The majority of our emotions, decisions & responses are influenced by processes outside of our conscious awareness.
Meaning we can get stuck in behaviours and beliefs that aren’t supportive and the thought pattern that generates them remains hidden.
Hypnotherapy provides access to your subconscious mind to reframe the root cause and make lasting change.
What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?
An evidence-based, solutions-focussed therapy which helps to change your unconscious thinking patterns, which allows you to change your behaviour and how you show up in your life.
Using trance states, we tap into the subconscious to identify and let go of the underlying causes behind challenging thoughts or reactions. This open the door to deep transformation.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy uses your brain’s adaptability to facilitate profound personal growth. By reshaping anything disempowering in your mind, you can begin to create more positive thoughts and a more fulfilling life.
Hypnotherapy is one of the world’s oldest therapies, with roots stretching back hundreds of years. From Native American traditions to Shamans, it has been a powerful tool for transformation and healing, long before modern science began to understand its benefits.
How can Cognitive Hypnotherapy help you?
Our subconscious mind often acts on past emotions or habitual patterns, taking control and sabotaging our best intentions. Hypnotherapy offers a gentle, relaxing way to access these patterns and reshape them into more positive, productive behaviours.
Clients find hypnotherapy both effective and deeply relaxing. It can help with a variety of goals—like building confidence, managing anxiety and stress, processing trauma or even retraining your mind for things like breaking habits or a presentation at work.
If you're looking for a new way to improve how you respond to life’s challenges, or you’ve tried traditional talking therapy and want to go deeper, hypnotherapy might be just what you’re looking for.
Everything you need is already within you — sometimes, it’s just about uncovering and activating those hidden strengths to support you in the most empowering way
What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy effective for?
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If you’re dealing with anxiety, know that you’re not alone, and there’s a way forward. Anxiety can attach itself to nearly anything—holding you back from activities you enjoy, affecting your work, or even making it hard to connect with others. It’s frustrating because, at times, it may seem to come out of nowhere.
The truth is, anxiety is a natural response that plays an important role in keeping us safe. Our aim isn’t to remove anxiety entirely but to understand why it shows up. Together, we’ll explore the roots of your anxiety and use targeted hypnotherapy techniques to reduce its hold on your life. This approach can help you feel calm and grounded in situations that once felt overwhelming.
By understanding what anxiety means for you, we can work on loosening its grip and transforming those anxious responses. Over time, you’ll find yourself better able to move through life with a sense of control and calm. You’ll learn to make your emotions work for you, not against you, allowing space for new confidence and balance.
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Stress affects both our body and mind, often leading to disrupted sleep, heightened anxiety, and weakened immunity. Managing stress is vital for a healthy and content life.
Hypnotherapy provides a gentle, effective way to understand and release your stress. In sessions, you’ll be guided into a deeply relaxed state, allowing access to your subconscious mind where stress patterns often form. By identifying and reframing these patterns, hypnotherapy can help you respond to challenges with a renewed sense of calm and control.
Together, we will look to build habits like breathwork, mindfulness and moments of intentional relaxation which all help in reducing stress. These approaches create a powerful foundation, helping you cultivate resilience and balance so you can manage life’s pressures more smoothly and enjoy greater peace and well-being.
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Low mood, sadness and depression can creep in gradually or hit unexpectedly, affecting everything from your motivation to your relationships and general outlook on life. Often, these feelings are connected to unresolved experiences, internal beliefs, or repeated thought patterns that may be keeping you in a cycle of feeling “stuck.” While sadness is a natural part of life, persistent low mood & depression can make it difficult to enjoy life’s everyday moments or feel hopeful about the future.
Using hypnotherapy techniques in a gentle and effective way, we can begin to address the root causes of your feelings by working with the subconscious mind. By reshaping these subconscious patterns, we can help break the cycle, empowering you to build a more positive outlook and find the glimmers of joy in life again. Ultimately, I will support you to a place of renewed sense of motivation, resilience, and clarity to engage fully in life again.
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A lack of confidence or low self-esteem can make everyday situations feel challenging, holding you back from meeting new people, speaking up in meetings or finding love. Self-doubt can create a constant inner critic, which often leads to feelings of inadequacy or fear of failure.
