About me
Multiple award-winning Alan Gilchrist has been in practice at his Belfast Hypnotherapy Centre for over 40 years. He is the longest practising and most experienced Hypnotherapist in Belfast and throughout Northern Ireland.
Alan is also the creator of the Ultimate “Fast Track Hypnosis System” which is also featured in a book. Subsequently, it has also been successfully put to the test by the media on numerous occasions. His “Fast Track Hypnosis System” is used to overcome an extensive range of problems. In particular, the Stop Smoking Hypnosis – Weight Control Hypnosis and now the Fast Track Gastroband system ( Hypnotic Gastric Band).
During his career, Alan has helped more than 95,000 clients including Film Stars, TV and Radio Personalities, World Champions and members of the medical profession, at his Hypnotherapy Centre in Belfast and his one-day clinics across Northern Ireland and continues to do so.
Training, qualifications & experience
I commenced practice over 40 years ago in Belfast at my Hypnotherapy Centre; however, I never dreamed I would also have clinics in Spain, on the Costa Blanca, and throughout Europe as well.
People will often ask me why my style of hypnosis/hypnotherapy is different from the conventional way. It all stems back to my early years as a Hypnotherapist in Belfast in the early ’80s. Back then, hypnotherapy was a new alternative treatment, and many people viewed it with scepticism. Having trained as a conventional hypnotherapist, I then opened a small office in Belfast.
One of the Sunday newspapers did a feature on me about hypnotherapy in Belfast. Consequently, word started to get around that there was this guy who helped sort people out with their problems.
It just started to grow from there. I saw the employed, unemployed, multi-millionaires, TV, radio, and sports personalities. In fact, people from every walk of life (to date I have seen well over 95,000+ people). In a short space of time, I had 7 Hypnosis Clinics in Northern Ireland and was working seven days a week flat out. People were coming to see me for various reasons and problems. The common ones were the Stop Smoking or to Lose Weight sessions plus anxiety.
However, in Northern Ireland, hypnotherapy was utterly different from mainland UK due to the many victims of the troubles. In those early years, counselling was minimal, so I had to help thousands of people caught up in the conflict. These included rescue service personnel who had to go into the aftermath of bombings. As well as the people caught up in bombings themselves.
Over the years, I heard some horrific stories of shootings, murders, bomb scares, armed robberies; the list is endless. It was because of this that I came away from my conventional training. People would typically be regressed into their childhood to try to recall the originating cause of their panic attacks, or other problems. This could take up to 15 sessions to achieve when clearly it wasn’t in their childhood at all. It had happened right then!
I came away from conventional hypnotherapy and developed my own techniques. Introducing specialized equipment from America to speed the whole process up, plus cutting everything down to the fastest way possible.
All this without losing any effectiveness to get these people sorted out-Fast. Having developed these techniques, I then called it ”Fast Track Hypnosis” because that’s what it was FAST! and I have been using this method ever since.
There is a great deal of satisfaction in my job.
People would also ask me if I ever use hypnosis for myself. Of course, I do, and have done so throughout my long career!
Member organisations
Hypnotherapists may become members of the General Hypnotherapy Register if they satisfy certain criteria with regard to both training and ongoing requirements as determined from time to time by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC). Members are either registered at Practitioner status (which confirms that the GHR acknowledges their qualification to practice), or Affiliate status. Although Affiliate level registrants will have completed a sufficient number of training hours to equip them to commence seeing clients on a limited basis, the GHR does not acknowledge them to have yet been trained to full practitioner level. All GHR Registered Practitioners are required to accept the published Code of Ethics and Complaints & Disciplinary Procedure.
Areas of hypnotherapy I deal with
info Information about health conditions (*)
Hypnotherapy can enhance the well-being of individuals diagnosed with serious medical conditions, but should not take the place of medical treatment and advice. If you have been diagnosed with - or suspect you may have - any of these conditions, please speak to your doctor before starting hypnotherapy.
Fees
£85.00 - £95.00
Additional information
Simple sessions such as stop smoking/vaping, weight control, gastric band hypnosis, interview techniques, etc., only require ONE session and are £95 each.
Anxiety, phobias, confidence, etc., normally require approx. 4 sessions and are £85 each.
