Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy & Coaching

19/05/2025

If you’re living with anxiety, a complex phobia, complex trauma, PTSD or IBS, you’re not alone.

I’m a solution focused hypnotherapist who works with people struggling with complex trauma, phobias (specialising in emetophobia; the fear of vomiting), and anxiety-related disorders.

These challenges can feel overwhelming, isolating, and exhausting… but change is possible.

I also offer gut directed hypnotherapy for IBS, which is backed by strong clinical evidence showing it can ease symptoms and really improve day-to-day life.

This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about helping you feel calmer, more in control, strengthening your immune system, and providing the right conditions for healing.

I work online across the world, with some morning in person sessions.

Get in touch to book your free 20 minute exploratory consultation and find out how Solution Focused might help you.

16/05/2025

Delighted to completed this fabulous training on psychoneuroimmunology, and the wonderful effect that hypnosis can have on the immune system and a number of mental and physical health issues.

16/05/2025

Feeling anxious or stressed can be overwhelming, uncomfortable and distressing.

The Sense-Ability Emotimeter aims to bring back a state of calm.

Its a simple, powerful tool for managing anxiety.

The anxiety scale measures levels of distress. Check in with your feelings.

1 to 3 = The green zone. Calm and grounded.

4 to 6 = The orange zone. Feeling stressed and anxious but able to function.

7 to 10 = The red zone. Overwhelmed and moving to panic.

By regularly rating anxiety, we become more aware of early warning signs before they escalate; and respond with helpful interventions.

Here’s how it works:

Pause, imagine the retro meter in your head and rate your emotional state (1–10).

In the orange or red zone?

Box breathing: Inhale for 4 steady counts, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4 and repeat for a minute at a time.

Rectangular breathing: Breathe in for 4; and breathe out for 8. Ideal for the red zone for a minute at a time.

Vagus nerve stimulation: Humming, chanting, gargling, or extended exhales can help calm the nervous system.

Grounding exercises: Focus on your senses (e.g., 5 things you can see, 4 touch, 3 feel, 2 smell, 1 taste …) to bring yourself back to the present.

Cold exposure: Splash your face or run wrists under cold water to stimulate the vagus nerve and shift your body into calm.

Or a tools you have learnt.

Reassess and see if the number has dropped.

The anxiety scale is a concrete way to track our emotional state, and the effectiveness of the tools we are using.

Over time, learn which techniques work best for you and gain back control.

16/05/2025

Feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed is so uncomfortable and distressing.

Jane Pendry developed the Sense-Ability Emotimeter to take back control of challenging feelings.

Its a simple, powerful tool for managing anxiety.

Simply use the anxiety scale to measure levels of distress, and check in with feelings at any given moment.

Using a number of interventions,we can watch anxiety, distress and overwhelm go down, and gain back control.

1 to 3 = The green zone. Calm and grounded.

4 to 6 = The orange zone. Feeling stressed and anxious but able to function.

7 to 10 = The red zone. Overwhelmed and moving to panic.

By regularly rating anxiety, we can become more aware of early warning signs before they escalate; and respond with helpful interventions.

Here’s how it works:

Pause, imagine the retro meter in your head and rate your emotional state (1–10).

If you’re in the orange or red zone use an intervention designed to activate your parasympathetic nervous system (the calming, “rest and digest” system).

Box breathing: Inhale for 4 steady counts, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4 and repeat for a minute at a time.

Rectangular breathing: Breathe in for 4; and breathe out for 8. Ideal for the red zone for a minute at a time.

Vagus nerve stimulation: Humming, chanting, gargling, or extended exhales can help calm the nervous system.

Grounding exercises: Focus on your senses (e.g., 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can feel, 2 you can smell, 1 you can taste …) to bring yourself back to the present moment.

Cold exposure: Splash your face with cold water or hold an ice cube to stimulate the vagus nerve and shift your body into a calmer state.

Or a tools you have already learnt.

Reassess after the intervention and see if the number has dropped.

