Laurence Knott

'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.'

Carl Jung

I am a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and Life Coach specialising in helping people overcome stress, anxiety and overwhelm.

• Is anxiety getting the better of you?
• Are you sick of that persistent inner critic putting you down and making you doubt yourself?
• Have you forgotten what a calm and peaceful mind feels like?
• Do you worry about letting yourself and others down?
• Do you work tirelessly to care for and protect those around you but neglect yourself?
• Do you crave freedom and sometimes fantasise about simply running away from it all?

Well, you are not alone. I can help you build a sense of inner calm and become more resilient to life's ups and downs. 

I am a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and Life Coach specialising in helping people overcome stress, anxiety and overwhelm.

I've worked at Harley Street London as the in-house coach and therapist at the Body Holiday resort in St Lucia, and now I run my practice in Chorlton, Manchester. 

Our work together involves gently shining a light on the unconscious habits of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that hold you back or limit you. I use a mix of conversation and various techniques in my work. Working together, I help you tap into your wisdom, resilience, and capacity for change.

I see myself as a reflective and evocative Hypnotherapist and Coach that offers a safe and inclusive container for clients to explore what matters most to them in getting to the root cause of the problem. Through deep listening and building a strong therapeutic alliance, I create a powerful space for my clients to let go of whatever is holding them back from living a life of freedom and choice.

I use Cognitive Hypnotherapy and a range of complementary approaches and techniques to create a bespoke support package to help my clients move from their problem to their solution state. All my clients receive a bespoke hypnosis recording to embed our therapeutic change work from the sessions. 

To give you a flavour, here is a 4-minute introduction to Cognitive Hypnotherapy by founder Trevor Silvester:

Whether you want to create a whole new way of being in the world or simply let go of a longstanding habit or phobia, I will help you create a new reality.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation in person, by phone, or online. In this session, we will connect so we can explore what change you want to see in your life and what has been holding you back until now.

You can call or text me on 07540 845390 or send me an email.

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So, what is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?

Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CogHyp) is a brief, solution focused therapy that draws on a wide range of disciplines that include Neuroscience, Humanistic and Evolutionary Psychology and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). The acclaimed hypnotherapist and best-selling author Trevor Silvester developed Cognitive Hypnotherapy as a flexible and versatile therapeutic model that is constantly evolving, seeking to draw in new methodologies and techniques that help clients achieve the change they desire. Cognitive Hypnotherapy can also be seen as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), as Trevor detailed in an article (http://www.questinstitute.co.uk/cognitive-hypnotherapy-as-part-of-cbt/) a few years ago. Whilst CBT has been the predominant therapy modality favoured by the NHS in the UK over the last decade or so, research by the Quest Institute has demonstrated the effectiveness of CogHyp as a brief solution-based therapy that compares favourably with other therapy modalities such as CBT.

The CogHyp model is based on three core principles:

1. The first principle is that trance is an everyday occurrence. When we are absorbed in an activity like watching TV or driving a car and we fail to hear the phone ring, or we miss a turning, this is a trance state, that is, an altered state of consciousness. And in CogHyp such a trance state is considered to be part of a client’s problem, where behaviour, thoughts and feelings are manifest against their will, where they are not choosing to behave in this way. In CogHyp it is the therapists job to effective ‘dehypnotise’ the client, so that new choices and ways of being are possible where previously a client was not able to behave, think and feel how they want to.
2. The second principle is that all behaviour has a positive intention. On the basis that 90% of our behaviour is unconsciously driven, Cog Hyp assumes that there is an underlying motivation for doing something that is against the client’s conscious wishes. The approach in CogHyp is to work with this positive intention and through a range of techniques, help the client to reinterpret and change the meaning of past events and experiences so that new behaviours become possible.
3. The third principle is that in CogHyp everyone is unique. Clients arrive at their problem or issue through a series of experiences that have shaped them in a unique way and unlike many other therapies, CogHyp does not attach a label to a problem. Instead, CogHyp seeks to tailor a treatment to the client’s unique way of thinking, always asking, “What’s that about and how can I use it?” The CogHyp therapist, through maintaining a flexible approach, can draw on a range of techniques to facilitate a client in accessing the internal resources and answers they need to move from problem to solution. This can include suggestions developed based on the client’s own model of the world and their solution state, delivered as part of the session and often captured as a bespoke MP3 recording for the client to listen to at their convenience over the following days and weeks.

My fees are as follows:

Initial consultation (30 Minutes) - FREE

1st session (90 Minutes) - £120 (including history taken in the session and bespoke guided visualisation MP3 recording sent to you one day after the session)

Sessions thereafter (60-75 minutes) - £90

I offer potential clients an experience of my hypnosis / guided visualisations downloads from this website, where you can listen and download as MP3s:

www.soundcloud.com/laurenceknott