Professional hypnotherapy services to help you overcome your trauma

If you've gone through a traumatic experience, you may be struggling with upsetting emotions, frightening memories, dreams or flashbacks, or carry a sense of constant danger. You may even feel numb and disconnected from life and those around you.

Trauma can take many forms and occur at any stage in our life. It may be the result of a one off incident, or as a result of feeling overwhelmed by a lifetime of traumatic events.

The damage trauma creates can be slow and quiet, sinking into every aspect of who we are. Till eventually it takes over and controls our lives and can make the world seem like a very scary place.

Regardless of what created the trauma, one thing becomes very clear; it's that these events have changed or affected your life. But the good news is that hypnotherapy can help set you free, even years after the traumatic event took place. To find out more, call me on 01772 439046, or email me by clicking here.

What's the cost per session?

The cost per session is £60, with each session normally lasting between 90 minutes to 2 hours.

What is trauma?

Trauma is often described as an event or experience that threatens our physical survival or safety.

This traumatic event frightens or shocks us; it causes us to feel fear. This fear causes deep emotional pain, confusion and at times may have us doubting our very sanity. Suffering and dealing with the after effects of trauma are for many part of every day life.

If the traumatic events and the emotions it creates are not dealt with fully, the trauma can lead onto other difficulties creating flashbacks, memories and nightmares. It can affect our everyday lives as we avoid places and people that can remind us of what happened.

Coping strategies may only work in the short term.

To help get through the bad days you may have developed ways of coping. Typically these are antidepressants or medication, OCD rituals, hair pulling, alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, shopping.

These distractions can and do help us get past the uncomfortable moment in the short term. But the difficulty in simply coping is that nothing has actually changed. We are in fact the same person carrying with us same anxiety, fears and associated problems.

Every time we avoid dealing with the emotions through these coping strategies, it simply reinforces any feelings of weakness or hopelessness which can then further reduce our ability or will to deal with them.

It can become a vicious circle causing the emotional pressure to mount up over months and years which can take its toll on us physically and mentally. Often people that I work with have been carrying the effects of trauma for over half their life.

Unresolved trauma is often at the root of anxiety disorders such as:

Alcohol and drug abuse chronic anxiety - claustrophobia - eating disorders - IBS - panic attacks - PTSD - social anxiety - body dysmorphic disorder - chronic fatigue - depression - fibromyalgia - OCD - trichotillomania - hair pulling.

Regardless of what created the trauma and it's after effects, one thing becomes very clear, it's that these events permanently change peoples lives. But the good news is that with the right help they can heal, and core healing therapy is an effective process to help you heal and move on from trauma even long after the traumatic event took place.

What are the physical and emotional symptoms of trauma?

Intrusive thoughts, nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks, lack of motivation, feeling alienated, distant and numb, insomnia or disturbed sleep, rage and anger, lost confidence.

All of these are normal reactions, and tell us that you have faced a threat that in some way was serious and overwhelming. The fact that these symptoms are sometimes uncontrollable and overwhelming are signs of an internal conflict as your body and mind are trying to come to terms with what happened and recover from it. So through hypnotherapy we work with your mind and body to find balance and set you free.

How does hypnotherapy help overcome trauma?

You can't hide from your emotions. Well you can, but not forever, as when you do you're stopping your mind and body to work together.

The goal of therapy in the treatment of trauma is to help you break the link and release the emotions around the painful memories until they no longer cause disabling symptoms and at the same time you begin to move forward in life without needing the distractions such as alcohol, drugs etc.

In working to help release and heal you from your trauma I use a full range of modalities which include Hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, EFT, breathwork, myclonic shaking, NLP and mindfulness to help set you free from the trauma affecting your life.

Feeling safety is the key

When working with trauma there are several pre-requisites that clients need. In no particular order they are safety, to feel accepted and not judged, to be able to talk openly and honestly and be listened to, and to have their feelings and emotions respected and listened to. In my office you will have all of these.

In our sessions you are in control. We work at your pace and speed and we always work with permission.

We are following a natural process. If you are already having flashbacks and nightmares, part of your mind wants to bring the experience into consciousness and make sense of it so you can let it go and move on, and my role is to help you do that.

Together we will work to release you from the prison of these emotions such as Anger, Fear, Sadness, Guilt and Hurt. In releasing these emotions and the beliefs they create you can finally move on free from your past.

To find out more about the stages and process of change, have a look at the 'The process' and the 'F.A.Q' pages.

What's the cost per session?

The cost per session is £60, with each session normally lasting between 90 minutes to 2 hours.

How can I pay for treatment?

Payment is per session and can be paid in cash, debit card, Visa or MasterCard at the end of each session.

What's the next step in letting go of my trauma?

If you're tired of suffering with the after effects of trauma and ready to begin healing, call me on 01772 439046, or email me by clicking here, to find out how hypnotherapy can help set you free.

Chris Gelder Hypnotherapy
107 - 109 Towngate
Leyland
Lancashire
PR25 2LQ