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Hypnotherapy for Anxiety, IBS & Performance in St Albans and Online

I offer hypnotherapy tailored to specific challenges including work anxiety, IBS, and sports performance under pressure. Whether you're dealing with constant overthinking, physical symptoms linked to stress, or struggling to perform at your best, each approach is designed to create calm, clarity and long-term change. Sessions are available in person at locations around St Albans and online.

Hypnotherapy for Career stress & anxiety

If you are constantly replaying conversations, rehearsing conflict, waking up thinking about work, or struggling to work out what comes next, this is a practical way to regain clarity, calm, and control.

Hypnotherapy for Golf & Sports Performance

For competitive sports people who want to work on the mental aspect of their game, I help improve focus, composure, confidence, and performance under pressure by working on the mental patterns that interfere when it matters most.

Hypnotherapy for IBS & health anxiety

For people whose mind and body have become stuck in a loop of symptoms, worry, and hypervigilance, I help reduce anxiety, settle the stress response, and break the cycle that keeps IBS and health fears going.

Hypnotherapy for other anxieties, unwanted habits and phobias

Anxieties, unwanted habits, and phobias, I help clients understand and change the patterns driving fear, avoidance, and automatic behaviour so they can respond with more calm, control, and freedom.

Hypnotherapy for New Parents

Dealing with the changes to you and your life after becoming a new parent.

Hypnosis can be misunderstood

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy CBH, is a modern and scientifically based form of hypnosis. CBT is the most recommended form of therapy by the NHS, combined with hypnosis it is a powerful technique to make changes in your attitudes and behaviours. It is evidence based and is designed with making positive changes in the future.

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What is CBHypnosis?

CBH is a practical combination of CBT and hypnosis. CBT helps you understand and challenge the thinking patterns that are driving the problem. Hypnosis helps you actually change how those patterns feel and respond in real time. It’s not about analysing the past or “being put under.” It’s a structured, forward-focused way of changing how your mind operates day to day

Is CBHypnosis right for me?

If you’re aware something isn’t working, but thinking harder hasn’t fixed it, then yes, it’s likely a good fit. It works best for people who are used to being in control, but can see that some of their thinking patterns have become automatic and unhelpful. You don’t need to believe in it yet, just be open to approaching the problem differently.

How is this different to talking therapy?

Talking can help you understand the problem. This is about changing it. Whilst there will be elements of talking therapy to understand the issue, the focus is less on analysing the past and more on how your mind is working now. Then how to shift it so things actually feel different day to day.

What kind of things can this help with and how quickly?

Anything driven by habitual thinking patterns, such as anxities, stress, overthinking, internal pressure, sleep issues, confidence, performance, or feeling stuck in a way of operating that isn’t working anymore. Our brains are prediction machines, currently it is predicting negativity, through relaxation, focus and visualisation we can change what happens next.
You should start to notice shifts early on, often within the first couple of sessions. This isn’t open-ended. We’re working towards specific changes, not just having ongoing conversations. Changes can be subtle but powerful.

What does hypnosis feel like?

It is not like stage hypnosis or what you have seen on the TV or in films. You remain in control, aware and conscious at all times. If you are open to the concept of deep relaxation and focused attention then hypnosis can work for you. Hypnosis at it's best feels deeply relaxing, similar to the state we are in just before falling asleep, still awake but in a dream like state.

I've tried things like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork and other self help, how is this different?

These approaches are powerful in their own right and are helpful in moments. This goes a level deeper by bringing those ideas together into something structured, so you’re not just managing symptoms, you’re changing the pattern underneath.