It can be a mystery to us why we get locked into thoughts, beliefs and habits which we know reduce the quality of our life. Cognitive Hypnotherapy can enable you to gain insight into these aspects of your life and find solutions that enable you to take control of your behaviour.

Everyone is a unique individual so although problems may appear similar and be given labels such as phobias, depression, addictions, each problem pattern will have been formed uniquely and will therefore require a different sequence of techniques and suggestions based on each individual person. For example you may have a particular fear but the reasons for this will be different from someone else who has a similar fear.

This is where Cognitive Hypnotherapy differs from traditional forms of hypnotherapy. Cognitive Hypnotherapy is a unique form of hypnotherapy which is tailored to your specific needs and uses your own natural trance states that you enter into voluntarily on a daily basis. When did you last 'drift off' when someone was speaking to you, or when you were driving, or watching television? It draws on recent discoveries and ideas from Psychology and Neuro- Linguistic Programming (NLP) and incorporates them into a modern framework for therapy.

NLP has a central place in Cognitive Hypnotherapy and is the study of how each individual makes sense of their world. Each of us is an individual with our own perception of ourselves and the world around us, which has developed over time, and is based on our past experiences and our interpretation of them. In other words we all have our own individual 'model of the world' Neuro-linguistic programming can help you explore those perceptions and understand your own 'model of the world' and how it affects your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and your interactions with others.

Each one hour session costs £50. The first session involves a thorough assessment of what you are bringing to the therapy session and what you hope to achieve. From this I will discuss with you how we can work together to achieve your goals. The number of sessions needed varies for each individual. An average is 3-4 sessions although you may feel you need less or more.