Information about hypnotherapy
This section outlines some of the more common conditions that respond to hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
Stop Smoking - Without Weight Gain
Unlike other hypnotherapists, we do not charge a higher fee for hypnosis to help you stop smoking. We charge the same price as for any other treatment – because there is no reason to charge more, just because people are willing to pay it! It is unfair on you and so we don’t do this. If you successfully quit smoking after one session this will mean a really big saving; if it takes two sessions, you will still save money.
Hypnosis for Weight Loss
Whether you over eat due to habit or for emotional reasons, hypnotherapy can help change your way of thinking about food and help you to develop a new healthier attitude. Hypnosis will help you to eat only when you are hungry, to stop when you are full, and to eat those foods which are beneficial to you, rather than harmful.
Work Related Stress
The therapists at Manchester Hypnotherapy have over fifteen years of experience in treating insomnia, anxiety and teaching self hypnosis. If you want to find a hypnotherapist in south Manchester to help stress at work, stress and anxiety,, emotional problems such as jealousy or insecurity, or low self esteem, then go to any of the independent websites which list and give reviews of hypnotherapists (for example www.freeindex.co.uk – Google also displays reviews) and you will see the excellent results which Pam and her team have achieved.
Hypnotherapy for Phobias, Stress, and Anxiety
A phobia is an irrational and exaggerated fear which causes anxiety, stress and panic, or can lead you to avoid the feared thing. From an evolutionary standpoint, there are reasons why panic, fear, anxiety and stress exist; if thousands of years ago you found yourself in the vicinity of a vicious animal, and had no means of protecting yourself, then your instinct to run was correct.
Anxiety and Depression
There are very few people who have never felt anxiety or stress. So many things in life can cause anxiety – worrying about money, worrying about our health, worrying about our family or friends, fear of meeting new people, fear of loss (of a job, a house, a relationship, of status), fear of embarassment, fear of being physically or emotionally hurt, fear of flying, of public speaking, or of needles, insecurity about relationships – there are too many variations to set out.
Hypnosis for Insomnia and Sleep Disorder
Most people will at some point in their lives suffer insomnia or some other form of sleep disorder, whether this takes the form of difficulty getting to sleep, or waking up too soon – during the night or early in the morning, typically between 3 and 5 – and being unable to get back to sleep. You may find that such problems arise, or worsen, when you are busy and at times of stress and anxiety, when it is difficult to “switch off” from your thoughts.
Dental and Needle Phobia
Dental Phobia is extremely common. Depending on whose statistics you read, the figures quoted are that between 35% and 80% of adults suffer from some level of fear at the thought of dental treatment. Many sufferers of dental phobia and needle phobia will simply avoid going to the dentist for years.
Hypnosis, Pain Management and Pain Relief
Pain is a symptom of something being wrong with the body. It is warning signal to stop certain physical movements or activities, or an indication that medical attention should be sought. If you suffer from back pain this is in fact a sign that the activity you’re carrying out is unsuitable and is putting you at risk of further injury. Pain is therefore essential to allow us to flourish and survive. In general terms, therefore, pain has a function.
Hypnosis and Counselling to help Eating Disorders
Eating disorders take many different forms. Some people struggle with compulsive eating, binge eating (frequently in secret) sometimes to the point where they feel sick, or even make themselves sick (bulimia). Afterwards they often feel disgusted with themselves, and ashamed of their behaviour. Rewarding yourself with food is a way in which many people cope with stress, anxiety and other negative emotions.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ("OCD")
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (often known as OCD) is a form of anxiety which affects between 1 and 2% of people, regardless of age, social group, gender or ethnic background. This form of anxiety commonly starts in late adolescence or early adulthood, but can begin at any time. Whilst the majority of individuals will at some point in their lives experience stress and anxiety, and perhaps may feel they are acting in an obsessive way about something, they are nonetheless able to live their lives without disruption. This is not the case if you are suffering with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Hypnosis for Self Esteem and Confidence
If you suffer from low self esteem, have problems with confidence or suffer from shyness, you may often compare yourself with others. Inevitably they will seem happier than you, as you are so preoccupied with worry, stress and anxiety. This comparison makes you feel even worse, and your confidence and self esteem drop further. Hypnotherapy and hypnosis can help you to break away from this self destructive pattern by enabling you to experience deep relaxation and to switch off from the constant worry of comparing yourself with others, worrying about what you say, criticizing yourself, feeling anxiety about how you look and what you do, and fear of change.
