Amanda Quail Solution Focused Hypnotherapy

13/05/2025

'Meaning lives in the past. Purpose is rooted in the present and future. To align them, we need a bridge.

That bridge is storytelling.'

I may be biased (No, I AM biased!) but Solution Focussed Hypnotherapy helps build that metaphorical bridge by understanding WHERE these stories come from and HOW to make steps to altering them.

Like building a bridge, the process requires the courage to scale new heights, strength to assemble the girders and discipline to know that even when you use that bridge to revisit the past, you can work way your way back to focus upon building YOUR desired future, one beam at a time.

For more information contact me on 07398 196 807.

The story you tell yourself can heal your past, shape your purpose, and unlock your happiness. Here’s how storytelling bridges it all.

25/04/2025

https://www.afsfh.com/blog/

24/04/2025

🏝️ My recent hiatus from Facebook has resulted in a pitiful amount of posts!

💙 This belies the fact that I have been in the fortunate position of actually working with some brilliant and interesting clients.

✅ As an in-road to gaining some momentum again, and to use Facebook to its advantage, I thought I'd share some recent feedback.

💙 I loved sessions with this client. They were always good fun, honest and so insightful.

20/02/2025

We all have dreams for our lives. And life has a way of foiling those. Losing your job. Going through a heartbreak. Navigating an illness. Getting what you want and realizing it's not what you want. Experiencing the death of a loved one. Hearing difficult news.

In these moments, where life disrupts life, we have to hold on to two truths at the same time.

We can grieve what we hoped for. We can allow ourselves to feel our sorrow, anger, fear, envy, and frustration. We can process those emotions through talking, writing, creating, movement, and other forms of expression. We can connect with others who know what it feels like or those who can hold our hands as we walk this road.

And at the same time, we can make the life we have a beautiful one. We can wake up and choose one different action. We can celebrate the moments of good we have, no matter how small they are. We can make something meaningful out of what we do have, one day at a time.

For all of those who are staring down a life that looks very different than what you had hoped, please remember this: you don't have to choose either/or. You can do both.

To learn more, pick up a copy of our bestselling book New Happy: www.thenewhappy.com/book

14/02/2025

My absolute favourite!

Scottish word of the week is hee-haw!

This is a negative word that describes something of little or no amount. Hee-haw basically means "nothing".

Example sentence: "Yer gettin' hee-haw." This translates to: "You're getting nothing."

14/02/2025

😂😂😂

Sent by a friend!

Will just let it sit in all it's funniness and save the 'lecture'...

09/02/2025

I love Philip Larkin.

I love this poem.

In sessions, I talk about the importance of the science of neurology in helping to understand our very human reactions to the world around us.

I might be throwing myself under the proverbial bus here BUT can science or religion solve the human condition and the angst/conflict/suffering we find ourselves in?

Is it that simple?

I love the comic, slightly Benny Hill image of a doctor and a priest chasing that answer.

Are days simply to be happy in as one will inevitably follow the other (if we are lucky).

06/02/2025

🧠Great thing about a new client is getting to relay the 'brain explanation' from start to finish in detail.

💡Certain parts can gain more focus in different sessions as they progress so it's always brilliant to go through it and witness some lightbulb moments.

👌Especially when followed up with feedback that it was 'really interesting and informative'

Please contact me on 07398 196 807 for more information.

06/02/2025

On this – Let’s Talk 🧡

As Solution Focused Hypnotherapists we know that positive change starts with a single step - and sometimes, that step is simply talking. When we express our thoughts, we find clarity, release stress and create space for solutions.

Here at CPHT we know that it takes courage to reach out for support, but we also know that talking can help to make a difference to someones life. Every conversation has the power to break stigma, foster connection, and remind us that we’re not alone.

So today let’s start the conversation. Whether it's with a friend, a loved one or a work colleague... It really is good to talk. 🧡

04/02/2025

Just because it's funny 😂

🛌 However, the incessant ability of our primitive mind to keep us awake by obsessing and ruminating over things (other than 90's song lyrics) is most definitely not.

😴 Recently, lack of sleep has been the focus of client appointments.

💤 Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, thankfully, can help regulate sleep patterns.

03/02/2025

Group sessions consist of approx 4 people within a supportive environment and based on the forward-thinking teachings of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.

The group session will follow the same format as a one-to-one session:

🌟 What's been good?
🌟 Brain revision-weekly specific focus
🌟 Miracle Question/Doing picture
🌟 Trance

If interested, please consider the following:

👍 You are comfortable in sharing personal information/nuggets in a group setting. SFH is not problem phobic so your actual reason for attending the session doesn't NEED to be divulged.

👍Are willing to engage in a therapeutic questioning process within a supportive group environment. It may be that the responses to these questions are written and don't actually require you to say it out loud!

👍Discipline in adhering to the structure if the session in a timely fashion - 1.5 hour session.

👍 Be willing to attend 6 weekly or bi-weekly (tbc) sessions at a cost of £20 per session.

Your face doesn't have to be shown for extra confidentiality.

Date and time to be confirmed and open to suggestion. Work commitments for us all would suggest an evening or early morning weekend day.

If interested, please send me a mesage via WhatsApp on 07398 196 807.

From there I can send you a simple 'Welcome Pack' and, with permission, add you to a WhatsApp group. Your name and number can be kept private.

25/01/2025

Agreed ✅

🤔 Sometimes, though, 'solutions' come to us when we are out for a walk, driving, knitting or reading... Not necessarily when we are consciously thinking about an issue.

☺️ This natural state of focus or trance is when our subconscious mind is quietened a little. Our conscious mind is free to access the vast intellectual resource we have within, allowing us mull over issues and come up with a plan or a 'doing' picture.

👤Hypnotherapy can help access that intellectual resource allowing you the opportunity to free your mind and work towards finding a solution for you.