Anxiety

Anxiety is your body’s natural response to stress. It’s a feeling of fear or apprehension about what’s to come. Unfortunately for some people anxiety can get too much and you may find yourself overthinking a lot, feeling a constant sense of dread and worry, overthinking almost every situation. Anxiety can prevent us from being able to relax and can really affect our sleep.

Anxiety can cause us to avoid social interactions, you may find yourself getting more and more distressed and that you have no control over your feelings.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Stress

Stress is the body’s reaction to feeling threatened or under pressure. It’s very common, can be motivating to help us achieve things in our daily life, and can help us meet the demands of home, work and family life, however when we are not coping well then the response can hinder our ability to cope.

When you are in a stressful situation, your body launches a physical response. Your nervous system springs into action, releasing hormones that prepare you to either fight or take off. It’s called the “fight or flight” response, and it’s why, when you’re in a stressful situation, you may notice that your heartbeat speeds up, your breathing gets faster, your muscles tense, and you start to sweat. This kind of stress is short-term and temporary (acute stress), and your body usually recovers quickly from it.

But if your stress system stays activated over a long period of time (chronic stress), it can lead to or aggravate more serious health problems. The constant rush of stress hormones can put a lot of wear and tear on your body, causing it to age more quickly and making it more prone to illness.

If you’ve been stressed out for a period of time, you may start to notice some of these physical signs:

Headaches, Fatigue, Difficulty sleeping, Difficulty concentrating, Skin problems, Upset stomach, Irritability, excessive worry, mood swings, muscle tension, grinding your teeth, weight loss or gain and more.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Panic Attacks

A panic attack is a feeling of sudden and intense anxiety.

Panic attacks can also have physical symptoms, including shaking, feeling disorientated, nausea, rapid, irregular heartbeats, dry mouth, breathlessness, sweating and dizziness.

The symptoms of a panic attack are not dangerous but can be very frightening. They can make you feel as though you are having a heart attack, or that you are going to collapse or even die.

Most panic attacks last somewhere from five minutes to half an hour.

Panic attacks always pass and the symptoms are not a sign of anything harmful happening but nonetheless, I can speak from experience and they are not pleasant. Reducing your anxiety and stress is paramount to helping alleviate these.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Confidence

Confidence gives you the self-belief to succeed. If you’re lacking in confidence, you may have limiting beliefs which hold you back as you focus on perceived criticism. These behaviours can be restricting and can affect how you enjoy life.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Insomnia

‘Sleep is overrated’? Absolutely not. Our sleep is so incredibly important to allow our body and minds to repair and reset each day. Not getting the valuable sleep we require can cause tiredness, frustration, lack of motivation and it also impacts our ability to cope and solve problems. Lack of sleep over long periods of time can dramatically impact our health and quality of life.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Depression

Depression can make you feel constant sadness or lack of interest in life. Most people will feel sad or depressed at times. It’s a normal reaction to loss or life’s challenges but when it leads to losing interest in the things you enjoy doing, you feel unable to cope and you start to withdraw from the outside world and put your life on hold, then it is time to make a shift.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Weight Management

You may have decided that you are carrying more weight than you wish or which is healthy for you, you will have your own personal reasons unique to you but you are not sure where to start or you may feel that it is all too overwhelming. Our sleep, stress and anxiety levels can affect our ability to lose weight.

Some of the common reasons that people gain or maintain excess weight are food cravings, food intolerance, portion size, lack of exercise, emotional eating, either in comfort or anger, social eating, eating late at night, low self-esteem, self-limiting beliefs and poor body image.

In addition to the common behaviour patterns that have led many to gain or maintain excess weight, there are often unconscious reasons that you may choose to hold onto your weight.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a condition that affects the digestive system and it can have a significant impact on the quality of your life.

The exact cause is unknown and doctors diagnose it by ruling out what it isn’t. The chemical nature of stress, worry and anxiety make the symptoms of IBS even worse, it can impact your daily activities affecting all aspects from relationships, work, social and travel activities. The good news is that hypnotherapy has been shown to help alleviate symptoms considerably.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Fear and Phobias

A phobia is an intense fear reaction to a particular thing or a situation. With a phobia, the fear is out of proportion to the potential danger but to the person with the phobia, the danger feels real because the fear is so very strong.

Phobias cause people to worry about, dread, feel upset by, and avoid the things or situations they fear because the physical sensations of fear can be so intense. Symptoms may include, dizziness, palpitations, nausea, panic, crying and an overwhelming need to run away. So having a phobia can interfere with normal activities. A person with a phobia of dogs might feel afraid to take a walk in case he or she encounters a dog. Someone with an elevator phobia might avoid any place which involves going on an elevator. If you have a fear of flying, then long-distance travel is out of the question. For those experiencing an extreme fear of phobia, it can limit enjoyment of life and create additional anxieties and stress. A phobic reaction is quite different from simply being scared or disliking something.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Pain Management

There are two different types of pain – acute and chronic pain. Acute pain (also referred to as short-term pain) is usually a result of an accident or temporary illness. In this case, your doctor will make a diagnosis and suggest ways to manage the pain (for example, pain killers). The pain reduces and eventually resolves once the injury has healed. Without this reaction and useful purpose, our survival would be threatened.

Chronic, or long-term pain is often more complicated. The pain may be a result of a medical condition, or there may not be any obvious cause. This doesn’t mean the pain isn’t real, it just makes treatment that much more complex. When pain serves no useful purpose and becomes chronic and persistent, it becomes exhausting and can affect you physically and emotionally. Stress, insomnia and anxiety are common side effects of pain and can even make the sensation feel worse. The way the mind responds to pain also links to the perception of physical sensations. Daily activities become difficult and overwhelming and mean you’re unable to enjoy life as you used to

Helping to reduce stress and change the thought patterns related to pain can therefore make a huge difference to pain perception

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes

Stop Smoking / Vaping

Ready to stop smoking or vaping but struggling to quit? Often the addiction rules your life despite being worried about your long-term health not to mention the cost! Maybe you’re struggling to catch your breath to keep up with others?

It can be difficult to stop smoking ‘cold turkey’ because your powerful subconscious mind becomes a very persuasive advocate giving you all the reasons why you need to smoke. Making the decision to stop smoking for good can seem like a daunting task, letting go of a crutch that you wrongly believe helps you relax and relieves stress.

Cost: £200
Session duration: 90 – 120 minutes

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is repeated unwanted thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or the urge to do something over and over again (compulsions). Some people can have both obsessions and compulsions.

OCD isn’t about habits like biting your nails or thinking negative thoughts. An obsessive thought might be that certain numbers or colours are “good” or “bad.” A compulsive habit might be to wash your hands seven times after touching something that could be dirty. Although you may not want to think or do these things, you feel powerless to stop.

Everyone has habits or thoughts that repeat sometimes. People with OCD have thoughts or actions that could take up the whole of their day, are beyond your control and are not enjoyable. OCD can interfere with work, your social life, or another part of life.

Many people who have OCD know that their thoughts and habits don’t make sense. They don’t do them because they enjoy them, but because they can’t quit. And if they stop, they feel so bad that they start again.

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you can likely tell that stress is a major trigger of your symptoms. In addition, as the anxiety caused by your stress often causes you to use poor coping strategies like avoidance.

Cost: £80
Session duration: 50 minutes