A Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 18 years experience helping adults & children overcome emotional / behavioural issues.
07/11/2025
Finding Calm with Hypnotherapy
If you’ve ever wished you could “switch off” your stress, hypnotherapy might be the tool you’ve been searching for.
🌀 Hypnotherapy helps you:
- Access a deeply relaxed state
- Reframe unhelpful thoughts and worries
- Build inner calm and confidence
- Create new subconscious habits that support balance and peace
Stress may be part of modern life — but how you respond to it can change everything.
This International Stress Awareness Week, take a step toward restoring calm, balance, and control.
💬 Book a free chat to find out how hypnotherapy can support you.
05/11/2025
When Stress Becomes Too Much
When stress becomes a constant companion, it can start to affect everything — our sleep, relationships, focus, and even physical health.
🚨 Chronic stress has been linked to:
- High blood pressure
- Weakened immune function
- Weight changes
- Burnout and emotional exhaustion
You don’t have to reach breaking point before making a change.
Through hypnotherapy, we work on reducing the body’s stress response, quieting the mind, and reprogramming subconscious patterns that keep you in “fight or flight.”
The result? A calmer, more resilient version of you. 🌿
If you would like to learn how to manage stress and live a calmer life, get in touch - I'm here to help. 🙂
03/11/2025
Understanding Stress — The Hidden Weight We
It’s International Stress Awareness Week — the perfect reminder to pause and check in with yourself.
Stress can show up in many ways and here are common symptoms:
😔 Feeling constantly tired or overwhelmed
💭 Racing thoughts or trouble focusing
💤 Difficulty sleeping
🤕 Headaches, muscle tension, or digestive issues
💔 Irritability or anxiety
Often, we accept these signs as “just life” — but chronic stress can quietly take its toll on our body and mind.
✨ Hypnotherapy offers a gentle way to calm the nervous system, retrain thought patterns, and help you manage life’s pressures with more ease.
💬 If stress has been building up, take this week as your sign to slow down and care for you.
If you feel that you would benefit from learning how to manage stress, do get in touch, I am here to help.... 🙂
02/11/2025
For some people, living with uncertainty about their future and witnessing unsettling events beyond their control, can make them fearful, which can detrimentally influence their life.
Chronic anxiety can kind of paralyse some people and be the biggest obstacle to overcome.
But the GOOD NEWS is that it IS possible to break free of fear so a new world of possibilities opens up....
You can learn more about how you can find peace of mind by following the link below..
Find out more about how I can help you to become the person you deserve to be visit my website 👉 www.andreaaro.co.uk
31/10/2025
29/10/2025
Pain-Relief Medication: Effectiveness, Pitfalls — and How Hypnotherapy Offers a Natural Complement
For many people dealing with pain, medication is the first port of call. It makes sense — when you feel uncomfortable, reaching for something that reduces the sensation is a natural step. But there are two important truths to understand:
1. The effectiveness of pain medication can be limited.
Although pain medications (including opioid and non-opioid analgesics) do help many people in the short term, research shows that for long-term pain the benefits can be modest. For example, one UK source states that most long-term pain medications only provide around a 30 % reduction in pain for many users.
2. There are real risks and pitfalls.
• In England, about 12.8 % of adults were prescribed opioids in 2017/2018.
• Many of these medications carry risks of dependence, addiction, side-effects and diminishing returns when used for chronic, long-term (rather than acute) pain.
• Also, using medication alone often means that the emotional, psychological and nervous-system aspects of pain are still left unaddressed.
That’s where hypnotherapy comes in as a powerful, complementary approach. Here’s how:
✔️ Hypnotherapy taps into your body’s natural capacity to find relief by working with the mind-body connection — easing nervous system arousal, reducing fear and uncertainty, altering how pain signals are interpreted in the brain.
✔️ It doesn’t replace medications where they’re needed, but it can reduce reliance on them (or enhance their effect) by providing extra tools: guided imagery, self-hypnosis, breath work, anchoring calm states, and reframing of thoughts and feelings around pain.
✔️ Especially helpful for long-term or chronic pain, where many people find that the emotional load of “Will this ever end?”, “What does this mean for me?”, “Am I stuck?” amplifies the sensation of pain — hypnotherapy works to reduce that fear, create safety in the system, and build practical coping skills.
So if you’re managing pain and taking medication, it’s worthwhile to ask: “Am I just treating the symptom – or am I also working with my mind, my nervous system, my beliefs, my coping strategy?” Hypnotherapy offers a path into the latter.
If you’d like to explore how this could support your pain-management journey — whether you’re just starting medication, have been using it for years, or want to reduce its impact or reliance — I’d be glad to talk through which approach might work for you. 💛
Pain isn’t just physical — it’s also shaped by our emotions, stress levels, beliefs, and the way our brain interprets signals from the body. This is why two people with the same condition can have completely different pain experiences. Hypnotherapy can provide a complementary solution to traditional routes and works by helping you gently shift the way your mind processes pain, allowing more ease, relaxation, and control.
One of the key factors that can amplify pain is fear and uncertainty: fear of what is happening to the body, worry about what the future holds, uncertainty about whether the pain will ever improve. When those anxieties are present, the nervous system stays wound up, the brain remains alert to threat, and pain signals can feel louder. In hypnotherapy we can work to reduce the fear, reassure the system, and create a sense of safety — which means the body and mind can move out of “alarm mode” and into a more balanced state.
Hypnotherapy is especially helpful in managing long-term chronic or acute pain. Whether the pain has been present for months or years, or has appeared recently, the approach is the same: we calm the nervous system, shift the brain’s interpretation of the pain, and teach practical coping tools. These tools might include guided breathing, imagery, anchoring calm states, and self-hypnosis techniques you can use in day-to-day life—not just during the session.
Many people find that after a course of hypnotherapy they experience:
- Reduced intensity of pain
- Greater comfort and relaxation
- Better sleep and better overall mood
- More confidence in their ability to cope
- Relief from tension and emotional stress linked to the pain
It’s important to recognise: just because you can’t always see the pain, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Chronic pain affects around 43% of UK adults—that’s almost half of us. Around 34% of people in England report chronic pain, and about 12% have pain that seriously limits everyday activity.
When you choose hypnotherapy, you’re choosing to address both the physical sensation and the emotional-cognitive environment in which that pain lives. In doing so, you can reclaim more comfort, more calm, and more control in your life.
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20/10/2025
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It’s interesting to think back about the cues that determine your path in life. I stumbled across the whole notion of hypnotherapy when I was expecting my first child back in 2001.
I was booked in to take a tour of the Crowborough Birthing Centre and I arrived very early and my midwife was about to head into watch a presentation about hypnobirthing, a concept I had never come across. Because I was so early, I was invited in to watch and found the whole thing thoroughly fascinating, but I was very advanced with my pregnancy and not at all anxious about childbirth and I did not pursue it any further.
Several weeks later at another hospital visit - where you get paired up with other expectant parents - I was chatting with a dad-to-be, who was telling me about an introduction to hypnotherapy course that he had just taken part in. It seemed to be quite a random avenue for this young man to be exploring and it piqued my interest and so I asked for the details of the course and I signed myself up just a few months after I had my daughter. I enjoyed it so much that I joined the 2 year Diploma later that year. Thankfully my daughter was a great sleeper and so I was able to study around her nap times or I would take her to the local creche and study!
I find being a Hypnotherapist thoroughly rewarding. Helping teach individuals new skills and coping mechanisms and helping them to live the life they deserve, by helping remove emotional or behavioural obstacles.
