Solution-Centred Hypnotherapy Helping you to make life better
Hello, my name's Fiona, I'm a fully certified and experienced hypnotherapist, and I'm here to help.
Take a moment to have a look through my website and, if it resonates and you'd like to know more, contact me for a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation.
I have over 15 years' experience working in partnership with people in and around York, and also nationally and overseas. Particular areas of expertise are Irritable Bowel Syndrome and addictive behaviours / unwanted habits. However, I have also helped many people manage and alleviate a range of other issues.
We begin with a detailed understanding of your individual circumstances and issues, before identifying appropriate and motivating goals. You are in complete control throughout as I use my training and experience of safe, tried and tested techniques to support you in moving forward to achieve lasting, positive change.
My practice is governed by the code of ethics of the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council and the General Hypnotherapy Register.
Thank you for taking the time to visit the site.
It's quite normal to feel a little nervous before therapy, and it is really important to choose a therapist you feel comfortable with.
For this reason, I offer a complimentary 20-minute consultation over the phone or Zoom so that I can put you at ease, answer any questions you may have and you can determine whether I am the right therapist for you.
If you would like to find out how I can help you make life better, call or email. Calls and sessions are confidential.
What can I help you with?
Hypnotherapy is effectively used to manage and improve a wide range of physical, emotional or behavioural issues. If you are battling unwanted habits, anxieties or insomnia, struggling with stress or suffering with IBS, then I would love to help you.
What is hypnotherapy and how can it help you? For an excellent guide to the research behind hypnosis and the issues it can provide lasting relief with, see Mark Tyrrell's short booklet here
Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of relaxation and heightened awareness into which we enter many times each day, for example while absorbed in a task, daydreaming, reading a book or driving ‘on autopilot’. During this hypnotic state, both blood pressure and heart rate are lowered, brain wave patterns are altered, and you become highly responsive to positive suggestion.
The relaxation alone produced by hypnosis, when done regularly, can improve immune system function, combat fatigue, and aid memory and learning.
Far from being 'woo-woo', 'new age' or simply 'out there', in fact, hypnosis has been used effectively for over two hundred years to alleviate a wide range of physical, emotional and behavioural issues. It has a good deal of scientific backing.
Hypnotherapy involves the induction of this hypnotic state in order to allow direct communication with the subconscious mind, which stores emotions, memories, internalised beliefs and is often programmed with unhealthy, inappropriate or limiting behaviour patterns.
All too often, diet plans, willpower and conscious decisions to change do not produce lasting results because the subconscious mind is still holding on to these old patterns and beliefs. Lasting change requires the re-programming of the subconscious mind.
When you are in hypnosis, it is possible to bypass the critical faculty of your analytical conscious mind and directly influence your subconscious mind to make fundamental changes and access resources that may have been forgotten, producing positive and permanent changes, often in a dramatic way. You respond to suggestions that are beneficial to you.
What is a session like?
A typical hypnotherapy session involves guided relaxation into hypnosis followed by positive suggestions or story-telling and metaphor, from which the highly receptive subconscious mind picks up meaning and learns to apply new responses. Issues that may be deeply rooted in your past may be addressed through careful regression and analysis.
You are in complete control, however, because the conscious mind is always present, and you can choose to open your eyes and end the trance at any time you wish.
Furthermore, it is impossible to ‘get stuck in hypnosis’; in the naturally occurring state, people either come out of the trance when something demands their conscious attention, or the relaxation deepens until they fall asleep.
In a therapeutic trance, you will be counted or eased gradually out of the hypnosis so that you emerge feeling refreshed, alert and ready to get on with the rest of your day.
Positive change is usually apparent after the first session and, unlike many other ‘talk’ therapies, hypnotherapy can produce lasting results in a short space of time.
Virtually anyone can be hypnotised and benefit from hypnotherapy. Despite popular myth, being able to go into trance is not linked to gullibility or low intelligence.
On the contrary, people with high levels of intelligence, imagination and an open mind usually make the best candidates for hypnosis. Key factors, however, are positive expectations that change can occur and motivation to make those changes.
Hypnotherapy is recognised by the British Medical Association, the British Psychological Society and the American Medical Association and the US National Institute of Health.
But don't just take my word for it:
I went to Fiona at the beginning of October 2015 after 15 years of smoking. My objective was to quit as my husband and me are willing to have a baby, but I felt I needed extra help to succeed in quitting the cigarette. I told Fiona I was afraid because the cigarette was associated with social life, pleasure and stress release in my mind. After the first session, I felt so strong and powerful and surprisingly, very happy! I’m sure Fiona managed to convinced my sub-conscious about the benefits of becoming a non-smoker… for life! 2 weeks later I had the second session as a re-enforcement. Just after this second session, I spent a whole week with family and my husband. I was the only non-smokers, but rather than dying for a cigarette, I felt so proud of myself, and so sad for my loved ones. Now I am used to my life as a non-smoker, and honestly I feel FREE, and this makes me smile everyday! I never thought it would have been so easy to end my relationship with the cigarette. If I knew it, I definitely would have seen Fiona a lot earlier. Thanks for everything Fiona
ED, Business Manager, Hong Kong
I received hypnotherapy from Fiona, and it was truly one of the most life changing and empowering therapies I’ve ever experienced. Need I say more? (I will anyway.)
Fiona holds a relaxed, open space that feels safe and welcoming. She listens deeply, asks thoughtful prompts, and gathers information with a natural fluency that draws out clarity and insight. From there, she skilfully weaves everything into a coherent, personalised session, delivered with a voice that’s both beautifully calming and professionally grounded.
Highly recommended for anyone seeking real inner shifts.
Pav, UK
