Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Procrastination can cause anxiety and dissatisfaction in many people. It stems from the unconscious desire to ‘bury the head in the sand’ and hope it goes away. It’s often linked to fear in one of several ways: We may fear some aspect of the process we’re putting off; for example going to the dentist if…
While most clients’ goals and issues may nominally appear the same: Anxiety, Self Confidence, Insomnia, Weight Control, Relationship Issues, Loneliness, Motivation, Addictions, Stress or Stopping Smoking to name but a few, the personal histories of LGBT identifying clients need to be heard in an affirming and safe environment for positive and rapid personal change to happen. In…
A study A study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings had this to say about the use of hypnosis as an adjunct to chemotherapy treatment of cancers: “Chemotherapy often is associated with nausea and vomiting. Hypnosis has been studied for reducing these and other adverse effects. Children receiving chemotherapy who were assigned randomly to hypnosis had less anticipatory nausea and vomiting…
In dermatology, hypnosis may help decrease pain and pruritus in the skin; intervene in psychosomatic aspects of skin diseases; and lead to the resolution of some skin diseases, including verruca vulgaris. Suggestion without formal trance induction may be effective in some cases. Sulzberger and Wolf reported on the use of suggestion to treat verrucae. Hypnosis can…
In his landmark paper, “Application of hypnotic strategies sustained by a positive psychology orientation in treating OCD patients” (1) Arnon Zahi PhD proposed a three-step approach aimed at turning annoying symptoms, including ruminations and ritualistic behaviors, into procedures that promote wellbeing. Two cases were presented to illustrate this hypno-strategic approach. Sara (Case 1), who was fettered by self-limiting fears of harming…
People with claustrophobia experience fears related to enclosed spaces or areas where it may be impossible to exit quickly, such as airplanes, elevators or trains. Some people even feel claustrophobic inside MRI scanning machines. Because of their fear, people with claustrophobia tend to avoid small areas. Sufferers also tend to sit close to exitways or…
No one is born with an addiction to sex or pornography. We have to learn it. What starts as an infrequent and seemingly harmless erotic adventure—a fling here, a click there—can so easily run away with us. Then, all too soon, we can find ourselves practically compelled to chase that encounter, access those sites, enter…
People who are self confident and self-assured tend to be those who are naturally sociable, who achieve success in their chosen profession or career and who take full advantage of all opportunities that come their way in life. People are attracted to confident people and enjoy spending time in their company: they tend to be…
Clutter, which is often related to procrastination, is a leading cause of disorganization. There are many reasons why people clutter. Some reasons include things such as feeling overwhelmed, and your highest priorities at that time, are somewhere else. Perhaps you just don’t know where to start in removing your clutter. How many times have you…
Driving anxiety is a very common form of anxiety that can range in severity from a hesitation to drive, where anxiety is always present, all the way up to a total refusal to drive at all, in which case it becomes driving phobia. A phobia is a fear that is paralyzing but irrational. Driving phobia…