services offered

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Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a combination of integrative psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. Sessions are focused on creating solutions and goal setting, followed by relaxing, calming hypnosis. We don't focus on the past or problems, which can feel strange at first but is freeing and productive. Sessions can be offered in person in Old Trafford or online, via Zoom.

Your first session

In your first session, we will get to know each other. I will find some information about your concerns and what has brought you to see me. I tell you about the Solution Focused approach and also teach you a bit about the brain and how anxiety, depression and other conditions are created. This gives us a blueprint of what we will work on over the next few weeks. 

After the session,  I will send you a hypnosis audio to listen to each day. My clients love listening to this and say that it is relaxing, improves their sleep and helps them feel more alert and calm.

Subsequent sessions

After the first session, our sessions follow a similar format; we reflect on the past week, we think about the brain and how this relates to how we are feeling, we set an achievable goal for the week ahead and you enjoy a relaxing, positive hypnosis session. Hypnotherapy is fast-acting and most people have between six and twelve sessions, although we decide and review this together.

If you have come to see me about a phobia, we may have a smaller number of sessions and we utilise a technique that can help to take the emotion out of events related to your fear, which helps to remove the phobia. We also use another technique that helps you visualise confronting your phobia feeling calm and confident.

If you come to see me about smoking, we only have two sessions. In the first session, we discuss your old smoking habits, the benefits of quitting and set a quit date (your next session). You listen to my calming hypnotherapy audio in between the sessions to reduce stress. In the second session, we recap your reasons for quitting and you enjoy a calm, positive hypnosis session which helps reset your mind and reduce cravings. We then celebrate that you are a non-smoker!

(Please note: results vary and client commitment is necessary).

I can support you through integrative psychotherapy which utilises a number of methods including Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Coaching, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique and Transactional Analysis. This means that sessions, offered in Old Trafford or online can be tailored to your concerns and needs and gives you a number of concepts and tools to create change in your life. 

The amount of sessions varies from person to person and this is something we would agree and review regularly. Sessions are yours and therefore we agree the agenda for each session based on what is important to you. Talking Therapy is useful for a range of issues such as bereavement, relationship concerns, stress, depression, identity issues and anxiety.

Also known as Tapping and EFT, this is a powerful yet gentle method for addressing blocks in your life or overwhelming emotions. During a session, I teach you how to tap on nine acupressure points around the body whilst talking about the concern you bring to the session. This method helps people to resolve concerns in their life, gain greater insight into their emotions and is something you will be able to use anywhere, anytime after sessions.

Some people will request only one session for a particular problem, others will have multiple sessions in order to work through multiple worries. EFT can be used for anxiety, stress, grief, low mood, phobias, trauma and sleep issues.

Based on research into successful relationships and challenges for couples, Gottman Method therapy helps you to understand how to improve key domains in your relationship. We begin sessions by completing an assessment which involves joint and individual sessions. This helps us gain insight into ways your relationship is working and healthy. It also identifies things I can help you work on in your relationship to improve communication, gain shared understanding of values and manage conflict. 

If you are both committed to improve your relationship, Gottman Method therapy is a great way to learn new skills and gain techniques to better understand each other. 

EMDR is a therapy that uses the movement of the eyes (or gentle tapping on the body) to process negative memories and trauma. This therapy is useful for Post Traumatic Stress, identity issues and releasing unwanted feelings. In a session, we will talk about a problem you have, I ask you questions that help to frame the problem and we then go through set of bilateral stimulation such as eye movements. People notice a shift in how they perceive past events or feel about themselves which helps to gain closure and create a better way of feeling. 

This therapy is provided over a number of sessions as  we spend time at the beginning finding ways to ground you and help you feel safe. I also offer 90 minute sessions for EMDR which offers more time for processing memories.