Hypnotherapy
Working withwhat's underneath.
What this is
Clinical hypnotherapy as I practise it is closer to focused psychotherapy than to anything you’ve seen on stage. No swinging watches. No past lives. No performance. Just an evidence-based way of working directly with the part of you that runs the show beneath thinking.
The work is strategic, which means we’re always pointed at an outcome you’ve named. Trance is a tool inside that work, not the work itself. Some sessions involve a long stretch of trance work; some involve almost none. We follow what helps.
I trained in the strategic-psychotherapy tradition that treats symptoms as solutions a younger version of you came up with, once, that no longer fit. The job isn’t to fight the symptom. It’s to thank it and find a better one.
Who this is for
- Anxiety that hasn’t responded to talk therapy alone
- Stuck patterns — relationships, work, self-worth — that you can name but can’t shift
- Sleep difficulties, particularly racing-mind insomnia
- Confidence and performance — public speaking, exams, sport
- Habits and behaviour change — smoking, drinking, eating patterns
- Old experiences that still hold weight in the present
What a session looks like
The first session is ninety minutes. We spend the first half talking — what brings you, what you’ve already tried, what an honest version of success would look like. Then we move into about thirty minutes of trance work, gentle and slow, with you fully aware throughout.
Follow-up sessions are seventy-five minutes. We start with where the previous session landed for you, and the trance work tightens around what we’re actually moving. You leave clear-headed, often a little quieter than you arrived.
The details
Common questions
No, never. Hypnosis is focused attention — closer to deep daydreaming than to sleep. You'll remember everything, you'll hear everything I say, and you can come out at any moment. It's collaborative work; nothing happens that you haven't agreed to.
Yes. Online sessions are as effective as in-person; for some people more so, because they're already in a familiar safe space. You'll need a quiet room and a good pair of headphones — that's all.
Most issues respond in three to six sessions. Some need only one. I'll give you an honest assessment after the first session — including telling you if I think hypnotherapy isn't the right tool for what you're carrying.
Almost everyone can enter trance. It's a normal state — you do it every day driving home, watching a film, getting absorbed in a book. We just use it deliberately. The very small group of people who genuinely can't enter trance are usually those who don't want to, and that's an honest conversation worth having early.
Booka session.
A first conversation is fifteen minutes, no charge. We work out whether what I do is what you need.