Hypnotherapy

I use two different types of hypnotherapy to help clients, depending on what their problem is and how badly it is affecting them. The first is short, 1-2 sessions only, and is aimed at helping with short-term problems and confidence boosting, and to treat children. The second is longer, typically 7-8 sessions, getting right to the heart of a problem and producing long-lasting improvement. The best way to work out what is right for you is to discuss your needs at an initial consultation.

Suggestion Therapy (Clinical Hypnosis)

Suggestion therapy, also known as clinical hypnosis, is a simple, effective form of therapy for tackling problems such as nail-biting, calming nerves before events such as exams, driving tests or public-speaking; breaking habits such as smoking; achieving weight loss or treating any minor anxiety or confidence issue.

The session will involve a chat at the beginning to talk about how the mind can work for and against us, followed by some gentle relaxation and the addition of positive suggestions to help you through your problem and feel great. The effects are instant and last several weeks but will eventually wear off. As such, suggestion therapy is a great temporary help or stop-gap but for deeper anxieties and problems and a more profound change in personal outlook the best form of treatment is hypnoanalysis.

Pure Hypnoanalysis (Analytical Therapy)

Pure Hypnoanalysis is a highly effective, successful form of therapy for resolving anxieties, phobias, sexual problems, chronic fatigue and many, many other conditions. A course of therapy can last from 6-12 sessions but typically 7-12, during which the client is given the space, care and encouragement to find the root of their problems by uncovering the bottled-up emotions which are persistently trying to surface. Whilst these feelings remain trapped they make themselves felt in any number of physical symptoms, nervous disorders, emotional anxieties and mental obsessions. Find these repressed emotions, release them and the symptoms no longer have a need to exist.

At the beginning of each session I will use words to gently relax you, putting your body at ease and your mind in a place where experiences will float naturally to the surface. This stream of thoughts, feelings, fantasies and impressions will, over the course of the therapy, lead you to the source of your problems.

In a relatively short space of time, compared to a similar course in psychotherapy or counselling, clients come to a greater knowledge of themselves and their motivations and, at long last, get to set themselves free of the trapped feelings which, unknown to them, have stopped them leaving past traumas behind and achieving their full potential as a person.

This therapy is called “pure” because it is not a cocktail of different approaches, I do not practice inner child therapy or past-life regression or NLP. It is free from intervention and interpretation by the therapist. It is not about what you or I “think”, it is the feelings behind your thoughts which are important. You, as the client will only go where your own mind needs you to go, you cannot be led or manipulated into accessing memories or experiences or fantasies which are not your own.

Every one of us has repressed emotions – they are the result of a safety mechanism protecting the young child’s mind from becoming overwhelmed by feelings and conflicts which could jeopardise their mental stability. Life is lived so intensely in childhood that the mind needs some way to protect itself from becoming overloaded. By repressing very strong emotions the mind erases them from the child’s conscious memory and allows them to carry on normally.

However, though these powerful emotions are not consciously remembered anymore they can still make their presence felt. We can compare our troubled selves to a pot of boiling water with the lid jammed on – just because the bubbling cannot be seen does not mean it’s not happening. In the same way, just because we cannot recall these strong emotions or the events that triggered them does not mean they do not exist.

If we are that pot of water and life turns up the heat on us, i.e. our level of stress due to death, divorce, redundancy, etc. increases, then the pressure will build up to such a degree that the steam will have to escape somewhere or we will explode, hence the appearance of physical symptoms in our consciousness. Attempting to block the escaping steam by treating the symptom rather than the root cause will work temporarily but pretty soon, the steam will burst through somewhere else and other symptoms will appear.

In all cases, the only way to relieve the pressure is to take off the lid and uncover what is inside. Once that happens, and the repressed emotion is brought to the light, acknowledged and released, then the symptoms disappear and life takes on a totally new outlook.

If you would like to arrange an initial consultation, don’t hesitate to call me on 07760 996043 or email at emma@malvernhypnotherapy.com. All enquiries treated discreetly and in strictest confidence.