Understanding test anxiety is the first step to tackling it. In this blog, I want to give you some background information that will help you stop the feelings associated with test anxiety. If you are about to do a test and you are feeling excessively anxious you...
If you are searching for a counsellor, hypnotherapist or another therapist they may claim that they work in an ethical way, but what does that really mean? Is it good to choose an ethical practitioner and how will an ethical practitioner work? This blog will provide...
I believe that supervision is one of the most important aspects of personal and work development. That is why I have trained to be a supervisor and I have supervision for my counselling, hypnotherapy and coaching practice. So what is supervision? According to the...
Are you feeling stressed and anxious? Life is hard at times and everyone feels stressed and anxious at different times in their life, its a natural response to demands and pressures of life. But when it continues and is significantly impacting on your life it has got...
Learning is an essential ingredient of life. We learn as a baby to demand food from our mothers. We learn behaviour that gets us things when we are a child and we learn when we go to school or university. But learning never stops there. The problem is that we think we...
I help people to stop the pain related to too much stress and anxiety and help them to get on with their lives. One way I do that is by acknowledging the importance of feedback. Getting and giving feedback is essential to our development; it's part of what humans...
I've had a good day working today. Many people complain about work but I feel privileged to be able to work and help people. I help clients who are struggling with stress and anxiety or bereavement and loss to reduce the pain and feel so much better. This means that I...
Over the years I have heard people describe anxiety in many ways. It can be different for different people but here is a list of things people commonly tell me when they have been diagnosed as suffering with anxiety. I'm posting this as I want other people who are...
I am always searching for new ways to help people to reduce their stress and anxiety because everyone is different and we all need choice and information to make the right decisions to change. This weekend I visited an equine assessed therapy centre in Somerset. For...
Lots of people say to me that they can't relax. My answer is that they just haven't learnt how to relax. In this blog, I would like to tell you a few different ways that you can relax. Not every way is right for every person but if you are feeling stressed, anxious...
Yesterday someone asked me if I dealt with anxiety related to Brexit as he thought that business people are displaying anxiety. Then later in the day, a relative said that she couldn't listen to the television anymore because everything was about Brexit and it was...
There are many ways to relax. This can be the relaxation of the mind and body. One technique that many hypnotherapists and other therapists use is called Progressive Muscular Relaxation. It's often also called PMR. Progressive Muscular Relaxation was developed in the...
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