Hypnosis

The art of good communication with yourself

Restore Calm Naturally

Hypnosis offers a safe, gentle and very effective way of accessing your own natural abilities and innate strengths through your resourceful subconscious mind to release unwanted patterns, achieve goals and significantly improve your quality of life.

Since the 1950s, medical associations have increasingly recognised the effectiveness of hypnosis as a valuable therapeutic tool. Today, hypnosis is one of the most well-researched and scientifically supported treatment tools for creating positive behavioural change.

Hypnosis has long been known for its effectiveness to help people Stop Smoking and other habit control. However, its effectiveness in working with Pain Control, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and improving success rates with IVF programs are just a few of the many other documented and researched areas. With a success rate of over 80%, hypnotherapy is becoming a leading treatment of IBS.

What is Hypnosis?

Simply stated, Hypnosis is a naturally occurring altered state of consciousness, or a trance state, similar to daydreaming or when engrossed in a good book or watching a movie. While in this focused state of attention, you can communicate with and use the power of your intuitive, resourceful subconscious mind to let go of unwanted behaviour and help you create the changes you want. Here, empowering ideas and suggestions are more readily accepted and acted upon, thereby expanding your energy, confidence and skills, and enabling the desired changes to occur.

What Hypnosis is NOT

Hypnosis is not sleep, brain washing nor black magic. It's a naturally recurring state of mind utilised to your benefit. You do not lose control during hypnosis. A hypnotised person cannot be forced to say or do anything against his/her moral will. We work with that part of you that wants to change. As all hypnosis is basically self-hypnosis, hypnosis is not a "do to" process, but rather a "do with" process. The therapist is the tour guide, but you always drive the bus.

 

Neuro Linguistic Programming can be used with or without hypnosis and offers particularly quick and effective techniques for removing limiting beliefs and negative emotions that block and hold you back in life. Through the creative use of language and imagery, long standing issues such as never feeling good enough, fear of failure, guilt, anger, performance anxiety, etc, can be broken through or even eliminated within minutes.

NLP techniques have been successfully applied to eliminate phobias, fears and relieve Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD).

 

Emotional Freedom Technique, or 'tapping' as it is often called, is a scientifically proven stress reduction technique. Evidence-based research has shown that the use of EFT significantly lowers cortisol levels in the body and calms down the classic fight or flight response. EFT combines elements of Chinese Acupuncture, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Exposure Therapy by gently tapping on key acupuncture points around the body while focusing on a specific issue. It is remarkably quick to work and has the ability to efficiently pair a neutral or even calming response with a traumatic memory. In 2017, the U.S Veterans Administration (VA) approved the use of EFT to assist war veterans with PTSD after viewing extensive trials and evidence of its efficacy.

It is a method for safely releasing Food Cravings, Stress, Anxiety, Phobias, Physical Pain, Addictions, Trauma, Painful Emotions, enhancing Sports Performance and more. Clinical trials have shown EFT to be very effective for helping with Weight Loss. It is an extremely effective self-help technique that is so simple to do, even little children find it easy to learn and use. Some high schools have adopted the use of EFT to help students with Exam Stress. For more information, articles and scientific research on EFT, please visit EFT Universe at www.eftuniverse.com.

EFT is especially suited to on-line therapy sessions which have been proven to be just as safe, effective and successful as face to face sessions. So you can enjoy quality Clinical EFT sessions from the safety and comfort of your own home, without the need or stress of travel.

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