F A Q

Below are all the fre­quently asked ques­tions: If you can’t find the answer you are look­ing for then please scroll to the bot­tom of the page to ask one.

Gen­eral

Can you help to treat kleptomania?

Yes we can.

Where in west lon­don are you?

We cur­rently have two clin­ics are in Hilling­don between Uxbridge & Hayes and just off Oxford Street. see the con­tact us page for details of how to find us.

Do you offer a free ini­tial consultation?

We are aware that sev­eral of Hyp­nother­a­pists to pro­vide so-called “Free Ini­tial Con­sul­ta­tions” how­ever these are typ­i­cally 20 or 30 mins and many clients tell us they feel obliged to con­tinue ther­apy even if they are not com­fort­able with the ther­a­pists. We offer a brief tele­phone con­sul­ta­tion with a ther­a­pist and an exten­sive no oblig­a­tion ini­tial con­sul­ta­tion that lasts about 45 min­utes to 1 hour. We have found that often this is all the help some one needs to fix there prob­lem. At the time of writ­ing our No Oblig­a­tion Ini­tial Con­sul­ta­tion cost £110 in Hilling­don & £249 in W1.

What are your Fees?

Our cur­rent fees are inte­grated into our appoint­ment sys­tem. Please refer there for cur­rent fees

What can hyp­nother­apy do for me?

Hyp­nother­apy is a process of influ­en­tial com­mu­ni­ca­tion. The ther­apy assists the patient to estab­lish the strength of ther­a­peu­tic asso­ci­a­tions. It can also serve as the frame­work for a col­lab­o­ra­tive and mutu­ally respon­sive rela­tion­ship. Hyp­nother­apy also has a pro­ce­dure involv­ing a med­ical process that helps the patient to relax. There are cases where hyp­nother­apy is applied to achieve atten­tion aware­ness but in a calm setting.

What hap­pens to your brain under hypnosis?

A quan­tity of “brain imag­ing” stud­ies were con­ducted for those peo­ple who went through hyp­no­sis. In this study, sci­en­tists dis­cov­ered that the brain changes con­scious­ness. This exper­i­ment also indi­cated that the color per­cep­tion of the brain alters as the per­son expe­ri­ences hyp­no­sis. There is also some research regard­ing the coher­ence mea­sures of the brain under hyp­no­sis, and it is being com­pared to cer­tain brain­waves hav­ing a neu­tral activ­ity. This study shows that brain­waves do not run as smoothly as we thought.

Can any­one be hypnotised?

The sim­ple answer is Yes and No. There are many pop­u­lar the­o­ries that hyp­no­tism can­not be per­formed on just any­one. From this the­ory, an impli­ca­tion was for­mu­lated that only gullible or weak-minded per­sons could be hyp­no­tised. In fact, some stud­ies prove that not all peo­ple can undergo a hyp­notic stage, but it has noth­ing to do with being gullible it has much more to do with inter­lect, only the truly feable mind are com­pletely unable to be hyp­no­tised. These stud­ies show that some peo­ple have dif­fer­ent brain action, which inter­feres with hyp­no­sis. Thus there are peo­ple who can eas­ily be a sub­ject for hyp­no­tism while oth­ers can­not be eas­ily hypnotised.

How does hyp­no­sis work?

Hyp­no­sis nor­mally involves an intro­duc­tion to the pro­ce­dure dur­ing which the sub­ject is instructed that sug­ges­tions for imag­i­na­tive knowl­edge will be intro­duced to him or her. A hyp­notic process is used to encour­age and eval­u­ate patients’ responses and psy­cho­log­i­cal pro­ce­dures. Using hyp­no­sis, one per­son (the sub­ject) is guided by another (the hyp­no­tist) to respond to dif­fer­ent sug­ges­tions in order to expe­ri­ence an “altered state of con­scious­ness.” Hyp­notic pro­ce­dures and sug­ges­tions dif­fer, depend­ing on the goals of the prac­ti­tioner and of course the client.

Does hyp­no­sis really work?

Hyp­no­sis does not work well for every­one. For exam­ple, sup­pose the hyp­notic indi­ca­tors and the sub­jec­tive changes did not achieve the relax­ation nec­es­sary for a lengthy induc­tion, the con­tro­versy about hyp­no­sis may increase. It is an accepted fact that hyp­no­sis varies widely. There are some peo­ple who have under­gone hyp­no­sis but then claimed that they felt no dif­fer­ent. On the other hand, some patients claimed that hyp­no­sis helped solve their psy­cho­log­i­cal prob­lems. Since hyp­no­sis has long been one of the options in psy­chother­apy, there is some evi­dence that sup­ports the clin­i­cal use of hypnosis.

Is hyp­no­sis safe?

Hyp­no­sis is a nat­ural state and is con­pletely safe.

Groupon Offer

Why might you ask for per­mis­sion from my GP before com­menc­ing therapy?

Every now and then we get a client where some­thing doesn’t feel right either about their behav­iour or the answers they give their ther­a­pist. Under those cir­cum­stances our ther­a­pists will ask that the client get a let­ter from their GP to state that there are no under­ly­ing rea­sons that would make ther­apy under hyp­no­sis poten­tially unsafe. This does not mean that we can’t help you lose weight as we can use other methods.

Why do you say that there are cer­tain peo­ple that can not be hyp­no­tised or that you will not treat?

Because there are cer­tain peo­ple that should not be hyp­no­tised for there own safety and the safety of our ther­a­pists. As a gen­eral rule of thumb these peo­ple include peo­ple with seri­ous men­tal health issues such as any form of psy­chosis. Peo­ple with Bor­der Line Per­son­al­ity Dis­or­ders, Grand Mal Epilepsy, Learn­ing Dis­or­ders and those that are intox­i­cated at the session.

Is the groupon only valid for Gas­tric Band Hypnosis?

No it is Not . Our Groupon of June 21st 2011 is for Weight Man­age­ment Hyp­nother­apy that may or may not include a hyp­notic gas­tric band.