Hypnotherapy can help you in many ways. It can allow you to heal, boost your health and reach an optimum state of well being. On this page you'll find a list of common ailments that people counteract with hypnotherapy, listed in alphabetical order. If you are suffering from any of the things listed - or if you have another issue you think may be helped by a hypnotherapy session - please don't hesitate to contact our Clinical Hypnotherapist, Karen.
- Addictions and Other Habit Disorders: Reduces or eliminates the habit/addiction and provides procedures for permanent behaviour modification. Can be helpful for smoking, alcoholism, food addictions, nail biting, thumbsucking and trichotillomania. Can also overcome other pleasure-producing habits and reduce or eliminate the harmful behaviour. Read more.
- Allergies: Can ease the distressing symptoms of allergies.
- Anxiety, Panic and Phobias: Teaches the person how to relax in the middle of a panic attack, stop thoughts that produce attacks, replace negative thoughts with positive coping statements and accept all feelings and sensations. Can help to lessen or eliminate anxieties of all kinds, such as crossing bridges, claustrophobia, dental fears and phobias, fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of needles, fear of spiders, public speaking and social phobias, as well as a range of other fears. This in turn can ease the physical symptoms associated with panic and fear, such as blushing and some skin disorders. Read more.
- Asthma and Bronchial Conditions: Assists with breathing, promotes positive coping strategies and general healing.
- Athletic Performance: Allows strong focus on areas that require improvement, creates a sense of success in the execution of skills, enhances overall attitude, enhances co-operation and team work in sports, enhances sporting performance, increases stamina and co-ordination and puts the competitive spirit in perspective.
- Breaking Bad Habits: Allows people to gain more control over those behaviours and to reduce or even stop those behaviours that are unbecoming.
- Cancer: Assists in reducing stresses associated with cancer, enhances the control of the physiological and psychological side effects of cancer therapy and promotes self healing.
- Cardiovascular Disorders: Can control some organic functions such as bleeding and heart rate, so a person who suffers from high blood pressure can slow their own pulse rate and reduce their own blood pressure.
- Childhood Trauma: Makes partial age regression possible. Clients may relive an experience in the distant past, just as it occurred, with the senses operating as they did at the time of the original experience. A person may eliminate an irrational fear of something such as spiders, dogs, confined spaces or crossing bridges, or they may also reduce fear of intimate relationships which resulted from the trauma of incest during childhood. Heals the inner child by increasing the feelings of self worth and releasing negative patterns. Read more.
- Concentration, Learning and Studying: Helps develop abnormal abilities of concentration, increasing your capacity to learn and remember in enormous detail. This is particularly helpful for students preparing for an examination, as they it can assist them in assimilating and retaining a vast amount of material that can be recalled at will. Can also assist with coping with the stress of exams, as well as enhancing creativity, artistic expression and writing ability. Improves study habits, reading and learning abilities and instills a positive attitude toward learning.
- Confidence, Self Esteem and Motivation: Allows people to be more successful by developing better business and personal skills, improving self esteem and self projection and increasing confidence and self acceptance. Programs behaviour to lead towards a specific goal and reprograms past negative behaviour. Facilitates problem solving and allows people to feel more confident in their behaviour by modifying their sense of perfectionism. Provides positive suggestions for living more effectively.
- Creativity: Enhances creative ability in fields such as writing, painting or the performing arts, motivates and promotes creative activity and releases blocked potential.
- Decision Making: Increase ability to concentrate, hence allowing people to make decisions more easily.
- Dental Problems: Assists with the cessation of gagging, jaw clenching and teeth grinding behaviour. Also assists with the swallowing of tablets and pills.
- Depression: Improves self worth, overrides the negative thoughts present in clinical depression and promotes more positivity.
- Emotional and Psychiatric Disorders: Enhances self understanding, self expression and reduces feelings and thoughts of guilt. Particularly helpful for those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- Energy: Increases energy output and provides motivation to achieve goals.
- Enjoyment: Increases ability to appreciate the good things.
- Enuresis (Bed Wetting): Decreases episodes of bed wetting.
- Goal Motivation: Enhances the drive for motivation to achieve the desired goal.
- Grief and Loss: Addresses physical symptoms of the separation reaction, removes blocks to recovery and releases pent up emotions. Is helpful for all experiences of grief and loss, whether it be the loss of a job, a loved one, a pet or any other sense of loss within the individual.
- Hiccups: Can reduce the occurrence and severity of hiccups.
- Immunity: Can help build immunity, improving the immune system and assisting with treatment of autoimmune diseases as well as the more common cold and flu. Promotes general healing ability and better well being of the physical body.
- Incontinence and Urinary Tract Disorders: Can assist with strengthening muscles and decreasing the incidences of incontinence and UTIs.
- Insomnia: Improves sleep, reduces stress and controls painful symptoms. Breaks bad night time habits and restructures pre-bedtime mental activity to improve sleeping conditions. A chronic insomniac can reduce or eliminate stress and reprogram their subconscious to improve the quality and duration of sleep. Read more.
- Migraine: Provides strategies to cope with the pain of migraines and lessen their strength and frequency.
- Muscle Spasms: Reduces severity and frequency.
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Can provide training for childbirth by supporting and reinforcing the Bradley and Lamaze methods, programming pain control, establishing communication with the child and promoting a positive post-birth phase. Can also assist with the feelings associated with infertility and miscarriage, as well as a range of other obstetric and gynaecological issues.
- Pain or Discomfort: Produces anesthesia in the body, helping to eliminate pain or discomfort from injury, accident or routine medical procedures. With practice, for example, a patient visiting the dentist may anesthetise their own mouth, cheek, gums to greatly reduce or eliminate pain. Read more.
- Psychosomatic Conditions: Seeks out the source of the issue, allowing the physical and mental aspects to be healed.
- Sexual Dysfunction and Relationship Problems: Can assist with rigidity, impotence, premature ejaculation and a range of other sexual issues. Can help increase sexual drive and provide a positive outlook for relationships by understanding people better.
- Skin Disorders: Can assist with easing symptoms of skin disorders, such as pruritus (itching).
- Stomach and Intestinal Disorders: Eases gastric symptoms. Can assist with ulcers and colitis.
- Stress and Tension: Eliminates or reduces stress, improves the ability to cope, lowers the stress levels, promotes relaxation and reprograms specific behaviour patterns to promote less stress. Read more.
- Stuttering: Can help speech patterns and decrease incidences of stutters.
- Surgery/Post Operative Recovery: Introduces techniques for reducing pain of surgery, speeds the recovery process, induces anesthesia and facilitates healing. Can also lessen the worries about impending surgery.
- Tinnitus: Can reduce or eliminate the occurrence of ringing in the ears.
- Warts: Can assist healing and reduce outbreaks.
- Weight Management: Motivates weight loss, reprograms eating habits and establishes a procedure for to achieve, manage and maintain a goal weight and positive eating behaviours. Can assist with treatment of eating disorders by increasing the appeal of healthier foods and/or increasing or decreasing food intake as required. Read more.