Karen Hayley: Thrive Hypnotherapy

25/08/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dstGVhEshU

something has changed about the internet and i KNOW i can't be the only one who feels it. remember when it felt human and real? lately, it feels like we’re s...

25/08/2025

"It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. A dog can communicate that it is happy to see you, and so can a prelinguistic child, even though both lack the capability to use words. ChatGPT feels nothing and desires nothing.."

Thoughts?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

15/05/2025

A (hopefully) uplifting post! 🔍😉 I've discovered the work of Dr. Jamil Zaki, (author of 'Hope for Cynics') and this great article, about the book, which I'm sharing. Zaki is a professor of psychology who researches cynicism. This is genuinely uplifting work, pertinent for our times, and a great read

Dr. Jamil Zaki: How to Cultivate a Positive, Growth-Oriented Mindset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2BPitASUh0

I don’t have much faith in the future – but a psychology professor says cynicism doesn’t hold up to scrutiny

25/03/2025

🌿 Individuals flourish when they feel truly seen, valued, and connected. At its core, this means recognizing each person’s uniqueness, emotions, and inherent worth. 🌿 Environments that are characterized by strong social bonds, empathy, validation, and psychological safety, lead to better mental and physical health, increased resilience, and overall well-being.
🌿 The other end of the spectrum is sometimes called ‘mechanistic dehumanization’ in social psychology, which refers to treating people in a ‘depersonalized’ way.

27/02/2025

4 Reasons why hypnosis can be a useful tool in your toolbox if you are a creative thinker:

1) It guides the mind into a deeply relaxed and receptive ‘Theta’ brain wave state, (4-8 Hz). Theta waves are linked to intuition, daydreaming, and access to the subconscious mind—a state where creativity naturally thrives.

Many artists, musicians, and inventors report breakthroughs happening in the ‘twilight’ states between waking and sleepiness, which are theta brain wave states.

2) In hypnosis, the critical, analytical mind quiets down, allowing for more fluid, subconscious processing. This makes creativity, problem-solving, and intuition stronger.

3) Hypnosis enhances visualisation and Imagination, it activates vivid mental pictures. It also promotes neuroplasticity in some ways that are comparable to psychedelics.

4) it can be used to overcome creative anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of failure. Clinical hypnotherapy can lower self-criticism and allow creative thoughts to flow more freely.

04/02/2025

https://www.westlondontherapyhub.co.uk/therapist/176/

I’m qualified and experienced Hypnotherapist, Coach & Integrative Therapist. (My Psychotherapeutic qualifications include CBT, Gestalt, Person-centred therapy, Jungian, Psychodynamic & Transactional analysis). My trauma-informed therapy qualifications include: Certificate in Trauma and body-based therapy (with Bessell Van der Kolk MD, author of 'The Body Keeps the Score'), Certificate in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (with Pat Ogden, Ph.D.) (Body oriented therapy for trauma & attachment), Certificate in IFS (Internal Family Systems) for trauma, anxiety, depression & substance abuse (with Richard Schwartz), and Expressive arts therapy training (with Cathy Malchiodi).

In addition to Hypnotherapy, I offer clients integrative psychotherapy, coaching, mindfulness, breathwork, stress management, and 1to1 Psychedelic integration sessions.

My clinical specialties include: Anxiety (including health anxiety, public speaking anxiety & OCD), stress management, burnout (prevention & recovery), insomnia, low self-esteem, voice and breathwork, sexual issues, issues around belonging and identity, depression, chronic illness, mind/body disorders. I’m trauma qualified & certified to work with trauma and PTSD, women’s sexual health issues, and as a psychedelic experience integration facilitator. I regularly work with & can also help with drinking & eating issues, compulsions and addictions.

04/02/2025

Welcome!

Hypnotherapy can help you overcome challenges, create physical and mental health, make the changes you want to make and achieve your goals by accessing the powerful, subconscious part of your mind.

WHAT CAN I TREAT? MY CLINICAL SPECIALISMS:

I'm a Clinical Hypnotherapist with additional Psychotherapy qualifications. I specialise in generalised anxiety (GAD), anxiety disorders (Including health anxiety, public speaking anxiety, exam nerves, social anxiety, phobia, insomnia, OCD, mixed anxiety & depression), stress management, burnout (prevention & recovery), PTSD, trauma, & mind/body disorders (including IBS). Issues of authenticity and belonging, low self esteem, confidence, relationship issues, female sexuality, boundaries, body image, weight loss, binge eating, food issues, controlling your drinking, compulsions and addictions.

Hypnotherapy can successfully help with any issue where there is a subconcious element maintaining the problem. It has been proven to effectively work for:

Find out about the science of hypnosis, and more ways I can help you, on my site:
https://www.thrivehypnosis.co.uk/

26/01/2025

I did my first trauma training with Bessel van der Kolk. I regularly use that wisdom, insight, and those methodologies today in my practice, I now have four separate trauma certifications. If you've found other therapy treatments have not been helpful for you, this is a really good introduction.
'Trauma is a speechless experience'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx5J5nwDBTo

https://www.thrivehypnosis.co.uk/about

Any questions DM me / let me know!

Bessel van der Kolk is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and President of the Trauma Research Foundation. He is the author of t...

08/03/2024

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

This is an amazing series. Not just exploring cults, (or so called ‘schools’ in this case), 
But oppression, and mind control in general.
One of the best things I’ve seen in a long time.
It explores the corruption of power, psychological control tactics, and child abuse.

The continuous use of the message of ‘you’re not good enough’, is mixed with imagery associating ‘approval, success, reward’ being achieved by following orders unquestioningly. It’s so disturbing.

It’s also surprisingly life-affirming, because it’s an amazing testament to the human spirit, and the ability to rise up and rebel against humiliation, manipulation and abuse. 

Recommend. ❤️💪

Congratulations

‘The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping’ Exposing the ‘Troubled Teen’ Industry
https://www.netflix.com/title/

22/01/2024

07/01/2024

Brilliant 🙌

'intimacy avoidance is a direct result of the rise of artificial intimacy'

These last few years have been characterized by prolonged uncertainty when it comes to our health, politics, economy, and beyond. Can you blame us for fallin...