Therapeutic Services
Learn strategies to break unhelpful cycles and move forward with greater confidence and calm.
Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy. A practical, evidence-based support shaped by compassion and experience
Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy offers practical, evidence-based support for anxiety, stress and symptoms shaped by fear, expectation or habit. Treatment is usually short term - for many people just 6-10 one-hour sessions can be enough to make meaningful change.
When you are struggling with stress-related conditions, or facing a serious diagnosis, life is turned on its head. Pain, treatment, uncertainty and fatigue may affect confidence and trust in the body and bring grief for the life left behind. Finding a way forward is less about pretending everything is fine and more about receiving the right support to rebuild trust in yourself.
In one-to-one sessions I work confidentially with each client to understand their experience and develop practical techniques to support management of your symptoms.
Cognitive-Behavioural approaches help us understand how our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours interact — and how these patterns can sometimes keep us stuck.
By combining CBT techniques with hypnotherapy, we can break unhelpful cycles and build more positive, supportive ways of thinking and responding, promoting greater resilience and wellbeing.
Learning to observe sensations, thoughts and breath with curiosity rather than judgement begins the journey towards a new sense of steadiness and control. Once we start to notice the beliefs, predictions and habits that shape emotional and physical responses, we can settle the nervous system and find new ways to respond to challenges.
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
TREATMENT LENGTH AND COSTS
Treatment length varies, but most people need between 6 - 10 weekly sessions, though many choose to continue with a monthly ‘check-in’ following treatment. Weekly sessions are 50 minutes, though the initial assessment session may be longer.
In therapy we work together to explore which of the many techniques available are most helpful for you so that you leave with a number of tools to help you manage your particular symptoms.
As at January 2027 costs are as follows: Online via Zoom: Block of 6 sessions £400 (follow on session £65 ea) In person at The Self Centre, Bury St Edmunds £520 (follow on session £85 ea)
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Socrates
How does it work?
The brain is often described as a prediction machine, drawing on past experience, beliefs and expectations to anticipate what may happen next. This can keep pain, nausea, anxiety and fear caught in powerful loops. Through Cognitive-Behavioural approaches, meditation and hypnotherapy we can begin to notice these patterns and gently reshape them, supporting greater steadiness and ease over time.
CBT is well researched and widely used in healthcare, especially for symptoms influenced by stress, fear and expectation. Hypnotherapy adds focused relaxation, imagery and suggestion, helping the mind and body practise different responses safely. Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy cannot cure chronic conditions or replace medical care, but it can sit alongside appropriate treatment as a practical, evidence-informed way to support wellbeing, confidence and quality of life.
