TranceForm Hypnosis

TranceForm Hypnosis By by-passing the critical faculty, hypnosis can Unblock Your Mind to the power of your subconscious I am able to relate how that effects the mind.

Welcome to the latest in Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis in Chester -At TRANCEFORM HYPNOSIS CHESTER, my primarily goal is to Help You become the person you want to be and really the person YOU ALREADY ARE with the help of Hypnotherapy. Coming from a role where I was constantly put through stressful conditions, positions and decision making. As well as this, I have played and still play competitive sports,

which means I like to keep fit. As a result I am able to understand how your body works alongside food, day to day living and exercise. This puts me in a great position to give you my experiences so that you can lead that Healthy Life Style you wish for. Through Hypnotherapy you would be removing all your Stresses in your Work, Life, Friends, Families and the Inner You. I will help those who are longing to Lose Weight by giving them the ability to change in healthy ways that will respond to their needs. Those who long to Quit Smoking, I will serve you in overcoming and getting rid of this harmful addiction. For those of you who have Fears and Phobias of Water, Insects, Spiders, Snakes, Darkness, Flying, Animals and many others. It would be all relieved upon undergoing some of the hypnotherapy services I provide. Whatever your Pains, Fears, Phobias or Issues in your life I would always be here to guide you with Confidence and Strength. Weight loss, Confidence and Motivation are Tranceform's Specialist subject and I have a huge amount of knowledge both in and out of area of Hypnotherapy that will be pasted onto you to achieve Your Goals. As well as Hypnotherapy, at Tranceform Hypnosis I can use effective Total Neurologic Techniques – TNT, Emotional Freedom Techniques – EFT and along with Neuro Linguist Programming – NLP. I am very professional and well-skilled in Hypnotherapy that is why seeking my services is an ideal thing to do, particularly for those who are craving for positive approaches and changes in their life. We offer client centred services and solution focused Hypnotherapy in and around Chester and Ellesmere Port.

Mindset coaching works and we use it alongside something deeper.Why?well, good coaching is genuinely powerful. It helps ...
03/05/2026

Mindset coaching works and we use it alongside something deeper.
Why?

well, good coaching is genuinely powerful. It helps you get clear on what you want, challenge the stories holding you back, build accountability, and take meaningful action.
We believe in it. We use it. It changes lives.

But here's something we've seen time and again with clients who've already done the coaching work:
They know what they need to do. They just can't seem to make themselves do it.

They've identified the limiting belief. They've reframed it. They've written the affirmations. They've set the goals. And yet something keeps pulling them back to the same patterns, the same hesitations, the same invisible ceiling.
This isn't a failure of coaching. And it's absolutely not a failure of the person.
It's a question of depth.
Mindset coaching works primarily with the conscious mind, the part of you that reasons, reflects, and makes decisions. And that's enormously valuable.

But it is the subconscious mind which is the part running your automatic responses, your emotional reactions, your deeply held beliefs about what's possible for you. That part doesn't respond to logic alone.
It responds to experience. To repetition. To the kind of deep, receptive state that hypnotherapy creates.

When we combine coaching with hypnotherapy, something shifts. The insights from coaching get to land somewhere deeper. The new beliefs don't just make intellectual sense they start to feel true. The gap between knowing and doing begins to close.
Think of it this way:
Coaching builds the map. Hypnotherapy helps you actually move through the terrain.
Together, they create change that's not just understood but actioned.

Get in touch to find out how our combined approach works in practice.

In many cases your anxiety is a message.And like any message that keeps getting ignored, it keeps getting louder until y...
02/05/2026

In many cases your anxiety is a message.
And like any message that keeps getting ignored, it keeps getting louder until you do.
Most of us have been taught to treat anxiety as something to suppress, push through, or get rid of as fast as possible. But what if, instead of fighting it, we got curious about what it's actually trying to say?

Here are 3 things your anxiety might be trying to tell you:
1. "Something here doesn't feel safe, and I'm not sure you've noticed."
Anxiety is your nervous system's early warning system. Sometimes it's responding to something real and present. But often, especially with chronic anxiety, it's reacting to a perceived threat. This threat was one that was wired in long ago, during a time when you genuinely needed to be on high alert. Your brain just keeps runnig the same loop and pattern
It's not irrational. It made sense once. It just hasn't been updated yet.

