is a long-established, evidence-based approach to changing your negative internal experience into a positive one, or at least a neutral one. Therapeutic techniques, used both in and out of hypnosis, enable you to tackle unhealthy habits and unhelpful behaviours, change limiting and outdated beliefs or gain insights into your unconscious choices and drivers.

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Our habits and beliefs become automatic over time, as neurons in our brain learn to fire together in a particular pattern, which can be great when learning a new skill, but problematic when it compounds negativity. Fortunately, our unconscious self is also the source of amazing inner resources, easily accessible in a state of hypnosis. 

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The state of hypnosis is a naturally-occurring physiological and psychological state. Some people compare it to day-dreaming or being absorbed in something to the point of losing track of time. For others, it is that sense of feeling completely relaxed in the almost-asleep state before nodding off. In that state, the chatter from the conscious mind and any external input usually quieten, and the subconscious mind can become more receptive to positive suggestions. Therapy techniques often work more quickly in hypnosis compared to talking therapies, and change can occur faster, with long-lasting and sometimes quite remarkable results.

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Of course, results vary from person to person and cannot be guaranteed. For some people (with certain medical conditions, such as severe depression, psychosis, or unstable epilepsy) hypnosis is not appropriate, but the vast majority of people can be hypnotised effectively, and the only limits are those of your imagination. In hypnosis, you practise and mentally rehearse achieving your goals, so that new neural pathways are created. The more you practise, the stronger they get, until a new positive habit or belief is created in real life.

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Hypnosis for therapeutic purposes has been used for well over a century. In that time, hundreds of research studies have demonstrated its effectiveness for a variety of physical, emotional and mental conditions, from phobias, smoking, stress and anxieties, to sleep, weight and pain management, issues around lack of confidence or poor performance, and more.

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Hypnotherapy is a form of complementary therapy officially recognised as an effective holistic approach to relieving symptoms by the British Medical Association (BMA) and the British Psychological Society, as well as their American counterparts. Hypnotherapy has also been approved by NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) for the relief of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms.

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With the help of hypnotherapy, you can take control of your behaviour, garner insights, use your inner resources and change the flow of your life.