How can hypnotherapy help?

Improving your emotional state and building confidence and self-esteem

If you have been struggling with excessive worries, low mood for an extended period of time, lack of interest in the things you used to enjoy, suffer from depression, insomnia, stress or anxiety, low self-esteem, keep checking things, need a boost of confidence, or perhaps need help to overcome some fears or even paralyzing phobias, Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can be a huge help.

In our sessions, I explain to my clients that we have two minds, a primitive mind and an intellectual mind. If we use one and not the other, self-sabotage can kick in, as these two minds are not designed to work in isolation from each other for too long.

Under excessive pressure, we all tend to respond in one of three ways: with anxiety, anger, or depression, or a combination of all three. These states are ancient animal responses that evolved to help us survive, but when our primitive mind takes over, this ‘fight or flight’ response, can override our ability to think sensibly. If our primitive mind thinks that for one reason or another our life is under threat, it will step in to keep us alive, whilst simultaneously, shutting down any input from our intellectual brain, just as would happen if we were cavemen/women faced with the sudden appearance of a fierce and massive polar bear. These days, you might not be facing a polar bear but you might experience a similar stress response when you are facing redundancy, a bank statement, or have just had an argument.

So now we can get an idea of how, if our primitive survival responses remain activated for a prolonged period of time, we can end up developing chronic anger problems, long lasting depression, or one of a whole range of disabling anxiety disorders. When we constantly live our lives in survival mode, locked to one of those three negative states with high levels of stress hormones running through our bloodstream on a regular basis, among other things our immune system can become suppressed. Also, because our body and mind are intimately interconnected, we can suffer from a wide range of physical symptoms; from pain and gastrointestinal disorders like IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) to skin problems and sexual difficulties. Trance state can really help us in these situations by acting as a brain-reset that gets us out of the ‘fight or flight mode’, thus helping us rebalance our autonomic nervous system.

With the powerful combination of psychotherapy and hypnosis, as the sessions progress, I work with my clients to help them regain intellectual control so that they can operate from a space of emotional intelligence, rather than just being ruled by their primitive mind and sometimes living in a constant state of panic. As their primitive and intellectual mind start working together, my clients describe feeling more balanced, positive, and more themselves, with an increased sense of confidence and self-esteem gained in the process

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If you also want to experience the benefits that Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can bring into your life please contact me.