Your stories

I have benefited greatly from my experience of CBT and hypnotherapy. It has helped me deal with long standing issues relating to IBS and stress.

I had been smoking for 30 years so well and truly needed to stop. Tried every single aid on the market available to me and always went back starting with a couple then creeping up again. I thought I would give hypnotherapy a go again and to my surprise it seems to have worked better than anything else. Thanks to hypnotherapy I am now a non smoker!!

I've been scared of flying since I was young and I really wanted to find out if hypnotherapy would work. I was unsure what to expect when I went to see my hypnotherapist. I had seen all these programmes on TV where people were made to do silly things, and so I was slightly apprehensive as I didn't want to be asleep and unable to control what I was doing. I discussed this with my hypnotherapist...

I had hypnotherapy to quit smoking - it was the best thing I could have done! I think it helped that I had come to a point in my life where I knew I was ready to stop, and I used hypnotherapy as that final push to quit completely. I now use the anchors my hypnotherapist taught me if I ever get that desire to smoke! I'd say give it a go if your trying to quit - i have friends it didn't work...

I was really scared to go see a hypnotherapist. I thought I'd be brainwashed and was worried I'd be unconscious and not know what was going on. But I had a speech coming up for a wedding and needed all the help I could get. I made sure I checked that my hypnotherapist was completely qualified, and this calmed my nerves a bit. Afterward, I was totally shocked by how relaxing the whole thing was...

I've always been anxious and I wanted some more confidence. I decided to go and see a hypnotherapist, and immediately felt comfortable with her. She started by talking about the situations I was anxious in and asked if anything had happened to knock my confidence when I was younger. After talking things through with her, I felt like she understood why I was there and felt hopeful that she'd be...