Helen Wyer

How I can help you

I specialise in helping people overcome anxiety, whether that's general anxiety or specific fears and phobias and the accompanying anxious feelings, ruminating thoughts and dwelling on events of the past. Anxiety and fear can also bring about physical symptoms, such IBS, panic attacks, racing heart, becoming frozen in the moment and unable to move and sometimes people become hot and sweaty as that fear builds. These symptoms can all be changed too. Instead of avoiding places and situations, you start living life again, calm and confident. What would that do for you?

 Here are some examples of why you might be looking for help:

• You have anxiety or panic attacks and want to feel calm and in control.
• You have started to avoid going places or certain situations because you are scared how you might feel.
• You often feel stressed and want to feel more relaxed.
• You want to stop your nerves getting the better of you when taking exams, standing on the first tee, giving a performance or an important presentation.
• You want to go on holiday but hate flying.
• You have a phobia (like spiders) that you want to overcome.
• You want to sleep better.
• You suffer with irritable bowel syndrome and want some relief.
• You suffer with psoriasis and want to make it better.
• You have low self-esteem and need confidence.

These are all things that I can help with - and much more too!

How can hypnotherapy help?

While other talking therapies deal with the conscious analytical mind - the part you're using now to read this - hypnotherapy engages your subconscious. This is where all your experiences, knowledge, memories and habits are stored, even though usually you are unaware of them. Hypnotherapy helps us to confront these memories and experiences and reprocess them to a way which is more positive and helpful.

Your subconscious mind is the seat of all your emotions and is the part of your mind which controls approximately 90% of your behaviour. Your subconscious will always try to protect you and do what is best for you. It has learnt behaviours and beliefs from past experiences, often in childhood and then continues to use them throughout your life, a bit like a computer running a program. However, sometimes the subconscious mind can make a mistake, creating a connection, thought or emotion between an event and a behaviour that may have been appropriate at the time, but isn't appropriate or helpful anymore. Through hypnotherapy we can work together to change these negative thought patterns (which often creep in over time), beliefs and behaviours to promote healing and positive change.

Unlike the dramatic portrayals of stage hypnotism, you may see on the television, you will not be unconscious, asleep or in any way out of control of yourself. You will hear the therapist's suggestions but it is up to you to decide whether to act on them.

What happens in the first session?

Your first hypnotherapy session is very important since it lays the groundwork for all we accomplish. To help you, I need to know what you want to achieve, what you have already tried and your thoughts, fears, beliefs and other attitudes as well as other aspects of your life that may contribute to your feeling stuck. I ask questions, listening attentively and empathetically to discover what is adversely affecting your well being. Working together, we set goals to help you achieve the changes you want to make.

We will explore the process of hypnotherapy, address any myths or concerns you may have and then I will guide you into a relaxed state, clearing your mind of any stressful thoughts or 'mind chatter' and using the information you have given me, start the process of helping you achieve the changes you want to make.

How many sessions will I need?

This is, unfortunately, like asking 'how long is a piece of string'. Everyone is different and everyone's individual needs and circumstances vary. There is no definitive answer. The average length of time is around 4-6 sessions. Typically, most people start seeing changes, from the very first session, sleeping better, feeling calmer and more confident, to name but a few. I promise I will do everything I can to help provide real, lasting and sustainable change in as few a sessions as is needed. You will know when you no longer need to see me.

How often are the sessions?

Initially, the treatment is most effective if the time between sessions is between a week and ten days. Each session can then build on the successes and changes made in the previous sessions. After, reviewing the progress made, we then allow slightly longer between sessions until you feel you have made the progress that you want. If you require, I can also teach you self hypnosis methods for you to use in your daily life in the future.

Please feel free to contact me for a no obligation chat about how I can help.

First sessions are 90 minutes in order to allow enough time for an in depth consultation, teach some tools and techniques you can start using immediately and start the process of helping you feel calm and back in control.

Thereafter, sessions are an hour.

For testimonials, please look at google and at my website. I use an independent review company so people can be assured that the testimonials published are from genuine, verified people I have helped.