Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
60 minutes
£85 per session
A grounded, evidence-informed approach to understanding and change.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy brings together the structured, evidence informed approach of CBT with the focused therapeutic use of hypnosis. CBT helps us understand the patterns of thinking, feeling and responding that shape everyday life. Hypnosis allows us to work with those patterns in a more focused and experiential way, helping you rehearse different responses, strengthen helpful suggestions and practise the changes you want to make.
Together, they provide a practical framework for understanding what may be keeping a difficulty in place and developing new ways of responding.
How Hypnosis Is Used in CBH
Within Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, hypnosis is understood as a focused use of attention, imagination, expectation and suggestion. You remain aware and involved throughout, and the aim is not to place you into a state where you lose control.
Hypnosis can help make therapeutic exercises more vivid and engaging. It may be used to mentally rehearse new responses, strengthen coping strategies, practise self hypnosis and support the changes we have agreed to work towards.
This Approach May Support
anxiety or ongoing stress
social or performance anxiety
fears and phobias
confidence and self-esteem
overthinking or self-criticism
life changes or periods of uncertainty
unhelpful habits or reactive patterns
sleep difficulties
You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit. Many people choose this work because they want understanding, steady support, and skills they can use in everyday life.
How We Work Together
CBH is a collaborative process. I guide and support you, but we work together as a team. We begin by exploring what is happening for you now, how your thoughts, emotions, physical responses and coping strategies interact, and what may be keeping particular patterns in place.
Change begins with understanding. Rather than simply trying to remove an unwanted thought, feeling or behaviour, we become curious about the role it may have been playing and why it has become difficult to move beyond. Part of our work may involve helping you understand why certain thoughts, feelings and responses occur, and how they can become established or maintained over time.
From there, we agree realistic and meaningful goals and develop new ways of responding. Depending on what is most helpful for you, our work may include:
learning self hypnosis
mindfulness or grounding practices
working with thoughts and beliefs
practising new coping strategies
mental rehearsal and imagery
strengthening helpful responses through hypnosis
The focus is on understanding and applying these tools so that change can continue beyond the sessions.