Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy - The Llandaff Clinic

Psychotherapeutic Counselling

Psychotherapeutic Counselling places a heavy emphasis on the therapeutic bond built between you and the therapist. It provides a non-judgmental, confidential, safe space to look at current life challenges while connecting them to past experiences, unconscious patterns or childhood roots. The goal is to boost your understanding of your own mind, behaviours and emotions to enable you to handle present and future challenges. Sessions offer a collaborative, supportive space where we can focus on what feels most important to you. Together, we may explore your experiences, emotions and patterns with curiosity and honesty, helping you gain insights intoyourself, your life and those around you, with the aim of overcoming the hurdles you might be experiencing.

Depending on what feels useful, we may draw on different ways of working, such as metaphors, imagery, timelines or creative approaches. These can help us explore thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to put into words. Throughout the process, you remain in control of the pace and direction of each session. To support your growth we might offer practical resources and/or exercises, such as groundingand breathing exercises for you to use at home. These are optional tools, that allow you to safely reflect on the sessions and continue with your daily life.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness induced by a period of focused concentration, usually accompanying profound feelings of relaxation. In a state of hypnosis various hypnotic phenomena can occur spontaneously or elicited through suggestions, which have therapeutic value in the process of making positive changes in the individual through changes in subjective experience, alterations in thoughts, behaviours and feelings which no longer have any value. People have been using hypnosis in various forms for thousands of years but it was coined the term Hypnosis in the early 19th century by a Scottish Doctor, James Braid, who originally thought it was some strange form of sleep. Later on discoveries were made revealing that hypnosis and sleep only resemble themselves in appearance as someone could be lying or sitting with their eyes comfortably closed when in fact the mind is very alert.

Hypnotherapy is a talking therapy based on utilising the naturally occurring state of mind of hypnosis to make changes in the subjective experience of individuals by changing the perceptions of thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Hypnotherapy is a brief strategic therapy, unlike Cognitive Behavioural therapy or counselling, problems can be resolved and rapid change is possible in some cases as little as one session.

Hypnotherapy also incorporates elements of CBT, counselling, Solution focused therapy, NLP and multi-modal therapy. Using hypnosis, suggestions can be given directly or indirectly to the unconscious mind by-passing conscious resistance. Most of the suggestions will be client generated as a result of established treatment goals during the interviewing process to ensure that maximum effectiveness is achieved. Due to the implicit relaxation response of hypnosis, hypnotherapy is useful with a range of conditions but are also useful in sporting and corporate performance.

Our Hypnotherapist David Kerr can be contacted directly on 07872986267

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