FAQ

Q: What is Counselling?

A: I view counselling as a non-judgemental process undertaken in a private and confidential setting. Counselling enables you to explore any difficulties you may have. It helps you to make choices, discover root causes of an anxiety or problem and find within yourself the answers that you need or the strength to cope.  It can help you understand how your current difficulties and past experiences can be linked. It can help alleviate emotional pain and can teach you new skills with which you can successfully deal with your problems. Counselling is about respecting you to decide for yourself what is best for you and can only be descibed as an enabling empowering relationship with a skilled helper.

Q: What is Hypnosis?

A: It is a state of intense relaxation and concentration in which the mind becomes remote and detached from everyday concerns. In this relaxed state the subconscious part of the mind is best able to respond creatively to suggestions and imagery. It can focus on the things you wish to change and on the ways you can best do so, free from analytical or anxious thoughts. It is actually a natural state that you have been literally in thousand of times for example as you drift into sleep, as you awaken, whenever you put yourself on "automatic pilot" while performing a routine task such as driving.

Q: Can Hypnosis be Harmful?

A: You cannot be made to violate your own values or accepted patterns of behaviour. It is your choice to enter the trance state and likewise it is your choice to leave it at any time. If left in a trance you would either return to consciousness or enter a natural sleep and awaken after a pleasant nap.

Q: How can Hypnotherapy help me?

A: By:

• Breaking unwanted habits like smoking or teeth grinding.
• Aiding weight loss and weight control.
• Dealing with panic attacks and phobias.
• Obtaining relief from chronic symptoms like skin conditions and stuttering
• Improves sleep, reduces stress, controls painful symptoms.
• Controls some organic functions such as blood pressure and heart rate.
• Increase the ability to concentrate and increases the capacity to learn and remember in tremendous detail.
• Compress a great deal of thinking and recall in a very short amount of time.
• Boosting self-confidence.
• Viewing your problems from a different perspective, freeing you to find new awareness, which endows your life with deeper meaning.