Hypnotherapy treatments / Psychotherapy treatments.
Smoking Cessation
Do you feel that you need to quit for the good of your health and those close to you? Not to mention the money you would save.
Do you often think about how your skin and teeth are being prematurely aged? And how the toxic smoke has compromised your sense of smell and taste!
Nicotine is a fiendish substance, add this together with the habitual nature and ritual of smoking and you can start to see how some people struggle to kick the habit. Our smoking cessation sessions are designed on an individual basis, helping us to understand you as a unique being and tackling the addiction and habit together.
Our therapist holds a “smoking cessation specialist” award and is here to help when you are ready.
If you truly want to change your smoking habit then hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is for you.
Weight management
At Evolution Hypnotherapy we try and avoid using the word “Diet”. And the reason for this is probably obvious to those of you who have struggled with diets in the past. You either deprive yourself of certain food types thus increasing a yearning for them, or you starve yourself and eat under the required amount of calories, which then becomes a struggle. Here we use hypnotherapy to re educate the way you think about food and then gently reduce the amount you eat.
We all put off starting a diet because of the anticipation of an emotional up hill struggle. So for this reason we opt to make losing and managing weight less daunting and far more easy and natural. Because you want this to be for the long term!
Phobia’s and fears
Suffering from a fear or phobia can be extremely limiting and disruptive to an individual’s way of life. Some people cannot bring themselves to mention the very thing they are afraid of nor even look at a picture of it.
The result of this fear is avoidance of places where the person feels they may be exposed to the fear, whether it’s rational or not.
Common fears and phobias include
- Spiders
- Dogs
- Flying
- Crowds
- Claustrophobia
- Being or seeing other people vomit
- Public speaking
- Escalators
- Elevators
- Heights
- Dentists
- Needles
Fears and phobias can be learned behaviour; from a parent for example, and some individuals may not even be aware of the origin of the fear.
Using an integrative approach of hypnosis, NLP* and EFT** techniques our therapist can help you conquer your fears and break free from the restrictive thoughts.
Stress control
Stress is an almost accepted affliction to many people working or merely living in today’s busy environment. And while it is accepted that a little bit of stress is fine for us; it is when we are exposed to too much stress over a long period of time that it becomes a problem and can pose troublesome for your mental and physical well being.
Our bodies go through the ‘Fight or flight” response when we become stressed or anxious. Quite simply it is our bodies’ way of preparing for a dangerous scenario where we would either have to fight something or flee from it.
Our therapist can teach you self-hypnosis to help you be more calm and relaxed. When we are calm and relaxed we cannot feel stress or anxiety and in this relaxed frame of mind our choices and decisions become clearer.
Anxiety control
Similar to stress in that a little bit on anxiety is ok and perfectly natural, however, it is when we worry excessively about ourselves, situations or others that it becomes a problem in our lives. Anxiety can take many forms from social phobias, panic disorder, obsessive and compulsive thoughts and actions. Different forms of anxiety can range in intensity and whereas some forms can be debilitating there are other forms of general and short-lived anxiety such as exam nerves or preparing for a driving test.
Hypnosis can help you overcome your anxiety by teaching you how to relax and become calmer by reprogramming the way you think and gain back control of your life.
Depression
Depression is an increasing and debilitating condition throughout the world today. Major depression is the number one psychological affliction in the western world. Depression has grown at a rate of ten times since 1945.
Depression can affect men and women as well as an increasing number of young adults (the onset of major depression first manifests itself in individuals between the ages 25 – 29). And the sad fact is that Doctors are all too eager to simply prescribe medication to control the uptake of serotonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, which affects our mood. And while these tablets do serve a purpose they aren’t really getting to the route of the problem. Often, individuals are left to struggle with medication alone, as waiting lists for treatment within the NHS grow, with some individuals waiting over a year to be seen.
With the integration of CBT and hypnotherapy techniques we can help you to help yourself overcome this terrible condition so that when the moment is right and with your GP’s consent, you can stop taking the medication and take back control of your life.
