A clinical hypnotherapist, master NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) practitioner based in South East England.
21/06/2024
▪️▫️ Meet Lou Cacciattolo ▫️▪️
Yacht Chief Stewardess / Front of House Manager
A native Malteser, Lou has sailed the seas as a chief stewardess on luxury yachts and will be on hand to make sure the Mahi Wellbeing Retreat offers exceptional standards of hospitality. ✨🌸
As front of house manager, Lou will be running trips around the Island and can organise extra activities like segway hire or horse riding on request. 🌅
Lou knows Malta like the back of her hand and will be organising tours based on the interests of guests. These could include visits to the historic cities of Mdina and Valletta or the picturesque fishing village of Masaxlokk. 🎣
With her local knowledge, Lou can help you discover the treasures which make Malta a Unesco World Heritage Site, including ancient neolithic monuments, as well as miles of unspoilt countryside and coastline. She’ll also be involved in sourcing local ingredients and helping the resident chef provide delicious, healthy cuisine. 🇲🇹
20/06/2024
▪️▫️ Meet Karen Martin ▫️▪️
Life coach, Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner 💫
Karen offers a mind workout to optimise emotional health. Her daily ‘achievement programme’ aims to facilitate change and help elevate you above stress and anxiety so you can have your best life. 🧠🤍☁️🌿🍃✨️
She’s taking time out from her busy therapy practice to offer an inspiring and intensive course of transformational techniques. Whatever your stage in life or circumstances, there will be something for you to take away from these uplifting and entertaining brain training sessions.
Karen’s solution focused approach can help you step up to the challenges of life. Her methods have been tried and tested during two decades of helping thousands of people fulfil their potential and overcome limiting beliefs. She is offering one to one sessions for those wanting to dig a bit deeper into their specific issues.😌🍃
13/06/2024
I have an exciting new project that may interest you.
This coming November, I’d like to invite you to leave gloomy old England for a few days and join me in sunny Malta at the Mahi Retreat.
I’ll be running an ‘Achievement Programme’ to help you reset personal development goals at a beautiful villa where you can unwind and grow.
I’ve teamed up with a talented yoga instructor to offer a life enhancing mind and body workout. We aim to provide an enjoyable programme of exercise and enlightenment in gorgeous surroundings, inclusive of a delicious, healthy menu and the use of spa facilities.
As the winter months linger on, Karen Martin, a qualified hypnotherapist operating out of Salomons Estate, reveals how boredom can negatively impact our Time to banish boredom
18/10/2022
If you could choose what you had been taught at school, what might you say?
Maybe learning healthy coping mechanisms; how not to hate your body; how to cope if someone close to you dies; what to do if someone objectifies you or takes advantage of you; how to communicate with your parents and peers; how to exist beyond academics; how to not burn yourself out; how to budget for a house; how to cope with puberty or periods; what to do if it feels like you don’t fit in; what to do if you’re questioning your sexuality or gender; how to communicate; what to do about anxiety; what to do if you don’t want to go to uni…
The list may seem endless, or at least subjective to each individual, but ultimately all of these things have the SAME thing in common – learning how to look after your brain so that life itself (which is unequivocally hard AF!!) does not leave you feeling squashed and voiceless.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t teach young people about history and geography and maths too, just if we can simultaneously and in EQUAL MEASURE (i.e. not as an extracurricular) teach them about life too, and give them the tools to understand their ever-evolving brain, then we have an opportunity to create resilient, confident, tenacious future generations who might have a better shot at managing their mental health than running blind without this education and then we wonder why at 15-years-old a young person comes to us saying they cut themselves or don't want to eat as it’s the only way they can find control 🤯
It’s always great to hear when the government promise more funding for mental health services, and again I’m not knocking this, but I’m constantly baffled why they don’t look at PREVENTION over CURE, why not one person in power thinks, ‘Hey, if we revolutionise how we educate our young, what a different world we might live in.’
15/05/2022
This article can help put anxieties in perspective
This month our resident hypnotherapist Karen Martin looks at the issue of how we can stop the dreaded ‘fear’ taking over during times of worry
02/01/2021
02/01/2021
New year, new vaccine, new hope. For those who suffer with needle phobia however this creates a world of fear. Needle phobia or ‘trypanophobia’ is one the most common fears I have helped people to overcome and never more so than now. Find out more in my January article for So Magazines https://www.hypnotherapykent.co.uk/this-is-going-to-hurt-a-bit/
There are various other hypnotic techniques which, with a bit of practice can rid a needle phobic of their fear so they can have life-saving treatment and protect others from contagion. The survival of millions depends on all of us being vaccinated at the earliest opportunity. This is the fastest an...
07/12/2020
Treat yourself to an early Christmas present and start making positive changes. My self-hypnosis sessions have been developed over my years in practice as a clinical hypnotherapist and have helped hundreds of satisfied clients achieve their goals.
Each session features tools and techniques specific to issues including anxiety and panic disorders, all kinds of phobias and habits, as well as dealing with changes like controlling eating behaviour and overcoming addictions.
I use tried and tested strategies to teach the listener how to use self hypnosis to achieve change. By listening to any of my sessions repetitively, you can programme yourself to develop more positive thought processes, manage difficult emotions and take action with confidence. At the same time, you'll be guided into a state of deep relaxation, which feels just like taking a stress holiday.
As we come to the end of a challenging year, my December article for SO magazine focuses on making positive changes a reality. Read on to find a practical and realistic seven step guide to manifesting life enhancing goals.
First shared in July, this remains relevant and I hope will offer some help to those seeking it. In unprecedented times of change, as individuals and on a wider scale, we are all being challenged to make changes for the better. This is how the worst of times can create the best of times. It is possible for all of us to benefit from living through unprecedented times by seeking out new precedents for happiness, wellbeing and success.
