Your emotional outlook affects your physical health. Could hypnotherapy therefore help you to live longer? NICE approves of hypnotherapy as a treatment for IBS and thus accepts that our inner psychological turmoil can cause or worsen physical ill-health. That much has been known for quite some time and it seems unsurprising to say so. When…
You needn’t wait for Stoptober to stop smoking. You could give up smoking, quit smoking or simply stop at any time of year If you smoke then you will probably have noticed the new Stoptober adverts. The idea is that you stop smoking for a mere 28 days. You might then decide to quit…
Anger isn’t always quite what it seems! Hypnotherapy could help you to resolve it, once and for all! Hi there. I take on a fair number of clients for problems regarding anger-management. The problem is, however, that anger is never the problem. Anger is merely a protection against a feeling which seems even worse. Anger…
Torn between counselling and Hypnotherapy? You could have both! As I explain elsewhere on my website, I once went for hypnotherapy for smoking and then to a counsellor for something which had bugged me for years. It was this which led me here. I was impressed with how effectively I’d been helped and so one…
Be the tortoise and win through perseverance. Hypnotherapy could help you! In my earliest days as a teacher in Reading, I taught a girl with a mild learning disability. She was a nice girl and I’m sorry to say that she attracted bullies. There were others in the class who would do their best to…
Stop smoking and stop feeling stressed. At the same time! Have you recently come to the same conclusion as every non and former smoker: that smoking is a complete and utter waste of time? If you’re living in or around Reading, London, Oxford, Wallingford or Thame then perhaps hypnotherapy could help you to turn that…
You will always grow and change. The direction change takes is up to you! I’d like you to imagine the person you were ten years ago. Let’s say “five years ago” if you’re in your twenties. How different were you back then? How did you look, behave and feel? How have you changed in all…
Why are so many therapists so scared of a label? Hello. Than you for visiting my site. I hope you have begun to feel more confident that there is an answer to whatever it is which brings you here. Asperger’s Syndrome is one of the major reasons I go to work each day. I…
Are you living life looking to some point in the future or with half of your attention fixed firmly on the past? Bubbles are awesome. There’s something so entrancing about a bubble. They live for a second and yet the memory of their beauty lives on in every adult child’s mind. They bring out the…
When friends become toxic then perhaps its time to let them go. Friendships are such an important part of our lives that its vital to get them right. Many of the same people who would refuse to waste their lives with an abusive partner will nonetheless hold onto toxic friends. Watch the above video if…
Fat-shaming. Should we or shouldn’t we? Does it help? Hi there. I wonder what you think of the video above. Is she right or is she horribly offensive? Judging by the comments beneath the original youtube video it’s an extremely divisive piece of film. Should we accept people for being obese or should society apply…
Losing confidence is a common consequence of a nasty fall. Hypnotherapy could help you to recover your poise. Toddlers need to make an effort to walk. As children and adults it should be easy. Sometimes, however, it becomes more of an effort than it ought to be and sometimes our own brains and their fears…
Work-related stress and how stress-management programs could help both employees and employers It seems as if the West is in a permanent state of economic uncertainty. Governments have increasingly fallen for populist notions of tax and spend, regulation increases year on year, foreign rivals such as China gather strength and businesses are feeling the pinch….
‘There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.’ Erik Erikson (1902-1994) Erik Erikson is/was one of the most influential writers on the psychology of childhood. It’s a little old these days (rather psychoanalytical) but this quote is undoubtedly true. In fact it’s so true as to be positively trite….
Hypnotherapy for those on low incomes in Thame, Oxford, Reading and Wallingford One day a woman called me from Oxford and explained her situation. She was suffering from terrible anxiety and anger issues. She’d called a few therapists and had explained that she was on income support. Would they be prepared to see her at…