The anxiety scale is a concrete way to track our emotional state, and the effectiveness of the tools we are using.

Over time, you may start to notice patterns and learn which techniques work best for you.

Anxiety is part of being human. But with the right tools and awareness, it can be managed well.

01/05/2025

Thank you for your kind review on Yell.

“Brilliant experience.

“I was recommended Jane by a friend and I’m very glad that I followed it up. I went with the work related issue, but Jane helped me to resolve some issues in my personal life as well. I now have a new job and feel more in control in family relationships so would highly recommend this to anyone - especially those who have been to counsellors and found they’ve got to the end of the road with that approach. I think the sessions are very good at helping you understand the subconscious processes that might be controlling your actions and perceptions or holding you back.”

11/03/2025

TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR WORRY GREMLIN

Treating your anxiety as if it were a separate creature can help you detach from it, making it feel less overwhelming and more manageable.

This ‘worry gremlin” is AI generated and you might have fun creating yours in an AI tool, like Chat GBT.

Picturing it as a creature really can help some people detach from their fear.

Choose a name that makes your fear feel external but not too scary (e.g., “Worry Gremlin,” “Mr. What-If,” or “Bob”).

Imagine what it looks like: small, big, annoying, protective? Maybe a tiny, chattering creature that overreacts to everything.

You might say, “Oh, there you are again, Worry Gremlin. I know you’re trying to help, but you’re overreacting. You need to be quiet right now. You’re not helping” or “Thanks for your input, but I’ve got this” and “You’re making things feel worse than they are right now. Let’s check the facts.”

What would you say to your worry gremlin?

Remember, you’re the ‘parent’ and it needs your help!

This one is great to use with children.

Visualize your anxiety getting smaller, quieter, or less powerful over time.

Some people imagine putting their anxious creature in a box or giving it a boring voice, so it loses its intensity.

Imagine wrapping it in a duvet and making it all cosy and calm.

Humour can reduce fear. If you imagine anxiety as a tiny, nervous squirrel, it’s less intimidating than a vague, dominant, abstract fear!

11/02/2025

🌟🌟🌟RESOURCE🌟🌟🌟

Rectangular Breathing

The first thing to be impacted when anxiety is high or you are you triggered, is your BREATHING?

When distressed we tend to breathe shallow through our mouths. This is a natural fear response.

👍🏻 Rectangular breathing is the simplest method to help calm the nervous system.

🌟 Use when highly anxious to give you back some control and stop you tipping into panic.

😮‍💨 Find a rectangle in the room. Start top left or right. Breathe out first.

☺️ Follow the rectangle round with your eyes. Breathe UP the short side. Then breathe out along the long side. Breathe IN down the short side. Breathe OUT along the long side.

💨 Always breathe in slowly THROUGH YOUR NOSE (if you can) as your eyes track the short ends. Feel the cool air coming in.

👄 Slowly breathe out through your mouth, like a long slow sigh, as your eyes track the long ends. Feel the warm air coming out.

🎈 Aim to breathe IN to your tummy, blowing it up like a balloon.

☀️ Practise morning and night. Try four rounds and take a break.

😟 Check into your anxiety between rounds. Try another four rounds.

☺️ Do this three to four times. Watch your anxiety lower.

🔁 Repeat every few minutes while distracting yourself with pleasant things - TV, music, colouring, etc

ALWAYS breathe through your nose if you can. It filters and compresses the air bringing in more nitrous oxide which converts to oxygen in our body.

07/02/2025

This story is about how a handful of scientists skewed the results of their research to support exercise therapy for people with ME. Their research was part funded by the Department of Work and Pensions, some lead researchers had links to insurance companies, and they had been involved in previous conferences with the word ‘malingerers in their titles’.

These otherwise highly qualified and competent scientists allowed personal bias to skew their findings. It’s a long complex story involving changing outcome criteria mid-way through the research.

Cochrane are publishers of medical research.

David Tuller has debunked the research but Cochrane did not withdraw not correct the paper.

