A carefully handled divorce needn’t scar your children for life. A messy one can and will. Hypnotherapy could help. Hello I see so many adult clients whose problems began when their parents divorced. It doesn’t matter how long ago this happened or how old the client may be, if the divorce was messy and…
Are women really twice as anxious or is the truth a little more complex? Anxiety! What a vile problem to face on a daily basis. Everybody experiences a dose of it from time to time but it’s generally situational and concerns something temporary such as a date, a job interview or a near miss in…
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,…
Counselling beats hearing aids, white noise, CBT and more. Hypnotherapy could add still more value. Every week I use hypnotherapy in Reading, Oxford, London, Wallingford and Thame to help people who are sick of tinnitus. Tinnitus can wreck lives when people don’t know how to deal with it. Perhaps you feel as if…
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. It takes a great many small snips to produce a great haircut. People going through…
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…
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family and want to set yourself free then here’s how to do it. Hello 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…
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…
If you’re plagued by unhappy memories or are desperate to recover some then hypnotherapy could help you Which memories would you erase if you had the chance? Would they be those memories of heartbreaks in the past, memories of unkind deeds you’d committed, memories of unpleasant things which had happened to you earlier in your…
Career success? Academic triumphs? Still suffering from a lack of self-esteem? Perhaps hypnotherapy could help you. It’s like having a bucket with a hole in the bottom. You pour achievemnts into th bucket and every one of them feels good, for a while. Over time, however, the bucket begins to drain until you’re left at…
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…
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….
Rarely has a film proven so useful to 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. Inside Out is not only an excellent movie for the purpose of entertainment, it’s also an excellent metaphor…
