Anxiety

Before the pandemic around 12 million adults saw their GPs with mental health problems each year – most of these suffer from anxiety and depression, much of which is stress related. 

It will come as no surprise that the numbers of those reporting anxiety to their GP has increased over recent years.

The rate of adults experiencing common mental disorders (including anxiety) rose from 17.6% in 2007 to 22.6% in 2023/24, according to the British Medical Association. Approximately 40% of GP consultations in the UK involve a mental health component, with many of these referencing anxiety.

Many people come to see me understanding the causes for their anxiety can often be illogical but there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop the reaction. This is because the patterns for our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are often deeply entrenched in our subconscious pathways. Changing those unhelpful responses can be a positive outcome for following a course of Hypnotherapy sessions. Hypnotherapy works with clients to enable them to gain a sense of calm and confidence to know they can cope and move forward. When anxious, perspective can be lost and the feeling of overwhelm can cause a feeling of powerlessness. We will work in a gentle but motivated way to regain the missing sense of self belief and return life to balance with you back in the driving seat.

 Day to day life can add its fair share of stressors. When we sleep at night our brain will normally process the events of the day so when we wake in the morning we should be fresh and not weighed down by the emotion building from previous days. This is the case as long as our stress stays within safe and manageable levels.  Unfortunately as we know from recent times, this is not always possible when we have too many stressors and our sleep may become affected. Over time the cumulative effect of stressful events can cause overload resulting in anxiety; panic attacks and sometimes physical and emotional breakdown.

Hypnosis can be a powerful tool to help reduce anxiety using relaxation and visualisation techniques which assists you to take control of your thoughts and eliminate the negative, unhelpful clutter.

Combining the best aspects of Solution Focused Brief Therapy; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and NLP along with Hypnosis hypnotherapy can help you to take control. The process works at developing a calm state of mind and then encourages you to make the logical and correct assumptions from the part of your brain which enables you to see situations clearly and subjectively.   It can help you to make the right decisions using sound judgement rather than reacting from an emotional and confused perspective.

Hypnotherapy will not hand you the solutions – nobody wants to be told what to do. However, it can help you to awaken your own confidence and find empowerment in your own resources to make the correct decisions in a calm and effective way.  It can work with you to control your anxiety levels and have a calmer, more confident approach to all situations.   We are unique as individuals and the number of Hypnotherapy sessions you need will depend on the extent of anxiety and the pace of change will be governed by you.  Solution Focused Brief Hypnotherapy will generally require between 6-10 sessions although more may be necessary depending on the circumstances. The sessions are accompanied by a download which forms part of the programme helping recreate the calm state experienced during the hypnotherapy session. 

Why see me? Having specialised working with anxious clients for over 14 years, applying my knowledge, understanding and experience to their specific circumstances, I am delighted when they start noticing the positive changes and how wonderful they begin to feel. Take a look at my Testimonial page for a few feedback messages.

Useful articles:

“Mind Over Medicine”

“Hypnosis: Focusing subconscious on change”