Frequently Asked Questions From My Clients

Hypnotherapy works as quickly as the mind does; hypnotherapy works with the power of the mind: Imagine your mind is like a mirror on which all your thoughts and emotions are reflected; now imagine that this mirror believes in /absorbs completely whatever you project on it which means it has no idea whether whatever you are seeing in your mind is reality or not. Your unconscious mind believes the images in your mind and the sensations in your body only, so when you are imagining a beach it starts warming your body and the sound of the waves can be heard soon enough in your ears……… That is why you cannot even imagine a spider, however tiny, without trembling, without shivering while another person can stand right under a cobweb and not even notice it’s there….. That is why you feel you are suffocating and passing out on your seat on the train while everyone else seems at ease, reading and chatting….. That is the power of the unconscious mind which believes in the reality that you paint with your fears, questions and doubts.

Now imagine that every thought/feeling you project on it is like a seed you put in the earth: once seeded you do not know what processes the seed is undergoing; all you know is the effects on your behaviour and feelings once the images grow and become a vicious circle.

In Hypnotherapy we reach those roots and change them/reprogram your mind to visualise, think and feel differently, from destructive to constructive patterns and we show/train your mind to project more constructive thoughts/feelings on the unconscious mind; it’s as if we pull out the weeds and plant beautiful strong roots to bear fruits that you want…..

CLIENT: I AM A BIT SCARED OF DOING AND SAYING SILLY THINGS! I DO NOT WANT TO BEHAVE IN SILLY WAYS; I WANT TO BECOME MORE CONFIDENT, BUT I AM SCARED I AM GOING TO MAKE A FOOL OF MYSELF IN FRONT OF YOU!!

I am a registered clinical hypnotherapist and psychologist, ethically and professionally bound to work therapeutically and respect my client’s wishes and expectations. What you have interpreted as Hypnotherapy via stage shows/television is not in any way a therapy; it is using the powerful tool of Hypnosis to make people laugh- both the people who agreed to go on the stage and the people watching know that the Hypnotist is going to do something silly and they are collaborating into it by non verbal agreement.

You are here to use the same powerful tool but to work on your emotional/psychological or physical issue in your life and you are agreeing to let me into your mind through my voice just to facilitate your work on your own mind; if at any point I am saying or doing anything which is not meeting your expectations/needs, believe me you are going to wake up and leave as easily as you walked in here!! The control is with you, whether for me to enter your mind and whether you are going to collaborate: it is all in your hands.

My clients have said “Once you teach me self-hypnosis, I feel so empowered!! I feel like I can change my thoughts and gain control over my fears where before I felt so helpless in front of it; and it is so fulfilling to be actively working on my own recovery, instead of leaving myself in the hands of specialists!!”

I HAVE BEEN HAVING THESE (PANIC, PHOBIC, DEPRESSED, BINGING, LOW, WORTHLESS, HELPLESS, ANXIOUS….) FEELINGS FOR MANY YEARS NOW. I AM NOT EVEN SURE IT WILL EVER GO AWAY. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN HELP?

Remember that the right brain, also called the creative, unconscious mind is very receptive to negative, self-defeating comments and it absorbs and roots those beliefs more strongly that positive remarks…. Let me ask you: at a party where over fifty people said you were looking smart and handsome, if one person comments on the strange colour of your hair or tie which comment do you take home with you? What do you notice first when you look in the mirror at home: the hair/tie or your shirt/etc?

The mind weaves its own web: you wake up and you think you cannot face another day…..you feel low, sad and moody…. You hear the postman whistling outside and you think what is it he finds so happy about anyway? …. You feel worse… you open the curtain and feel as miserable as the clouds… you look at the pile of work waiting for you and you think about getting under the cover and forgetting about the whole world.

Now imagine: you wake up and you think you cannot face another day…. Then you remember the movie you saw last night in which this child was fighting this disease… you think I am sure I can make an effort…you feel a little bit less moody…then you hear the whistling outside and your mind wonder about the song he is whistling?... your mind lead you to another song that you feel like listening or whistling yourself…. You pull the curtains and you look at the clouds and wish it did not rain as you would like to go jogging….

Has something similar to this ever happen to you? Once you project a thought on the mirror of your creative mind it will seed it and give you back images/feelings related to that thought and you are set off on a path for the next few hours…

Now imagine you could access this creative mind under trance/hypnosis and you could reprogram it beforehand so that when you wake up it gives you positive imagery to set you off? Even when you feel sad it encourages you through imagery/feelings preset into it? Would you like that? Hypnotherapy does exactly this and will carry on until those new thoughts/feelings have not taken deep roots in your mind…

It does not matter how long you have been living with the fears, anxieties, phobias, depression, abused inner child, panic attacks etc….what matters is how motivated are you to get up and start looking for help and techniques that will allow your powerful mind to work for you instead of against you!!!!!

Some of my clients say: “I tried forcing myself to feel scared again just to test myself!! I just could not be scared however much I tried….”

I AM A BIT WORRIED OF WHAT I AM GOING TO DISCOVER ABOUT MY PAST. WILL I GO INTO MY PAST LIFE? WILL I SEE/FEEL THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN SCARY, TRAUMATIC IN MY PAST?

Some clients wish to go in their past and find out the roots causes of their problems; some wish to work on the problems and not worry about the causes. My work is to adapt your treatment plan to your needs/expectations.

If, at a later point in your therapy, you wish to go in the past to look for answers and change the feelings of the inner child or adolescent who has been traumatized, that is easy but only done when I have assured myself over one/two sessions that you can cope with what you will discover.

But you will never, I stress never go in the past or regress if you are with a competent Hypnotherapist. I am a facilitator but I also set boundaries within which your mind explores options and potentials but will not go beyond those boundaries. I do that in every session: I discuss the therapy plan with my client and if they feel they cannot cope with a certain aspect in the session because they are tired or had a stressful week etc, I change the treatment plan.