“When small, comes comfort in limits. With gentle exposure, comes growth. And the courage to grow unbound”

(N. Spencer)


When we want to make changes, we can either work to ease the symptom itself, or we can work to find the underlying cause and resolve it that way.

The first approach simply helps you manage or eliminate the symptom which is often very effective, and the second approach explores the causes of the problem so we can find better ways to suit our needs now. Most commonly, a combination of both approaches works best.

How Hypnotherapy Works


There are many theories about how hypnotherapy works, but the truth is that these theories don’t really matter in practise. What does matter is that all our behaviours, habits and beliefs have been learned and in some way serve a purpose for us, either now or at some time in the past.

Your unconscious mind responds very well to clear instructions. But most of us give ourselves mixed messages. We want to behave or feel a certain way and then shout at ourselves when we don’t and so we get stuck in cycles.

When in the relaxed state of hypnosis, we are better able to speak directly to the unconscious mind and this is why hypnotherapy is effective. It helps us to bypass our conscious mind and our ego’s so we can get out of our own way and can teach our unconscious mind new ways. And most importantly, with hypnotherapy, we can have access to all the special resources we might not have even known were there.

So, hypnotherapy works by giving you greater access to your inner filing system, your inner control room, and best of all, your inner treasure chest.


I report a conversation with a colleague who was complaining that he had the same damn stuff in his lunch sack day after day... “So who makes your lunch” I asked. “I do” says he.    (Robert Fulgham)