Hypnotherapy St Albans

How I Treat Stress with Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy St AlbansAt Behavioural Freedom, I use a skills-based model for treating stress. During our sessions, I will teach you relaxation techniques and helpful ways in which you can fundamentally, positively and permanently change the way you behave, think, act and react. It’s also important to note here that you can’t be stressed when you are in a relaxed state. The skills you’ll learn during your time with me will be vital to both your on-going treatment and perhaps more so as you leave my care. For more details on Hypnotherapy St Albans, contact me today.

A combination of Applied Relaxation and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is considered by the British Medical Journal to be one of the most effective therapies to combat stress and put you on a path to having a positive mind-set and being able to live life to the fullest, free of worries. By combining both and adding in the element of hypnosis, I believe this is the most effective, pragmatic and relevant approach to the treatment of stress.

The first thing my clients need to understand is that I’m not a pocket-watch-waving chancer. I studied Hypnotherapy and specifically Hypno-CBT, the combined use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Hypnosis at the UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy.

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How I Treat Anxiety with Hypnotherapy

At Behavioural Freedom, I use a skills-based model for treating anxiety. During our sessions, I will teach you relaxation techniques and helpful ways in which you can fundamentally, positively and permanently change the way you behave, think and act. It’s also important to note here that you can’t be stressed or suffer from anxiety when you are in a relaxed state. The skills you’ll learn during your time with me will be vital to both your on-going treatment and perhaps more so as you leave my care. For more details on Hypnotherapy St Albans, contact me today.

A combination of Applied Relaxation and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is considered by the British Medical Journal to be one of the most effective therapies to alleviate anxiety and put you on a path to having a positive mind-set and being able to live life to the fullest, free of worries. By combining both and adding in the element of hypnosis, I believe this is the most effective, pragmatic and relevant approach to the treatment of anxiety. For more details on Hypnotherapy St Albans, contact me today.

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Relaxation through Hynotherapy St Albans

Who among us doesn’t like to feel a sense of pure relaxation?

You live your life at 100 miles an hour and opportunities for pure, undisturbed relaxation without kids demanding dinner or your phone constantly beeping are at a premium.

Some people soak in the bath, some put on classical music and some go for regular massages. At Behavioural Freedom, I know that there are a lot of people who don’t like the tactile, ‘laying of hands’ element of the massage table but crave the sensation of being in a deeply relaxed state.

When I talk about ‘Relaxation through Hypnosis’, I don’t mean swinging a pocket watch in front of your face and telling you to go to sleep. I mean talking to you in such a way that your state of consciousness alters to become more focused with a heightened state of awareness where you will have the ability to both calm and free your mind and feel physically relaxed.

Perhaps without realising it, we all self-hypnotise. When you are daydreaming, engrossed in a book or TV show or when your mind is completely focused on the task at hand. Relaxation is a similar process.

I will take you on a journey where you are the driver. There’s no initial consultation and I don’t need or want to know your medical history because I’m not looking to resolve underlying issues or stress or anxiety. This is purely about refreshment of the body and mind. For more details on Hypnotherapy St Albans, contact me today.

The benefits to you of relaxation through hypnosis with Behavioural Freedom are not only immediate, they stay with you for weeks and months afterwards –

  • Unburden your mind from your everyday stresses and strains
  • You wake up feeling brighter, less groggy and ready to tackle the day
  • Unravel the mental knots in your muscles and feel looser and more relaxed
  • Reorder your mind with a clear focus and determination
  • Feel safer and more comfortable that you can ‘self-relax’ when you need to

The more relaxed you are – and the more relaxed you can stay – the clearer your mind works. Feeling relaxed is as vital to your lifestyle as eating the right food, having enough sleep and doing regular exercise. For more details on Hypnotherapy St Albans, contact me today.

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Hypnosis can help you to improve deep sleep
In a recent study by Swiss researchers at the University of Zurich, they measured the effects of hypnosis by monitoring brain activity in healthy young women during a 90-minute sleep after listening to a recording of hypnotic suggestion. Those deemed the most susceptible to hypnosis spent 80% more time in slow-wave sleep (the deep, restorative phase of the sleep cycle) after listening to the recording than they did after listening to a neutral spoken text.

Lead researcher Maren Cordi said ‘in contrast to many sleep-inducing drugs, hypnosis has no adverse side effects.’
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Hypnosis can ease symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
In a 2003 study published by Gut, a leading international peer-reviewed medical journal on gastroenterology and hepatology, 145 out of 204 IBS patients reported improved symptoms after 12, one hour hypnosis sessions and 81% of those felt better up to six years after the end of the research study. A 2012 study reported that 85% who reported similar improvements still felt better over seven years later.

Researcher Magnus Simrén said that ‘hypnosis therefore belongs in the arsenal of treatments for IBS.’
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Hypnosis can quell hot flashes
In a study conducted in 2013 amongst postmenopausal women who reported at least fifty hot flashes every week, five weekly one-hour hypnosis sessions cut hot flashes by 74% up to three months later. Another group who had weekly sessions with a clinician experienced a drop, on average, of just 17%.
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Hypnosis can calm nerves
Hypnosis harnesses the power of the mind and as such, it’s used to relieve stress and anxiety related to other medical procedures, including but not exclusively giving birth and surgery. It needs to be noted that like all branches of medical science, research is fluid and ongoing but in a 2012 Wall Street Journal article written by Melinda Beck, she states that ‘the mechanism may be similar to the placebo effect – in which patients’ expectations play a major role in how they feel and hypnosis, in turn, can help patients adjust those expectations to minimize pain, fear and disability.’
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