Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis for beneficial purposes and is a state of deep mental relaxation that allows the unconscious mind to be influenced without the interference of the conscious mind.

Hypnosis is not mind control and the client retains their full awareness despite being in this deeply relaxed state. The process relies on co-operation between therapist and client and nobody can be made to do anything they don’t want to do.

Although science still has a long way to go in fully understanding how our brain works we do know that our mind operates on two levels, the conscious and the unconscious. Our unconscious mind is very much larger than the conscious part and is responsible for a great deal of our behaviour and reactions on a daily basis although we are not aware of its effects. If we want to make changes, it is the unconscious mind that we need to influence and hypnotherapy is a highly effective way of accessing it.

Hypnosis enables the therapist to work directly with the unconscious mind to establish acceptable selected thinking that is specifically tailored to enable the client to achieve their personal goals more quickly and easily than they may have believed possible.