Olive Hypnotherapy
How I Can Help
Discover the benefits of Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy works to help you bring about positive changes in your life. It can help you understand and challenge thoughts and behaviours that may be holding you back or preventing you from living the life you want.
Focusing on the solution and not the problem means that you can identify what it is you want to move forward with and change those negative patterns of thought to more positive, productive and happier ones, helping your mind find peace.
Conditions I can support with
Anxiety
If you are struggling with anxiety on a day-to-day basis, it can feel incredibly overwhelming. It can prevent you from doing the things you want to do and restrict your enjoyment of life.
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy is known to be a very popular form of therapy for people with anxiety as it works to help you understand it, the neuroscience around it, what might be holding you back and what we can do about it.
Stress
Stress can be a great thing. It keeps us motivated and gets us doing the things we need to do. But we can have an overload of stress, ranging from negative stress, like actual physical danger or break ups, to positive stress like achieving success or falling in love.
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy works by understanding your stress. Lifting the lid on your hippocampus, we work on the parts of your life that you can control and enjoy, help build resilience, focus on your future in a more positive way and get to work on your REM sleep.
OCD
OCD usually manifests itself in one of the following ways:
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Intrusive thoughts – these can sometimes be frightening and completely irrational.
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Rituals – these can include checking and re-checking of light switches, gas hobs, candles, locked doors, etc…
These thoughts lead to high levels of stress and anxiety and sometimes irrational behaviours. While performing these actions gives temporary relief to the anxiety, it is short lived and the urge to perform the actions soon returns.
Confidence
Confidence is a learned skill, a habit that we can create. It isn't something that people inherently have or don't have.
Maybe the thought of standing in a room full of people makes you feel anxious or having to make a speech/presentation sends you into a bit of a spin and you think ‘Oh I could never do that, I’m just not that type of person’ - you absolutely can!!
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy can help you build your confidence and self esteem by creating, and reinforcing positive, new neural pathways, supporting you with working on small achievable goals and helping you let go of the negative thoughts that might be holding you back or stopping you from doing the things you want.
Low Mood/Overwhelm
We can all experience low moods and overwhelm, but if you frequently experience them or have longer periods, it might feel like life is more difficult to deal with or a constant series of challenges.
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy can help you by first, getting to grips with sleep cycles, then start to work on small steps to help you feel more ‘you’ again. When we shift our focus to the good, the good gets better.
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy isn’t about changing you, but about helping you discover the life you want and how to find joy in it.
IBS
There are many uncomfortable symptoms of IBS and unfortunately someone suffering with IBS can find themselves isolating from friends and family or social events. This can lead to a loss of confidence and self-esteem. It is not uncommon for sufferers to develop symptoms of anxiety or depression.
By using a combination of talking therapy and hypnosis, we can reduce feelings of anxiety and stress thereby increasing confidence and your overall wellbeing.
It is important that you see your GP and get a formal diagnosis of IBS before treatment can commence.
Phobias
Most phobias or fears can be resolved in four sessions, however some phobias can’t be helped so quickly, such as emetophobia, claustrophobia or agoraphobia.
These types of phobias are usually experienced when a person has a lot of stress or anxiety in their life. This can build up over time and manifest into a condition that can limit or restrict your enjoyment of life.
In this instance we would work together to reduce the stress and/or anxiety using talking therapy and hypnosis. Once we have reduced the anxiety to a sufficient degree, we would approach resolving the phobia/fear directly.