No couch. No swinging watch. Nobody clucks like a chicken.
promise! 🤍Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a modern talking therapy combined with guided relaxation. It draws on neuroscience and spends its time on where you want to get to, rather than on everything that has gone wrong.
Meet your two brains
Simplifying massively, and you're welcome: you have an intellectual brain, which is rational and calm and good at solving problems, and an emotional brain, whose only job is to keep you safe.
The trouble is that your emotional brain doesn't only react to real danger. It also reacts to rejection, embarrassment, uncertainty, change and judgement, so it throws out thoughts like these:
It does this because it would rather keep you small and safe than risk you getting hurt. When you're anxious, stressed or run down, the emotional brain takes the wheel. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy helps you hand the keys back to the calm, rational part of you.
★★★★★"The session was amazing, I felt so relaxed and went away with lots of tips to help bring me out of my emotional brain. It really calmed me down and helped so much with my worries."
The stress bucket
Imagine every worry, frustration and unprocessed emotion gets poured into a bucket in your mind. A bad night's sleep goes in the bucket. A difficult email goes in. So does the thing you've been putting off all week.
When the bucket overflows, you feel it. Anxiety. Snapping at people you love. Lying wide awake at 3am worrying about things that never used to touch you.
Good quality sleep, especially the dreaming kind, is how your brain empties the bucket naturally. The trance part of our sessions mimics that same process, which is why clients often say they sleep better after the very first session.
Step by step
Free intro call
A relaxed chat about what is going on for you, how Solution Focused Hypnotherapy works and whether we are a good fit. No obligation at all.
Initial consultation
Your first full session. We look at what is happening in your brain, in plain English, and set your goals. You leave with a relaxation audio to start using straight away.
Weekly sessions
Part talking, focused on solutions and small wins, and part guided relaxation. Most people find the trance section deeply calming.
Noticing the change
Sleeping better. Snapping less. Doing the thing you kept putting off. Change tends to creep up quietly, then one day you realise the noise has gone.
"But will I be under your control?"
No, and honestly I wish hypnotherapy had a different name, because stage shows have a lot to answer for. Trance is a natural state you drift in and out of every day. Driving a familiar route. Getting lost in a good book. Daydreaming on the sofa. You stay aware the whole time and you can't be made to do anything you don't want to do.
It's simply a deeply relaxed state where your brain is more open to focusing on the positive. Most clients describe it as the most relaxed they've felt in years.
Online or in person, your choice
Sessions work just as well over video as face to face. I see clients online across the UK, and in person in the Elland and Brighouse area of West Yorkshire.
Curious whether it could help you?
Book a free intro call. A relaxed chat about what is going on for you, then you decide in your own time. No pressure whatsoever.