Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between hypnotherapy and counselling?

As a professional hypnotherapist with over twenty-two experience, I prefer working with Hypnotherapy. I looked at counselling and did some training in it to become BACP or UKCP qualified. some of the ways of helping people are brilliant, and others not as effective as hypnotherapy. Therefore I use hypnosis and some counselling, to get you where you want to be. Hypnotherapy deals with the unconscious mind, that part within you that you don't have access to, to find out what the root cause is, or use parts of your mind, or parts within you, to help you be the person you want to be.

Talk therapy, and counselling, often takes much longer. It can be good; teaching you how to resolve some of the psychological issues that have been going on in your life, however almost all of the clients I see have tried Counselling and have failed to get the desired effect and have remained anxious, overwhelmed or depressed. In my humble opinion you often need to get deeper to make permanent changes and new behaviours

In some cases, I blend therapies together to get you where you want to be as quickly as possible, to make sure that your suffering is as short as possible. When I work with people, whether due to depression, anxiety, changing habits, suicidal thoughts, I change the way they look at the world and their relationship with themselves within four to six weeks. Counselling often takes significantly longer. I have heard of people being in Counselling for years - one client had been working with a counsellor for 7 years when I met them and I had them free of their issues within 2 months - with an agreement that should they wobble they would come straight back.

Counselling works in some situations however my preferred way forward is using a blend of therapies including Hypnotherapy, counselling, EMDR to name a few. 

Is hypnotherapy safe?

Yes - if you are working with an experienced and well-trained Hypnotherapist, it is totally safe. The therapist will make sure that you are suitable for Hypnotherapy and if you are not, they can refer you on to someone who can safely help.

Piers says "I have been hypnotising and helping people for over twenty five years, and in that time, l am yet to have anybody who has come out worse than when they came in. In fact, I have helped thousands of people in one-to-one sessions and in groups and used my style of therapy to get them better, to remove the things that have gone on in their lives that plague them, and are stopping them from being the people they want to be.

Hypnosis or hypnotherapy is not a state of 'eyes closed', we can go through so many different things with our eyes open and be in some form of trance for example watching something really gripping on the television, you will actually re-live or live that moment the performer is going through - you are emotionally connected with the scene. sometimes clients do not close their eyes and get huge benefits without feeling hypnotised.

When you are in a session and you close your eves you start letting the your mind relax and perhaps start doing visualisations or change work. I ask people to close their eves because the experience is deeper and makes change easier I give positive suggestions that sink into the unconscious mind and make changes and that's what makes this way of working so magicall

Is hypnosis safe?

You bet it is. It's fast and pretty well every single person over the last twenty-five years of working with me has absolutely loved it and has received many benefits from using it.

 How can hypnotherapy help me?

Throughout our lives, we have challenges and sometimes we need help to overcome them. I have learned many techniques and disciplines to help people get the desired effect and go on to live amazing lives. The way these techniques are put together is imperative. I have trained others in many aspects of my craft and am often shocked by the lack of depth to their knowledge and skills. over the past 20 plus years, I have rarely come across anything that I do not have the skills to help with.

My professional skills of Hypnotherapy, hypnosis, NLP, and other assorted disciplines get into the unconscious mind, making permanent changes. Whether you are having panic attacks, are depressed, have suicidal thoughts or simply need more confidence, if you would like to stop smoking or if you are overweight, I have the skills to help you.

Your conscious mind is everything that you think, and is about 3% of your mind, and 97% of your mind is your unconscious mind, that's everything that you learn. Rather like an iceberg, most of it is 'under the surface' - this is where I concentrate and deal with the causes of your issues, releasing old pain, old anger and old thoughts.

Once you have learned something you don't have to think about it, it automatically happens. There is no physical conscious or unconscious. If you dissected a brain, you will not find it, but this is the model that we use and it helps people understand more about how changes are made.

When you think about things you want to change, it's very difficult to change something that you've learned, but using hypnosis and hypnotherapy, you can. If you've learnt over your life that "I'm not good enough", "I'm not loveable", "I can't cope" or "I'm not confident", we can actually use hypnosis to change that to make sure that you can learn; "I am loveable", "I am confident", "I do feel good about myself" or "I am going to have fun" and other positive mindsets like that. We can change the way that you operate, by looking into your unconscious mind and changing what happens there. We change the way you think, the way you feel and the way you behave.

Over the years, I have helped sports people improve their sports, changing their mindset using sports hypnosis and NLP, a fantastic specialist area. Not all Hypnotherapists are trained in this, however it is very rewarding once people realise that the blocks they had about being successful can actually be removed.

If you have any questions about how I can help you, drop me a WhatsApp message, hit the contact Piers button. You will receive a form, I personally will call you and we will have a quick talk about it and see if I can help you - no sales or pressure. If I am able to, I will and if I cannot I will recommend the best course of action for you.