Here I explain how you can actually see me and about what happens in a therapy session.
HOW YOU CAN SEE ME
Face-to-Face Therapy.
If you’re able to come to Exeter we can meet at Holmedale Health consulting rooms. The address is 34 Denmark Road, Exeter, EX1 1SE. This costs £60 per session because I have to pay to book the room.
Online Therapy.
Alternatively you can see me online via a Zoom call. This costs £50 per session. I don’t use hypnosis on Zoom sessions.
MY WAY OF WORKING
I’ve done three main kinds of training in this work. Each of them helps me to understand my clients and find ways to help them to make changes.
My hypnotherapy training helps me to understand the different states of consciousness which everyone experiences every day. Sometimes we are much more attentive to the world around us. Other times we look inwards, often absorbed in past events. Often we are very suggestible and easily influenced even by complete strangers. Other times we are more cautious and able to reject outside influences. Sometimes we are taken over by powerful instincts such as “fight flight or freeze.” Or by behaviour patterns formed in early childhood. Understanding hypnosis also shows the importance of imagination, by which we create our future.
My psychology degree helped me to understand how people learn new behaviours, including phobias and OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). What can be learned can also be un-learned in the same way. This training enables me to understand scientific research into psychotherapy, and to decide which new methods could be worth trying.
My counselling training helps me to listen carefully to my clients, and not impose my own ideas upon them. Also to understand how the client-therapist relationship can be a therapy in itself. For instant, many people have never felt listened to or believed or taken seriously until they saw a therapist.
If you have any further questions about what happens in therapy, please contact me via the contact form HERE. I’ll be happy to answer by email.