Hypnosis in Manchester for Fear of Flying
Fear of flying is the second most common phobia in the world (only fear of spiders affects more people). Hypnotherapy and hypnosis to help you with this work by training your mind to remain calm, and also by enabling you to question the assumptions you have about flying, and to think about these more realistically. To use hypnosis to help you to overcome your fear of flying, it is important to understand the different reasons people are scared of flying, and to know exactly what it is about flying that you fear. Fear of flying is not usually a fear of a plane flying, and is often more accurately any one, or a combination, of the following:-
Hypnosis and Fertility
An increasing number of both men and women are using hypnosis and hypnotherapy to help improve their fertility. The techniques used in hypnotherapy help you to remain calm and relaxed, whether you are trying to conceive naturally or undergoing IVF treatment. The ability to deal with stress when you are trying to get pregnant is very important as stress and anxiety are understood to be a significant contributing factor in infertility.
Tinnitus
Many people experience tinnitus – most typically, ringing in the ears, although other sounds are also heard – at some point in their lives. For many, tinnitus is temporary. Depending on whose statistic you read, the number affected at some point in their lives is thought to be between 15% and 30% of the population. About 1% suffer from tinnitus so badly that it has a serious effect on their lives. Tinnitus is often first noticeable after you have been exposed to loud noise – in the working environment, at a concert, or hearing a firework go off in close proximity, for example. For the vast majority of such people tinnitus is temporary, lasting from 24 hours to a week or so. Everyone experiences tinnitus differently – some find it is constant, some find it comes and goes. The noise which is heard is described by tinnitus sufferers in many different ways – ears ringing, roaring, buzzing, hissing, whistling, or like the noise which crickets make. Some people also experience a loss of balance.
Hypnotherapy for Restless Leg Syndrome
Restless Leg Syndrome, sometimes called Restless Legs Syndrome – RLS – is a condition suffered by approximately 2% of British adults. Sufferers describe an irresistible urge to move their legs. Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome are often worse when you are trying to rest, and improves when you are able to move.
Hypnotherapy and Counseling for Bereavement and Grief
When we suffer the loss of something or someone we love and value, we experience grief. Grief can take many forms and may not necessarily involve the death of a person, although this is the most widely known cause of bereavement; we can find ourselves grieving at the end of a relationship or a friendship, at the loss of a job or of financial security.
How to Cope with a Break Up
Hypnotherapy and CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can teach you techniques to assist in your recovery. It can help you to regain confidence, and to rebuild your self estem. Hypnosis teaches you how to cope with anxiety about finances, moving house, and the future generally, and the affect the break up has on your family and friends and your relationship with them.
Hypnotherapy for IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Clinical trials have shown that hypnotherapy effectively treats Irritable Bowel Syndrome in more than 70% of cases. Hypnotherapy for IBS works by teaching you to influence and gain control of gut function, as well as reducing anxiety and pain. Hypnotherapy sessions are aimed at reducing the anxiety which is such a significant factor in IBS, and at “re-training” a patient’s stomach in order to get rid of the problem.
Hypnotherapy in south Manchester for Assertiveness
The therapists at Manchester Hypnotherapy have over fifteen years of experience in treating insomnia, anxiety and teaching self hypnosis. If you want to find a hypnotherapist in south Manchester to help emotional problems or low self esteem, then go to any of the independent websites which list and give reviews of hypnotherapists (for example www.freeindex.co.uk – Google also displays reviews) and you will see the excellent results which Pam and her team have achieved. If you would like further information about hypnosis in Manchester, for insomnia, self esteem and confidence, anxiety and depression, for help with weight loss, to break bad habits, to help jealousy and insecurity, or for any other problem, please call 07779 575816 for a free, no obligation, confidential discussion.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy in Didsbury, Manchester – convenient for Chorlton, Gatley, Cheadle and Stockport and all areas of south Manchester.
