It’s a question I hear often – and honestly, I completely understand it.

When you’re juggling family, work, home life, and the thousand invisible tasks that come with being you… putting yourself first can feel like a luxury. Therapy, hypnotherapy, emotional support – these can all seem like “nice-to-haves,” rather than essentials.

But here’s the truth: unresolved trauma, chronic anxiety, and stress don’t just affect how you feel – they affect how you live. And they often come with hidden costs that many of us don’t realise we’re paying.

The Quiet Costs of Carrying On

•  How much time have you lost feeling overwhelmed, burnt out or low?
• How many days have you pushed through, keeping up appearances, running on empty?
•  How often do you find yourself spending money on temporary relief – supplements, skincare, comfort shopping – hoping something will shift?

All of these are signs that something deeper needs tending to. And yet, we keep going – because that’s what we’ve always done.

The Deeper Work

The work I offer goes beyond the surface.
It’s not about fixing you – you are not broken.
It’s about gently unpacking what’s been weighing you down, clearing the emotional clutter, and reconnecting you to a version of yourself that feels lighter, calmer, and more in control.

Hypnotherapy isn’t a magic wand or a one-size-fits-all solution – but it is a powerful reset.
A way to reach the root of what’s been holding you back and finally shift it.

When You Heal, Everything Changes

When you start feeling emotionally safe and grounded, the ripple effect is remarkable:

•  You make clearer decisions
• You begin to set healthier boundaries
• You stop over-functioning, over-giving, and overthinking
• You get time and energy back – for yourself, your family, your dreams

And very often? You start to relate to money differently, too.
With less fear, less guilt, and more clarity around what truly matters.

Because this isn’t just about emotional wellbeing – it’s about your quality of life.

You Deserve to Feel Happy, Healthy, Confident

This isn’t just an expense. It’s an investment – in your wellbeing, your peace of mind, and your future self.

You deserve to feel happy, healthy, confident – not just now, but long-term.

If it’s been a while since you felt like you, let’s have a chat. There’s no pressure, no hard sell – just a space to explore what you need.

•  In-person in Horndon on the Hill, Essex – or online Pricing
• Payment plans available
• Free consultation calls to see if it’s the right fit

 

If you’re struggling with irritable bowel syndrome, you’re not alone.

Many women experience the frustrating cycle of chronic bloating, abdominal cramps, and unpredictable digestion, often worsened by stress and anxiety. What if there was a natural IBS treatment that works with your mind and body?

Hypnotherapy for IBS symptoms is a powerful approach that works by calming the gut-brain connection naturally, reducing stress, and helping your body return to balance. In fact, it’s so effective that the NHS recommends gut-directed hypnotherapy for long-term IBS relief when other methods haven’t worked.

How Hypnotherapy Eases IBS Symptoms

The gut-brain axis and IBS are deeply connected through the nervous system. When stress levels rise, the digestive system often reacts—triggering IBS flare-ups, including bloating, diarrhoea, or constipation. Hypnosis helps by gently guiding your mind into a deeply relaxed state, where it can rewire the way your gut responds to stress.

Through guided visualisation for IBS relief and suggestion, hypnotherapy can:

• Calm the nervous system and reduce gut hypersensitivity
• Ease stomach cramps and digestive discomfort naturally
• Rewire gut-brain communication to prevent stress-related IBS symptoms
• Improve confidence around food choices and reduce IBS food anxiety

Why the NHS Supports Hypnotherapy for IBS

Research has shown that hypnotherapy for IBS sufferers can be just as effective—if not more—than conventional IBS treatments. Clinical trials have found that up to 70% of people using hypnotherapy for IBS management experience long-term symptom relief.

Because of these results, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for IBS treatment recommend hypnotherapy for functional gut disorders, particularly when dietary changes and medication haven’t been enough. It’s a natural IBS relief therapy that treats not just the body but the emotional toll of IBS too.

What to Expect from Hypnotherapy for IBS

Many people worry that hypnotherapy for gut health will involve ‘losing control’ or being ‘put under’—but in reality, it’s simply a deeply relaxed state where your mind is more open to positive change. During a session, you’ll be guided through relaxation techniques for IBS relief and gut-directed imagery to soothe digestive discomfort.

Over time, these changes can help you:

• Feel calmer and more in control of your digestive health
• Reduce IBS symptoms naturally, even in stressful situations
• Enjoy food without fear of triggering IBS flare-ups

Is Hypnotherapy Right for You?

If you’ve tried medications, elimination diets, or lifestyle changes with little success, hypnotherapy for IBS pain and discomfort could be the missing piece in your IBS management. It’s a gentle, empowering approach to improving gut health, putting you back in control of your body—and your life.

