Tim Maude Hypnotherapy

Category: Hypnotherapy

  • Do You Avoid Medical Visits Because Of Anxiety?

    Do You Avoid Medical Visits Because Of Anxiety?

    I had to go to hospital today for a routine appointment. As I was waiting, I remembered all the clients I have helped who get anxious about medical visits – doctors’ appointments, hospital visits, medical procedures, vaccinations … and so on.

    It is surprisingly common for people to feel anxious about visiting their doctor or going to hospital. Some people feel anxious, but go anyway. Others feel the anxiety build up so much that they miss the appointment. And there are yet others who avoid going to any medical visits because it makes them so anxious.

    Being anxious about medical procedures is often combined with an anxiety about health. If you are anxious about your state of health, then you may avoid going to see the doctor or have a medical procedure because you don’t want to know the result. Of course, this makes it more likely that you will have a medical problem that goes untreated.

    Hypnotherapy for Medical Anxiety

    Hypnotherapy can have a remarkably positive impact on medical anxiety. By calming down the subconscious part of the brain that causes the anxiety, it is possible to see the doctor and have those medical procedures, to help your body heal and get back into a more normal state.

    Medical anxiety happens because the subconscious wants to protect you from the unpleasantness of thinking about your own illness, or the invasive nature of some medical procedures. It is not pleasant to think about your own body failing, and your subconscious tries to protect you from that unpleasantness by making you anxious enough to avoid the medical visit. This is not a logical or sensible but, unfortunately, this is how our brains work.

    Hypnotherapy gets round the subconscious rejection of medical visits by tackling the fight-flight-freeze part of the brain directly, calming it down and gradually helping it understand that it is okay to go and see your doctor.

    The result is that, after a few hypnotherapy sessions, people will be able to face the medical visits with much reduced anxiety, and so be able to look after their own bodies.

    And Finally …

    If you recognise this anxiety in yourself, or your friends and family, you are welcome to Contact Me to talk about the possibilities of what hypnotherapy might do. I work from my clinic in Fleet, Hampshire and can also work Online – whichever works for you.

    It all starts with contacting me for a no-obligation chat.

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  • “People don’t understand my anxiety”

    “People don’t understand my anxiety”

    People don’t understand what it’s like to have anxiety. They don’t understand what it’s like to wake up up in the morning with that overwhelming impending sense of doom. They don’t understand what it’s like to go through life in a constant state of worry – about anything and everything. If they haven’t experienced it, they don’t understand what anxiety sufferers go through.

    Now … If you can relate to this … If you find people don’t understand you and what you’re going through … If you want help in getting back to life a normal life again …Then you might like to try hypnotherapy.


    If you want to find out more about hypnotherapy. … check out my website and contact me.

    I specialise in helping people with anxiety and depression. I use hypnotherapy to help them regain their normal life. I work from my clinic in Fleet in Hampshire as well as Online. So if you want help dealing with your anxiety you can Contact Me for a free 15 minute phone consultation and ask any questions you might have.

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  • Hypnotherapy is Just Rewiring The Brain

  • Get Your Anxiety Under Control Without Drugs

    Get Your Anxiety Under Control Without Drugs

    Do you live under an everyday cloud of anxiety, but don’t want to use drugs to help you cope with it? Believe me, you are not the only one. A lot of my clients come to my hypnotherapy clinic telling me that their doctor has suggested that they start taking medication to calm their anxiety. They don’t want to take medication and so are looking for an alternative.

    Don’t get me wrong. I am not anti-medication. For some people medication is a good solution to anxiety. However, there are many people who don’t want to get into the habit of taking anti-anxiety medication, or they have tried it and it doesn’t do much for them.

    Anti-anxiety medication is designed to rebalance the chemicals in the brain, so that the area that creates the anxiety calms down a bit. This is also possible using hypnotherapy.

    Hypnotherapy For Anxiety

    Hypnotherapy is not like you see in the movies or on the stage. I cannot snap my fingers and make you change. What I can do is to help your brain create the right conditions to make changes. Very few people find themselves empty of anxiety after one or two sessions. It takes a bit of time. Typically, I see people for between five and ten sessions (although I cannot provide any guarantees).

