My  Services

Some clients know what they want when they contact me. Be assured that your wishes will be respected. Most clients know they need some help and seek advice. After taking a detailed case history I will advise you of your options and will be happy to discuss the best possible way forward for you. An eclectic approach is often preferable to a single one.

While trance can be a useful medium to explore the past, my emphasis is to help you create the future you want and so the work you do with me will be outcome-oriented. I offer a range of therapeutic approaches that are very effective in therapeutic work or personal development. These include:

• Traditional hypnosis and clinical hypnotherapy  

• Solution-focused hypnotherapy

• Modern, permissive hypnotherapy

• Neuro-linguistic Programming, NLP

• Eye movement integration

Any of these services are of value to anyone seeking to resolve specific problems, or for personal development. All of them will help you:

• Move towards a more positive outlook on life with a greater sense of motivation.
• Gain more useful perspectives around your particular problem.
• Feel more and more in control of your issue.
• Defeat negativity and feel a greater sense of well being and success.
• Maintain momentum and continual improvement.

Hypnosis  

You can find a brief history of hypnosis and hypnotherapy in the resources section and for more information about what hypnosis actually is please go to the FAQs page.

Hypnotherapy

Clinical hypnotherapy is the use of a hypnotic trance state (hypnosis) to aid easement of medical conditions. Hypnosis is a great learning place, and on the basis that mind and body are one, suitable suggestions will reduce and control stress, headache, insomnia, many types of pain, IBS, psoriasis, colitis and many other conditions.

Traditional or modern Ericksonian style hypnotherapy are both powerful means of change, simply because trance states are powerful learning places. Whether the issue is anxiety or depression, behavioural like addiction or bullimia, or relational like social anxiety, the primary goal of therapy is to help you find solutions to the problems we identify together as important to you.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP

NLP is not a therapy as such but more to do with how we ‘tick’; how we understand ourselves and others. In other words it is a model of communication. However, from this study of human excellence, a wide range of highly valuable tools have been developed that are widely used in all areas of life including therapy. 

Powerful NLP models include EMI, eye movement integration, and time-line therapies and, of course, hypnosis.

So, what happens if you want a consultation?

You can request one of the following:

• A personal consultation at Life Choices

• A telephone consultation

• A breakthrough session at Life Choices

A personal consultation.

Traditional, one-to-one therapy sessions take place at Life Choices’ premises in Wakefield. If you are unable to travel, local visits can be arranged at additional cost. On receiving your phone call or e-mail, I will contact you to briefly discuss your issue and arrange an assessment session. When you arrive you will have 60 minutes to discuss your problem with me in warm, comfortable surroundings over a cup of tea or coffee. 

I will work with you to identify the patterns you are living by and help you begin to find new perspectives from your own resources and abilities to develop new and more appropriate behaviour patterns for your life. I will advise you of the options for therapy available to you.

Telephone consultations

These are for those who are unable to attend personally, or who would rather maintain a degree of anonymity. When I receive your phone call or e-mail, I will contact you as soon as possible. I will book a time that is convenient for you.

This service offers you a one hour telephone consultation with me to discuss your circumstances in detail. I will work with you to help you to identify the patterns defining your present behaviour and will help you to identify new, more appropriate behaviour patterns.

Some communication may be by e-mail in addition to phone calls. Hypnotherapy cannot easily be done over the telephone, but a CD can be provided at a small extra cost.

Personal breakthrough sessions

These are the opportunity for you to deal with a problem (or perhaps a number of issues) that is holding back your personal development in a day devoted exclusively to you. Breakthrough sessions are largely, but not entirely, NLP focused and are ideal for 

• people who live some distance away
• multiple issues
• busy people seeking rapid change

If you think a personal breakthrough session is for you, please contact me and I will send you an assessment form that you will complete and return to me.  We will agree a date to meet usually within 3 weeks of my receiving your form.

If you are travelling a fair distance, you may want to book hotel accommodation which is available within 2 minutes driving distance of Life Choices. You can pre-pay for your breakthrough session before the appointment date.

If you are interested in using any of the above services please call 08081 783 692 now, or go to the Contact me page for e-mail and home addresses.