2. "There's something unresolved that needs your attention."
Anxiety has a habit of showing up around the things we've been avoiding. this could be anything! A conversation we haven't had, a decision we keep deferring, an emotion we've been burying under busyness. It's uncomfortable precisely because it's pointing somewhere important.
It's not trying to punish you. It's trying to get your attention.

3. "I'm exhausted and I need you to feel safe again."
Chronic anxiety is tiring. Not just mentally, but physically. When the nervous system has been running in high-alert mode for a long time, it starts to affect sleep, concentration, relationships, and physical health.
The anxiety isn't the enemy. An overworked nervous system is asking for relief.

The good news is that the nervous system is not fixed in this pattern. Through hypnotherapy and neuroplasticity-informed coaching, we can gently work with what anxiety is pointing to and help your brain learn, at a deep level, that it's safe to rest.
You don't have to white-knuckle your way through this.

If you're a first responder or have served in the military, you know what it means to just get on with it. To push throu...
30/04/2026

If you're a first responder or have served in the military, you know what it means to just get on with it. To push through. To not make a fuss.

But sometimes the mind holds onto things the body can't forget.

Kinetic Shift is a rapid, evidence-informed technique developed by Karl Smith a former British Army soldier and armed response police officer who experienced PTSD firsthand. After hypnotherapy changed his life, he spent years developing a method specifically for people like him.

What makes it different:
- It's content free. You don't have to explain what happened or relive it in detail. The technique works at a subconscious level, which means the specifics stay private.
- It's fast. Many people notice a genuine shift within a single session. Not a slow, drawn-out process.
- It's active. This isn't lying on a couch talking about your childhood. It's dynamic, participatory, and designed for people who respond better to doing than discussing.
You've spent your career showing up for other people.
This is about showing up for yourself.

get in touch to find out more

Ever wondered what actually happens to your brain during hypnosis?Thanks to brain scanning technology, we now have some ...
22/04/2026

Ever wondered what actually happens to your brain during hypnosis?

Thanks to brain scanning technology, we now have some real answers.

Here's what research has found:

The busy, worrying part of your brain quietens down
There's a network in the brain that's responsible for mind-wandering, rumination, and that endless loop of self-critical thoughts. Brain scans show it becomes significantly less active during hypnosis. That mental noise, the part that second-guesses everything, turns down.

Your focus sharpens
At the same time, the parts of the brain involved in calm, directed attention become more active. You're not zoning out. You're actually more focused than usual just in a different, quieter way.

The self-conscious "guard" steps back
Brain scans also show reduced activity in the area linked to self-consciousness and internal conflict that part of you that overthinks, judges, and resists. In hypnosis, it relaxes its grip.

What does this mean for you?

If you've been carrying a pattern such as anxiety, a fear, a response you can't seem to shift hypnosis creates a brain state where that pattern becomes genuinely easier to work with. Not through force. Through the brain simply becoming more open.

This isn't mystical. It's measurable.
And it might be exactly what you've been looking for.

If you're wondering whether hypnosis could help with something you're going through, send us a message.

In 1949, a Canadian psychologist named Donald Hebb published a theory that would go on to reshape neuroscience entirely ...
21/04/2026

In 1949, a Canadian psychologist named Donald Hebb published a theory that would go on to reshape neuroscience entirely and along with that expand our knowledge on hypnosis.

His idea was straightforward but profound: when two neurons are repeatedly activated together, the connection between them gets stronger. The brain, in essence, learns by association.

This became known as Hebbian learning and it's the biological foundation of how all of us form habits, memories, and deeply held patterns of thought.

Picture it this way:
Imagine you always feel anxious before a difficult conversation. Over time, your brain links those two things
1. the anticipation of that conversation,
and
2. the anxious response.

The more that pattern fires, the more automatic it becomes. Eventually, it feels like you have no control over it at all.

But here's what Hebb's theory also tells us:
Connections that stop being used, weaken. Pathways that are never reinforced, fade.

This is why repetition matters in therapeutic work. Each time we practise a new response ( such as a calmer interpretation or a different way of relating to a thought) new neural connections begin to form. And with time and consistency, those new pathways become the default.

Hebbian learning is why change is hard at first, and easier over time. It's not about willpower. It's about biology.

And biology, fortunately, is on your side.

