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I am really looking forward to helping you here at Hadleigh Hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can help with these.

Hypnotherapy and therapeutic counselling are safe and effective treatments which can assist you in finding your way to make positive changes in many aspects of your life. You can expect a warm welcome in restful surroundings which are quiet and confidential, enabling us to discuss the changes you are seeking to make in your life. Many of the difficulties that we experience in our lives are as a result of what our brains have learned and absorbed over many years, through childhood, education, experiences and relationships. Because of the way in which the subconscious mind works, this can sometimes lead to symptoms such as fears and phobias, low self-esteem, habitual behaviours such as smoking, over-eating and nail-biting, anxiety and tinnitus.

23/09/2025

Time well-spent with work and family commitments means that it’s been a long time since I have posted here. As we enter Autumn, with its shorter days, the garden requires a little less attention and I feel more inclined to spend evenings with my books. This has meant that, in addition to altering the balance of my different employments (thus allowing me to see a greater number of clients in my private practice), I have been enthusiastically training in various aspects of both hypnotherapy and counselling.

I am continuing my training with Ali Campbell, not only with the Rapid Inductions Academy (about which I have previously posted), but also with another six-week Masterclass. Between clients, I am accessing these when I can and I can safely say that it is making a really positive difference. I am once again feeling aligned with this aspect of my work and my clients are reaping the benefits.

In addition to this, I have recently qualified with the IARTT as a Rewind practitioner. I have successfully used rewind approaches hypnotherapeutically in the past for relief from phobias, but the IARTT technique can be carried out with my counselling clients. It is exceedingly rapid, generally requiring only one or two sessions, before most people see either a considerable reduction or complete cessation of their symptoms. Research suggests its efficacy in the treatment of PTSD, CPTSD and phobias. (Adams and Allan 2018 Muss' Rewind treatment for trauma: Description and preliminary evidence Journal of Mental Health) I am delighted to be able to offer this therapy to my new and existing clients.

24/05/2025

Sometimes, opportunities or people appear in our lives exactly when we need them to…often before we are aware that they are what we have been looking for.
This was the case for me recently as an advertisement for one of Ali Cambell’s six-week masterclasses appeared in my eyeline. It was half-price, I have heard other hypnotherapists speak highly of his courses, so I thought I’d give it a go…and now I am excited to be embarking on a new leg of my journey as a hypnotherapist,
That two hours once a week was absolutely invaluable, allowing me to understand why I have recently been feeling that I want to be able to help my clients in a different way, that I want to update my knowledge and understanding of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, that I want to offer even more than I currently do. So, I have taken a big breath, rearranged my weekly work schedule, made some financial sacrifices and enrolled into the Rapid Induction Therapy Academy.
It will be hard work, but I love learning. What’s more important is that studying these theories and techniques in great depth will enable me to be the best therapist I can be.

14/03/2025

During the past six months, I’ve had the privilege of working with people who have been bereaved.

These last few months have reminded me of the most important aspect of the work I do; that is, the power of the therapeutic relationship. I use the word “privilege” because it’s the way I feel about the fact that my clients invite me to share with them their vulnerability as they feel their way through a world that is, for them changed forever. I’m astonished and heartened by their resilience and courage whilst we explore together their present experiencing and their views of their future, as they allow themselves the time and space to feel all their feelings and to know themselves to be heard and held within a therapeutic space.

Many, many years ago, when I trained as a nurse in London, we were taught the now very well-known model of grief, with its five stages that people (apparently) move through before emerging at the other side. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who founded the model, never meant it to be perceived as this linear journey that’s the same for everyone, but this is unfortunately how it came to be seen.
Today, new ways of looking at grief and talking about it have lead to some very much more realistic and helpful models, models that don’t assume that time is a healer, nor that anyone should “get over it by now.”

My Pluralistic practice means I can work with my client’s grief in many different ways, but I always begin by giving them the opportunity to talk at length about their loved one, to let me “meet” them and tell me everything that they want me to know. It’s common for clients to walk me through the events of the loss, often in great detail. This may not be something they have been able to do before and can feel very healing for them.

