Monthly Archives: January 2013

Hypnotherapy for Depression

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Hypnotherapy for Depression.

With increasing numbers of people suffering from both short term bouts or longer term depression, hypnosis can offer an alternative to more traditional analysis forms of therapy.

Often therapy focuses on the whys andĀ wherefores for the condition, which of course it would be good to know, but what is the use of knowing why something has happened without the solutions to change and solve the issues…it’s a bit like a plumber telling you you have a leak in your pipe because there is a hole in it, but not actually stopping the dripping water!

My therapy mixes the best techniques from hypnotherapy, CBT and NLP, giving you new ways to view your self and your perception of the world around you. Many people experience changes in just 4 weeks and although this alternative treatment isn’t available through the NHS (yet), 4 weeks to change your life is well worth the investment. My appointments are not timed as I look for progress to be made within each session.

As with any therapy, all you need to have is a belief that you can get better and together we can understand what you need to change in order to achieve your goal. Those changes may be very small at first, but if you are prepared to commit to the program, you will find each new thought or idea soon grows into a more substantial positive feeling.

Remember if you do what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always got, so just keeping on in this same pattern of depression and hoping it will somehow get better without you changing, will be unlikely to work. If you feel ready to move forward, then please contact me.

Bunny Besley Bsc (Hons) Clinical Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy for Anxiety

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Hypnotherapy for Anxiety

Trait anxiety or neuroticism, has been sited by Digman (1990) as one of 5 core dimensions of personalities and low levels of anxiety are useful in that it encourages us to think through our actions and be well prepared, particularly when we are face with potential challenges or dangers.

These useful levels of anxiety become increased when a person is over attentive to possible sources of threat and makes unrealistic appraisals and interpretations about the potential danger of external and internal events. This is often as a result of past experiences or influence from worries of those who are close to us and this can set a pattern or excessive worry and anxiety.

An anxious person is likely to see the worst case scenario in future events and predict catastrophic outcomes even when the evidence for this is unsupported.

There a many issues that can be labeled anxiety and the basic feeling of anxiety can branch into many different areas such as phobias, panic attacks, OCDs and PTSD. Anxiety can also lead to the client developing somatic symptoms such as IBS.

In order to treat the anxiety effectively the client must become fully aware of it and how it affects the three key areas Ā of physiological, cognitive and behavioual reactions.

Hypnotherapy can be a very effective tool in the treatment of a wide variety of anxiety and stress related issues. In the modern world people often suffer from the effects of increase adrenaline levels associated with our primeval survival reactions and the subsequent effect of a build up of these hormones can lead to such conditions as panic attacks, IBS, asthma and a variety of skin conditions.

High stress levels also affect the immune system leaving people feeling tired and run down.

Hypnotherapy and CBT techniques address the underlying patterns of thought and behaviour that maintain these issues and seek to find alternative ways to cope and to change the processes that have held you in that perpetual worry.

The treatment can be effective in as little as 4 weeks and my service offers you personal one to one sessions and detailed email back up.

 

Qualified Hypnotherapist

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Qualified Hypnotherapist.

Having read in the papers this weekend about the so called hypnotherapist who assaulted a woman during a therapy session, I too feel incensed at the lack of regulation within the industry. There are only a few unethical practitioners but it must seem a daunting task for the person who is seeking help through hypnosis to be able to trust that the person that they chose knows what they are doing and is capable of providing treatment that is both ethical and effective.

It was for this very reason that after a years course in hypnosis, I chose to extend my studies to gain a degree in the subject which covered a broad spectrum of psychology, including a scientific education in the functioning of the brain and the endocrine system. The course also required us to undertake a scientific research project which I produced on the effects of hypnosis on memory.

Since I finished the degree, the University no longer offers the course, which is a great pity and it is my wish that it will be reinstated at some point in the future so we can put an end to uncertainty and potential harm that the poorly trained therapist can do.