So you might be wondering where hypnosis fits into this?
Well, hypnosis reduces the analytical filtering of the conscious mind and creates a state of focused receptiveness, it effectively provides ideal conditions for Hebbian learning allowing new neural associations to form and old, unhelpful ones to weaken through disuse. The perfect partnership!

I can't remember who said it but it always stuck in my mind"Neurons that fire together, wire together."It's one of the m...
17/04/2026

I can't remember who said it but it always stuck in my mind
"Neurons that fire together, wire together."

It's one of the most quoted phrases in neuroscience and it holds the key to understanding why change feels so hard, and why it's absolutely possible.

Here's what it means in plain English:

Every time you have a thought, feel an emotion, or carry out a behaviour a specific pattern of neurons fires in your brain. The more that pattern fires, the stronger the connection becomes.

This is how habits form. How beliefs get cemented. How anxiety spirals can feel almost automatic.

But here's the flip side:

Neurons that no longer fire together, eventually stop wiring together.

When you interrupt old patterns and practice new ones, repeatedly, consistently, in a receptive mental state the brain begins to build new pathways. The old ones weaken from disuse.

This is why hypnotherapy is so powerful. In a hypnotic state, the critical filter of the conscious mind quiets and the subconscious becomes more open to forming new, healthier associations.

Change isn't just possible. It's neurologically inevitable. We do it all the time without even thinking about it. Hypnosis just allows you to give your brain the right conditions for a change you consciously want and in the direction you want it rather than haphazard!

For most of the 20th century, scientists believed the brain was fixed after childhood.Once you were wired a certain way,...
15/04/2026

For most of the 20th century, scientists believed the brain was fixed after childhood.
Once you were wired a certain way, that was it.

They were wrong.

In the last few decades, neuroscience has revealed something extraordinary: the brain retains the ability to change, adapt, and form new connections throughout our entire lives. This is called neuroplasticity and those of you who follow me will know I am a huge fan of this line of neuroscience.

What this means for you:

→ Anxiety patterns that have felt permanent can be rewired
→ Trauma responses stored in the nervous system can be gently updated
→ Beliefs formed in childhood don't have to govern your adult life
→ New, healthier patterns of thought and behaviour can become automatic

This isn't wishful thinking. This is biology.

Hypnotherapy works in part because it creates the ideal brain state for neuroplastic change, a calm, focused, receptive state where the subconscious is open to new information.

You are not your past patterns. You are a brain that can learn something new.

And it's never too late to start.

What's one pattern you wish your brain would unlearn? Share below.

Have you ever heard of the Window of Tolerance?It's one of the most important concepts in trauma-informed care and once ...
14/04/2026

Have you ever heard of the Window of Tolerance?

It's one of the most important concepts in trauma-informed care and once you understand it, you'll see yourself (and others) completely differently.

Here's how it works:

We each have a zone (let's imagine it like a window) where our nervous system feels regulated. Inside this window, we can think clearly, connect with others, and process what's happening around us.

But when we're pushed outside it, the brain shifts into survival mode.

If you are pushed too too far up it creates hyperarousal (high arousal in terms of your emotional state). Anxiety, panic, anger, hypervigilance. Everything feels urgent and unsafe. Highly tuned to threat.

Too far down → hypoarousal (low arousal in terms of emotional state). Numbness, disconnection, shutdown, exhaustion. A feeling of not really being here.

Trauma (whether big or small, as this is all relative to the person) narrows this window. Makes it smaller so that it is easier to reach those edges and get too far up or down. Things that shouldn't feel threatening, suddenly do.

The goal of tackling trauma with hypnosis isn't just to manage symptoms. It's to get that window either back to its default setting, or even to increase it in size, so you can live more of your life from a place of regulation, not reaction.

Your nervous system learned to protect you by making the window smaller. Hypnosis can help it learn that it's safe to reset back.

One of the first questions we get asked: "How long will this take?"It's a fair question. And we'll always give you an ho...
08/04/2026

One of the first questions we get asked: "How long will this take?"

It's a fair question. And we'll always give you an honest answer.

The truth is that it depends on a number of factors. But here's what the research and our experience shows:

For many people, hypnosis (hypnotherapy) works significantly faster than traditional talking therapies. That's because we work directly with the subconscious mind, rather than only the conscious, analytical layer.

