Stress can have a huge effect on your daily life.  Sometimes it can creep up on you unawares and by then you can feel that it is out of control. Are you experiencing any of these symptoms?

• Headaches, palpitations, stomach/digestive problems
• Poor concentration and motivation
• Feeling irritable or bad tempered, often over things that don't really matter
• Change in sex drive
• Feeling you're not coping
• Change in sleeping patterns
• Always too busy to do all the things that need doing
• Change in eating patterns (a sudden lack of appetite or comfort eating)
• feeling anxious or panicky - when normally you wouldn't
• relying more on alcohol, tobacco or caffeine
• your confidence/self esteem has been affected
• difficulty making decisions

• The causes of your stress
• how you can learn to deal positively with stress
• stress reduction techniques to alleviate or reduce the negative effects of stress
• teach you to respond in a positive way in the future
• help you to recognise when you are beginning to feel stressed so you can apply the techniques.

Hypnotherapy can teach you relaxation techniques and self hypnosis which you can practise yourself, anywhere, so that you can remain calm in a stressful situation.

You may be feeling anxious or are suffering from depression. Hypnotherapy is an alternative therapy which can be used in combination with other therapies (counselling or medical treatment, for example).

Hypnotherapy can help you take control of your life again and stop the negative thoughts that can make you anxious or depressed. It can help by changing negative thoughts into positive ones and help you to concentrate on the here and now and looking forward, instead of dwelling on past events that may have been painful.   It can help you cope with a current, difficult situation by helping you with positive coping mechanisms and self hypnosis, to encourage positive ways of dealing with issues, rather than dwelling on them and believing there is nothing you can do to change them. Hypnotherapy helps put you in the position of controlling your depression/anxiety instead of letting it control you!

• Relaxation techniques, self hypnosis, positive coping mechanisms, negative thoughts replaced by positive ones are just a few ways in which hypnotherapy can help you in a safe, natural, positively healing way.