Counselling and Hypnotherapy Services
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is commonly applicable to habit alteration and mood control (e.g. stress-management, insomnia, smoking cessation, self-esteem, confidence, depression, etc.). It is beneficial in the alleviation of physical ailments with a stress-related component (e.g. digestive and skin complaints, sexual difficulties, etc). Hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are also being used increasingly for performance enhancement (e.g. by sports people, salespeople, students, etc) and for personal and professional development.
Person Centred Counselling
The importance of this method of counselling is in recognising that the client, as opposed to the therapist, is the true ‘expert’ within their own life, and that given the opportunity, will eventually resolve their own problems. Dr. Carl Rogers pioneered this approach which is non-directive and non-judgemental, creating a permissive, non-authoritarian setting in which the client is free to proceed at her or his own speed and direction, to allow them to find solutions to problems for themselves.
Past Life Regression
Knowledge of past lives can shed light on your strengths, talents, preferences and aversions, sometimes in surprising ways. With a moderate amount of training to refresh your memory, it may be possible to revive long-dormant skills.Frequently, fears and blocks can be overcome. A wide variety of problems are evidently rooted in past-life situations and choices. Recall of these events and decisions can be extremely useful -- as part of a more extensive process of healing, increasing awareness, and cultivating new attitudes, feelings and actions.
Spiritually-oriented psychotherapy can include past-life regression.
Success
The General Practitioner Surgeries that employed David found his therapy to be a highly effective and cost efficient service. As well as the doctors’ personal observations, this was confirmed by clinical audits and client surveys. Some comments received from clients are shown below:Why Learn Self-hypnosis?
Hypnosis has had a bad press. It seems to most people that hypnosis is good for stopping smoking, reducing weight and making people on stage look ridiculous, but there is more to it than that. If we look a little deeper into the work of hypnotherapists, we see them helping people with depression, addictions, phobias and even physiological problems. Hypnosis has been curing people with serious illness for hundreds of years, but reports in medical journals have somehow been overlooked.
Effectiveness of Hypnosis
In 1953 a British Medical Association Subcommittee reported that Hypnotism “is a proper subject for enquiry by the tried methods of medical research and that it should be taught far more widely than it is". (1)
Researcher W. L. La Baw of the University of Colorado Medical Centre reports “The usefulness of suggestive therapy (hypnosis) with bleeders has long been recognised”. La Baw considers this treatment so safe that he wants to encourage the use of self-hypnosis by children, more routinely than is usual, rather than, “reserving it only for urgent problems”. Self-hypnosis is also taught to children suffering from cancer to alleviate the side effects of their treatment. (2)
Learning self-hypnosis is a safe and simple way to learn how to tap into the largely unused potential of our subconscious mind. In this way we can use our inner abilities to:
- Create calmness
- Gain confidence
- Achieve important goals
- Improve self-esteem
- Increase our ability for self-healing
- Fulfil our individual needs
- Learn deep relaxation
- Relieve stress
- Overcome addiction
- Work towards individuation
- Overcome physical problems
References:
1. BMJ, 23 April 1955 (Supplement), pp. 190 - 3.
2. LaBaw W. L. Regular use of suggestibility by paediatric bleeders, Haematologia, pp. 419-425. 1970.