Clinical Hypnotherapy

Clinical Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis to help an individual to positively change their habits, behaviours, attitudes and emotions. It can be used on a vast range of problems and conditions, and the process can be a very enjoyable experience.

If you have ever daydreamed, then you have gone into the trance state of hypnosis.

Hypnosis is a very safe and natural state that we all go into easily several times each day. Every one of us passes through this state each time we go to sleep and wake up. It occurs when we become so engrossed in whatever it is that we are doing, everything else seems to just fade away. When we are watching a film, reading a book or we are travelling somewhere, we all enter this state.

Have you ever forgotten parts of your journey to your destination? Then the altered state of awareness you have been in, is the same as you experience in Hypnotherapy. There are so many other examples I could offer, but I’d literally be here all day!

Long before I studied and became qualified, I had many misconceptions about hypnosis. I remember being fairly apprehensive about having Hypnotherapy myself the first time. The reason was so many of these beliefs had come from watching people like Derren Brown or other Stage Hypnotists!

I was concerned I’d be under a spell, and perhaps personal information could be extracted from me, or that I could be made to do things I didn’t want to do. It was then strange to experience that it was just like deeply relaxing in a bath or being on a beach, when I’d had the sensation of losing track of time. I had full control over everything that happened, and knew that if I had wanted to become fully conscious at any point and for whatever reason, I could.

I also worried that I could fall asleep and not remember what was being said to me. I soon learnt that Hypnotherapy is NOT a general anaesthetic! Just as you can recall memorable parts of a conversation, your unconscious mind will remember the important parts of the therapy, and absorb the positive and beneficial instructions it is given.

Stage Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are very different. However there are defining commonalities. The first is that the person is WILLING to be hypnotised. Secondly, that whilst in hypnosis, whatever they are asked to do is entirely congruent with them.


Everyone who goes onstage, and wishes to make a fool of themselves so others will laugh at them, absolutely wants to do it! How often have you seen someone being dragged up onstage or forced in front of Derren Brown! NEVER! Why? Because for it to be effective, the participant has to be willing. Paul McKenna and Derren Brown always choose highly willing subjects for any of their antics and tricks.

Hypnosis is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. In the right hands it can be extremely effective in creating empowering, therapeutic and lasting change.

Here’s an analogy which may help you understand a little more. If your mind were a computer, then the programs running from the Hard Drive would represent your unconscious mind. Your conscious mind would be the RAM, and then the Processor would be the speed and intelligence at which your mind works.

The beating of your heart, the blinking of your eyes, the hairs that are growing right now on your body and the beliefs, habits and behaviours that you have about everything and anything are ALL being controlled by your UNCONSCIOUS MIND! It is there to protect you, to nurture you, to keep you healthy and alive.

Sometimes though, what it repeatedly does for us is not always desirable. You may have tried to change consciously before, but just ended up being driven to do exactly what it is you actually don’t want to be doing! That’s quite likely because you were consciously trying to change something that is deep in your unconscious. 

What we experience in our lives, with our five senses, is then filtered through the beliefs and concepts that are stored deeply in our unconscious minds.

So when unwanted habits and behaviours keep repeating in people’s lives, there’s very usually actually nothing wrong with our minds! It’s just that the programs we’ve been running on our hard drives need updating, as they are no longer serving us to our best ability.

Clinical Hypnotherapy allows clients to make those changes, regain control and have choice back in their life. 


“On average most people’s conscious minds can ONLY do about SEVEN things a second. Your unconscious mind however can literally do something in the region of TWO MILLION! This is why when REAL and LASTING CHANGE takes place it is most usually done at an UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL”.