Sharon Clare Hypnotherapy

Sharon Clare Hypnotherapy Helping you reduce anxiety, stress, fears & phobias through Clinical Hypnotherapy. Belfast • Ballymoney • Garvagh • Online. Book your Initial Consultation today.

My work is guided by a simple purpose — to help people feel safe, calm, and empowered from within. After over 35 years in healthcare, including NHS and senior leadership roles, I followed my path into Solution-Focused Clinical Hypnotherapy, bringing together neuroscience, compassion, and intuition to support genuine change. I’m particularly passionate about helping people facing medical treatment, surgery, or radiotherapy, where mind-body tools can make a profound difference to comfort and wellbeing. Sessions available in Belfast, Lisburn, Garvagh, and online.

25/01/2026

I’m Sharon, a Clinical Solution-Focused Hypnotherapist working in Ballymoney, also supporting clients in Garvagh, Belfast, and online.

In this video, I explain who I work with and how I help adults and children aged 12+ whose lives have quietly started to shrink because of anxiety, fear, or ongoing stress.

Many people I see aren’t “falling apart” — but their nervous system is stuck in high alert.
This can show up as:
• constant worrying or overthinking
• difficulty sleeping
• anxiety about school, driving, travel, or everyday situations
• physical tension such as jaw clenching or headaches
• low confidence or feeling unlike yourself

Before becoming a hypnotherapist, I spent over 30 years in health and social care, including leading a large organisation through Covid. That experience deepened my understanding of how prolonged pressure and responsibility affect the nervous system — both professionally and personally.

My work focuses on helping the body and mind settle again, so calm, confidence, and control can return naturally. I work gently, practically, and in a way that helps people feel safe in their bodies again.

If you’re based in Ballymoney and looking for support for yourself or your child (12+), you’re very welcome to get in touch.

Locations:
Ballymoney • Garvagh • Belfast • Online

18/01/2026

If your health anxiety hasn't settled since Christmas, you’re not imagining it — and it doesn’t mean anything is wrong.

When routines change and life slows down, the brain has more space to scan the body.
Less structure, more time to think, disrupted sleep, richer food, alcohol, and closed GP services can all heighten the nervous system’s alertness.

The brain misreads normal sensations as threat, and anxiety fills in the gaps with worry.
This isn’t regression — it’s a nervous system looking for certainty in an uncertain moment.

Calming the body and restoring gentle structure helps the alarm system settle again.
And when the nervous system calms, the thoughts usually follow.

For now, focus on calming the body first — steady breathing, gentle movement, and a little structure in your day.
And if this pattern keeps repeating, that’s exactly what I help with.

A few upcoming in-person hypnotherapy appointments are now available.If you’ve been considering support for anxiety, sle...
15/01/2026

A few upcoming in-person hypnotherapy appointments are now available.

If you’ve been considering support for anxiety, sleep, stress, habits, or confidence, these sessions offer calm, structured, evidence-based help.

📍 Garvagh – Willow Wellbeing
📍 Ballymoney – Castle Street

Initial Consultations available.
Booking link in bio.

January Stop Smoking / Va**ng Offer – £250If you’ve been thinking about quitting smoking or va**ng, timing matters.Lasti...
13/01/2026

January Stop Smoking / Va**ng Offer – £250
If you’ve been thinking about quitting smoking or va**ng, timing matters.
Lasting change rarely comes from forcing yourself to stop — it happens when the mind is ready and supported in the right way.
I offer a Smoking & Va**ng Cessation Hypnotherapy session (£250) designed to work with the brain’s habit system rather than against it.
This approach focuses on:
• calming cravings and stress-driven urges
• reducing the emotional pull of smoking or va**ng
• changing how the habit is experienced at a subconscious level
The session includes:
• a clear explanation of how smoking becomes a brain-based habit
• solution-focused discussion around readiness and motivation
• a relaxing hypnotherapy session to support change
• practical guidance to help you maintain progress
This support is best suited to people who feel ready to quit and want a calm, structured approach — not one based on willpower or pressure.
📍 Available in Ballymoney, and Garvagh
💻 Also available online
If you’re considering quitting and want to explore whether this approach is right for you, you’re welcome to book or get in touch for advice. Booking link in comments

12/01/2026

Confidence isn’t about forcing yourself to feel brave.
It’s about helping the nervous system feel safe enough to move forward.

06/01/2026

Teeth grinding and jaw clenching aren’t conscious habits — it’s your nervous system.
They’re patterns driven by the nervous system when the brain stays in a state of alert.

When stress, pressure, or unresolved tension builds up, the jaw is one of the first places the body holds it — often at night, when the logical brain is offline and the emotional brain is still processing the day.

This is why mouthguards protect teeth but don’t change the behaviour.
And why trying to “be more aware” of clenching often makes it worse.

Hypnotherapy works by calming the threat system and retraining the brain to stop sending tension signals to the jaw.

I explore this in more depth in my latest Brainz article (link in comments) — why jaw tension forms, why it persists, and what actually helps the brain release it.

01/01/2026

Different types of worry need different tools.
When your mind loops through many worries, the signal often comes from the body.
Calming the body calms the thoughts.
When you’re stuck on one specific worry, a cognitive strategy like scheduled worry time can contain it.
This is why online advice often feels hit-and-miss.
Personalised therapy works because we match the technique to your nervous system and your thinking style.

14/12/2025

Anxiety doesn’t always start in the mind.
Often the body moves first — a quickened heartbeat, tight chest, shallow breath — and the brain misreads these signals as danger.
That’s why anxiety can seem to appear “out of nowhere.”
The fastest way to calm the mind is to calm the body.
Slow, steady breath work shifts the nervous system out of threat mode and signals to the brain that it is safe again.
Box breathing is one of the simplest ways to do this:
inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4.
The body leads the mind back to calm.

Ballymoney appointments this TuesdayThank you to those who have already booked — I still have a few daytime and evening ...
10/12/2025

Ballymoney appointments this Tuesday
Thank you to those who have already booked — I still have a few daytime and evening sessions available on Tuesday in Ballymoney.
If you’ve been thinking about getting started, this is a lovely opportunity to book your Initial Consultation or a follow-up session.
Follow the link in comments to find a time that suits you..
📍 25A Castle Street, Ballymoney
🌿 Online appointments also available

03/12/2025

I was at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust today working with the radiotherapy team, sharing the same mind–body explanation I use with patients in the Macmillan pilot project.
One of the biggest questions staff ask is why two people can have the same radiotherapy mask but only one panics. It has nothing to do with strength or personality. It’s the brain’s alarm system — the amygdala — reacting automatically to loss of control, unfamiliar sensations, or medical environments.
When staff understand what’s happening in the brain, it becomes much easier to support patients with calm, compassion, and confidence. And when we use hypnotherapy to help patients regulate that alarm response, they can breathe more easily and complete treatment more comfortably.
It’s been incredibly valuable to share this work with the team today and to see how much it resonates. Understanding the fear changes everything.

30/11/2025

Your memories can retrain your brain for calm. Recall one good moment today.

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25a Castle Street
Belfast
BT536JT

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9:30am - 9pm
Thursday 5pm - 9pm
Friday 9:30am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

Website

https://calendly.com/sharon-sharonclare-hypnotherapy

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