Posted on October 06, 2011
I have conducted hundreds of these sessions now to over 200 clients since qualifying with Professor Keith Hearne at the European College of Hypnotherapy. No therapy is guaranteed and clients need to be motivated, but efficacy is good with about 90% of my clients achieving success with the techniques I use. I find about 50% of clients succeed in the first two sessions to lose weight, with perhaps 2 or 3 out of every 50 or so finding no benefit. About 50% of clients go on to have a further...
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Posted on July 11, 2011
10th July 2011
Interesting clients in the last two weeks. One had a fear of birds, a phobia about lifts, three clients for gastric band hypnotherapy, two people with alcohol related problems, and a couple of people with complex childhood and relationship problems. One person reached a sort of crisis point with a worrying family situation. He described his emotional pain as being so bad, and yet good in that it caused a 'trigger', a sudden memory of a forgotten childhood event...
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Posted on May 13, 2011
The good news is that stress is normal!
The human race would not have survived without it.
We have a fear hormone released in the part of the brain called the amygdala which releases a hormone to create all the things we need to do to run away or fight.
Stress is defined as an imbalance between the demands perceived to be placed on someone and the resources perceived to be less than required to deal with the demands.
Why the stress reaction occures is automati...
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Posted on May 10, 2011
Just finished my ptlls course (teaching) which adds on to my previous coaching and training courses. I covered the area I am passionate about and that is the subject of stress. I have developed a course consisting of 6 modules incorporating tried and tested teachings, and guidance from the H.S.E (Health and Safety Executive) and from Acas. Do you know that Work Related Stress costs the UK over £ 4 bn a year now? Up to 17% of staff are very stressed at any one time (Working Mans Survey o...
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Posted on November 29, 2010
This is an area I am particularly interested in, whether helping employers or employees. I have developed a training course targetted to the needs of both groups, as well as an independent support package for managers and staff. For your interest this is a response I recently posted on the H.S.E forum on work related stress, and response I received:-
RE: RE: Stress Risk Assessments
Sue Smith Clinical Hypnotherapist 22 Nov 2010 23:43 Message 23 of 25
An interesting response fro...
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