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…
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…
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…
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…
‘The path of your life’s story was written in its first chapter’ Discuss. Some clients come to see me with no idea of how they ended up depressed, anxious or suffering from a condition such as OCD or panic attacks. Only when we piece together their lives does it become plain to them. Sometimes I’m…
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…
‘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….
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…
Summer is coming. Are you ready? If worries of weight get in the way of your happiness then hypnotherapy could help you At the time of updating this blog-post it is now the autumn of 2020 and despite a lovely, hot day, Summer is more or less over. What a Summer it has been! We’re…
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…
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…
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…
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….
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.” – Carl Jung I was recently waiting for a train in Reading and overheard a girl talking on the ‘phone nearby. She was plainly a little drunk and was seemingly begging some boy to take her back into his life. It didn’t…