Hypnosis for Jealousy, Insecurity and other Emotional Problems
The real key to overcoming jealousy is to change the way you feel about yourself, by building your confidence and self esteem. Underneath jealousy insecurity and envy are beliefs that perhaps you aren’t good enough – not attractive enough, not interesting enough, not clever enough – to keep your relationship going. Added to this is the fear that if you break up, you’ll be left on your own – that you won’t find someone else. Again, these thoughts are about the messages you give to yourself about your qualities and attractiveness. Hypnosis gives you a level of confidence which allows you to stop this negative thinking.
Stop blushing with hypnosis and hypnotherapy
If you suffer with stress and anxiety, particularly social anxiety (shyness), you may be more prone to blushing. You feel uncomfortable or awkward in certain situations, and the body subconsciously seeks to protect you by preparing you for fight or flight. But knowing that you are blushing makes you feel even worse. You feel even more awkward and embarrassed. Your body responds to this by blushing even more. It’s a vicious circle. The next time you are in a similar situation you fear that you will blush again – and this fear itself is enough to cause your blushing, on top of the nervousness you already feel in those situations.
Shyness and Fear of Public Speaking
Shyness and fear of public speaking are very common. Public speaking appears in every list of the top ten most common phobias. It is also known as stage fright or performance anxiety. The first mistake people make is to believe that speaking in public, or meeting new people, is itself stressful – but that really can’t be the case – if it were, then absolutely everyone would have this fear, with no exceptions. But many people don’t, so it must mean that something else is going on.
Hypnosis in Manchester to stop hair pulling and break bad habits
Bad habits come in all shapes and sizes, and hypnosis is a very effective and powerful treatment for any habit – hair pulling (trichotillomania), nail biting, skin picking, teeth grinding, binge drinking, over eating, smoking, spending hours playing computer games on or Facebook when there’s really something else which you should be doing, eating three bars of chocolate (and hardly tasting any of it, sadly!); what all of these bad habits have in common is that you find yourself doing them, or wanting to do them, subconsciously – in other words, you don’t consciously go through the thought process of telling yourself to do it. You find yourself pulling or twisting your hair, seemingly unaware of what you are doing until you have pulled it out
Hypnosis in Manchester to stop nail biting and break bad habits
Bad habits come in all shapes and sizes, and hypnosis is a very effective and powerful treatment for any habit – nail biting, hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking, teeth grinding, binge drinking, over eating, smoking, wasting hours playing computer games on or Facebook when there’s really something else which you should be doing, eating a whole packet of biscuits (and hardly tasting any of them, sadly!); what all of these bad habits have in common is that you find yourself doing them, or wanting to do them, subconsciously – in other words, you don’t consciously go through a thought process of telling yourself to do it.
Hypnosis in Manchester to stop skin picking and break bad habits
Compulsive Skin Picking (CSP) – or dermatillomania – is the repetitive picking of your own skin. It can vary in severity, from from what is simply just a bad habit, to an impulse control disorder which shares many characteristics with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). At its worst can cause cause pain, injury and permanent scarring, in addition to requiring a large amount of time and attention, which is hugely disruptive to your ability to live your life to the full. Hypnosis helps both the bad habit of skin picking and the more severe OCD form
Hypnosis in Manchester to stop teeth grinding and break bad habits
Teeth grinding, like many other bad habits, often starts when you are feeling anxious, restless, tired, stressed at work, hungry, bored, nervous, too busy, fed up, or when you are trying to concentrate on something important. You use bad habits to distract yourself, to take a moment out, to think about fewer than six things at once – to make yourself feel better. Grinding your teeth can make you feel determined, competitive and strong.
