Hypnotherapy in St Albans

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in St Albans

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a safe, modern type of ‘talking therapy’ that combines the use of psychotherapy and hypnosis. It has its basis in neuroscience and offers a holistic approach to mental health. This makes it particularly effective in treating anxiety as the methods used to replicate the way your brain works when it is functioning well. I help you to enhance your brain’s natural ability to reduce anxiety and think logically.

During our sessions, we focus our attention on getting you to be the best version of yourself. To get you to this place there is no need for you to recall experiences from your past. Whilst sometimes in life it can be of benefit to analyse and evaluate situations, in the case of anxiety and related conditions, it can be very counterproductive.

With Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we recognise that we can’t change the past. We look at what you want to achieve (the solution) as opposed to what prompted you to seek help (the problem).

Mental health and wellbeing support in St Albans

If you do find it hard to cope with life sometimes, you’re certainly not alone. It is estimated that 1 in 4 people report experiencing a mental health problem of some kind each year in England, with anxiety-related conditions being very prevalent. That’s around 16.5 million people.

There are many conditions in which high anxiety levels are symptomatic. Much of my work is centred around helping people to lower their generalised anxiety levels, in order that they enjoy freedom from their self-limiting thoughts and beliefs. If you are interested in how Solution Focused Hypnotherapy works and discover how I used it to successfully help to reduce stress and anxiety levels, please read my Case Study ‘How Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Calms Anxiety’

Hypnotherapy and mental health support in St Albans – Conditions treated

Hypnotherapy can be used to help people address and overcome many different problem areas in their lives.  It is often used effectively to help people to lower their levels of stress and anxiety. Stress and anxiety can easily be created as a result of the demands placed on us both at work and at home.

Anxiety is created by our thoughts surrounding the events in our lives. I use hypnosis to help people to stop their negative thought processes and help them to focus on the more positive aspects of their lives. Together we can make change a pleasant and life-enhancing experience for you.

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is extremely versatile, amongst other things it can be used to help people:

• Control their anger
• Relieve teenage anxiety
• Improve their confidence and self-esteem
• Reduce chronic pain
• Overcome fears and phobias
• Manage their weight
• Improve their sporting performance
• Achieve freedom from their anxiety
• Overcome insomnia, OCD and PTSD
• Reduce their levels of performance anxiety
• Free themselves from depression
• Increase their chances of conception
• Alleviate the symptoms of IBS and
• Give up smoking

Mental health and wellbeing support for children in St Albans

Mental illness is unfortunately all too common in children. Statistics show that 3 in 4 mental illnesses start before the age of 18, with 2 in 4 being evident before the age of 14. The long wait for services such as CAMHS means that 70% of children are currently not receiving help for their condition, with some waiting for up to 10 years for support with their mental health. My experience of being a teacher for the last 17 years paints a similar picture. Whilst there has without a doubt been a rise in the prevalence of children’s mental health conditions, the amount of money going into addressing them hasn’t, leaving the system overstretched.

Solution-focused hypnotherapy offers very quick results, it can be extremely effective in helping children from around the age of 8 upwards to find relief from their condition. As it is outcome and future-focused there is never any need for a child to discuss the actual problem concerning them. This allows the child to become engaged in their therapy as they are able to imagine and describe their future when the problem no longer exists.

The solution-focused method is in fact so effective, that the NSPCC use it as their approach to improving children’s mental health and wellbeing. You can find out how to use solution-focused practices with your child through the following link. Many parents have, however, trusted me to help their child to improve their mental health and wellbeing. I have worked with children of many ages to take control of a wide range of different types of anxiety including; phobias, social anxiety, generalised anxiety, disordered eating and OCD.

You can watch an interview with Matt where we discuss his experience of using solution-focused hypnotherapy to help his daughter to overcome OCD here. If you would like more information on teenage anxiety please visit the highlighted link.