You deserve to feel at ease in your own skin. If IBS symptoms are affecting your quality of life, hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome might just be the breakthrough you’ve been looking for.

Would you like to explore how gut-directed hypnotherapy can help your IBS symptoms? Get in touch today for a friendly, no-pressure chat. Pricing

Contrary to popular belief positive thinking can be detrimental to achieving our goals!

During the 90’s it was discovered that a group of lady dieters who had a positive attitude to losing weight did worse than others who were more pessimistic! This was at a time when positive thinking was thought to be the way to achieve anything our hearts desired! And we still say to friends and children think positively, believe in your goals and you can do anything!!

Studies were done over the next 20 years on the effects of positive thinking and reaching our goals. Findings were dismissed at first but, over time more and more evidence showed that positive thinking alone just doesn’t work, and this is because our brain doesn’t know the difference between imagination and reality.

Think of a time when something bad happened to you or someone you love; you can recall that feeling vividly?  The same is true when we think about special times in our lives, maybe the birth of a child or falling in love. Take a minute to enjoy that happy memory.

Now I am not saying that positive thinking is a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination Positive thinking is helpful to increase low mood, but, it can also trick our brain into thinking it achieved something already. So the evidence shows we are less motivated to carry out our goals.  The brain likes to automate everything we do, think, or feel. For example, when we learned to ride a bike or drive a car, at first, we thought we would never learn and how hard it was, but now you don’t give it a second thought. Imagine just how exhausted we would be if we had to think about every move we made. The same thing happens with our habits, over time they become unconscious actions that we do without thinking!

Anything new takes practice! And quite frankly sometimes our brain doesn’t like change! We have thousands and thousands of neurons that fire and wire together, they form our memories and behaviors. You’ve been traveling down the same old road, the same road that you’ve traveled down every day. But, one day you hit a roadblock, what do you do? You can’t go over it and you can’t go around it so you have to find a new route.  And that is what hypnotherapy does it finds you a new map to follow.

This is where I come in as a Clinical and Medical Hypnotherapist I’m always being asked (mainly women) if I can hypnotise them to lose weight, stop eating chocolate, crisps whatever their downfall might be!

I know through my training quite a bit about how the brain works concerning our thoughts, believes, and habits. But knowing that didn’t help me to kick my bad habits, there is a thing called the GI Joe fallacy: The idea that knowing is half the battle.

The type of hypnotherapy I do is well researched and evidence-based, I help people to imagine their preferred future using solution-focused questions and guided imagery. So, I’m combining this research and my Solution Focused Hypnotherapy training to help you to achieve your goals.

I have walked my talk.  At first, I used my approach to get my own snacking under control, I lost 1/2 stone in three weeks, that how much snacking I did!!

I then used my approach to get over my lazy thoughts towards exercising at the weekend. I get up on a weekday and do 30 minutes yoga each morning apart from Friday and the weekends which I consider my days off, but why? That’s the time, I have more time! I know how much yoga benefits me, my flexibility, and mental well-being, but still, my brain went ‘THE COMPUTER SAYS NO!  The next Friday was V.E day, I got up feeling motivated and did yoga. I mention it was V.E day for a reason, I am not going to lie I did have a few drinks that day, but Saturday I still wanted to get up and do yoga!! And I did, and yes, I have been surprised.

Weight is affected by many factors, stress, and sleep issues among them, hypnotherapy lowers the stress hormone cortisol so it helps you to relax and unwind, your sleep patterns improve, which in turn helps with weight management and mental well-being.

 

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Fed up with making New Year resolution?

Just to feel deflated a week later. So many times, we start off with all good intentions, motivated, goals set, but our will power wanes at the first offer of cake or drinks for someone’s birthday. One won’t hurt? Then the guilt!  You might not be surprised that our brain is hard wired to pleasure seek and if we are feeling down on ourselves our brain will look elsewhere for comfort. Food and drink release the feel-good neurotransmitter’s endorphin, so for a short while we feel happy and content. But not for long, soon the brain starts looking around for something else to make us feel happier and that’s when we can start spiraling out of control with our eating habits.

Hypnotherapy can help break this cycle by helping you take back control.

We focus on what you want and how you can achieve your goals through relaxation and visualization this coupled with an understanding of how the brain works in relation to stress and food consumption will put you back on the road to success. When we take action, we take control, this releases the neurotransmitter Serotonin, and the more Serotonin we make the happier our brain is. Other ways of making this wonderful neurotransmitters is by doing the things we enjoy in life, like meeting up with friends and laughing, taking part in enjoyable activities or hobbies. When we are doing a combination of these things, we start to think more positively about ourselves and our life.