I love this first question: “Can I be hypnotised?” Well, you know, I have people say to me, “Oh, you can’t hypnotise me. It’s impossible to hypnotise me.” So I say to them, when you go and do your shopping and certain products stand out on the shelves to you, and you think, “Oh, I might buy that, I’ve heard that’s good,” where do you think that suggestion initially came from? From marketing companies that use hypnotic suggestion in their marketing campaigns, so that you walk into the shops and buy that product because it’s either going to make you feel good or satisfy some emotional need that you don’t even realise you have at the moment. So yeah, you can be hypnotised.

Our findings underline the potential of hypnosis to positively impact various mental and somatic treatment outcomes, with the largest effects found in patients experiencing pain, patients undergoing medical procedures, and in populations of children/adolescents. Future research should focus on the investigation of moderators of efficacy, on comparing hypnosis to established interventions, on the efficacy of hypnosis for children and adolescents, and on identifying patients who do not benefit from hypnosis.

Great question. So many times I’m asked this question: how many times would you need to have hypnotherapy? How many sessions will it take? Look, there isn’t really a short answer to this because, depending on what is actually going on in your life, depends on what we need to uncover and change, how deep this has been going, and where it was actually seeded. That’s right — we need to get to the core issue of what’s going on for you. But what I can tell you is that I’ve had fantastic results in very short periods of time. In as little as three sessions, I’ve had people totally change their whole outlook and everything in life. And I can tell you why it’s happened. The main reasons behind very quick change with hypnotherapy are, one, you have to really, really want the change. You’ve got to be like, “I really want this so badly.” And the next thing is you have to believe in the process. You have to believe that hypnotherapy is the thing that’s going to help change your life. If you have any doubt, and if you have thoughts in your mind like, “I’ll give it a go,” or “We’ll see what happens,” or “Well, I’ve tried everything else,” then what you’ve done is opened that door, even just a little bit, for failure. So don’t open that door for failure. That’s why things will not work when you go to change them. Believe in the process. Do the research, people. Look around. Read a lot. Give me a 15-minute call. Ask me questions. Text me and get confident about what you’re about to step into, because it could absolutely change you from where you are now to where you want to be.

There is now good evidence from several sources that hypnotherapy can relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in the short term. However, there is no long term data on its benefits and this information is essential before the technique can be widely recommended. This study aimed to answer this question. Results: 71% of patients initially responded to therapy. Of these, 81% maintained their improvement over time while the majority of the remaining 19% claimed that deterioration of symptoms had only been slight. With respect to symptom scores, all items at follow up were significantly improved on pre-hypnotherapy levels (p<0.001) and showed little change from post-hypnotherapy values. There were no significant differences in the symptom scores between patients assessed at 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5+ years following treatment. Quality of life and anxiety or depression scores were similarly still significantly improved at follow up (p

To have hypnotherapy be successful does not mean you have to be put to sleep. Hypnotherapy works by speaking to your subconscious mind and bypassing the conscious mind. That’s how it works — it feeds new information and suggestions back in. The type of hypnotherapy you may be thinking of, where people appear to lose control, is called stage or performance hypnotherapy. Of course, that is a totally different type of hypnosis. In those situations, performers often select audience members who appear more responsive to suggestion and willing to participate in the performance or entertainment. In clinical hypnotherapy, we use a completely different method to access the subconscious mind in order to support, encourage, and create positive change.

Hypnotherapy can help with many different conditions, including anxiety, smoking, weight loss, confidence, sleep issues, fears, stress, and motivation. With recent studies, there is also evidence showing that hypnosis may help with IBS, as research has identified a connection between the brain and the gut, often referred to as the brain-gut axis. There are many ways hypnosis can be used across a wide range of conditions and behavioural patterns. One of the benefits of hypnotherapy is that it helps expand and shift your thinking by providing direct access to positive suggestions for the subconscious mind.

Hypnosis is an evidence-based psychological tool effective in reducing anxiety and modulating physiological, cognitive, and emotional responses. Hypnosis, often misunderstood by the general public, is a powerful clinical technique for addressing anxiety from an integrative perspective. It is a modified state of consciousness characterized by intense attentional focus, reduced peripheral awareness, and heightened responsiveness to therapeutic suggestions. Far from being a state of unconsciousness, hypnosis involves active participation of the subject in a process of cognitive and emotional restructuring. From a neuroscientific perspective, hypnosis alters brain activity in key networks such as the Default Mode Network (DMN), the Executive Control Network (ECN), and the Salience Network. These changes allow the mind to become more plastic, flexible, and receptive to therapeutic change. Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that during hypnosis, levels of rumination decrease, alertness system hyperactivity diminishes, and regions involved in emotional processing and autonomic regulation become more active. This facilitates the deactivation of persistent anxious states. In clinical settings, hypnosis has shown significant efficacy in reducing symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, and situational anxiety. The use of positive suggestions, guided imagery, and physiological anchors helps patients regain a sense of internal control and emotional safety. Additionally, its capacity to induce deep relaxation has direct effects on the autonomic nervous system, promoting balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Numerous studies have compared the effectiveness of hypnosis

You can absolutely do hypnotherapy online. The way it works with me is that the sessions stay the same. We still begin with that first initial session, where I take the time to learn your language, your unique style of speaking, and the way certain words and phrases hold depth and meaning for you. From that session, I can then create your own personalised hypnotherapy script. I will produce the recording as an MP3 audio file and send it to you via email, so you can continue reinforcing the work between sessions.

First, what we do is look at why you bite your nails. We need to go back and explore the core reason that created the response of biting your nails. Then, we travel forward to where you are today and identify what is no longer working for you with this habit. That becomes the negative pattern, and we work to replace it with a more positive response. So yes, you can stop biting your nails. All you need to do is travel back and find out why. Once you understand the reason, we can introduce a different response and feed that back into the subconscious mind.