HYPNO-PSYCHOTHERAPY

Hypnotherapy is a relaxation process; a way of reaching your unconscious mind which is designed to assist you in making positive changes. I cannot promise that you can get the changes that you want immediately. People need varying amounts of sessions and time to change but while you are in a relaxed state you can help yourself re-write patterns of behaviour within the mind, and tap your unconscious resources to overcome irrational fears, phobias, negative thoughts, emotions and problems.

Being hypnotised is like daydreaming. It is an focused state of awareness in which you can communicate directly with your unconscious mind and work with it to make the changes you want to make in your life. The therapist can make positive suggestions planting ideas as seeds to help you make the changes you want to make. You are always in control and you are free to act on the suggestions that help you most and put aside any others that are not important for you right now. It is generally accepted that all hypnosis is ultimately self-hypnosis. A hypnotherapist merely helps to facilitate your experience .

Psychotherapy is essentially talking therapy. It can help you find ways of understanding and coping with your issues, becoming aware of triggers and possible causes. It can help you find strategies to think differently and get more out of your life more day by day. Above all it helps you explore your current situation and find resources to make the changes you want to make. Mandy takes an integrated and person-centred approach to psychotherapy, working with what works best for you from the humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural schools of therapy.

Who will benefit?
Just about anyone can get benefit from hypno-psychotherapy. Hypnosis can be used to relieve pain in surgery and dentistry and has proved to be of benefit in obstetrics. It has been shown to help people to overcome addictions such as smoking and alcoholism, and to help with eating disorders. Children are generally easy to hypnotise and can be helped with nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting) and chronic asthma, whilst teenagers can conquer confidence problems and exam stress.

Phobias of all kinds lend themselves well to hypno-psychotherapy, and anyone suffering from panic attacks or obsessional compulsive behaviour, and stress-related problems like insomnia, may benefit. Conditions exacerbated by tension, such as irritable bowel syndrome, psoriasis and eczema, and excessive sweating, respond well, and even tinnitus and clicky jaws (tempero-mandibular joint dysfunction) can be treated by these techniques. Hypno-psychotherapy has been shown to be of benefit to people living with dementia. It can help cope with the stresses and tensions of the illness and alleviate symptoms such as sleep disturbance and distress.