Critics of the PACE trial point out that its conclusions are unsafe due to several methodological issues. Notably, the study changed its outcome measures and recovery criteria mid-trial, potentially inflating improvements; it relied heavily on subjective, self-reported data in an unblinded setting, raising concerns about placebo effects; and it lacked sufficient objective measures to corroborate the reported benefits. Additionally, some analyses appear to have been adjusted post hoc, and there are questions about the adequate reporting of adverse effects, long-term outcomes, and potential conflicts of interest, among other things. It has even been taught as an example if a poorly run trial.

It’s a famous example of eminence over evidence.

If you know this story, and have researched the findings yourselves, please sign this petition.

For decades, Cochrane — formerly called the Cochrane Collaboration — has been known internationally for its systematic reviews of medical treatments and interventions. Now the U.K.-based charity is under fire for its clumsy handling of a thorny issue: the status of a flawed 2019 review of exerci...

01/02/2025

Another lovely testimonial. Thank you Olga.

OlgaUK
★★★★★
Live Yell review
14 Jan 2025

“Best method to heal deep-rooted traumas.

“Doing Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy was one of the best decisions l’ve made. Jane is an outstanding therapist and a wonderful human being. From the very start, she stroke me as highly perceptive and truly empathetic. Jane grasped my complicated circumstances with ease, and provided really insightful, profound analysis and advice. With her help, in a very safe and comfortable environment, I worked through old and more recent deep-rooted traumas and had amazing eye-opening experiences and life-changing epiphanies. I am convinced that hypnotherapy is by far the best method to healing deep-seated traumas.”

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Let me know if you’d like any modifications!

30/01/2025

Struggling to explain how emetophobia impacts you?

Emetophobia an extreme fear of vomiting.

🌟 This article helps you explain the impact of emetophobia to family, friends, carers, teachers and medical practitioners

🌟 Emetophobia is the most complex of complex phobias.

😰Sufferers fear their own body’s autonomic nervous system response to getting rid of toxins and bugs from the body.

🚶‍♀️They can’t walk away from their bodies, nor ask someone else to take care of the thing we fear.

😳Emetophobia can operate like trauma. Intense fear may be triggered by language, images, sounds, events, intrusive thoughts and sensations in the body.

🏃‍♀️The impact of being triggered is a fight or flight response - panicking, shaking, dizziness, tight throat, a stomach-flipping sensation and nausea (making the fear worse) among other symptoms.

😣Sickness and vomiting dominates the thoughts, feelings, actions and interactions of the sufferer, making day-to-day life challenging and exhausting.

😌 The Sense-Ability Emetophobia Recovery Programme is a painless process founded on:

👍🏻Solution Focused Hypnotherapy
👍🏻Rewind Trauma Technique
👍🏻EMDR
👍🏻NLP
👍🏻Somatic modalities

✋No CBT
✋No complex manuals
✋No exposure and desensitisation

Kindly note this article may contain trigger words

By Jane Pendry

Jane Pendry is a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and Trauma therapist specialising in emetophobia, the fear of vomiting, complex phobias, misophonia and trauma recovery.

https://www.sense-ability.co.uk/Blog/2022/6/26/why-is-emetohobia-so-complex

20/01/2025

🌿 Struggling with SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial
Overgrowth) and SIFO (Small Intestinal
Fungal Overgrowth)?

Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy (GDH) could be the game-changer you need!

By calming the gut-brain axis, improving motility, and reducing stress, GDH helps ease symptoms like bloating, pain, and irregularity. Backed by research, it’s a natural, mind-body approach to healing your gut. 🧠

Studies show gut-directed hypnotherapy can significantly reduce symptoms of IBS, SIBO, and related disorders by improving gut motility and reducing stress-driven inflammation.

Gut-directed hypnotherapy (GDH) is a therapeutic approach that uses focused hypnosis to improve communication between the brain and the gut. It is effective for conditions like SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) and SIFO (Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth) because these conditions often involve a dysregulated gut-brain axis.

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