Some clients experience immediate change. We often see this with sessions like stop smoking or phobia. Sometimes some supportive post session coaching helps embed this.
With Kinetic Shift we can also see major shifts within single sessions but this is after some initial coaching and fact finding sessions to establish whether this is the right approach for you. Others having pure hypnosis might benefit from 3-6 sessions. Others, particularly those working through health goals, may benefit from a longer programme.

What we can tell you is this: we don't keep you coming back for the sake of it. Our goal is to give your brain the tools to continue healing on its own as quickly and comfortably as possible.

Because that's exactly what the brain is built to do, given the right conditions.

If you've been wondering whether hypnotherapy could help you, the best first step is a conversation.

Get in touch to discuss.

Your conscious mind gets all the credit. But the truth is it's only running about 5% of the showThe other 95%? That's ru...
07/04/2026

Your conscious mind gets all the credit. But the truth is it's only running about 5% of the show

The other 95%? That's run by your subconscious. Which is quietly shaping nearly everything you do.

Here are 5 things your subconscious controls that most people don't realise:

1. Your emotional reactions before you've even processed what happened
2. Your deeply held beliefs about yourself and what you deserve (which you play out in your life subconsciously)
3. Habitual behaviours you might feel powerless to change (but can)
4. Your baseline stress and nervous system response
5. How you relate to others which often mirrors patterns from childhood

This isn't a flaw in your design. It's efficiency. Your brain automates what it learns, for better or worse. The patterns were put in place because at some time they served you well...even if now they are like an out of date road map for reality.

The good news? The subconscious is not fixed. Through techniques like hypnotherapy and neuroplasticity-informed coaching, we can gently update those patterns at the source.

Many problems hypnosis can help with are because you're running old software. And software can be rewritten.

Get in touch to book an appointment

Promising you’ll change… next week“Next week will be different.”It sounds like a plan. You actually mean it..you think.....
01/04/2026

Promising you’ll change… next week

“Next week will be different.”

It sounds like a plan. You actually mean it..you think...
Often, it’s a pause.

Pushing change into the future gives short-term relief. You get to step away from the discomfort now, while still feeling like you’ve done something about it.

Nothing actually moves though. They are empty promises to yourself and your brain knows it.

Instead of waiting for a better moment, try this:

Pick one square from this board.

Then do something small with it today. Not a full fix, just a shift.

• If it’s overthinking, set a time limit and decide
• If it’s tension, do one of the reset exercises
• If it’s pushing through, pause for a minute before continuing
• If it’s self-criticism, change the wording once

You’re not trying to change everything.
You’re proving to your brain that change happens in the present, not the future. And that you mean it when you say you will do something! Build trust back in yourself with small actions consitently over time helping make big changes.

Hypnosis supports that process by reducing the resistance that makes “later” feel easier than “now.”

If this square fits, the goal isn’t a better promise.
It’s a smaller, earlier step.

Sometimes taking action yourself is too big a step. That's what Tranceform Hypnosis is here to help with. No struggling alone...get in touch to find out how I can help.

Trying to relax but staying tense - penultimate bingo square...You know how it goes, you finally get a moment.Nothing ur...
31/03/2026

Trying to relax but staying tense - penultimate bingo square...

You know how it goes, you finally get a moment.

Nothing urgent. No one needs you.
And still… your body doesn’t settle. Nothing seems to work.

It’s subtle.
A slight tightness. A sense you should be doing something else. Relaxation that never quite lands. Your mind wondering if you forgot something or should be doing something. There may even be a guilty feeling niggling away.

That’s not a failure to switch off.
It’s your system staying on standby.

For a lot of people, “relax” has become another task to get right. Which keeps the body alert. The increased pressure to do so has led it to be a task!

Try this:

Instead of trying to relax, give your body a job:

Press your feet gently into the floor.
Notice the contact. Hold for a few seconds. Release.

Do it a couple of times.

Now -
Place one hand on your chest, one on your stomach. Let your breath move your hands slowly.

Then gently squeeze your hands into fists, then release fully. Notice the difference.

You’re giving your nervous system a clear signal instead of a vague instruction. That’s often easier for it to respond to.

Hypnosis works in a similar way, helping your system move out of standby without having to force it.

If this square fits, it’s not that you can’t relax.
It’s that your body needs a clearer way in.

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