Hypnotherapy for anxiety in Lewisham

The most common signs are constant worry, overthinking, trouble sleeping, irritability, a racing heart, a tight chest, shallow breathing, stomach problems and muscle tension. Many people also find it hard to concentrate or relax.

Stress is a response to a pressure you can name, such as a deadline, and it usually eases when the pressure goes. Anxiety tends to carry on after the pressure has passed, or appears without a clear cause. Hypnotherapy helps with both by lowering your overall stress levels.

Anxiety hypnosis means using hypnosis, a relaxed and focused state, to help you feel calmer and respond differently to the things that make you anxious. In my sessions it is combined with Curative™ hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT and solution-focused techniques, plus the personalised recording.

An anxiety hypnotherapist uses hypnosis and related techniques to help you lower your anxiety and feel more in control. I listen to what you want to change, guide you into hypnosis and make the personalised recording for you to use between sessions.

Yes, hypnotherapy can calm the nervous system. Hypnosis brings on deep physical relaxation, which slows your breathing and heart rate and helps your nervous system settle. Listening to the personalised recording regularly helps your body get used to feeling calm.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with anxiety at night. Many people find their worries get louder at bedtime or in the early hours. Hypnotherapy lowers the stress that builds up during the day, and the personalised recording helps you relax as you go to sleep. You can read more about hypnotherapy for sleep.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with morning anxiety. Waking up with a sense of dread or a racing heart is common when stress levels are high. As hypnotherapy brings your overall stress down, mornings usually start to feel calmer.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with catastrophising. Catastrophising means jumping to the worst possible outcome. Hypnotherapy helps you think clearly and realistically, and mental rehearsal helps you picture things going well.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with shaking, blushing and sweating. These are physical signs of anxiety, and they tend to ease as you feel calmer in the situations that bring them on. I use mental rehearsal so you practise feeling relaxed in those moments.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with anxiety after a big life change. A new job, a move, a break-up, becoming a parent or children leaving home can all bring on anxiety. Hypnotherapy helps you feel steady and confident as you adjust.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with relationship anxiety. Relationship anxiety can mean constantly needing reassurance, worrying that a partner will leave, or reading too much into messages. Hypnotherapy helps you feel secure in yourself.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with anxiety about leaving the house. Anxiety about going out can develop into agoraphobia. I help you feel calm about going out, step by step. You can read more on the fears and phobias page.

Yes, hypnotherapy helps you feel calm before and during dental appointments, using relaxation and mental rehearsal of a calm visit.

Hypnotherapy helps you feel more like yourself. Clients often say they feel calmer, clearer and more confident, while staying the same person.

Hypnosis for anxiety is similar to meditation, with one key difference: in hypnotherapy a qualified hypnotherapist uses the relaxed state to help you make specific changes. Both involve relaxation and focus, but in hypnotherapy a qualified hypnotherapist uses that state to help you make specific changes towards goals you set.

Breathe out slowly, for longer than you breathe in, as this helps your body relax. Clients also use the techniques I teach in sessions and listen to the personalised recording.

I'm an award-winning Senior Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 20 years' experience, a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, five hypnotherapy qualifications and CNHC registration. I have helped professionals, executives and high-profile clients with anxiety, and I offer a discreet, personal service.

The number of anxiety hypnotherapy sessions you need depends on you and what you want to achieve. I talk this through with you in your first session, and many clients notice a difference after the first one.

You can find the fees for anxiety hypnotherapy on my pricing page.

Yes, you are in control the whole time you are in hypnosis. Hypnosis feels like being deeply relaxed and absorbed, like being lost in a good book. You can hear everything and open your eyes whenever you want.

Most people say hypnosis feels like deep relaxation. Your body feels heavy and comfortable, your mind is calm and focused, and time often seems to pass quickly.

You need a laptop, tablet or phone with Zoom, a pair of headphones and a quiet room where you will be undisturbed. A comfortable chair, or a bed to lie on, is ideal.

Yes, online anxiety hypnotherapy with me is secure. Sessions take place on Zoom, which is encrypted, and the practice is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ZB654528), so your information is handled securely and confidentially.

The personalised recording is a hypnosis audio that I make for you, based on what you want to achieve. You listen to it between sessions, ideally every day, to reinforce the work you do together.

You only share what you are comfortable sharing. Some techniques, such as Curative™ hypnotherapy, explore where a problem started, and much of that work happens in hypnosis. I always work at a pace that feels comfortable for you.

Yes, you can have anxiety hypnotherapy wherever you live. Because sessions are online, I work with clients across London and the rest of the UK, as well as in Lewisham and South East London.

Appointments run Monday to Wednesday. A 24-hour cancellation policy applies.

Yes, I am a registered hypnotherapist. I am registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC10269) and the General Hypnotherapy Register (3034), I hold the Senior Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (SQHP), I follow the GHSC code of ethics and I'm insured with Balens.

Yes, most people remember their hypnotherapy session. Some parts may feel dreamy, in the same way you remember a daydream, which is a normal part of relaxing deeply.

Yes, hypnotherapy is safe. Hypnosis is a natural state of focused relaxation that people go into every day, for example when absorbed in a film. I'm a qualified, registered and insured Senior Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 20 years' experience.