In safe hands hypnotherapy

20/09/2025

Athlete's working hard towards a specific goal, clients dealing with chronic pain, or clients in the midst of anxiety its not often a quote captures exactly my thoughts on therapy , but then who knows where learning, research, and collaboration will lead my thoughts and beliefs in the future.
For me that's the exciting part of being a therapist

18/09/2025

25/08/2025

Great listen,

David Butler has been a pivotal Physiotherapist figure in the field of pain management since the mid-1980s, with a career spanning clinical practice, researc...

25/08/2025

I was with a pal and fellow hypnotherapist today and he said to me, ‘Your posts are good, but what do you do?’ 😂

And he’s right. How do people know if you don’t tell them.

So, this is what I do.
Counselling, CBT and Hypnotherapy at £60 per session.

More info here: https://nevermindcch.co.uk/

But David got me thinking, as he often does. I was seeing him for a massage and hypno for the tension I hold in my body from the work I do. And it made me realise this is what I do.
Beyond the job title and qualifications, I will get right in amongst it with clients, listening, supporting, providing tools and sometimes holding my own physical discomfort from the things we discuss. Because therapy isn’t meant to be comfortable, it will be challenging and upsetting, but it will also be enlightening and rewarding. And I’m here to walk alongside, step by step.

Thank you for reading and please feel free to get in touch.
Thanks also safe hands hypnotherapy

10/09/2024

Late in from work, but never too late to highlight su***de awareness day.

I think everyone knows Andy through my page now so please just take a couple of minutes and listen to this clip from Andy and Ian it is such an important message.

29/05/2024

It's all about dotting the I s and crossing the ts
The journey continues...

A bit late in posting this but I have been busy in the treatment room.

I completed the course in February and I would like to thank everyone at Piece of Mind for a comprehensive, interesting and extremely professional look at mental health awareness.

21/05/2024

I’m hoping this post raises some eyebrows among therapists!!
I’m in the lucky position of having been a therapist
Massage/manual
Therapy for 15 years plus.

And now as a relative newbie having entered into the Clinical Hypnotherapy World only a couple of years ago.

Will I have learned from my mistakes or will my insecurities make me revert to type!!!??? .

I am so looking forward in finding out.

Let me just emphasise this is about My Personal journey and realise that every therapists path is different.
Differing aims , goals , personality types, skillsets and abilities.
What is it about the first year or years in the therapy business that causes such trepidation.

Let’s look at a couple of psychological effects/phenomena.

1.Dunning Kruger
2.imposter syndrome

Lol now looking back on my learning journey
Did I navigate it well or did I continually/systematically and unintentionally put obstacles in the way of my ultimate goal.

If I overlay the Dunning Kruger phenomena on my timelines I find interesting how it fits as snuggly as any hand in any glove.

Now yes I was confident after graduation dare I say slightly arrogant🙈 and was desperate to set up a shiny new business.

My client base grew alongside my confidence. I was happy to be working on runners calfs , or non specific lower back issues etc etc. As time went on suddenly differing conditions at different stages. age groups, genders, made me question my skills and look for new and wonderfull modalities that would fill this gap in my abilities.

For me now looking back the same problems occurred on a then micro level. Starting with this great belief in my new submodality only to find out later that I only had a very superficial knowledge of many things and no greater skill to actually help the person who actually mattered in my new business MY CLIENT.

This to me seemed like a dunning kruger continuum.

Personally I needed to continue to follow my initial journey . Focusing on Anatomy, pathology, technique and best outcomes.
I needed to get as many bodies under my hands at as many ages and stages of life and get that10,000 hours of practice to hopefully become a more proficient therapist.

As I worked through that journey realising my limited knowledge at times only naturally created that feeling of imposter syndrome, not feeling good enough, comparing myself to other more accomplished, BETTER? therapists lol.

Looking back I can laugh and now realise having been well taught , having good basics and wanting to learn meant that I could hold my own with anyone.
SO!!!

Am I going to be different this time
I genuinely feel I will be more focused on the path I have chosen and not deviating when my confidence wains which it will as it does for everyone I have no doubt I will get there sooner rather than later.

08/05/2024

EVERY ACTION HAS AN OPPOSITE AND EQUAL REACTION.

I have just read an article in the Lancet on Health Anxiety and how it needs to be classified By NICE to help steer Gp's on what help is best for the person.

Great article which touches on Hypochondriasis.
All subjects we as therapists see in the treatment room, but what stood out and had me thinking was that the rise over the last 30years has been exponential and they are now using the word
CYBERCHONDRIA ie checking Dr Google and surfing the socials
being a huge part of the problem.

So my conundrum is am I adding to the problem or helping by shedding light on the latest facts and practices in posts such as this ??

08/05/2024

Over the years it has been well documented how some of our best loved sports stars have used Hypnotherapy to help in their pursuit of sporting excellence.

Whether for confidence , relaxation, focus,belief,
Or in some cases to overcome anxiety , stress, or the weight of expectation.

So hearing that Kyren Wilson 2024 snooker world champion had used Hypnosis came as no surprise and only added to a long list of sports personalities like
Micheal Jordan,Tiger Woods. etc etc.

Afterwards, the 32-year-old said he has been boosted by seeing a hypnotherapist during his run to the final.

"It's just about emptying your stress bucket," said world number 12 Wilson.

"We all have things going on that can affect our day-to-day life and it allowed me to go out there and be a little bit freer.

"Our minds are so clogged up with so many different things that don't need to be there, so if you can just eliminate them and go out and play snooker it makes the game a hell of a lot easier."

03/05/2024

Attention Overthinkers! That ‘meeting’ in your head – it’s cancelled. Step outside your mind for a while, the fresh air does wonders.

29/04/2024

Pain...
In all my time as a therapist there hasn't been a single day that I haven't engaged in a conversation on the subject of Pain with a client.
Acute, chronic, persistent, perceived,debilitating, life changing we have all heard it described inall sorts of ways and in the greatest of detail.

We all work hard to find a way to describe the mechanism of Pain and even harder using our given modalities and skilset to help our clients navigate a route back to pain free normality

How do you talk through and help your clients understand their pain?

Over the years I realised just how important adding as much up to date knowledge in the area of Pain alongside any cpd trying to give clients the best advice possible.

Have I always got it right ...NO!!
am I explaining pain the same way I did 20 years ago...No.

LOL if I'm still Trying to explain pain in another 20 years it will be completely different since we will all have moved forward with the science although at 80 I may be discussing it with my care home acquaintances🤣

We have all worked through the different methods
Bio medical,
Biomechanical.
Bio psycho social. Etc
Hands on,(touch)
Strength and exercise(graduated exposure),
Talking therapies all of whom at some point seem to have been in opposition to one another.

If pain is an output from the brain not an input then it makes sense that by calming down the CNS the initial pain score (SUDS)may well drop.

I realised very early on that the rapport built with my client could significantly affect the SUDS score.

Then hands on ie massage alongside talking therapies(being heard) can alleviate a clients tensions whether muscular or neurological
Which can help ascertain whichever therapy is best moving forward in your clients recovery be that graduated exercise via physio ,Gp, talking therapy( counselling/clinical Hypnotherapy).

The video below shouldn't be definitive but having attended a Noi Group course 10 years or so ago it's interesting seeing the changes to where the science is today.

If ?
PAIN IS AN OUTPUT FROM THE BRAIN
Then for me it makes sense that my Journey into Hypnotherapy can only be of some help to the most important people in my business
My Clients

🎙️Twelve years ago, Lorimer Moseley’s TEDx talk “Why Things Hurt” helped to catalyze profound changes in how pain is conceptualized, in our field and in man...