Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy

Working beyond the conscious mind

I qualified in Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy with Atkinson-Ball in 2013 and am registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR).

Hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful elements of the way I work because sometimes your conscious mind already knows the answer. You know why you people-please. Why you struggle with boundaries. Why certain relationships trigger you. Why you procrastinate, overthink or keep repeating the same behaviour.

And yet knowing hasn't changed it.

That's because not everything we do is driven by conscious thought.

The power of hypnotherapy

Clinical hypnotherapy allows us to work with subconscious beliefs, associations, emotions and learned responses that aren't always easily accessed through conversation alone.

Hypnosis isn't about losing control or somebody taking over your mind. You're still aware, you can hear me and you're able to respond. Instead, it creates a deeply focused state where we can turn down some of the usual conscious analysis and become curious about what's happening underneath it.

That's often where the really interesting work begins.

A response that seems completely irrational today may make perfect sense when we discover what your subconscious originally learned it was protecting you from.

How hypnotherapy can help

I use clinical hypnotherapy within my wider therapeutic work to help clients:

- explore long-standing beliefs and subconscious patterns

- understand emotional triggers and automatic responses

- work with fears, anxiety and avoidance

- change habits and repetitive behaviours

- strengthen confidence and self-trust

- work with protective responses and different parts of themselves

- create new emotional associations and responses

- imagine and experience different possibilities for the future

- support changes in identity and self-concept

When your mind gets it, but something else hasn't caught up.

This is where hypnotherapy becomes particularly useful for the clients I work with.

Many have already done a lot of work on themselves.

They've had therapy. They've read the books. They've analysed their childhood. They understand their patterns.

But they're frustrated because they're still repeating them.

Conscious insight is incredibly valuable, but sometimes the pattern isn't being maintained by a lack of understanding. It's being maintained by something deeper that still believes the old response is necessary.

Hypnotherapy gives us another way of communicating with that part of you.

I integrate it with psychotherapy, counselling, Parts Work, NLP and trauma and nervous-system-informed approaches, rather than treating hypnosis as a standalone technique.

We're not trying to force your subconscious to change.

We're helping it recognise that what it learned then may not be what you need now.

Your conscious mind may have understood the pattern years ago. Hypnotherapy gives us an opportunity to work with the part of you that didn't get the memo.