Many people find it helpful to attend an initial consultation with Vanessa, before deciding how she can help. Such sessions last for up to an hour, and are free, and with absolutely no obligation. They allow you get more advice and information, and to see how comfortable you will feel working together. You can clarify and agree your aims, and the best way of achieving them. This ensures you receive a tailored hypnotherapy session specific to your personal needs.
Usually, no hypnosis takes place during the initial consultation. The hypnotherapy normally begins on the following session.
Stop Smoking clients: Please note that the Stop Smoking session is 90 minutes, which includes 30 minutes consultation time and one hour for hypnotherapy. Thefeore, it is not necessary to attend a consultation before this type of session.
What happens during a hypnotherapy session?
Your hypnotherapy session will have three main stages:
1.Relaxing into hypnosis
Having made yourself comfortable in a reclining chair, with some soft music playing in the background, Vanessa will guide you into a state of gentle relaxation, simply by talking and using hypnotic suggestion techniques. As she talks, you might be asked to focus on your breathing, or relaxing your body, or simply to imagine pleasant images – all designed to help you to relax. Suggestions can be used to deepen your relaxation, so your conscious thoughts quieten down, allowing your subconscious mind to surface.
2.Undertaking the therapy
Vanessa can then use hypnotherapy to guide your subconscious towards new ideas and patterning. Sometimes, you may simply listen as she guides you. At other times you may be a more ‘active’ participant, answering questions and giving information that can help you to resolve your issue.
3.Concluding the session
At the end of the session, Vanessa will gently bring you back to normal wakefulness, and you should feel pleasantly rested and refreshed. Hypnosis will not impair your ability to drive home after a therapy session.
