I offer a free, no-obligation consultation on the telephone, giving you the chance to talk with me and find out more about how I can help you.
For appointments or more information about the therapies I offer, please call me on
01794 884038.
Alternatively you can contact me by e-mail at admin@inspiringchanges.co.uk
Sessions - what's involved
Not all sessions will involve hypnotherapy. Some will consist of psychotherapy and counselling, others will incorporate a combination of therapies.
The length of each session varies but will normally last between 1 and 1 ½ hours.
Free Initial Consultation
If you choose to take up the offer of a free initial consultation, please contact me by email or phone to arrange this. If I am available when you call, it may be possible to talk things through there and then, however if there is insufficient time available, we can arrange a mutually agreeable time to discuss things further.
No actual therapy will be undertaken during the initial consultation. It is provided as an opportunity for you to talk to me, to find out more about the therapies I offer, how and why they work, how I can help you and for you to ask any questions you may have.
First Therapy Session
You may well have already decided you want to go ahead with therapy and want to start as soon as possible. If this is the case, we can book in a first appointment. This session will cover the same content as that covered within the free consultation, together with some therapeutic intervention. As such, this appointment tends to be longer than subsequent ones.
I will initially take some details from you and find out what you'd like me to help you with. We can then talk about how I can help you and what you would like to achieve through these sessions. We can then, when you're ready, proceed with therapy.
There are several different branches to hypnotherapy. At Inspiring Changes, I predominantly use Ericksonian hypnotherapy, which uses a more informal, conversational approach to induce a trance or relaxed state. There are no swinging watches or staring into eyes which can sometimes be associated with hypnotherapy! I simply talk to you until your unconscious feels comfortable about entering a deeply relaxed trance state. Therapeutic suggestions and techniques are then used to change the patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings, that you no longer wish to have.
Subsequent Therapy Sessions
Depending on the issues you wish to resolve, a client can expect to need between three and six sessions. However, sometimes just one session is sufficient for effective, permanent change. Similarly, there will be some who require further help and sessions can therefore go on for longer, although normally no more than ten are required.
In subsequent sessions we will build on the progress made in previous ones. We will discuss what changes have occurred and how your thoughts, feelings and behaviour has changed in-between appointments. Sometimes new issues may come to light and we can work through those as well to ensure that all issues have been resolved, until no further therapy is required.
You are under no obligation to continue therapy and may of course,
terminate treatment at any time.