    Once the anxiety has gone, or at least massively reduced, I have a conversation with my client. I ask, “Are you ready to do this on your own now?” and we come to an agreement as to when to finish.

    Many of my clients ask me, “Would it be okay if I come back if it gets bad again?” Of course, I always say, “Yes”, but hardly anyone ever does.

    And Finally …

    If you want to tackle your anxiety issues without resorting to medication, then you may like to consider hypnotherapy. You can Contact Me if you would like a free phone consultation to help you decide. I work out of my clinic in Fleet, Hampshire and also online.

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  • Hypnotherapy in the New Year

    Hypnotherapy in the New Year

    I am excited to be back seeing my clients again after a couple of weeks break. This morning, however, the temperature was minus 5 and there was a light covering of snow, making the paths quite slippy. I went out to get the heating in the clinic on, and brushed a path through the slippy snow.

    An hour later and the clinic was still not up to a temperature that I would call “comfortable”. Fortunately, my first client was on Zoom, rather than seeing me in person. By the end of the session, my clinic was feeling toasty, ready for my first face-to-face client.

    I love my job. I love seeing clients move from a state of not knowing how to cope with their anxiety, to a state where that anxiety disappears into the background. It is a pleasure to witness the changes little by little, until they reach the point where my clients no longer need me.

    If you (or any of your family) are struggling with anxiety in any one of its many forms, I would be pleased to hear from you. Just Contact Me and I will be glad to have a short phone consultation so that you can decide whether you want to give hypnotherapy a chance to prove itself.

  • Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Provides a 90% Improvement Rate

    Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Provides a 90% Improvement Rate

    Preliminary findings in a research project examining the effectiveness of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy has shown a 90% improvement rate in clients’ main concerns.

    There is only one hypnotherapeutic treatment currently approved by NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK) – that is gut-directed hypnotherapy for IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). This does not mean that hypnotherapy is not extraordinarily effective for other issues, it is just that gut-directed hypnotherapy is the only type of hypnotherapy that has undergone large-scale scientific trials.

    But now there is a new kid on the block in terms of scientific hypnotherapy trials – Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.

    The scientific trial has, so far, recorded the improvements reported by 192 people attending solution focused hypnotherapy sessions. Each participant in the trial was asked to scale their main concerns that they wished to address prior to the sessions starting, then again after 4 weeks and 8 weeks. Finally, they were followed up after a month after completing the sequence of hypnotherapy sessions. Results show a 90% improvement rate in clients’ main concerns.

    What Is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy?

    Solution Focused Hypnotherapy focuses on the future. Unlike some traditional hypnotherapy, it does not attempt to dig up the past and find the cause of the problem. It is not concerned with where the problem came from, only where the client is going to.

    Using a modern psychological approach, Solution Focused Hypnotherapy asks the client to imagine a future where their problem is gone, or at least reduced. When a hypnotic trance is brought into play, the subconscious mind can then rewire so that it better behaves as the client wants to behave.

    The Future of Hypnotherapy

    The trial reported above is the beginning of an on-going experiment to demonstrate and prove the efficacy of solution focused hypnotherapy, using accepted scientific research practices. The results have not yet been formally published. However, there is a plan to ensure that a paper is written, reviewed by independent experts and published in an appropriate scientific journal with these preliminary results.

    For advocates of solution focused hypnotherapy, like myself, this is exciting news. It is the first step in getting hypnotherapy to be more widely recognised as a highly effective means of addressing many mental health issues. I will be writing further blogs on this subject once the results have been formally published.

    And Finally …

    If you would like to experience the effectiveness of solution focused hypnotherapy for yourself, please Contact Me and I will be pleased to talk to you. I work out of my clinic here in Fleet, Hampshire, as well as working online.

    References

    NICE Recommendations on Hypnotherapy for IBS

    https://www.nice.org.uk/researchrecommendation/psychological-interventions-are-the-psychological-interventions-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt-hypnotherapy-and-psychological-therapy-all-equally-effective-in-the-management-of-irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs-symptoms-either-as-first-line-therapies-in-pri

    Solution Focused Hypnotherapy

    https://www.afsfh.com/solution-focused-hypnotherapy/#sfh
    https://www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk/approach/solution-focused-hypnotherapy.html#whatissolutionfocusedhypnotherapy

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