What to Expect
Your first contact with me
There are face-to-face appointments and remote appointments using Zoom.
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I offer a free 15-minute initial chat.
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When we speak, I’ll get a sense of what the issue is and it’s a good chance to see if we both feel it’s possible to work well together.
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A good indicator of a successful time in therapy is whether you feel comfortable with me, so its important to get an idea of who you will be speaking with.
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If we both feel we can make progress we can arrange an appointment at one of the clinics I work from locally or we can arrange a time for a zoom consultation.
Continuing together
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Subsequent sessions will be an hour long unless longer is required.
You will be offered a combination of hypnosis, breathing skills, relaxation skils, mindfulness, cognitive and behavioural interventions.
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My focus is on supplying you with the skills relevant to your situation that enable you to eventually be your own therapist and in this way its often shorter than other talking therapies.
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Your active involvement will be key to success.
This is another really important part of this kind of therapy as it’s designed to teach you how to use what you've learnt in therapy and put it in to practice in your life.
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That’s why I see them as skills for life.
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Initial session
The first session is normally about one and a half hours long.
I'll explain more about what to expect, answer any questions you might have and hopefully fill in any gaps in your understanding about the process.
I’ll also ask you to fill in a few forms that will help me further understand what’s happening for you at the moment.
Together we'll formulate an initial plan of action on what we will be doing and roughly how many sessions it will take to help you accomplish your goals.
This is important as it puts a strong structure in place to work towards, dont worry about this though as we will be looking at this together.
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There may be chance towards the end to have the first hypnosis session or other experience.
To gain maximum benefit you may be asked to do some work in between sessions, this is aimed at applying the learning from the therapy room into your life.
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what can all this help with
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Anxiety can be at the heart of a lot of our problems, cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy is particularly well suited at addressing the thoughts feelings and behaviours that underpin our anxieties.
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Areyou having difficulties keeping to those new habits.
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Are you troubled by the ones you'd like to remove from your life.
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Are you finding that fears & phobias are interfering with the day.
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are you having problems with sleep.
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If you suffer from IBS have you considered the proven benefits hypnosis can have.
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The list is very long, so please do ask me if I can help.
There is a long list of sypmtoms that can be helped with this way of working.
here are some of the more common ones.
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if you're not sure whether I can help with the challenges you are facing Id be very happy to have a call to explore this.
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Anxiety
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Stress
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Social anxiety
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Life transitions
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Difficulties with Self-Esteem
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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Habit Reversal
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Behavioural Change
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Stopping Smoking
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Phobias
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Improving performance (work/life/sport)
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Insomnia
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Preparing for surgical/medical procedures
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Recovering from surgery/injury
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Meaning in Life
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Pain Management
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Weight Management
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Motivation
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Grief, Loss, or Bereavement
Costs
Free preliminary 15 minute call.
Initial session _______________________ £75 (1hr 30)
Subsequent sessions ________________ £75 (1hr)
Block booking of 3 sessions __________ £210
