Christopher Wadsworth
HYPNOTHERAPIST
Hypnotherapy Services
Would you like to feel more in control of runaway emotions?
Do you want to find your centre and stop being dragged in all directions?
Would you like to remember how it feels to trust yourself?
Do you need support with conflicting or overwhelming choices?
Can you feel chains around your heart that ache to be set free?
happiness o sleep improvement
procrastination o self-confidence
focus o inner peace
relaxation o stress-related illness
sexual freedom o fertility
compulsive behaviours o self-sabotage
overcoming anxiety o getting things done
With the aid of hypnotherapy, you will come to see that you hold the keys to harmony within yourself. The joy of life is in your hands. It’s there. Feel it.
The moment you feel the chains around your heart is the moment they begin to release. Take control.
Weight loss - Healthy living
Are you overweight and want to eat more healthily?
Do you want to get fit, enjoy exercise and have a zest for life?
Feel better - Sleep better
Do you want to experience deep, restful sleep?
Do you need relief from anxiety or panic?
Self confidence
Do you want more confidence when speaking in public?
Want others to respect your boundaries?
Do fears or phobias get in your way?
Allow the wonders to begin
Clinical Hypnotherapist and Life Mastery Coach
Let me take you on an extraordinary journey inside yourself. You will find freedom as you come to accept and understand the feelings inside you. You will discover the beliefs and values that subconsciously guide you today. You will release the energies and frustrations that hold you back and draw upon all the resources inside you to make enduring improvements to your life. You choose the improvements that you want to make. The result will be a vibrancy, vigour and enthusiasm to take responsibility for your life in ways you never thought possible.
My Approach
A hypnotherapist deals with what emerges. To do so effectively requires a deep empathy, intuition and an appreciation of tangled aspects of psychology, physiology and human needs. The relationship between you and me has a far more significant impact on your results than one might suppose, so my role is somewhat of a balancing act. I draw upon academic theory whilst remaining relatable, respectful and humble: I aim to deliver the best I can for you. I hold your hand firm as a steadfast guide, one human being to another, and we delve where you want or need to go.
My understanding and interpretation draw heavily from the greats of hypnotherapy, some of whom may be familiar: Dave Elman, Gil Boyne, Edgar Barnett, Gerald Kein, and Stephen Parkhill. I have benefited from the guidance and tuition of Dr John Butler, who has many accolades, not least being the first individual to provide hypnotherapy training to the UK National Health Service.
My psychological approach is in so many ways derived from the work of Carl Rogers, one of the founding fathers of client-centred therapy. I draw upon an understanding of Fritz Perls’ Gestalt therapy; RD Laing’s developmental work on family dynamics; Shostrom’s views on manipulation; the existential observations of Yalom, Jung and Rollo May; Smedes‘ work on healing shame and Hutschnecker‘s pivotal “Will to Live”.
And so my goal is to understand you and to allow the magic within you to unfurl. To create a space for you to be accepted, heard and understood and to get to the heart of your conscious and unconscious feelings, values and beliefs. To look for the good in you, to elevate you as a person distinct from any habits or behaviours you may have learned, and to bring solutions to your new-found awareness.
Analytical hypnotherapy lifts a veil on the sources of your fixed ideas and limiting beliefs, helping you process and review those feelings and see how they guide you in your current life. It brings you to the point of your perspective and gives you the freedom to see alternatives and the tools to take back control of your life. To take responsibility for the wholeness of your life experience. You find harmony and peace inside yourself through various approaches, for example, by re-examining beliefs you created as a youngster and carried and reinforced throughout your life. We look at these beliefs with fresh eyes and bring the wisdom of your adult experience: what is helping you? What is hindering you? What is relevant and helpful to you in living your life today, and what is not? The result is a long-lasting improvement; deliberate, rigorous, moving and frequently revelatory. I aim to give you a sense of inner completeness, self-acceptance, kindness and connection with yourself that you may have never felt before.
I direct my work precisely to your needs, so no session is ever like another. My role is to work with a committed intention to bring you permanent improvement. Your role is to engage in the process, dive in with all your will, and decide that this is your day. When you are ready to make that choice, the wonders within you are allowed to soar in complete freedom.
Once you find acceptance and unity within yourself, acknowledge your uniqueness in this world and free yourself to be the truest, finest and most authentic version of yourself, my work in our partnership is complete.
Alongside my work in hypnotherapy, I also work as a Board Certified Coach. I manage a separate life coaching website which can be viewed here.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does hypnosis feel like?
Find a quiet place, take a few nice deep breaths, and close your eyes. That’s what it feels like. You might become more aware of your body or the thoughts running through your head as your eyes are closed; it’s a very familiar feeling.
Is hypnotherapy safe?
Absolutely. It’s a very common state that people drop into many times each day without even realising. It’s not mind control, there is no truth serum, and you hold the choice at all moments of how to react.
Will it work for me?
Hypnotherapy is a collaboration between therapist and client, so to ‘work’, each person needs to commit to their part. I commit to offering my best to you without judgement, supporting and guiding you on your journey. Your part of the bargain is to put your heart and soul into the experience, be deeply motivated to change and be prepared to trust the process. That is the only way to release its benefits. If you are ready to say, ‘Enough is enough, I’m taking back control’, then the experience can be transformative.
If your issues have a medical aspect, please consult your medical practitioner in advance. Hypnotherapy is not a replacement for medical advice; it is a complementary approach.
How long will it take?
Every client is different and every goal is unique, so the best way to find out is for us to talk. That is why I offer a free consultation. But this is not open-ended therapy: it is designed to achieve results within a defined timeline.
If hypnosis is for you, you should start to notice improvements after one or two sessions and make significant progress in four to six sessions.
Can everyone be hypnotised?
In my experience, yes. I have met many people who believed they couldn’t be: some thought their imagination wasn’t vivid enough, some found it hard to relax, some reported that meditation had never worked… Every single one of them went into a wonderful state of hypnosis. Want it, and it will occur.
What’s the difference between psychotherapy and hypnotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a conversational therapy where one engages with the conscious mind. There are many variants, but clients are usually encouraged to freely associate and to come to their own conclusions about their character, thoughts, feelings and actions in a process of gradually increasing awareness.
Hypnotherapy goes beneath your critical, intellectualising brain and addresses the feeling side of your brain. Have you ever found yourself in a circumstance where you know exactly what’s wrong but somehow can’t seem to change? Hypnotherapy finds the subconscious conflicts, those fight/flight/freeze responses, that cause people to sabotage their best attempts or ‘willpower’. We re-assess the beliefs that we hold so closely as truth and allow any trapped energy from our feelings to be released. With acceptance comes relief, and then our choices, conscious or subconscious, can be recalibrated.
What’s the difference between hypnosis and meditation?
Meditation is a method to clear one’s mind of peripheral thoughts and permit a state of quiet contemplation to develop. Ideas may rise, but the process lets those thoughts fade away to find a form of inner acceptance.
Hypnosis is a state of focussed attention, so quite different. It brings about a state of heightened awareness. We challenge our fixed ideas by bringing attention to them and taking personal responsibility for a better today.
The information on this website should not be considered medical advice and is not intended to replace a consultation with a medical practitioner. If you have any doubts or concerns about your health, you should seek advice from a medical doctor. Hypnotherapists are not physicians, and hypnotherapy is not a substitute for the practice of medicine or psychotherapy. Do not rely on any information on this website in place of seeking professional medical advice.