Karen Holt Clinical Hypnosis & Counselling

• The Desire to Stop Smoking
  
• Weight Control
  
• Stress Management
  
• Fears & Phobias
  
• Sleeping Disorders
  
• Depression
  
• Anxiety & Panic Attacks
  
• Pain Management
  
• Studying Difficulties
  
• Personal Issues

• Hypnosis improves sleep, reduces stress and controls painful symptoms.
  
• Hypnosis controls some organic functions, such as bleeding and heart rate.
  
• Hypnosis develops abnormal abilities of concentration, increases capacity to learn and remember in enormous detail, produces anaesthesia in the body.
  
• It can compress a great deal of thinking and recall into a very short amount of real time and make possible partial age regression, by reliving an experience in the distant past just as it occurred, with the senses operating as they did at the time of the original experience.

• Produces anesthesia in the body – helping to eliminate pain or discomfort (i.e injury, accident or even a dental visit).
  
• Improves sleep, reduces stress, controls painful symptoms (i.e. a chronic insomniac can reduce or eliminate stress and reprogram his/her subconscious to improve the quality and duration of sleep.
  
• Controls some organic functions such as bleeding and heart rate (i.e. a person who suffers from high blood pressure can slow his/her own pulse rate and reduce his/her own blood pressure.
  
• Makes possible partial age regression; reliving an experience in the distant past, just as it occurred, with the senses operating as they did at the time of the original experience (i.e. a person may eliminate an irrational fear of something such as spiders, dogs, confined spaces or crossing bridges, may also reduce fear of intimate relationships which resulted from the trauma of incest during childhood.
  
• Develops abnormal abilities of concentration: increases capacity to learn and remember in enormous detail. (i.e. a student can prepare for an examination by assimilating and retaining a vast amount of material that can be recalled at will; and
  
• Compresses a great deal of thinking and recall into a very short amount of real time (i.e. A subject can review the events of his/her life, find a scene and set the stage for a particular situation that needs change.

• Reduces, eliminates the habit/need and provides procedures for permanent behaviour modification.

• Reduce or eliminate any discomfort within the body; i.e. a patient visiting the dentist may anesthetise his/her own mouth, cheek, gums to greatly reduce or eliminate pain.

• Blushing;
  
• Crossing bridges;
  
• Dental fears;
  
• Entering confined spaces;
  
• Fear of flying;
  
• Fear of heights;
  
• Fear of needles;
  
• Fear of spiders;
  
• Public speaking;
  
• Skin disorders; and
  
• Social phobia’s, etc.

• Allows strong focus on areas that require improvement;
  
• Creates a sense of success in the execution of skills;
  
• Enhances overall attitude;
  
• Enhances co-operation and team work in sports;
  
• Enhances sporting performance;
  
• Increases stamina and co-ordination; and
  
• Puts the competitive spirit in perspective.

• Gain more control over those behaviours; and
  
• Reduce/stop those behaviours that are unbecoming.

• Assists in reducing stresses;
  
• Enhances the control of the physiological and psychological “side effects” of cancer therapy; and
  
• Promotes self healing..

• Heals the inner child;
  
• Increases the feelings of self worth; and
  
• Releases negative patterns.

• Confidence building;
  
• Enuresis (bed wetting);
  
• Fears & phobias;
  
• Immune deficiencies;
  
• Pain management;
  
• Pediatric issues;
  
• Thumbsucking; and
  
• Trichotillomania (pulling at hair – Children & Adults)

• Coping with exams;
  
• Enhancing creativity, artistic expression, and writing ability.
  
• Enhancing memory/concentration;
  
• Improves study habits;
  
• Improving reading/learning abilities; and
  
• Instills a positive attitude toward learning.

• Be more successful;
  
• Develop better business/personal skills;
  
• Improves self esteem;
  
• Improves self projection;
  
• Increases confidence and self acceptance;
  
• Programs for specific goals; and
  
• Reprograms past negative behaviour.

• Enhances ability (i.e. Writing, Painting or Performing Arts);
  
• Motivates and promotes;
  
• Releases blocked potential.

• Have better concentration ability and make decisions more easily.

• Assists with the ceasation of:
  
• Dental fear;
  
• Fear of Dentists;
  
• Gagging;
  
• Jaw Clenching, and
  
• Teeth grinding.

• Improves self worth;
  
• Overides the negative thoughts; and
  
• Promotes more positivity.

• Facilitate problem solving;
  
• Feeling more confident in everything we say and do;
  
• Modify that sense of perfectionism;
  
• Provide positive suggestion for living more effectively; and
  
• Raises self esteem.

• Deals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder;
  
• Enhances self understanding;
  
• Enhancing self expression; and
  
• Reduces feelings/thoughts of guilt.

• Increases energy output and
  
• Provides motivation to achieve goals.