It goes without saying that we would work with your GP to have this condition diagnosed before treatment could be assessed.
Headaches
If there is no pathological reasons for your headaches (you should always consult with your GP to have the source of the headache diagnosed) then Hypnosis may help target the reason for the headaches, by using powerful suggestions of calmness and relaxation you can learn how to put your mind and body into a comfortable state and release any stress from the muscles that contribute to your tension. Our therapist will also teach you self hypnosis so you can use the techniques on your own wherever you are; so long as you are not driving or operating machinery where your full alertness is required.
Sports performance
Whether you play golf, tennis, football or any other sport that requires enhanced performance, hypnotherapy can help you achieve greater motivation, greater focus and concentration. It can reduce any anxiety or nervousness relating to your sport making you far calmer and with this comes greater confidence within yourself.
Imagine taking that long golf putt and sinking it in one with the confidence of a seasoned pro. Or perhaps using hypnosis to give you the mental edge over your opponents in the starting blocks just before the starting pistol fires… total focus like a laser, blanking out anything negative and concentrating on the finishing line and leaving the blocks on the “B” of the bang!
Hypnosis can be used in almost any sporting scenario to help you achieve your goals.
Focus and concentration
Motivation
Can’t find the motivation to carry out or achieve something that you wish to do. Do you find that you seem to lack get up and go and drive?
At Evolution Hypnotherapy we can help you get back on track, you will be able to recognise and remove any obstacles that stand in your way. We can use hypnosis and NLP to give you back the motivation you need to succeed.
Sometimes it is far too easy to push things to the back burner and procrastinate. And perhaps it is because you have lost sight of the goal or maybe your day is too full of intrusions to focus on what you choose to do.
Hypnosis can help you re tune your focus and utilising powerful NLP techniques you will find that you start to feel more energized, confident and motivated to complete the task at hand.
Confidence / Self esteem
Having low self-esteem means you have a low appraisal or evaluation of your self worth, and when you feel this way your confidence may suffer in such a way that you feel that you are trapped by the negative thoughts that flow through your mind.
Perhaps you were told that you would never amount to much by a parent or teacher. You may hate the way you see yourself in the mirror. You may feel like you are getting left behind in work because you think people don’t like you.
It is how you view yourself that is projected to the outside world. Think negative and you may come across as negative, think unlucky and you may find that you always have bad luck. According to Freud, we all enter this world as a clean slate or blank canvas and everything from the moment of birth is all learned behaviour. And if it can be learned, then it can be unlearned!
With the help of Hypno-Psychotherapy you can learn how to control your emotions and become a more relaxed and calmer individual and with that your self-esteem and confidence will grow stronger.
Think about how a greater sense of self worth and confidence would change your life, you are only limited by your self beliefs and it is these beliefs that we can work together to alter.
Panic attacks
A panic attack is a sudden onset of extremely high levels of apprehension and fear, typically accompanied by palpitations, a racing heart, cold sweat and a range of other symptoms. Panic attacks can last for anything between 10 seconds and 10 hours, although most sufferers experience them for approximately 10 to 30 minutes. They are traumatic and debilitating for the sufferer, who is usually unable to continue with his or her activities, and it is usually impossible to hide the symptoms. In some cases, panic attacks occur in cyclical patterns of relatively short frequency, which means that the sufferer might experience a short panic attack every half hour or so for many hours. Although a number of therapies have been introduced to deal with panic attacks, these are by no means universally effective (due in part to the fact that panic attacks are often very different from person to person).
Often the root of the fear is unknown and sometimes the fear or panic is driven by catastrophizing about things that haven’t happened yet, the expectation of fear.
Using Hypnotherapy and other psychotherapeutic techniques we can explore the reason for the fear and work together to stop the attacks from happening again.
Our therapist, Chris, has recently written an extensive research paper on panic attacks and their relation to agoraphobia.
Social phobias
Claustrophobia
Agoraphobia
Fear of Flying, Dentists, Needles
Public speaking
Fear of heights
Teeth grinding
Nail biting
Habit control
Skin complaints
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Sleep problems