My regular column in SO magazine focuses on employment uncertainty during these times and strategies for coping if your job or business is at risk. Read the full article on p42
Piling on the pounds during lockdown? I've helped many people achieve not just a healthy weight, but also a healthy attitude towards food and drink, resulting in long lasting changes - easily and quickly. Here's some advice to help anyone struggling with covid calories...
After many years of supporting people through career changes and workplace stress, I’ve accumulated a toolkit of strategies to help them thrive and fulfil their potential. Some of this advice is particularly relevant in today’s circumstances.
unemployment is estimated to hit 12 per cent or four million by the end of 2020 and more than a million job losses are predicted by the middle of next year. Like long covid, the symptoms of the ailing financial crisis are going to be prolonged and nasty.
21/06/2020
I’m delighted to be returning to my clinic at Salomons from Monday 6th July.
Whilst I’ve enjoyed Skyping, Zooming and Facetiming and online hypnotherapy works a treat for the usual anxieties and ailments, I can’t wait to get back to a better normal.
The wonderful team at Salomons have been busy ‘Covid-proofing’ the building so we can work there safely and there is plenty of room for social distancing measures.
If you’ve been waiting to see me in person, you’re welcome to call me on 07948 509144 for information or bookings. And that’s the number to contact me on too if you’re self-isolating and would like an online session.
As lockdown restrictions ease, hypnotherapy is a rapid and effective way of tackling old anxieties that surface or preventing new ones from emerging.
However you’ve been affected by the pandemic, I’ll be pleased to help in any way I can.
20/05/2020
Let’s hope that the generosity of human kindness being shown at the moment continues as lockdown eases and something will turn up to ease the economic suffering of millions. https://www.hypnotherapykent.co.uk/lockdown-losers/
The media is awash with doom and gloom about the economy. And much of what is reported is so baffling it makes no sense in terms of its impact on us as individuals. When figures are bandied about in the billions, it’s difficult to relate that in real terms to the difference it makes to …
19/05/2020
'We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone'
In the long dark hours of a Spring night, a 17 year old boy takes his own life in a Tunbridge Wells park and the coronavirus claims another tragic victim. Lockdown measures are particularly challenging for teens isolated from the social contact of school life and the support of their friendship g...
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I am one of the longest established Clinical Hypnotherapists in West Kent, as well as being a Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). I also teach Hypnotherapy and Counselling.
I have many years experience treating a wide range of conditions and disorders. Anxiety in its many forms, from phobias to panic disorders, and behavioural change, such as weight management and smoking cessation, are issues I specialise in and have a consistent track record of successfully treating.
Much of the work I do is about enabling people to achieve change in their thoughts, feelings and behaviour using their own subconscious resources. Neuroscientists are only now discovering how fantastically powerful our ability to use simple hypnotic techniques can be. This is something I have observed countless times in people who come to me feeling hopeless, helpless and out of control who then discover in themselves transformative potential to improve their quality of life, achieve previously out of reach goals and fulfil their potential. It is a privilege to help them to do so.
My self hypnosis audio sessions are available in a range of life-changing mp3 downloads and CDs. These have been developed over my years in practice as a clinical hypnotherapist and have helped hundreds of satisfied clients to achieve their goals. Each session features tools and techniques specific to issues including, for example, anxiety and panic disorders, all kinds of phobias and habits like nail biting, as well as dealing with changes like controlling eating behaviour and overcoming addictions. I use tried and tested strategies to teach the listener how to use self hypnosis to achieve change. By listening to any of my sessions repetitively, you can programme yourself to develop more positive thought processes, manage difficult emotions and take action with confidence. At the same time, you’ll be guided into a state of deep relaxation, which feels just like taking a stress holiday.
I have observed in my years operating clinics in West Kent, how impressed people are by practitioners who work in Harley Street. Despite the kudos attached to it, Harley Street is simply a road in central London where very high rents are charged to anyone who can afford them, whether they be expert in their field or not. Preferring to work outside London, where I can provide more affordable services, I have built a successful, accessible practice with a reputation to rival the best in Harley Street.
My training began with an intensive full-time course run by the Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy, where I benefited from being in a small class where we could all receive individual coaching from superb teachers. This was chosen in favour of joining seminars run by Paul McKenna at the time. There is a perception that his undoubted ability and international reputation somehow rubs off on the hundreds of students claiming attendance at his seminars. So, while I would have loved to attend a masterclass with Mr McKenna, I eschewed the opportunity to observe him on a distant stage in favour of learning the basics under the close supervision of skilled clinical practitioners who work with ordinary people (as well as the occasional celebrity) just like I do now. My training continues with courses, lectures and seminars by, for example, ‘hypnosurgery’ specialist Paul Butler, the late lamented hypnotherapist Gil Boyne and NLP founder John Grinder. My skills and areas of expertise have been expanded with specialist training including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, advanced NLP techniques and the treatment of addictions, smoking cessation, weight control, IBS and depression.
Running a general hypnotherapy practice for as long as I have, I have worked with a vast range of conditions and issues. One of the remarkable things about my work is that I never know what to expect from day to day and therefore have to be adaptable enough to deal with the many and varied concerns of the ‘worried well’ as well as helping sufferers of more chronic or debilitating illnesses. If I have any area of particular skill, it is the ability to alleviate anxiety, whether it be a phobia, panic disorder or social or performance anxiety. This is not because of any particular training but because of an intuitive, empathic knack which comes from experience. People feel safe enough to share their worst fears with me and trust that I can help them.