Unlike the old “time to move on” advice that used to be given (albeit well meant) to grieving people, the idea of Continuing Bonds (Klass, Silvermand and Nickman) suggests that relationships change after death but they don’t end. People don’t want to sever ties with their loved one. In fact, they want to be helped to continue the relationship in a different way that enables them to find meaning in their new, changed future. Similarly, Lois Tonkin’s Growing Around Grief sees grief as a lifelong journey, one which includes the person who has died. There is no saying goodbye to them or leaving them in the past. Whilst the size of my clients’ grief will stay the same, the impact it has on every aspect of their lives will certainly change. By carrying their loved one with them, they can grow around their grief, finding meaning in life despite their loss.

26/01/2025

I recently happened upon a truly fascinating podcast - Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales. At first glance down the titles list, they seem disparate and unconnected and most of them of little relevance to me personally.
However, the thread running through all of these episodes is that the workings of the human brain, time after time lead us to make mistakes that are at best, inconvenient and at worst, catastrophic. Even when we believe ourselves to be more clever, more clear-sighted, less naïve than others, the majority of us will fall into those same thinking traps that have ensnared so many so easily.
One such tale (Do Nothing, Then Do Less) gave me cause to reflect on myself as a therapist and reminded me that more is not always better. Sometimes, taking a step back so the situation can be viewed differently is helpful, because very often, more is not the answer, but different is!
I’ve applied this principle to my work with people who wish to be non-smokers and non-vapers. Recognising that what was required here was something different, I am in the process of completely re-structuring my therapy programme in this area, offering a single session solution to breaking free from these habits. I’m feeling energised and excited by this change and I’m so looking forward to offering this to future clients.
# freedomfromsmoking

21/12/2024

The Winter Solstice is an important time for me. A time I welcome with open arms and an open heart as the wheel revolves and the sun returns. It feels significant and special.
At the same time, I am minded to cherish every moment, to enjoy all the good with which I am blessed and not to wish the dark months away. Whatever I feel, the world will continue to turn and it is for me to make the most of every second.
I wish that for everyone, wherever you are, whomever you are with, whatever you are doing, there are moments of peace, for these are greatest gifts of all.

02/12/2024

I’m not sure I will ever become completely used to the ending of counselling with a client.
It is such a strange mixture of emotions. A huge sense of humility, that someone has chosen to sit with me and share their joy, their pain, their hopes and their fears. That this person has acknowledged and shown me parts of themselves long-hidden, to tell me their stories as we travel side-by-side for a while.
A feeling of joy and even excitement as I see in their eyes that they consider how their world has changed.
A feeling of, not exactly sadness, but something similar as I realise we are saying goodbye, perhaps for always.
All of this, just after a few short months. This is a relationship like no other and I feel so, so privileged to experience it.

29/10/2024

This fantastic piece of art has been shared with me by one of my clients who, having been seeing me weekly for the last four months, now feels ready for a monthly check-in.
She created this in response to one specific session that we had together, which she later described as a “turning point” in her therapeutic journey. The painting is a work in progress, dynamic and ever-changing, as her perspectives on and responses to various situations alter. If you look closely, you can see the word “courage” – a point at which she felt able to make her voice well and truly heard.
The fact that my client picked up her brushes and made a return to painting during the course of her counselling is immensely rewarding for both of us. The fact that she made her therapy the subject of her art, a tangible expression of her experiencing is something really special.

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Ipswich
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I am really looking forward to helping you here at Hadleigh Hypnotherapy. You can expect a warm welcome in restful surroundings, which are quiet and confidential, enabling us to discuss the changes you are seeking to make to your life.

Many of the difficulties that we experience in our lives are as a result of what our brains have learned and absorbed over many years, through childhood, education, experiences and relationships.

Because of the way in which our subconscious mind works, this can lead to symptoms such as fears, phobias, low self-esteem, habitual behaviours like smoking, nail-biting or over- eating, anxiety, stress, tinnitus and sleep problems.

Using hypnotherapy, I can help with all of these and more.