Hypnotherapy could help you learn to forget about that noise. Hyperacusis need bother you no more. Hello Are you suffering from an intolerance of everyday sounds? Does the sound of the neighbours drive you mad? Are you driven insane by the sound of people chewing their food, the noise of a hoover, the ringing…
Life is short. So, just say ‘f*ck it’ and dance! The video above is by one of my favourites: Francoise Hardy, a dark, melancholy and devastatingly beautiful (a mon avis) character from the 60s. For those of you without any French it’s about the ephemeral beauty of a rose which, even whilst in full bloom,…
How a commonly used hypnotherapy technique could help you Water is a fascinating substance. We pay little attention to it because it’s so everyday. However, just watch this video. It shows that great changes sometimes happen in small steps. Sometimes the greatest changes happen almost imperceptibly. It takes a great many small snips to…
One of my clients has lost the equivalent of 70 packets of butter in weight. You could too! This morning I saw one of my clients who is seeing me for weight loss. It turns out that he has lost a grand total of two and a half stones in weight. Two and a…
Hypnotherapy and counselling could help to save your neurotypical / asperger’s ‘mixed’ relationship Asperger’s syndrome or high-functioning autism is almost defined by the difficulty its ‘sufferers’ experience with personal relationships. I’m the father of an ‘aspie’ and witness, every day, the extra effort my daughter has to invest in social interactions. She has friends, she…
If you only dare to do what you’ve always done, you’ll never achieve what you could have achieved I was recently seeing a client who wanted something very badly. Perhaps there’s something you want really badly too. When, however, the opportunity arose for her to take a chance in achieving her goal, she found herself…
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family and want to set yourself free then here’s how to do it. Do you feel as if you grew up, escaped the family and still keep being drawn back in? Do you keep finding yourself an actor in an horrific drama which threatens your peace of…
Career success? Academic triumphs? Still suffering from a lack of self-esteem? Perhaps hypnotherapy could help you. Trying to fix your self-esteem by achieving things is like having a bucket with a hole in the bottom. You pour achievements into the bucket and every one of them feels good, for a while. Over time, however, the…
Being married to an ‘aspie’ can be difficult. Parenting one can be tough too. Hypnotherapy could help! Whatever follows in this post is not intended to be at all disparaging to those on the autistic spectrum. I work with a great many such people. I live with one too and I love her to bits….
How hypnotherapists can use this metaphor to help their clients progress Hi there Long before we had TV, radio and writing man handed knowledge from generation to generation through stories. Every culture had its oral traditions and every culture handed down its cultural inheritance through the metaphors these stories contained. Bruno Bettelheim wrote one of…
You’re probably already well-versed in your worst qualities. What about the other side of the coin? Words are powerful, as this video shows. How we talk to ourselves is crucial. This post talks, a little, about how you might begin to turn things around by changing the way you talk to yourself, about yourself….
Hypnotherapy could help you to bin the habit of biting your nails. It’s time to let the habit go! Nail biting is classed among a group of conditions called OCRDs (obsessive-compulsive and related disorders) and can be a rather difficult habit to stop. It can seem quite a trivial thing and yet it’s deeply…
Social anxiety could be overcome with the help of a well trained and aspie-aware hypnotherapist I can’t think of any group of people who are less deserving of social anxiety than those with asperger’s or high functioning autism. People on the spectrum, in my experience, tend to be among the most honest, loyal, dependable and…
Rarely has a film proven so useful to psychotherapists / hypnotherapists Hypnotherapists commonly search for metaphors through which to describe the inner workings of the human mind. I use such metaphors in my own hypnotherapy practice every single day. The best metaphors are usually those selected by my clients. If they talk about different parts…
You could learn to stop playing the same old roles I was training my hypnotherapy students last weekend (I originally wrote this post in 2016) and the topic in question was Transactional Analysis. Transactional Analysis was designed in the 1960s by Dr Eric Berne and is quite simply brilliant. When it works there is nothing…
