cognitive hypnotherapy – Therapy Support Space

Comparison (the thief of joy)

Although it’s common to compare oneself to others, that doesn’t make it any less damaging.

Breaking Bad (habits)

You don’t have to wait for Stoptober to test your self-discipline muscles.

Trypanophobia: Fear of Needles

I am currently working with a client who has Trypanophobia. The non-phobic might imagine that this wouldn’t cause much of a problem day to day, but they’d be wrong.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy: What is it and How does it Work?

When we are facing emotional problems such as anxiety; bad habits that we can’t seem to break; phobias and so on, it can be due to what we call ‘unconscious drivers’ in our brain thinking that the behaviour is doing us good somehow.

Pattern Matching

Our brains automatically do something called ‘pattern matching’ and it happens all the time. The brain is an amazing piece of kit that strives to protect us and pattern matching is a great way to do this. It works like this: something bad happens; your brain reacts by signalling a behaviour for you to reactContinue reading “Pattern Matching”