• Eases the symptoms and reduces the effects of chronic problems such as:
  
• Allergies;
  
• Autoimmune disease,
  
• Bed wetting;
  
• Blood Pressure – lowering;
  
• Burns;
  
• Cancer support;
  
• Healing;
  
• Hiccups;
  
• Incontinence/Urinary Tract disorders;
  
• Migraine;
  
• Nail biting;
  
• Pruritus (Itching),
  
• Psychosomatic conditions;
  
• Skin disorders;
  
• Stuttering
  
• Swallowing of tablets (pills)
  
• Tinnitus;
  
• Warts;

• Enhances the drive for motivation to achieve the desired goal.

• Addresses physical symptoms of the separation reaction, removes blocks to recovery, releases pent up emotions whether it be the loss of a job, a loved one, a pet or any other sense of loss within the individual.

• Allergies;
  
• Asthma & Bronchial Conditions;
  
• Builds immune system;
  
• Cancer support;
  
• Cardiovascular disorders;
  
• Colds & flu;
  
• Colitis;
  
• Control of bleeding;
  
• High blood pressure;
  
• Migraines;
  
• Muscle spasms;
  
• Promotes general healing ability within the body;
  
• Psychosomatic medicine;
  
• Stomach disorders;
  
• Tension;
  
• Tinnitus;
  
• Ulcers; and
  
• Urinary tract issues.

• Childbirth training – supports and reinforces Bradley and Lamaze methods, programs pain control, establishes communication with the child and promotes a positive post-birth phase;
  
• Infertility; and
  
• Miscarriage.

• Help lessen and manage pain and discomfort i.e. arthritis or back pain or other injury,
  
• Lessen the pain experiences – produce anesthesia in the body.

• Reduces or eliminates a fear of something; such as riding in an elevator, air travel, flights, crowds or disease.

• Frigidity;
  
• Impotence and premature ejaculation;
  
• Increase sexual drive; and
  
• Provides a positive outlook for relationships – understanding people better.

• Breaks bad night time habits, restructures pre-bedtime mental activity; and
  
• Improves sleep – a chronic insomniac can reduce or eliminate stress and reprogram the subconscious to improve the quality and duration of sleep.

• Reduces/eliminates the habit/addiction and provides procedures for permanent behaviour modification. i.e
  
• Alcohol;
  
• Food addictions;
  
• Nail biting;
  
• Overcoming other pleasure-producing habits;
  
• Stop smoking;
  
• Trichotillomania (hair pulling)

• Eliminate/reduce stress;
  
• Improves the ability to cope;
  
• Lowers the stress levels;
  
• Promotes relaxation; and
  
• Reprograms specific behaviour patterns.

• Introduces techniques for reducing pain of surgery;
  
• Lessen the worries about impending surgery;
  
• Speeds the recovery process;
  
• Induces Anesthesia; and
  
• Facilitate healing.

• Motivates weight loss, reprograms eating habits and establishes a procedure for weight maintenance.
  Also assists with:
  
• Eating disorders,
  
• Increases the appeal of eating better foods;
  
• Increasing food intake (if required);
  
• Obesity;
  
• Reduction in the intake of Chocolate and other food addictions; and
  
• Weight reduction/management/maintenance.

• Eating comfort foods. (eating when you feel bad or good)
  
• Eating to fill in time. (boredom)
  
• Eating too much, too often portions are too large or even not eating enough to make our body function more effectively.
  
• Eating at inappropriate times, or
  
• Emotional eating using food as a source of reward.

• Social
  
• Spatial
  
• Specific

• fear of general social situations;
  
• fear of self expression;
  
• fear of crowds or large groups;
  
• fear of public speaking;
  
• fear of eating in public;
  
• Fear of leaving the house (Agoraphobia).

• being overloaded at work
  
• job insecurity
  
• relationship hassles
  
• caring for a loved one
  
• situations that place excessive demands on us
  
• money worries
  
• anxiety
  
• feeling a lack of control

• The fight/flight response: releasing the adrenaline hormones – physical/emotional changes are noticed with the body. The body responds to a perceived threat, i.e. feeling fearful or having to cope with a screaming toddler/difficult situation.
  
• Resistance and Adaptation stage: If the original stress trigger does not go away the body begins to produce hormones that increase the body's blood sugars and blood pressure causing us to feel tired, overwhelmed, etc.
  
• Exhaustion: The adrenal glands become worn out and are unable to produce the hormones that are needed to cope with the situation and we find ourselves with less tolerance of stress triggers, gradual mental and physical exhaustion and more serious illness may take place.

• feeling anxious, irritable or nervous
  
• feeling tired or worn out for no apparent reason
  
• feeling sad, hopeless or depressed
  
• feeling less creative and productive than usual
  
• difficulty in concentrating or making decisions
  
• relying on caffeine, alcohol or smoking
  
• having a pounding heart and sweaty palms
  
• having heartburn, wind or indigestion
  
• having diarrhoea or constipation
  
• having difficulty sleeping
  
• tension in the neck, shoulder and jaw areas
  
• frequent headaches
  
• getting colds more often than you used to

• we need to change the way we think about it
  
• become more physically active, use relaxation exercises, (breath, listen to relaxation music.)
  
• using natural medicines/therapies to assist (these will support the body and also allow it to learn new techniques to manage the stress, assisting in taking away the body’s stresses and strains.

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