Kettering and Oundle Hypnotherapy

23/03/2026

How many times have you heard the advice: ’Just think positive’? It’s the ‘just’ part that bothers me the most.

If changing negative thinking was a simple as just thinking positively, wouldn’t everyone do that?

The act of challenging negative thinking is tough because it requires an individual to reappraise how they believe things are.

It means having to change position in the our mental argument. We become fixed on a way of thinking and it shapes our expectations.

Find out how Hypnotherapy can help www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com call/text David on 07429 522 729

Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.

18/03/2026

The principle of cause and effect suggests that for every problem behaviour a person may struggle with, there has to be a reason why they developed that behaviour. Where did it come from?

Where did that negative thinking and anxious behaviour come from?

What were the influences which led them to develop such an unhelpful way of viewing themselves and the world?

Hypnoanalysis combines psychotherapy and hypnotherapy helping a person process events from their life. Using Hypnosis makes it easier to remember events, the unhelpful interpretations made at the time and the emotions they created.

The cathartic effect of thinking through past experiences reduces the intensity of the stored emotions. Events are re-interpreted with the benefit of hindsight, and the anxiety created is resolved.

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10/03/2026

What’s the difference between stress and anxiety?

Sometimes the two are confused, often because anxiety is used as a cover-all for unpleasant emotions and experiences.

Interesting article (below) explores the topic further.

Are you really anxious or simply stressed by current circumstances?

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Don’t be afraid to be anxious.

09/03/2026

Stress and anxiety impact each other. The greater our external stresses, the more we will be troubled by our inner anxieties.

The anxiety within a person’s mind needs to find an outlet. They have to rationalise it, so (unknowingly) attach it to a symbolic representation.

They feel the anxiety for something in particular, for example, phobias, some physical symptoms, panic attacks, depression and many more.

The symptom acts as a ‘pressure value’ for the anxiety. It allows a person’s mind to rationalise feelings they are experiencing as anxiety.

Find out how Hypnotherapy can help at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text David on 07429 522 723

06/03/2026

Ever wondered why one person develops an anxiety another doesn’t?

The Diathesis-Stress Model suggests that a someone may develop a particular psychological problem as the result of an interaction between a predisposed vulnerability and stressful life events.

Suffering with one anxiety problem may make you more vulnerable to developing another.

For example, suffering with depression also affects your sleep leading to either insomnia (can’t sleep) or hypersomnia (wanting to sleep all of the time).

As we grow up we have thousands of experiences. We mentally accumulate these experiences (good and bad) and they create a pressure within our mind. The experiences make us vulnerable to life stresses.

Analytical Therapy (Hypnoanalysis) aims to reduce the accumulation of past-experiences by thinking through them as an adult. The emotions they felt at the time can be released and it can now be processed as an adult.

Find out more and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com call/text David on 07429 522 723

04/03/2026

Anxiety affects millions of people worldwide. Chronic anxiety can lead to a range of long-term problems that significantly affect an individual’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

My blog post (Link in image) outlines some of the psychological and physiological problems created by anxiety and how Hypnoanalysis can help to resolve the underlying root cause of anxiety itself.

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Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.

02/03/2026

Hypnoanalysis combines Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy helping a person process events from their life.

Using Hypnosis makes it easier to remember events, the unhelpful interpretations made at the time and the emotions they created.

The cathartic effect of thinking through past experiences reduces the intensity of the stored emotions.

Events are re-interpreted with the benefit of hindsight, and the anxiety created is resolved.

Find out more and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text 07429 522 723

Everybody gets anxious sometimes, whether in response to something reality-based—such as the possibility of getting seriously ill with COVID-19—or something wholly imagined, such as the possibility of financial ruin when well off. But the reactions tend to be short-lived. Anxiety is meant to kee...

26/02/2026

An individual’s mental health is experienced in the present but is influenced by the past, and informs future behaviour.

Analytical Hypnotherapy views the symptoms as an outward expression of past behaviour. The symptoms are what is happening in the present, but are reflections of past experiences and the effect they had on the individual.

When we approach understanding mental health in this way, we accept that symptoms are not the root cause of the problem. They are a response to difficulties that mirror their experience.

Find out more at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text David on 07429 522 723

Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.

23/02/2026

Social anxiety (sometimes called social phobia) is best described as a fear of being judged.

The person feels self-conscious and unable to shake off the idea that others are making an assessment of them.

Like all anxieties, it is irrational so the thoughts are irrational too

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The NHS defines social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, as a long-term and overwhelming fear of social situations.

19/02/2026

Hypnoanalysis combines Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy helping to process life events.

Using Hypnosis makes it easier to remember events and unhelpful interpretations made at the time and the emotions they created.

Rather than focusing on simply managing symptoms, the therapy aims to resolve the underlying root cause of the problem.

Find out more and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text 07429 522 723

Hypnoanalysis is a type of analytical Hypnotherapy focused on resolving the cause of emotional and psychological symptoms, helping people with anxiety, depression, fears and phobias.

18/02/2026

“I know what happened and yet I still can’t get past it!”

This one comment describes the purpose of analytical therapy and why it's important to address the emotional impact of trauma.

It is not enough to understand that something upsetting happened, we have to fully understand how it felt at the time and why we interpreted events in that way.

Hypnoanalysis helps a person feel and think through the emotions past events created. The cathartic effect gives us a full understanding and free’s us from the emotional ties carried forward into present-day events.

Find out more a book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text David direct on 07429 522 723

Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.

16/02/2026

What’s the difference between stress and anxiety?

Stress is a response to external pressures. We feel agitated and unhappy and can attribute it to external factors: work, relationships and financial issues.

We know they cause stress (rather than anxiety) because when our external circumstances change, the stress symptoms also change.

Anxiety creates the same type of symptoms, but the stress comes from within a person’s mind. They feel the same nervousness, frustration and agitation, but it remains even when the external circumstances change.

It is something inside themselves but outside their own control.

Stress and anxiety impact each other. The greater our external stresses, the more we will be troubled by our inner anxieties.

Unprocessed emotional experiences find an outlet through anxiety symptoms, for example, phobias, panic attacks, and generalised.

Hypnoanalysis is a type of Hypnotherapy that deals with the cause of emotional and psychological problems rather than simply treating the symptoms

Find out more and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text David direct on 07429 522 723