Hypnotherapy in East Sussex & How It Can Help

An effective and popular branch of psychotherapy, hypnotherapy has been approved for use by the British Medical Association and the American Medical Association for over 60 years. Hypnosis is now widely recognised internationally as the key to rapid behavioural change and is now used in many fields including dentistry, medical, professional sports and education.
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What is Hypnotherapy?
​Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of altered awareness and happens to varying degrees throughout your day - for example, reading a book, daydreaming, listening to music.  It happens when you don't have to make an effort, you don't have to concentrate or be proactive.  You have two minds – the conscious (which is the logical, rational, cognitive mind) and the unconscious (the creative mind that runs our behaviours, our body and is home to your emotions and memories). During hypnosis the conscious you becomes either relaxed or heightened in focus.  Hypnosis, used within a therapeutic framework, is a clinically efficient avenue for focusing the conscious mind. During that relaxed or heightened state, the unconscious is receptive to positive therapeutic suggestions and gives you ready access to unconscious resources in order for you to create the desired behavioural and emotional changes.​
How does hypnotherapy work?
Our behaviours, habits and emotions happen unconsciously.  For example, you walk without any conscious awareness of how to, digest food without conscious know-how and have many unconscious movements totally out of your awareness. As your unconscious mind is the domain of all your behaviours, emotions and memories, it is therefore the unconscious part of you that can create lasting changes in those areas. 

Sometimes our past holds us back from our potential, from being happy or from living our lives to the full.  Our unconscious mind hosts our memories as well as our emotion and hypnotherapy can be very useful in revisiting memories in order to reassess and alter our perception of them, healing distressing emotions and freeing us to the change in behaviour we wish for.

​​During the hypnotic state when used in hypnotherapy, resourcefulness and creativity is encouraged and stimulated within the unconscious mind.  When in trance the unconscious mind is encouraged to make changes in patterns of thinking and behaviour. During the hypnotherapy session Angela will utilise this natural state to accomplish beneficial, lasting change.
​What will I experience during hypnosis?
Hypnosis can be experienced as the fixation of your attention such as being wrapped up in a good book, a film at the cinema or a soothing piece of music.  If you've experienced these activities then you’ve experienced a light hypnotic trance.  Perhaps you’ve driven from A to B and have no conscious recollection of the journey. That’s trance. These experiences happen throughout the day, you’re familiar with them and probably enjoy them.

During the hypnotherapy session, clients may experience a deep form of relaxation.  It is during this state of altered awareness that clients can access their unconscious resources to create change for themselves and alter their perception to enhance their well-being.​

What are the benefits of hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis, used within a psychotherapeutic framework, is clinically proven to be a beneficial and lasting therapy for change.  If you have a behaviour, habit, negative feeling or state of mind you wish to change, then hypnotherapy may be the answer for you.

​Angela’s wide experience has shown that hypnotherapy within psychotherapy is a powerful combination in the field of personal change, bringing together one’s conscious, cognitive realisation with unconscious, creative resources.
​Hypnotherapy Downloads
Angela has produced a number of hypnotherapy downloads available to the general public.  Please contact her to purchase.