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Steve Carey

Steve Carey Hypnotherapy

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Find out how clinical hypnotherapy can help you with whatever condition you may have.

Clinical Hypnotherapy for Anxiety, Self-esteem, Anger, Etc.

Servicing area

Hampton & Sandringham VIC, and Australia-wide via online consult

Focus areas

Clinical supervision Quit smoking Online session Values Clinical hypnotherapy Stress Management


Do you remember a time when your mind drifted off, when you were daydreaming, perhaps when you were taking a journey or reading a book or watching a movie? That’s pretty similar to hypnosis – though there’s a difference, which we’ll cover later.

Ask most people what hypnosis is, and they’ll be drawing upon ideas from the movies or from something they’ve seen on TV or on stage. Now I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t like to get my ideas of how the world works from Hollywood or from Neighbours! If you work in a profession that’s often shown onscreen, such as the police or the health profession, you’ll know for sure that things really don’t happen as they’re presented for our entertainment. And hypnosis is no different.

Daydream believer…

So think instead about that last time you daydreamed. Think about what was happening in your mind. Most probably your thoughts drifted, as your mind wandered… and pretty soon, before you knew it, you were miles away, with no idea how your thoughts took you to that point.

That’s really what the experience of hypnosis is like. And what’s that got to do with helping you to stop smoking, or stop biting your nails, or overcome anxiety or anger? Well, there is one major difference between daydreaming and hypnosis, and it’s this: hypnosis is guided daydreaming. Rather than your mind just drifting off on its own track, it’s being led by your Hypnotherapist, who is taking advantage of your deeply relaxed state to make suggestions to your subconscious.

You see it turns out that our beliefs and values are deep down in the mind, often formed when we were kids and long before we were aware of what was happening. And it makes a lot of sense that those values and beliefs are hard to access and even harder to change – otherwise, if they could be easily changed, they wouldn’t be values or beliefs! Imagine if in the morning you were deeply religious and a true believer, and then by mid-afternoon you were an atheist, and then again by the time you went to bed you were back to being a believer again! That wouldn’t be a smart way to live, because your behaviour is driven by your values and your beliefs, and if they switch about every hour, then your behaviour becomes very inconsistent and hard to predict – even for you to predict.

So, your values and beliefs are deep down and hard to access… usually. But it turns out that, if we switch off that busy, active, conscious mind of yours, then we can directly access those values and beliefs and begin to make suggestions that can change them.

Increasing self-esteem with hypnosis

Let’s take an example. A surprising number of my clients have very low self-esteem, though you wouldn’t know it just from meeting them: they cover it well. Get them to open up and tell you what’s really going on inside, though, and pretty soon it all spills out. They don’t feel good enough, or they don’t deserve good things to happen in their lives, or they aren’t pretty enough or rich enough or smart enough… Sound familiar at all? It’s hardly surprising that we can feel this way, when the whole world around us is designed to make us feel inadequate, so that we can try to make up for it by buying our way to success – buying that faster car, that bigger house, that private school education for the kids, that dress, that smartphone… It never works, of course, at least not for long –otherwise we’d all have bought our way to self-esteem long ago!

Now try and change someone’s self-esteem by arguing them into it and you’ll very rapidly realise you’re wasting your breath and your time. It. Just. Won’t. Work. However, by getting your client into that deeply relaxed state so that the mind daydreams and there’s the opportunity to make suggestions that the subconscious can pick up on, and you can find that you can make a real difference.

This process takes time, of course: you don’t overcome years or decades of programming in a few minutes. But the point is that it can be done, with a fair bit of work from both the client and the Hypnotherapist.

Maybe it’s time to give it a try?

Book your appointment today and find out how I can help you.

Services

4 Services

Phobias

1hr
Counselling Psychotherapy Holistic Counselling Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Online Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy Online
$180 Per session

Over more than 14 years in practice, I've seen clients with social phobia, fear of flying, fear of public speaking, fear of dogs and many, many more kinds of fear. Such phobias and fears respond very well to Clinical Hypnotherapy, and in my practice I inc

Vaping and smoking

1hr
Counselling Psychotherapy Counselling Online Holistic Counselling Online Psychotherapy Online Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy Online
$180 Per session

If you feel you have an addictive personality, and you've found it impossible to stop smoking or vaping or, having stopped, to make it permanent, then Clinical Hypnotherapy may be the way forward for you. Over more than a decade of seeing clients I've see

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  • AHA - Australian Hypnotherapists Association

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