Confidence and Self-esteem
Encouraging life experiences make us feel more confident and negative life experiences make us feel less confident. Encouragement from teachers, parents and bosses increases our confidence flow. Humiliation, pressure or negative feedback can mean that it ebbs away. Once confidence starts to diminish, fear of failure can prevent us from trying to achieve and then our confidence ebbs further away creating a general lack of self-confidence.
Sometimes a sudden loss of confidence can be experienced in a particular area of your life where you may have experienced an accident, trauma or a period of emotional turmoil.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy can retrain your negative thought patterns and empower you with the positive outlook that you want to empower you to quickly reach your full potential.
Depression
As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, I can design a treatment plan specifically for you, from a broad spectrum of modern therapeutic techniques aimed at quickly changing the negative thought patterns that have created and sustain your low mood. New positive thought patterns can be created and combined with daily relaxation exercises and tasks to gently support and encourage you as you make the changes in your life that can help you find pleasure again and prevent further periods of depression.
Exam and Interview Nerves
It only takes one bad experience at taking an exam or interview for it to create anxiety that can mean that next time you find yourself in a similar situation you anticipate being anxious which then creates a vicious circle. Cognitive Hypnotherapy can break up this negative cycle and prepare you in advance to stay calm and feel confident, allowing your mind to remain clear and able to focus on the task ahead.
Fears, Phobias and Panic Attacks
Top 10 most Common:
- Spiders
- Snakes
- Heights
- Fear of situations from which escape is difficult
- Dogs
- Thunder and Lightening
- Injections
- Social Situations
- Flying
- Germs and Dirt
The list is endless and phobias can cause severe anxiety and embarrassment.
The physical symptoms of Fears and Phobias are the evolutionary natural physical response to danger. The “fight or flight” response is designed to keep us safe and enables us to run away from attackers or prepare us to put up a good fight. Our muscles tense, blood pressure increases the circulation to our heart and we breathe faster to get oxygen into our blood so that our limbs are ready to run or fight. This causes us to shake, have palpitations, sweat, shortness of breath, dizziness, and nausea.
The reaction is designed to save lives if threatened by a dangerous predator but it's not appropriate when faced with a little harmless spider. The problem can often be traced to an early experience when the young unconscious mind decided that the initial phobia trigger presented a threat to safety. Gradually as you get older the unconscious mind can become more sensitive to the trigger and increases the phobias parameters.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy can very quickly reprogram the unconscious mind to regain the sense of proportion that your conscious mind already recognises. The treatment is quick, simple, gentle and long-lasting.
Habits, Obsessions and Compulsions
Recurring patterns of negative thoughts or behaviour can be frustrating and if severe, exhausting and controlling.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy aims to significantly change your thinking patterns to put you back in control of your thoughts and behaviour.
A Cognitive Hypnotherapist will help you to overcome the associated anxiety which is often at the core of the problem while using a range of modern techniques to give you back control over the symptoms.
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Conventional treatment of IBS is a prescription for drugs. These drugs are designed to treat the symptoms of IBS and when the course of treatment has finished very often the symptoms return.
Hypnotherapy has proven a very effective treatment for IBS. A recent report in Gut a specialist publication of the British Medical Association, found that in a study carried out over six years which involved more than 200 patients, hypnotherapy had helped over 71% of patients for up to five years following treatment. Many patients also found that hypnosis significantly helped to reduce levels of anxiety and depression associated with the condition.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy is a non-invasive and relaxing form of treatment for IBS.
Insomnia
Poor sleep patterns can arise for many reasons and often become habitual. Once tired because of lack of sleep for any reason, we're more likely to suffer from stress that can then cause us more disrupted sleep patterns. Cognitive Hypnotherapy can quickly break up the poor sleeping patterns and allow you to retrain your brain to learn new helpful sleep habits using simple relaxation techniques.
Natural Weight Control
Cognitive Hypnotherapy can address the reasons why your powerful unconscious mind sabotages your conscious efforts to control your weight, as your motivation, confidence and self-esteem increase. Techniques chosen specifically to suit you can change your thought patterns, attitudes and beliefs about yourself and food, to help you easily control your diet and lose weight permanently.
By changing negative thought patterns to enable you to feel happier about yourself, eating a healthy balanced diet becomes easy and your body is able to naturally come back into balance.
Performance - Stage, Sports, Professional
Many Sports Champions and Professional Actors regularly use Cognitive Hypnotherapy to improve their performance because it is now commonly recognised that the mind controls up to 90% of physical performance. If a performer feels under pressure and lacks confidence it is very likely that they won't be able to give their best performance. Cognitive Hypnotherapy uses techniques to train the mind to concentrate and stay calm to enable professionals and amateurs in all kinds of situations to give their best performance.
Public Speaking
Some people seem to find it easy to stand up in front of a crowd and give a speech or presentation but for others it can be an enormous challenge. If you need to make a speech of some kind, a business presentation or interview and you'd like the confidence to be able to deliver a calm and focused performance then Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help you.
Stop Smoking
At the University of Iowa in 1992, a large research project was undertaken into the efficacy of methods to stop smoking and Hypnosis came out right at the top. This was reported in The New Scientist, which claimed that Hypnosis was the most effective way to stop smoking. A new study by Professor Green at the University of Ohio has also confirmed the success of Hypnosis in stopping smoking and research results that have been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and include 48 studies of Hypnosis covering 6000 smokers, clearly showed that Hypnosis, was three times more effective than nicotine replacement therapy.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy is effective because it addresses your powerful unconscious need to smoke that undermines your conscious efforts to stop. By breaking the pattern of unhelpful behaviour you'll find it easier to use techniques specifically chosen to be most effective for you, to put you back in control.
Stress and Anxiety
Stress can cause our sleep to be disturbed, can lead to drinking excessive amounts of alcohol or taking drugs. It can trigger or exacerbate asthma, migraines, skin conditions, high blood pressure, Irritable bowel syndrome, peptic ulcers and can lead to burnout, anxiety, panic attacks, depression and more.
Stress is the evolutionary natural physical response to situations where we feel under threat. The “fight or flight” response is designed to keep us safe from physical danger and enables us to run away from attackers or prepare us to put up a good fight. Our muscles tense, our blood pressure increases the circulation to our heart and we breathe faster to get oxygen into our blood so that our limbs are ready for action. Once the danger has passed our body should rebalance itself and return to a calm state. However, the world we live in today subjects us to continual low grade stress – critical bosses, unrealistic deadlines, exams, presentations, traffic jams, pressure to achieve, bad news, fear of crime, deadly diseases, all of these things drip small amounts of stress hormones into our bodies and have a cumulative effect that can often cause us to be in a constant state of alert, leading to physical symptoms.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy can quickly reprogram the negative thought patterns and empower you with techniques that enable you to stay calm and take back control over your feelings.
