Hypnotherapy for sleep and insomnia in Lewisham

Insomnia is most often caused by stress and worry. Irregular routines, screens late at night, caffeine and alcohol can also play a part.

You can find the fees for sleep hypnotherapy on my pricing page. Most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep a night. How rested you feel when you wake is a good guide.

Sleep hypnosis means using hypnosis, a relaxed and focused state, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. In my sessions it is combined with Curative™ hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT and solution-focused techniques, plus the personalised recording.

Yes, hypnotherapy helps you relax your body and calm your mind at bedtime, so you fall asleep more quickly.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help you stay asleep. As your stress levels come down, your sleep usually becomes deeper and more settled through the night.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with waking too early. Waking very early and lying awake is often linked to stress. Hypnotherapy helps you sleep through to your alarm.

Yes, hypnotherapy helps you put the day down and switch off, so your mind is calm when you go to bed.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help if you worry about not sleeping. Worrying about sleep is one of the main things that keeps insomnia going. Hypnotherapy helps you feel relaxed about bedtime, which makes sleep come more easily.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with nightmares. Hypnotherapy lowers the stress that often sits behind bad dreams, and helps you feel calm going to sleep.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with sleep after having a baby. Many parents find their sleep stays broken long after their children sleep through. Hypnotherapy helps you fall asleep and stay asleep again.

Yes, hypnotherapy helps you relax and fall asleep at different times of day, which makes shift work easier to manage.

Yes, hypnotherapy can help with teeth grinding. Teeth grinding at night (bruxism) is often linked to stress, and hypnotherapy helps you relax your jaw and your body as you sleep.

Keep the lights low, stay off your phone and listen to the personalised recording. Many clients drift back to sleep before it ends.

Yes, you can listen to the personalised recording every night. Listening every night as you go to sleep works best, and it soon becomes a relaxing part of your bedtime routine.

Falling asleep during the personalised recording is fine. Many clients fall asleep before the end, and your subconscious mind still hears it.

Yes, a bedtime routine helps with sleep. Going to bed and getting up at the same times, winding down without screens and listening to the personalised recording all help your body learn when it is time to sleep.

I'm an award-winning Senior Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 20 years' experience, a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, five hypnotherapy qualifications and CNHC registration. My personalised recordings are made to be listened to at bedtime.

The number of sleep 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 sleep 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 sleep 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 your sleep and what you want to change. You listen to it as you go to sleep each night 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 sleep 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.