Cognitive Hypnotherapy - is a collaborative participatory process that utilises conversational trance work and requires your active participation. We are collaborators in your healing/ recovery/ growth process. This is not about being under my ‘hypnotic spell’. In therapeutic hypnosis, we work with states of focused relaxation, where the body is relaxed -or if it can’t relax we go and explore that- and the mind is open. Cognitive Hypnotherapy considers various ‘trance phenomena’ to be a part of every day life, including those times when you are experiencing or performing your ‘problem state’ (eg: a trance of unworthiness). So in this sense, part of our work together is to de-hypnotise the thoughts & habits that keep you stuck. Although you may experience some deep trance like states during our sessions, your ‘ability to be hypnotised’ or the depth of your trance do not dictate your ability to instigate and achieve profound and lasting transformation.

Attachement Lens - Working from an attachment lens perspective means working with an awareness and sensitivity for attachment wounding, and how this influences our attachment styles, Nervous Systems responses and ability to self and co-regulate and receive nourishment from our environment.

Past, present, future - We utilise different time fames as we explore re-framing past, present and future. We address problem states in relation to all three time frames, optimising possibilities for your transformation, growth and healing.

‘Cognitive Hypnotherapy as a whole works to ‘de-prime’ connections between past and present stimuli that lead to negative outcome and a state of protection, and to prime new connections that lead to a more positive interpretation of the world - a state of growth’. Trevor Silvester

a somatic/polyvagal approach - Working from a somatic perspective means slowing things down enough to be able to pay attention to and to expand our capacity to work from our bodies, to how we respond to cues of safety or unsafety, ultimately working towards greater nervous system regulation. This doesn’t mean feeling calm and ‘regulated’ all of the time, but getting more skilled at riding waves of emotion and activation.

Your model of the world - Rather than focusing on labels or diagnosis, we work with your ‘model of the world’ and the ways in which you experience or ‘do’ your problem/ habit/ behaviour. No two people - even if presenting with the same ‘issue’ - will be worked with in an identical way or using an identical script or induction.

PSYCH-K® - combines kinesiology muscle-testing with a ‘Whole Brain State’ balancing, a state that unites activity in the two hemispheres of the brain to affect change on a deep, subconscious level. It was developed by Rob Williams and influenced by Bruce Lipton’s Biology of Belief. It helps with identifying & shifting unconscious limiting beliefs that get in our way -often in really sneaky ways-and keep us stuck in repetitive loops and behaviours. We may use it to support our work when it feels right to do so and desired on your part.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR for short - more on this soon

Systemic Trauma - I am committed to continued work on deepening my understanding and awareness of the systems of oppression that shape our world, and that for many, the pain, trauma and difficulties we experience are not down ‘negative mental habits’ or ‘mindset’, but rather as a result of systemic oppression and of the patriarchal, racist, capitalist structures we live under, impacting all aspects of our lives. In Krishnamurti’s words: ‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.’ As we work together in shifting and transforming stuckness, I do so with the understanding that rage and despair are often warranted, healthy reactions that need space to be expressed, witnessed, and felt into.