How hypnotherapy works and how it can help improve your quality of life.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool that I use in addressing anxieties, compulsions and habits that may be preventing you from achieving valuable lifestyle changes.
It allows for the relaxation and encouragement of your subconscious mind, and lets you revisit and redefine negative thoughts and influences. It can also be used to help you envisage and experience threatening scenarios, so you can retrain the way you respond to situations that have previously been worrying or traumatic.
As a properly qualified hypnotherapist, I can assure you that, during hypnotherapy you retain complete control over your actions at all times.
How hypnotherapy works.
Hypnotherapy is a gentle but extremely useful approach that has been used in therapy for decades.
When you work with a qualified hypnotherapist, you are guided (with your full knowledge and collaboration), into what’s known as the ‘trance state’.
This is the same state of deep relaxation that you enter multiple times each day as your mind wanders from a situation you are actually involved in. It is often described as a “daydream-like”, and very pleasant experience.
You are fully conscious and in complete control of your actions throughout the process.
While you are in this relaxed state however, your subconscious mind (where all our fears and habits reside) will become more attentive. This allows an opportunity to be more open to, and accepting of positive ideas and suggestions.
It is not possible for your mind to be “controlled” in any negative way, nor for you to be persuaded to act in any way that could be detrimental to your wellbeing.
The key to positive change through hypnotherapy is that all ideas and suggestions are developed in close collaboration between you as the client, and me as the therapist.
This ensures that you are at all times completely aware of the changes and improvements you are embarking on, and can feel completely safe and secure throughout.
If you’d like to learn more about the history and development of modern-day hypnotherapy, you’ll find more information HERE.
I think one of the benefits to Hypnotherapy is it provides a solution quite quickly. This was certainly welcome in my case. I was having trouble sleeping, and within two sessions, it had improved greatly. I now sleep very well again, and am very
grateful to Paul.
Is hypnotherapy safe when practiced by a qualified hypnotherapist?
I have been a qualified hypnotherapist since 2008 and in that time have used hypnotherapy with great success to help countless clients.
It’s important to realise that hypnotherapy has nothing whatsoever to do with the theatrical hypnotism we have all seen on stage or TV. That is an entertainment technique, and is entirely different from hypnosis in a clinical and therapeutic setting.
In clinical practice, you as the client remain conscious and in control, throughout.
You are totally safe and secure while being treated using hypnotherapy, and can be encouraged only to make those positive changes that you consciously wish to make.
Conditions commonly treated by Hypnotherapy.
As a qualified hypnotherapist, I’ve used Hypnotherapy with great success to help clients overcome or learn to manage a very wide range of challenges. You can read about these in my Concerns & Issues pages, but certain problems come up with particular frequency, and are generally helped very successfully.
Anxiety
Anxieties can be helped greatly by using Hypnotherapy to relax the subconscious mind, enabling you to experience for yourself ways to create a state of calmness when confronted by situations in which
these arise.
Weight Loss
Hypnotherapy is extremely successful with clients who are having difficulty in losing weight due to having formed obstructive beliefs that to do so would actually be beyond their capability.
Stopping Smoking
Similarly, by relaxing the subconscious, Hypnotherapy is very successful in helping clients who have convinced themselves that they were incapable of giving up smoking, no matter how much they might wish to.
Paul Levrant. Hypnotherapist.
I have been a qualified hypnotherapist since 2008. Having trained as a hypnotherapist in mid-life, following a long and often stressful career in business, I use Hypnotherapy and CBT, and make additional use of Mindfulness, to help clients find effective ways to deal with a wide range of life-inhibiting challenges.
Discover how hypnotherapy can help you.
With consulting rooms in Highgate, North London and Radlett, Hertfordshire (as well as working online on certain issues), I’m available to work with you at times and in locations convenient for you.
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