will no longer smell of tobacco smoke
• Your sense of taste and smell will improve
• Your breathing will be easier
• You will be better able to cope with physical exertion
• You’ll feel a sense of achievement that you’ve quit
• You will save money by not having to buy cigarettes

If this sounds like what you need, contact me today and let’s chat about how I can help you stop smoking for good.

We all have the possibility to experience anxiety at some time in our lives. Most people can relate to feeling tense, uncertain, and perhaps fearful at the thought of going for an interview, starting a new job, or going into an exam etc. You may worry about feeling uncomfortable, appearing foolish, or how successful you will be. In turn these worries can affect your sleep, appetite, and ability to concentrate. If everything goes well, the anxiety will go away.

This type of short-term anxiety can be useful. For instance, feeling nervous before a job interview can actually help you by making you feel more alert, and enhance your performance. However, if the feelings of anxiety overwhelm you, your ability to concentrate and do well may suffer.

Quite often anxiety can lead to a panic attack. This is an exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement. It is the rapid build-up of overwhelming sensations, such as a pounding heartbeat, feeling faint, sweating, nausea, chest pains, breathing discomfort, if you experience this, you may fear that you are going mad, blacking out, or having a heart attack. You may be convinced you are going to die in the course of the attack – making this a terrifying experience. Panic attacks come on very quickly, symptoms usually peaking within 10 minutes. Most panic attacks last for between 5 and 20 minutes.

Hypnotherapy can help you with anxiety and panic attacks by boost feelings of confidence and self-belief while reducing feelings of fear and intense worry.  It can help you develop the ability to access a relaxed state of mind which is needed to overcome the overwhelming emotions that come with anxiety.

Please get in contact if you wish to discuss anything you have seen here or any questions about treatments.

Grief is the thoughts and feelings we experience when we lose something or someone we love and value. Grieving comes in many forms and may not necessarily involve the death of a person, although it is the most widely known cause of bereavement; we can find ourselves grieving at the end of a relationship or a friendship, at the loss of a job or of financial security, after a miscarriage, because of infertility, or because of serious illness or disability – our own or someone we love; or even at the death of a pet.  The more central to our lives the thing we have lost, the greater the sense of loss and grief.  Grief is a natural and healthy emotional response to the loss of someone we love or something we value.

The way grief affects you depends on many things, such as the nature of the loss, your upbringing, your beliefs or religion, your age, your relationships, and your physical and mental health.

Hypnotherapy can help you to overcome grief and loss and reach a stage where it will not be so difficult to visit the memories of your loved one. Hypnotherapy can help to teach your brain to focus on the memories you shared, rather than on the sadness of your grief.

Insomnia is the feeling or inability to go to sleep or to stay asleep through the night.  The amount of sleep you require each night varies from person to person.  Most people need around 7 to 9 hours, though children need more and older people need much less. insomnia is not defined in terms of a certain amount of sleep, but in terms of how you feel as a result of the sleep you get. Sleep is something that everybody needs and it plays a vital role in both our physical and mental health.

Hypnotherapy can offer a gentle and effective help to break the cycle of sleepless nights by encouraging relaxation and unwinding, creating an opportunity to re-orientate your thoughts and emotions, so you can get the quality of sleep that you need to be healthy and alert throughout the day.  This is because hypnosis communicates directly with the inner mind, it can address the unconscious habit of bad sleep in a way which other methodologies (like drug therapy – sleeping tablets) cannot.  The very nature of hypnosis is a relaxing process which helps calm the motor function of the central nervous system, helping you to achieve deep muscle relaxation Hypnosis is often referred to as focused attention or bringing attention to a sharp focus like looking through the lens of a camera.  It is this nature of bringing focus of awareness down, filtering out extraneous thoughts that helps you drift over into sleep.

Ross also teaches you good sleep habits (sleep hygiene) to help promote a good night’s rest.  Quite often if you have had a broken pattern of sleep due to a past stressful event you can get into bad habits, such as getting up in the middle of the night to watch TV.  Hypnosis encourages good sleep hygiene and hence promotes a good night’s sleep.

Please feel free to get in contact if you have any questions.