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…
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…
Can hypnotherapy make you like sprouts? Several years ago I heard some wonderful news. Someone, somewhere in the Thames Valley had invented a wonderfully delicious new drink. Yes, they had discovered a drink which nobody had thought of ever before. They had the imagination and inventiveness to come up with the wonderdrink which nobody had…
Children are as strong and as fragile as eggs If you drop an egg from an aeroplane and can guarantee that it will land fully on the pointed end then that egg will never break. Tap an egg on its side and it will shatter. Children are a little like eggs. They are infinitely strong…
Hypnotherapy, tailored to your needs, could help you overcome the problems associated with ASC. If you or a loved one is on the autistic spectrum and requires a little help then I’m sorry to hear it. I work with high functioning individuals a great deal and have amassed, over the years, considerable experience of how…
People love putting each other in boxes. Resist the label! What’s wrong with a label? Hypnotherapists see lots of labels. People seem to absolutely love them. Here’s a disorder, there’s a syndrome, here’s a disease, an imbalance, a problem. Sticking a label on something, or someone, makes it so much easier to manage. Doesn’t…
Britain is staring into the abyss of a collapse in mental health. I originally wrote this article in 2020 and, as you.d imagine, its contents are somewhat out of date. However, it doesn’t hurt to remind ourselves of how awful those times were for people. We are still suffering the consequences of those years…
You could learn to enjoy your life, right now. Racing towards happiness tomorrow is like chasing your own tail. Slow down a little and you might just get there faster! We can make cakes from a packet. We can order a book from Amazon, in an instant, and it can arrive on our doorstep…
Which are more important: thoughts or feelings? Oh, you don’t do CBT? It said you did on Psychology Today When asked to tick which therapies I offer I always read it as meaning ‘which therapies do you incorporate into your practice?’ Today I’ve had another person ask me to help them using CBT. I had…
Can hypnotherapy help you to lose weight? Yes it can. You can do it! Hello there. If you’re here to look at another way of losing weight then the following research shows that hypnotherapy can drastically increase your chances of slimming down and keeping that weight off for good. I know this very well because…
You can leave alcohol dependency behind. Hypnotherapy could help you! Are you fed up of waking up every morning and wondering why you had to finish that bottle the night before? Are you sick of resolving to stay away from alcohol for a day, only to find that you find some excuse and buy a…
Hypnotherapy can help eliminate conditional self-regard. You can learn to improve your self-esteem! Self-esteem. Every day my time is spent helping people in Reading, Oxford, London (Holborn), Wallingford and Thame to build and bolster their sense of self-worth. Often, however, people have something that we therapists call ‘conditions of worth’ which can stand in the…
Celebrity and Hypnotherapy. If it’s good enough for them it’s good enough for you! It has become commonplace for hypnotherapists to state that celebrities such as Lilly Allen have used hypnotherapy for weight loss. Hypnotherapy, in the hands of a skilled hypnotherapist, can help identify the causes of weight gain and support the client through…
Mothers day. What a horrible time! Wow! I never enjoyed Mothers’ Day whilst my own mother was still alive but this video takes things to a whole new level. We can only guess at what happened to this person that they felt it necessary to set fire to their own mother’s car and video the…
Make yourself comfortable for a story! I told this story to a client in Reading, yesterday. It sunk in and made a difference. A frog was sitting on a riverbank watching the waters rise. It was raining heavily and all the creatures were scurrying for shelter, for safety away from the imminent flood. A scorpion…
