Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & Hypnosis

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is recognised as the most effective of the talking therapies in remedying certain mental health problems and enabling changes in unsatisfactory situations. This therapy is based upon the idea that certain ways of thinking trigger or worsen mental health problems, including addictions, obesity, depression, stress, anxiety and phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This form of therapy assists in identifying harmful, inaccurate or unhelpful thoughts which can then affect the mood and patterns of behaviour, helping to reshape them until they replace the unhelpful ones, in order to live a satisfying life.

This therapeutic approach can be brief and usually involves 'homework' between sessions such as keeping a thought diary, practicing different ways of behaving and unlearning old or unhelpful patterns.