Our habits are deeply rooted in our subconscious, making them challenging to change by sheer willpower. Hypnotherapy is an effective method to support individuals in altering their habits and behaviours by suggesting alternative reactions and positive habits.

As a certified weight management specialist and hypnotic gastric banding practitioner, I offer a comprehensive approach to help you achieve your weight loss goals and maintain a healthy weight in the long term. Using a range of complementary therapies alongside hypnosis, I can tailor my approach to suit your individual needs and preferences.

My approach to weight management is comprehensive and includes a variety of techniques to ensure success. I use motivational strategies to help you stay focused and driven towards your goals, as well as techniques to overcome cravings and emotional eating. Additionally, we work together to identify and transform any limiting beliefs you may have about food and weight loss.

As your guide, my aim is to help you develop a healthy and balanced relationship with food, rather than promoting any extreme or unsustainable approaches. While I do offer hypnotic gastric banding, I only recommend this approach if we have worked together to change your habits beforehand, as even physical surgery can be unsuccessful if unhealthy eating patterns persist.

By working together, we can create a personalised plan that will help you achieve your weight loss goals in a healthy, sustainable way, and maintain a positive relationship with food and your body.

One question I’m often asked is, “Can you help me stop smoking?” The answer is yes, but with a caveat: you have to want to quit. It’s not productive to come to me if you’re just trying to prove someone wrong or if you’re not truly committed to quitting. However, if you are ready to quit, I can guide you through the process of becoming a non-smoker. And when I say non-smoker, I mean it – we all know how annoying ex-smokers can be, right?

Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can help you tap into your subconscious mind and develop new, healthy habits that you can adopt for the long term. During your hypnotherapy session to quit smoking, your subconscious mind will be rewired to produce the same positive feelings that you used to experience from smoking, but without the adverse health effects.

Stress can have a significant impact on our physical and mental health. Hypnotherapy can be a powerful tool to manage stress by replacing negative reactions with healthier responses. Additionally, it can alleviate conditions such as IBS and sleep disorders that are triggered by stress.

If you’re struggling with IBS, hypnotherapy can be a helpful option to explore. Research shows a strong link between our digestive system and our brain, and stress is often a primary cause of IBS.

By addressing the underlying stress that contributes to IBS symptoms, hypnotherapy can provide relief and improve your quality of life. It’s a natural and non-invasive treatment that can be an excellent complement to other therapies.

Whether it’s nail biting, hair pulling, drinking alcohol or emotional habits like anger, resentment, or judgement, these behaviours can be hard to overcome on your own. That’s where I come in. Using hypnotherapy and other complementary techniques, I can help you break those habits and form new ones that align with your goals and values.

Maybe you’re a chronic procrastinator, wasting time and missing out on opportunities. Or perhaps you grind your teeth at night, causing damage to your dental health. Whatever your habit may be, it’s important to recognise that it’s not a character flaw or a sign of weakness. It’s simply a behaviour that you’ve learned and reinforced over time.

With my guidance, we can work together to break the cycle of your habit and create new patterns of behaviour that serve you better.

The suggestions and techniques used in hypnotherapy to address anxiety will be tailored to your specific triggers and concerns.

One of the reasons hypnotherapy can be so effective for anxiety is that it allows you to access your subconscious mind, where the root causes of your anxiety may reside. Through progressive relaxation techniques, a hypnotherapist can guide you into a deeply relaxed state, where you can become more aware of the physical tension in your body and learn how to release it.

As you work through the underlying issues in this relaxed state, you may feel like you’re receiving a mental massage that leaves you feeling refreshed and in a more positive state of mind. Penny Ling, a hypnotherapist, explains that hypnotherapy for anxiety can be an incredibly powerful tool for managing anxiety.

It’s completely normal to experience a lack of confidence and self-esteem at some point in our lives. Whether it’s due to past experiences, childhood traumas, or recent setbacks, it can be difficult to rebuild your confidence and feel comfortable in your own skin. And it’s not just high-fliers who suffer from low self-esteem – people from all walks of life can struggle with these feelings.

Through hypnotherapy, I can help you access your subconscious mind and break down those unhelpful patterns of behaviour, thinking, and beliefs that have been holding you back from feeling confident and self-assured. Together, we will work to replace these negative patterns with positive feelings, beliefs, and behaviours that empower you to reach your goals and feel good about yourself.

Hypnotherapy can also help you practise feeling confident in challenging situations such as social settings, job interviews, and public speaking.

Phobias are often rooted in our subconscious, which makes them an ideal target for hypnotherapy. In a hypnotherapy session, a trained professional can guide you to explore the origins of your fear and create positive changes in the way you think and feel about it. By accessing your subconscious mind, you can work to reframe your thoughts and reactions to your phobia, ultimately reducing or eliminating the fear response altogether. With hypnotherapy, you can face your phobia with confidence and find freedom from the anxiety it once caused.