Techniques and Therapies

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a simple idea – it’s about being fully present and aware of your emotions, physical sensations and everything that’s going on around you. Mindfulness has significant and wide-ranging benefits, especially if you’re dealing with stress and anxiety. The difficulty for most people is in understanding how you do this, and how you integrate it into your daily life.  This is something I specialise in – Mindfulness in the Real World.

I am a fully qualified Mindfulness Coach and Teacher, and have experience establishing Mindfulness into schools and education settings, working with individuals to establish their own mindfulness routines and I also have my own daily Mindfulness practice, very much ‘practising what I teach’.

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

CBH will help you take ownership of your own thoughts and behaviours, putting you in control of the changes you want to make in your life.

Hypnotherapy is the therapy of ’imaginative suggestion’, or words that are used to stimulate the conscious imagination profoundly enough to bring about genuine therapeutic change. Our brains and imagination work together a lot in our day to day life in this way – such as our heart rate increasing when watching a horror film.  Unfortunately we tend to use this without realising and often in ways that are not very beneficial to us. When used in the right ways it can have incredible benefits.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is based on the approach that “thoughts, feelings, what we do and how our body feels are all connected. If we change one of these we can alter the others.” (British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies). It is one of the most successful, established and recognised therapies which is why the NHS use it as their biggest form of therapy.

CBH is a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Evidence-Based Clinical Hypnotherapy. It is proven to have higher success rates and longer-lasting results than either can deliver in isolation.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (“ACT”)

“ACT” (pronounced as the word ‘act’ as it is very much about taking action), is a therapy based on Mindfulness, combined with developing your understanding of what is most important to you in life (your values) and deciding on or committing to actions that move you towards the type of life you want to be living.

There is strong evidence behind its effectiveness on both specific issues, such as anxiety, as well as helping people to live more fulfilling lives. If you are someone who likes the idea of Mindfulness but prefers more structure behind what you do, this approach works particularly well.