Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, everything is confidential but there may be times where confidentiality will need to be broken, this is when there are safeguarding issues, either to myself as a therapist or others or if it prevents a crime from being committed. You will be given a copy of GDPR on how your data is stored and a confidentiality consent form to be signed before therapy begins. 

How often have you drifted off into a daydream when immersed in a task? Driving the familiar route to work or so entranced by a book the weight of the book, the pages, the actual physicality of the room and chair you sit upon are no longer there?

This is what we call Trance (or Hypnosis), a natural phenomenon we do every day, many, many times of day, it’s the brains natural way to recalibrate, relax or consolidate information, often after a daydream/Trance we can come up with new ideas, find that name we had forgotten, its where our conscious dials down and our subconscious, this vast area, like a library can be accessed to get the answers, solutions, memories or to file away new ideas and things just learnt. 

So as a hypnotherapist the second half of the session we invite you on lie on a couch and relax, we guide you into trance, a relaxed daydream, mediative state where the practitioner will use positive suggestion, guided imagery to access the subconscious and help you change old unwanted patterns of behaviour and replace with positive solutions and goals which you have already discussed within the first part of the session. 

With this positive therapy we are able adjust the brains equilibrium or homeostasis, rebalancing the nervous system, relieving negativity, stress and restoring whatever was holding you back naturally and when you come out of the Trance you may have remembered everything I said, you may not but it doesn’t really matter. Either way that subconscious was taking everything in, and you will feel relaxed with a sense of calm and positivity. 

There are no pocket watches, and we certainly can’t brain wash you!

Unfortunately, stage shows, for entertainment, have given hypnotists a bad name, but unlike what you see on TV your brain will not allow you to do anything you don’t want to do. (Yes, those people on stage really did want to crawl around barking like a dog!) 

Have you ever been so immersed in a good movie you forget time, space etc? Many times, I’m sure, this is Trance/Hypnosis, but you’re not so ‘out of it’ that you don’t snap back into the room when you hear the knock on the front door from your delivery driver. Your mind is too clever to not do anything it doesn’t want too. 

I help my clients take back full autonomy of themselves, enabling them to move towards their goals and preferred future. I can help them empower themselves with understanding, hope and knowledge to carry through their journey of therapy and beyond.

Online hypnotherapy has its advantages for the client. It can slot into your working day at a time and place that is of convenience to them. The client will need good internet connection and have no distractions and feel in a calm comfortable safe space.

The therapist will need to see you from the shoulders up at least, so a good microphone and webcam is important. On line therapy can be good as a stepping stone towards face to face therapy where anxiety and self confidence can be holding them back from face to face. On line hypnotherapy also gives the client more autonomy to find a therapist any where in the country that suits the needs of the individual, in a setting of the clients choosing.

Life can happen and unfortunately internet connection can go down, if this happens during the hypnosis part of the session, you will become aware and you will be able to exit out of the hypnosis all by yourself.

Imagine it like being fully immersed in a film, you are able to redirect yourself away from the film if there’s a knock on the door, or if someone walks into the room for example. The therapist will have already taken your phone number so you will be contacted if internet is lost.