About

Kathryn specialises in cognitive-behavioural therapy and hypno-psychotherapy to help clients find greater happiness in their lives, which includes letting go of fear, depression, addiction and anxiety. This may also be through relationship counselling, or through helping the client to find their true identity, letting go of negative habits and thoughts, and establishing healthy behavioural patterns in line with the client's wishes.

Kathryn uses Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help clients overcome distress patterns. These distress patterns may result in anxiety, panic attacks, feelings of powerlessness, or in relief behaviours, such as smoking, comfort eating, drinking or avoidance of situations. By working with the client, and using the CBT Map to find out triggers, feelings and thought patterns, the client will find they have greater empowerment and choice about their behaviours and reactions. The client is then able to work these new desired behavioural outcomes into their subconscious through the use of Hypno-psychotherapy. ?

During Hypno-psychotherapy, the client allows him/herself to enter a state of relaxation called hypnosis or trance, during which there is a high degree of focussed attention on the core issues of behaviour. Then during the hypnosis, the mind relaxes and lowers its guard by minimising interference from the critical judgmental conscious mind, allowing the therapist to communicate directly with the subconscious mind.

It is the subconscious mind that controls our habits and automatic behaviours, and therefore, by working with it on a psycho-therapeutic level, the therapist helps the client to create new thought and behavioural patterns for themselves. This process is completely safe. The client is fully aware of everything happening, and is able to leave the hypnotic state at any time. The client is not asleep, just extremely relaxed. (more)