SydneyHypno - Inc. Pivotal Hypnotherapy & Functional Mind Coaching

01/09/2025

Sports Performance & Hypnotherapy for Peak Performance!

How hypnosis - or Hypnotherapy - can not only help improve overall sports Performance - it can also help with the dreaded Yips!

I help many client with improved performance and eliminating the Yips!

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The Australian golfer turned to therapy after months of underwhelming form. Now he’s ended an Australian drought on the PGA Tour.

08/04/2025

Cognitive hypnotherapy for depression: an empirical investigation
Assen Alladin 1, Alisha Alibhai

Abstract
To investigate the effectiveness of cognitive hypnotherapy (CH), hypnosis combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), on depression,

84 depressives were randomly assigned to 16 weeks of treatment of either CH or CBT alone. At the end of treatment, patients from both groups significantly improved compared to baseline scores. However, the CH group produced significantly larger changes in Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Beck Hopelessness Scale.

Effect size calculations showed that the CH group produced 6%, 5%, and 8% greater reduction in depression, anxiety, and hopelessness, respectively, over and above the CBT group.

The effect size was maintained at 6-month and 12-month follow-ups. This study represents the first controlled comparison of hypnotherapy with a well-established psychotherapy for depression, meeting the APA criteria for a "probably efficacious" treatment for depression.

Link to report here:

To investigate the effectiveness of cognitive hypnotherapy (CH), hypnosis combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), on depression, 84 depressives were randomly assigned to 16 weeks of treatment of either CH or CBT alone. At the end of treatment, patients from both groups significantly improv...

21/11/2024

The frustration of conscious incompetence…
Remember to make learning more fun

20/06/2024

04/06/2024

Sharing this here - as a link to my Psychology Today Profile

Kerry Bailey - Kerry Bailey @ The Functional Mind & SydneyHypno, Psychotherapist, Marrickville, NSW, 2204, (02) 9100 0242, I am here to help & care for you. My Values: Integrity, Respect, Compassion, Authenticity, Trust & Empowerment. ​ My Philosophy: You are important, unique & valuable, & you de...

21/04/2024

art by Charlie Mackesy

12/01/2024

Size & true words, always acquire new knowledge.

It is the way to care for the world, your relationships and your brain

27/12/2023

Your mind, your thoughts can be given a frame, conditioned to allow you to have a clearer and more peaceful mind and life…

I can help you to find the way to this better conditioned process…

"Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind." - Eckhart Tolle

27/12/2023

The thoughts you have can be helpful - and that is going to give you better outcomes

The thoughts you create could be unhelpful, and knowing how to manage and work through or dismiss unhelpful thoughts can allow you to have better outcomes …

Unchallenged unhelpful thoughts will take up more space than they deserve- so having a way to challenge, reframe and manage unhelpful thoughts is important to having the best outcomes…

You deserve to know how to manage and choose what you think about and how you think about things…

Knowing how to do this, is a skill you can learn, and j on e that can serve you best in all areas of your life..

Know that a thought can’t exist without you thinking it… and that you can exist without listening to unhelpful thoughts!!

Skills I am happy to help you learn, strategies that can help you live a life you want !

You are what you are and where you are because of what’s gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

12/11/2023

09/11/2023

This little boy of 4, is amazing, he calmly reflects on his behaviour and his choices and understands that there is a process he can manage - based on choices.

So brilliant!