Benefit Therapy

10/10/2025

Sometimes, when we want to make a change we also need to change the people around us.

My client was drinking to excess every day and was desperately unhappy. After a brief, intensive therapy programme she's in control and doing great. Not everyone needs to ditch their partner but for SW it was right - now, she's no longer under the influence of alcohol or an enabling boyfriend and is building a happier, healthier future 🙌

06/08/2025

The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life 🖤

Nancy McWilliams PhD

27/06/2025

Reminder to check out Freddy's Free Friday Therapy at Four today!

As part of our ongoing programme to explore prospects for improved healthcare, the College of Medicine is pleased to support free online hypnotherapy sessions.

The next session is on Friday 27th June at 4pm (UK local time) with hypnotherapist Freddy Jacquin Hypnosis Network and is free for College members - find the link in your inbox!

28/04/2025

Imagine! In just six short weeks you can set a new path to health and happiness. Client feedback received this morning 🎉

Along the way we cleared trauma, increased motivation, built confidence and created a new mindset for lasting change.
This programme is for you, if you want to:

✅ Learn how to replace bad habits, such as binge-eating
✅ Discover how to rewire your brain to change your mindset
✅ Increase confidence, self-esteem and positive self-image
✅ Remove any psychological barriers to weight loss
✅ Use your brain power to lose weight and create a new future
Find out more here >>> https://clairegaskin.com/bwrt-weight-loss/
All telephone consultations are free and carry no obligation:

📧claire@benefittherapy.co.uk

27/04/2025

REAL-LIFE CASE STUDY: WASP PHOBIA SUCCESS

Gender: Female
Age: 30-35
Presenting problem: Wasp Phobia
Treatment modality: BWRT
Number of sessions: 2

R requested an appointment after she discovered a wasp flying around her bedroom one day and reacted in sheer panic – running out of the house in her pyjamas to the street beyond.

During our Zoom meeting she explained how, once outside on the pavement, she’d been paralysed with fear for a few minutes. Eventually, plucking up enough courage to run back into the house to retrieve her mobile phone, she swiftly returned to her place of safety to ring a friend, sobbing and shaking as she pressed the buttons. It was while waiting for her pal to arrive that R realised her fear was out of control.

It had all started a year before, she explained. Although she’d always felt a bit uncomfortable around wasps, it had never been too much of a problem. Then, one day, R had found herself trapped in a room with a wasp and ‘totally freaked out’.
Continue reading >>> https://benefittherapy.co.uk/phobias/wasp-phobia/

She discovered a wasp flying around her bedroom one day and reacted in sheer panic - running out of the house in her pyjamas to the street beyond...

26/04/2025

🐝 It's around this time of year that people with a wasp phobia start panicking. Here's some helpful information:

https://benefittherapy.co.uk/fears/help-for-wasp-phobias/

Wasps are generally not a problem until the wasp colony starts to break down in late Summer...

20/04/2025

REAL-LIFE CASE STUDY: WORK STRESS AND PROBLEM DRINKING

Chronic stress often leads to harmful behaviours, like drinking too much. A new client this week is experiencing this due to the constant demand of meeting high expectations, something that has followed them since childhood.

In the case study below, we discover that problem-drinking is threatening this man's marriage, and also has its roots in the death of his father:
Gender: Male
Age: 50-55
Presenting problem: Stress and Problem Drinking
Treatment modality: BWRT
Number of sessions: 6

B is a successful businessman in his early 50’s who is suffering under the weight of work-related stress and self-medicating with alcohol as a coping strategy.

During our consultation he says he cannot continue with the way things are. He is relieved that a recent medical check-up gave him a clean bill of health but realises that, if he doesn’t gain control over his drinking now, he is heading for trouble in the future – not least because it’s causing major problems in his marriage.
Continue reading >>> https://benefittherapy.co.uk/stress/help-for-stress-and-alcohol/

Presenting Problem: Alcohol, Grief and Stress. Fully committed to achieving his goals, P’s progress through the four-stage programme was remarkable. Each session he would arrive looking fitter and healthier than the last, and leave with a spring in his step.

01/03/2025

Another business professional on their way to an important day, with confidence:

01/03/2025

From anxious to confident - an ambitious professional smashed their conference presentation and ended up with their dream job:

01/03/2025

Confidence is everything, no matter where or when we need it. It's been a while since I've posted client feedback and I have a few to share with you - from anxiety about work performance to personal struggles with alcohol and self-harm - from everyday people striving to live the life they want, with confidence.

A little bit of therapy can go a long way.