Questions

It’s normal to have questions before starting any kind of therapy. This page covers some of the most common ones, like how hypnotherapy works, what a session feels like, and how it can help you with your goal.

If you’re considering hypnotherapy for the first time, this page is designed to help you make an informed decision how I might help. The free consultation will answer your questions, but if you have any questions right now, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Hypnosis is a natural and deeply relaxing state of mind – something you’ve likely experienced many times without even realising it. Think of those moments just before falling asleep, when you’re still faintly aware of sounds around you, but they no longer bother you. Or when you’re at work and your mind drifts into a daydream about being on holiday. These are everyday examples of a trance-like state.

Used for thousands of years, hypnosis helps calm and focus the mind, making it easier to absorb positive suggestions and shift unhelpful patterns.

Hypnotherapy uses this state to support lasting change in how you think, feel, and behave. It can help with anxiety, fears, phobias, confidence, stress, smoking, weight loss, and performance issues like public speaking.

Your mind has two main parts: the conscious and the subconscious. The subconscious mind runs automatic functions like breathing, emotions, habits, and learned behaviours. It stores memories and beliefs that shape how you respond to life. Around 95% of mental activity happens here, which is why hypnotherapy works at this level. The conscious mind handles thinking, decision-making, and processes what you see, hear, and feel before passing it to the subconscious.

For example, a child may pick up a fear of spiders just by seeing a parent react fearfully – even without a direct experience. That reaction gets stored and becomes automatic.

Through hypnosis, a trained hypnotherapist helps you access the subconscious to shift these patterns. It’s a powerful way to overcome fears, phobias, anxiety, boost confidence, stop smoking, manage weight, and create lasting change.

You might consciously know what needs to change in your life – whether it’s quitting smoking, reducing anxiety, or building confidence – but your subconscious mind may still be running old habits on auto-pilot. That’s where hypnotherapy helps.

In the calm, focused state of hypnosis, the subconscious becomes more open to positive suggestions. As a trained clinical hypnotherapist, I use Suggestion Therapy – combining hypnotic suggestion, visualisation, and NLP techniques – to help reprogram unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours.

With almost 20 years of experience, I’ve helped many clients make lasting changes by working with the part of the mind that truly drives behaviour.

During a hypnotherapy session, people often feel a light tingling, a floating sensation, or a sense of heaviness and stillness. Some say they feel so relaxed they don’t want to move, and many notice that time seems to pass quickly. You remain in control and aware throughout. Most people remember what’s said, but their focus becomes so clear that outside thoughts fade away.

A key benefit of hypnotherapy is deep relaxation. After a session, clients often feel calm, refreshed, and able to carry on with their day – including driving home safely.

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