Nami Hypnotherapy

So much of our lives can be seen as a series of patterns. Patterns in our behaviours, how we respond and react to situations, how we relate to different people and even what we choose to listen to in our inner voice.

Sometimes those patterns get stuck in a loop, or are applied in a way that they don’t help us to be the person we want to be or do the things we want to do.

Trained in strategic psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy, I work with people to relax and focus their mind and to find the right steps forward for their personal development - be it to help manage their anxieties, regain conscious control over unconscious behaviours or thought patterns and responses, and to recognise the hidden strengths and skills they didn’t know they had.

Some of the common reasons people use clinical hypnosis include:

• Reducing a dependency on alcohol
• Stop gambling or other compulsive behaviours and addictions
• Address sleep problems or insomnia
• Develop new patterns of behaviours and responses in relationships
• Strengthen self-confidence
• Gain control of responses to fears and phobias
• Develop skills to manage how they judge themselves
• Perfectionists wanting to learn how to manage their expectations
• Learning to manage what you control and is out of your control
• Developing leadership skills and behaviours
• Social and other anxieties
• Accepting or managing change
• Body image issues
• Trouble letting go – of a memory, relationship, plans, hopes or items that are holding you back from what you want to do or be.
• Pain management (particularly, when done in partnership with the person’s clinical team).

Read about some case studies and how these issues can be address with clinical hypnosis in our blog: https://www.namihypnotherapy.com/blog

Frequently Asked Questions about Hypnosis

What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is what is commonly called a “trance” state. Most people are more familiar with what trance is than they realise – it is the experience just before you fall asleep, or when you’ve been so absorbed in something you didn’t notice time going by. Being in this state increases your mind’s ability to accept new messages and suggestion – an opportunity to bolster efforts for behaviour and cognitive pattern change

What is clinical hypnotherapy?

Clinical hypnotherapy is when hypnosis is used as a therapeutic tool. It can be used to address any issue that is founded in or linked to the mind. When combined with a strategic psychotherapy approach it can result in sustainable cognitive and behaviour change.

What can hypnotherapy help with?

Hypnotherapy can help to shift and change behavioural and cognitive patterns you might be running that you realise are no longer helpful or useful for you. These could include:

• how you might have an anxious response to or avoid particular situations,
• a dependency on something (alcohol, comfort eating, or even a particular relationship) that has started to have a negative impact on your life,
• a fear, anxiety or phobia that is restricting what you are able to do or enjoy
• thought patterns or attitudes that might be obstacles to a healthy self-confidence.
• Trouble making decisions
• Limiting belief systems that might be affecting your relationships and choices

Will hypnotherapy be an instant cure?

• Hypnotherapy is a brief form of results based therapy, but ,it is pretty rare for a magic cure in a single session, possible, but rare. Sustainable change requires ongoing effort and a step-by-step plan to get you to the outcome you want to see, not an overnight miracle, as nice as that might be.

Will I lose control of my mind and choices during hypnosis?

• You always have control of your choices and how much you want to participate in the therapy, even when you might be deep in a hypnotic “trance” state. If you choose to not participate - you won’t!