Feel like yourself again — hypnotherapy in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

As a professional hypnotherapist with over twenty-two years’ experience, I prefer working with hypnotherapy. I looked at counselling and did some training in it. Some of its ways of helping people are brilliant, and others are not as effective as hypnotherapy — so I use hypnosis and some counselling to get you where you want to be. Hypnotherapy works with the unconscious mind, the part of you that you do not normally have access to, to find the root cause and help you be the person you want to be.

Talk therapy and counselling often take much longer. They can be good, teaching you how to resolve some of the issues that have been going on in your life — however almost all of the clients I see have tried counselling and not got the result they wanted, and have remained anxious, overwhelmed or depressed. In my opinion you often need to go deeper to make permanent changes and new behaviours.

In some cases I blend therapies together to get you where you want to be as quickly as possible, so that your suffering is as short as possible. Whether someone comes to me with depression, anxiety, habits they want to change or suicidal thoughts, I change the way they look at the world and their relationship with themselves within four to six weeks. One client had been seeing a counsellor for seven years when we met — they were free of their issues within two months, with an agreement that if they ever wobbled they would come straight back.

Counselling works in some situations, but my preferred way forward is a blend of therapies, including hypnotherapy, counselling and EMDR, to name a few.

Yes. If you are working with an experienced and well-trained hypnotherapist, it is totally safe. Your therapist will make sure you are suitable for hypnotherapy, and if you are not, they can refer you to someone who can safely help.

“I have been hypnotising and helping people for over twenty-five years, and in that time I am yet to have anybody come out worse than when they came in. I have helped thousands of people in one-to-one sessions and in groups to remove the things that have plagued them and stopped them being the people they want to be.” — Piers

Hypnosis is not just an ‘eyes closed’ state. We experience trance with our eyes open all the time — for example when you are gripped by something on television and feel emotionally connected to the scene. Some clients never close their eyes and still get huge benefits without feeling hypnotised.

When you do close your eyes in a session, your mind starts to relax and we can use visualisation or change work. I ask people to close their eyes because the experience is deeper and change is easier. Positive suggestions sink into the unconscious mind and make changes — and that is what makes this way of working so magical. Pretty well every person I have worked with has loved it.

Throughout our lives we face challenges, and sometimes we need help to overcome them. I have learned many techniques and disciplines to help people get the result they want and go on to live amazing lives — and the way these techniques are put together is vital. Over the past 20-plus years I have rarely come across anything I do not have the skills to help with.

Your conscious mind — everything you think — is only about 3% of your mind. The other 97% is your unconscious mind: everything you have learned. Like an iceberg, most of it is under the surface, and that is where I concentrate, dealing with the causes of your issues and releasing old pain, old anger and old thoughts.

If you have learned over your life that “I am not good enough”, “I am not loveable”, “I cannot cope” or “I am not confident”, hypnosis can change that to “I am loveable”, “I am confident”, “I do feel good about myself”. We change the way you think, the way you feel and the way you behave.

I also help sports people improve their performance by changing their mindset with sports hypnosis and NLP — a fantastic specialist area. It is very rewarding when people realise the blocks they had about being successful can actually be removed.

Everyone is as unique as the cause of their issue, so the number of sessions varies from person to person — ultimately it comes down to your openness to the process, and we will know right away if this kind of work is for you. Many people feel a real difference within four to six weeks, and for stopping smoking or vaping one two-hour session is usually all that is needed.

Yes. You can see me in person in Bury St Edmunds, or online via Zoom from anywhere in the world — including if you cannot make time during usual working hours.

Drop me a WhatsApp message, call, email or fill in the contact form. I will personally call you and we will have a quick talk to see if I can help — no sales and no pressure. If I can help you, I will; if I cannot, I will recommend the best course of action for you.