If your patient is seeking to resolve a specific issue, make meaningful behavioural changes, or progress toward important goals, strategic hypnotherapy may offer a valuable adjunct to care.

Common Clinical Referral Areas:

Stress and Anxiety
Hypnotherapy can help patients regulate stress and reduce anxiety by interrupting unhelpful cognitive patterns, supporting emotional resilience, and enhancing nervous system regulation.

Phobias and Fears
Patients with specific phobias or irrational fears often benefit from rapid, targeted interventions that help them regain control in previously triggering situations.

Behavioural Change
Hypnotherapy is often used to support behavioural changes such as smoking cessation, vaping cessation, weight regulation, or overcoming entrenched habits and compulsions.

Sleep Disturbances
Strategic hypnotherapy can assist in resetting sleep patterns, addressing insomnia, and managing the underlying drivers of disrupted sleep.

Trauma and PTSD
While not a substitute for trauma-focused therapy, hypnosis can support patients in managing trauma-related symptoms and gaining distance from past events when appropriate and safe.

Confidence and Self-Esteem
Patients working to overcome patterns of self-doubt, perfectionism, or internalised negative beliefs can benefit from hypnosis as a process of building self-efficacy and positive identity.

Hypnotherapy, as I practise it, integrates Strategic Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), delivered through modern Clinical Hypnosis in the Ericksonian tradition.

This tailored, evidence-informed approach supports patients in accessing new insights and absorbing helpful suggestions more effectively. Rather than simply promoting relaxation, the aim is meaningful cognitive and behavioural change. It is particularly well-suited to addressing a wide range of concerns - most notably, anxiety.

Hypnotherapy offers distinct therapeutic advantages. It facilitates access to the unconscious mind, where many behavioural patterns, emotional responses, and underlying issues are stored. By working at this level, patients can make meaningful changes more efficiently than through traditional talk-based therapies.

This approach not only supports the resolution of the presenting issue, but also helps build adaptive coping strategies — all within a calm and focused therapeutic setting.
Because it works at the root level, strategic hypnotherapy often requires fewer sessions than other therapeutic models.

Hypnosis is a natural state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, often accompanied by deep relaxation. It occurs when the brain shifts into the Alpha (relaxed awareness) and Theta (deep meditation or light sleep) brainwave states - the same states involved in mindfulness, meditation, or daydreaming.

If you’ve ever zoned out while driving, lost track of time while running, or become deeply absorbed in a movie, book, or Netflix series, you’ve already experienced a hypnotic trance. In this state, the conscious mind quiets, allowing new ideas and helpful suggestions to be more readily accepted by the unconscious mind.

Everyone experiences hypnosis in their own way. Some people find it deeply relaxing, while others simply notice a shift in focus and both responses are completely normal.

Almost everyone can be hypnotised. In fact, we all drift into natural trance states throughout the day, whether it’s during a routine task, while driving on autopilot, scrolling on our phones, or getting lost in a daydream.

Online hypnotherapy is just as effective as in-person sessions, provided the patient has a quiet, private space and their video remains on so I can observe their face and breathing.

Many patients actually prefer working from the comfort of their own environment with familiar surroundings, fewer time pressures, and no travel required.

That said, online sessions aren’t ideal for everyone. Some may find the Zoom format distracting or less engaging. We’ll always explore what works best for the individual to ensure the most effective experience.

Clinical hypnosis is effective for any condition where the mind plays a key role. My core areas of focus include:

Core Areas of Expertise

• Anxiety & Stress

• Bad Habits

• Depression

• Eating Issues

• Fears & Phobias

• Low Self-Esteem

• Panic Attacks

• Performance Anxiety

• Procrastination & Motivation

• Public Speaking

• Social Anxiety

• Sleep Issues

• Vaping

There are a number of difference:

• Brief and Focused Treatment: Typically, patients achieve meaningful improvements within 4 to 6 sessions, which is shorter than many conventional therapies.

• Directive, Collaborative Approach: I actively guide patients by identifying how their difficulties operate and collaboratively developing targeted strategies for resolution.

• Present and Future Oriented: The therapy concentrates on current patterns and future change, rather than exploring the patient’s past in depth. This helps patients move forward with practical, lasting solutions.

The conscious mind represents a relatively small portion of our cognitive processes, often estimated to be around 5-10% of our mental activity. This is the part of our mind responsible for immediate awareness, decision-making, and active thinking.

• Conversely, the unconscious mind, which includes various levels of awareness, memories, emotions, and automatic processes, is believed to make up the majority, accounting for roughly 90-95% of our mental activity. It plays a significant role in shaping our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, often outside our immediate awareness.

Patients remain fully aware and in control throughout the hypnotherapy session. They can open their eyes, move, or pause at any time.

Hypnotherapy does not involve mind control or loss of agency, patients direct their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviours at all times.

Firstly, Clinical Hypnosis is a therapeutic intervention and not entertainment. It is used strategically within a therapeutic context to help patients shift patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour that may not respond to insight alone.

Secondly, the patient remains in full control throughout the process. Unlike stage hypnosis, which relies on suggestible individuals willingly participating in a performance, clinical hypnosis is collaborative, goal-oriented, and grounded in evidence-informed practice.

Patients are never made to do anything against their will. Instead, hypnosis is used to enhance focus, interrupt unhelpful automatic responses, and support effective change.

While relaxation may happen during Clinical Hypnosis, it is not the purpose. The main focus is strategic change, helping the patient take in new, more adaptive ways of thinking, feeling, and responding.

Clinical Hypnosis is an active process. The patient might feel calm, or they might not. What matters is that their attention is focused and open enough to engage with the therapeutic process and make meaningful change.

There is often a misconception that hypnotherapy is a “one-session fix.” While some specific issues like vaping or certain phobias may resolve in 1–2 sessions, most presenting concerns require a structured process over several sessions.

Assuming the patient follows the program as recommended, substantial improvements are typically seen within 4–6 sessions. This timeframe allows for deeper integration of change and more lasting outcomes.