What beneficial changes could you make in your life?

Our approach to hypnosis is results orientated. Hypnosis and NLP can help you in many ways, for example; to stop smoking, improve your negotiating and presentation skills, handle stress and anxiety or overcome a phobia.

Is your best performance at work hindered by issues such as anxiety and stress, or a lack of confidence? Perhaps your sports performance during golf, riding or tennis suffers too? Stress factors can also damage your effectiveness in developing relationships in the workplace, with important clients, and even friendships outside of work.

Our approach is both confidential and effective in helping you to bring about beneficial change.

About Hypnosis and NLP

Ericksonian hypnotherapy is a peaceful, safe process, during which the person experiences a relaxed and pleasant state of being.

Trance is a normal process. In our everyday lives, we utilise a variety of trance states while we remain awake, for example, when we are driving the car, or on a long train journey. Trance may take us inwards to a particular memory. It is during such a trance state, that the therapist works with the person to gain agreement with their unconscious mind. It is a pleasant experience and the process can involve stories being told in metaphoric ways. The object of this agreement is to facilitate change in current patterns of thinking and behaviour, and to suggest new ideas, and to gain agreement between the conscious and unconscious mind.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming was developed by studying and modelling the strategies of successful people, including Milton Erickson, a doctor and psychiatrist, who understood how language influences mental states.

How would you like to be more successful?

NLP creates states that are useful in situations where motivation and goals are sought, such as in business and sports performance, It is also highly successful in curing fears and phobias, which can limit a person’s potential.

NLP shows us that people use patterns of speech, behaviours and physical movement and tend to favour particular senses. Which senses do you favour?

The therapist will use NLP to discover a client’s lead sensory representation system, which may be expressed in pictures, sounds, or feelings. Depending on the issues involved and the desired result, the therapist and client can make agreed changes.

Perhaps you would like to feel more confident when dealing with a really important client, and the last meeting has left unhappy pictures and feelings in your mind? Changes may involve reducing the clarity of this picture or even changing it to a positive and happy one. In this way, you have altered the power of negative feeling this picture has in your memory, and turned it into a positive one that will give you more confidence. Alternatively, changes may involve enhancing happy pictures, sounds or feelings in memory, to give maximum control over situations and create empowered states. An empowered state may be ‘anchored’ for use when higher levels of confidence or motivation are needed.

Sports Performance

We are happy to discuss individual issues in depth, and the benefits to be obtained with hypnosis and NLP. In respect of horseriding performance, Sara Howard will travel to horse and rider partnerships. (Sara is also an experienced, qualified rider and instructor and she can therefore offer a sound, holistic approach).

Smoking Cessation

We take a realistic approach and tailor our hypnosis to take account of the benefits you will receive when you have ceased smoking. This includes coping with social life and family as a non-smoker. We realise that while your conscious mind may want you to stop, your unconscious mind may believe that smoking has some added bonus for you, like relaxation. Once you realise that hypnosis offers a deeper method of relaxation than smoking, it becomes easier to stop. It is a case of obtaining agreement between your conscious and unconscious mind and establishing a clear process for you that is harmonious to your needs and in balance with your life.

What you will gain

Your session will include instruction in how to achieve self-hypnosis which will enable you to set up states to achieve positive outcomes in specific situations. You will feel more enabled, at peace with yourself, and more creative. Self-hypnosis can also be used for power-napping states; business people with hectic travel schedules find this a useful tool as it enables them to feel refreshed for their coming meetings and negotiations. Sports competitors find self-hypnosis useful in maintaining calm nerves before the event.

The following are examples of where hypnosis can be beneficial:

• Assertiveness skills
• Stress and anxiety
• Career transition
• Confidence and self esteem
• Motivation and concentration
• Presentations and public speaking
• Sports performance enhancement
• Smoking cessation
• Relationships