Cognitive Hypnotherapy

We all get locked into behaviours, habits and beliefs, which we realise, are reducing the quality of our lives but still carry on doing them. This is because the unconscious is in control of these responses but keeps the thought pattern that generates them hidden from our conscious awareness. These patterns can be out of date and inappropriate in our present life.

Cognitive hypnotherapy utilises techniques to modify these patterns so the client can take control of his behaviour. It uses the client's natural trance states to assist in uncovering the thoughts and memories that led to an issue, and which are continuing to maintain it.

When relaxed in a trance state, your conscious mind is also relaxed, so allowing the hypnotherapist to communicate with your unconscious mind.


The trance state is a natural phenomenon which occurs numerous times throughout each person's day, such as when day-dreaming or when driving a car and suddenly realising you had not been aware of the journey for the previous while. Hypnosis is not the same as sleep and has different effects on the mind and body.

The Cognitive Hypnotherapist provides skilled guidance to enable the clients to uncover their own solutions. The hypnotic state allows the unconscious the ability to accept these solutions as permanent and ongoing. It is most effective if the therapist works within the client's "map of the world", rather than imposing their own on to the client. Each person and each issue is unique. It is the therapist's role to guide the client, not to control or dictate.

The majority of clients will be seeking help with negative feelings, emotions which are causing pain in some way, or other limitations which are adversely affecting their lives. Usually these clients have already tried many other ways to "sort themselves out", but most of these methods will be via the conscious mind, using logic.

Hypnotherapists utilise hypnosis so they can interact with the unconscious, solving the problems that the conscious brain alone cannot.

For further information click: FAQ-Hypnotherapy

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