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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis for GCSE exam stress
This can be an emotional time. Everyone - it seems - is more sorted than you. There’s always someone in your group who boasts about how little revision they’ve done. There’s always someone in your group who boasts about how much revision they’ve done. It can be the first time in your life you’re facing […]
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis and nine rules for a better life
If these rules look familiar they are. They’re 2,000 years old. They’re from the Stoic Code. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and hypnosis have shamelessly stolen them. All these nine points are really the backbone of everything I do with my clients. CBT and hypnosis are simply tools to land these points. 1. Wake up early. […]
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Hypnosis and hypnotherapy for children, adolescents, and students
For children, adolescents and students it’s all about interpreting ‘new’. For children, everything they learn is new - changing school and making new friends, for example. It’s the same for adolescents. Still learning new things but with added thoughts and feelings. Most commonly that they’re out of their depth, or they think they know it […]
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnosis for International Women’s Day 2023 for Women’s Health and Equity #EmbraceEquity
From March 4th to March 7th is International Women’s Week. A time to promote and celebrate women. Now let’s cut to the chase. There’s a lot of work to be done. A gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and […]
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