CBT and Hypnotherapy Blog By James Thomas

Corporate coaching with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis

I didn’t start out as a corporate coach. I trained as a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist. Admittedly, I spent 35 years in the corporate world rising to board level. And working in London, Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Wellington. I ended up working with Lionel Messi, Neymar, Serena Williams, and Nick Kyriagos amongst others. Nowadays in my […]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnotherapy for your inner child

“The Inner Child”. It sounds a cliché. It’s not. It’s an idea that lies close to common sense. Why? Because inside us there’s a version of all the people we have ever been. Somewhere in you is a confused teenager, a sad child, a jealous or hungry infant. Someone who saw their parents row, domestic […]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis for heartbreak

The sensible definition of heartbreak goes something like this: “Heartbreak or a broken heart is a metaphor for the intense emotional stress or pain, one feels at experiencing great loss or deep longing”. That’s the practical logical description and it goes nowhere near describing the pain, sleeplessness, appetite-ending, not-stop-crying, the feeling of wanting to give […]

Helping young people who need CAMHS

CAMHS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - is the name for the NHS services that assess and treat young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties. Typically CAMHS support covers depression, problems with food and eating, self-harm, abuse, violence or anger, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety, among other difficulties. But most people […]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis for loneliness

We live in an ever-more connected world. We can call, face time and text. But we’re lonelier than ever. We work online from home, shop online, there are fewer buses to help us get out, we meet fewer people, bump into fewer people for a chat, we bank online rather than in branch. Even at […]

Sympathy, empathy and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

The words sympathy and empathy are used widely these days. Often interchangeably. But they’re not the same. Sympathy is more a feeling of pity for someone. We share the same feelings. Often, in reality, a relief at not having the same problems. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand how someone feels. […]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis and National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health problem you may develop after experiencing traumatic events. The condition was first recognised in war veterans. It has had different names in the past, such as 'shell shock', but it's not only diagnosed in soldiers. In fact, a wide range of traumatic experiences can cause PTSD: being […]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis for a dopamine detox - or not

Dopamine - what is it? Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it to send messages between nerve cells. That's why it's sometimes called a chemical messenger. It plays a role in how we feel pleasure. We LOVE it. And what’s detoxing? Detoxing is seen as abstaining from or ridding the body of […]

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy and hypnosis for dealing with Narcissists

‘Narcissist’ is a word you hear bandied around. Usually to refer to someone who’s a ‘bit of a big head’ or ‘pompous’. But a true narcissist can do serious lasting damage to others. Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition giving people an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too […]

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