Our early experiences leave us with narratives and labels about who we are and what we can achieve, but these beliefs are not representative of the potential we really have. We can work to reshape these old stories in a way that means you will look back and realise you don’t remember when you became a more confident person.
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If you struggle with insomnia or wake up feeling exhausted, hypnotherapy could make a big difference. Together, we’ll explore the root cause of your sleep issues - lifestyle habits, stress, or early experiences that may be impacting your rest - so you can break the cycle for good.
For those with insomnia, hypnosis promotes deep relaxation, creating a state of mind and body that is able to fully rest. We’ll also explore practical changes to improve your sleep routine, calming any stress or anxiety around bedtime. With these adjustments, you can look forward to better sleep and more energised, fulfilling days.
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When you’re engaging in a behaviour that feels automatic, even though you’d prefer to stop, there’s usually an underlying reason. This reason often lies below conscious awareness—otherwise, it’d be easy to figure out how to quit! When these actions become ingrained, they can end up causing stress instead.
Addictions can take many forms, impacting physical and emotional well-being. They often stem from an attempt to cope with stress, trauma, or underlying issues. While overcoming addiction can be challenging, Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help you gain control.
Together, we’ll uncover the root cause of the behaviour and retrain your mind, giving it new responses that align with what you actually want to do in those moments.
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So, you’ve got a job that involves speaking up in meetings or giving presentations. Maybe you want to go for a promotion, but the idea of talking in front of people more makes you hesitate.
This is totally normal, and you’re not alone. This is one of the most common fears. Your brain sometimes gets it wrong and flags public speaking as “dangerous”—likely from an old belief formed unconsciously when you were younger. So, even though you want to feel comfortable, telling yourself to “just get on with it” doesn’t do the trick.
Hypnotherapy can make a huge difference. We’ll work with your subconscious to see public speaking as safe and manageable. Not only can it help you let go of the anxiety, but it can also build a level of confidence you may not have thought possible. Imagine what you could accomplish without that fear holding you back! Let’s make it happen.
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Life can sometimes feel like you’re standing still, unsure of the next step. I have been there myself. Questioning our purpose and why we are here is part of being human, albeit a challenging and painful part.
Hypnotherapy is powerful at breaking through that sense of being stuck. By tapping into the subconscious mind, it helps dissolve emotional and mental blocks that may be holding you back. Hypnosis encourages your imagination to awaken, allowing fresh ideas, perspective and clarity to flow.
Whether you’re considering a new career, wanting to leave or call in a relationship, exploring a creative passion, or simply searching for direction, hypnotherapy can ease fears and reignite your sense of purpose. It’s a gentle yet effective way to reconnect with your inner self, helping you feel inspired and energised again. Supporting clients in finding their power and stepping into a more connected, vibrant life is at the heart of what I do.
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You might be scared of mice, or birds, or get sweaty palms at the thought of getting on a plane. You might feel your phobia is a bit unusual, but don’t worry —whatever it is, the approach to treating it stays the same.
Hypnotherapy is really effective in helping you feel safe and calm instead. In just a few sessions, you could leave your phobia behind and understand how and why this fear developed in the first place. Many find that conquering their fears reconnects them with a sense of confidence and capability they thought they’d lost. Let’s work together to help you feel more in control.
These are just some of the areas that hypnotherapy can support, there are many more. So if there is something else you are struggling with that isn’t included, then let’s chat - I am here to support you and we can work through it together.
I understand that starting therapy can be daunting and finding the right therapist is very important. I work in a supportive and understanding way so that you always feel safe within the therapy process.
The best place to start is to book in a free consultation call, where I can get to know more about what you would like to work on and answer any questions you have.
Our first session will be a deep-dive into your story, what you would like to change and how you would like to feel differently. I will ask specific questions to help me understand everything you have been struggling with up until that point and how you would like to move forward.
In the next session and beyond, we will start working with the transformative hypnotherapy techniques to help you let go of what made you seek out support in the first place, until you are in a place where you feel content just being you.
As part of our work together and when appropriate, you will receive a bespoke hypnotherapy recording which will help to amplify the positive changes you are making.
I offer evidence-based and effective hypnotherapy in person in Brighton & Hove and online via Google Meet. Online Cognitive Hypnotherapy works in the same way as in person therapy and can provide more flexibility for your schedule, so do not worry that this will affect the therapy process in any way.