Help For Trauma Recovery
You know those moments – quiet ones, usually – when something inside you tightens for no obvious reason. Maybe it’s a sudden drop in your stomach, a jolt of tension in your chest, a wave of dread that has no place in the moment. Nothing “bad” is happening. You’re safe. Your life is good. And yet your body reacts as if an old alarm has just gone off.
Most clients are happy with what we achieve in three sessions
I recommend my three-session structure for £270, but a pay-as-you-go option is available.
You don’t have to live the rest of your life with a part of your mind stuck in the worst of the past.
This is the subtle, confusing reality of unresolved trauma. Not necessarily the movie version with constant dramatic flashbacks or collapsing-to-your-knees kind of trauma, just the quiet, persistent echoes woven into your nervous system, shaping your reactions, long after the original troubles have gone.
You are not as connected to past events as you think.
What is trauma?
Here’s the thing about trauma: It isn’t about the events in the past themselves - it’s about the meaning your mind has made of them.
Arguments, violence, abuse, loneliness, instability, emotional unpredictability, bullying, excessive pressure…Your nervous system adapted. It learned to brace, to scan, to predict, to hold itself together.
It learned to be alert in ways that made perfect sense at the time. And now, months or years later, those same strategies show up when you don’t need that same protection anymore, and it makes your world feel scary or unsettled, even though there is no danger:
Feeling tense for no reason
Expecting something to go wrong.
Difficulty relaxing, even with people you love.
Hesitating to trust, open up, or rely on others.
Compulsive people-pleasing.
Feeling like you’re “too much” or “not enough”.
Being pulled between wanting change and fearing it.
Feeling guilty for struggling when your life is “good” now.
Your mind and nervous system are reacting to what was, instead of what is, reacting to a story of the past rather than your current reality. Regardless of how harmful those events were, the memory of them is not a threat to you.
What trauma recovery with me looks like
We don’t dig endlessly into the past so much as look at what is going on in the present.
When necessary, we help experience memories as the older mind that survived instead of experiencing the memory the same as you experienced the event(s) at the time.
We get curious instead of fearful.
With imagination, hypnotic processes, and the Psychological Illusion Model, we gently explore the invisible stories your mind formed during difficult times and loosen the grip of those outdated patterns.
We help your nervous system stop reacting to thoughts of danger so your body feels safer.
You learn to:
Let your mind and body stand down from old protective duties.
Live in the experiences that you have chosen instead of the ones that were imposed upon you.
Stop bracing for hits that aren’t coming.
Trust and connect with yourself here in the present.
Move through life without the constant background hum of alertness.
Feel more connected with your partner, kids, and friends.
Come to enjoy the life you have created despite the life that once happened to you.
If you’re ready
If you want to stop carrying old survival patterns into new chapters…If you want a life where your body no longer reacts to ghosts…If you’re ready to feel safe, settled, and strong from the inside out…
Book in for therapy.
Let’s help your past finally loosen its grip—so you can feel here and now with clarity, confidence, and freedom, instead of half in the past.
Don’t come to try something to see if it works - come to learn how you work and how to change.
If you'd like to explore whether this approach feels right for you, you’re welcome to get in touch.
Or please take a look through this non-exhaustive list of some of my other services: Anxiety Treatment, Smash Procrastination, Beat Social Anxiety, Resolve Phobias, and Defeat ARFID.
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FAQs
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Your life is a story that you tell yourself and there are many ways to tell that story.
If you have had experiences in your past that were harmful to you at the time and still effect you now, then you were traumatised.
Personally, I prefer not to use language such as ‘you have trauma’ as I don’t think it is helpful to recovery.
You are not being oversensitive.
Your mind can learn to tell the story differently so that your experience in the present can change and so you carry less of the past with you.
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It is sometimes possible to do ‘content free’ therapy with hypnosis, so maybe not.
The reson that the past stays with us though is because we continue to experience the memory as if it were the past event itself. The memory feels threatening.
I like to help clients towards this realisation becuase when the memory is no longer a threat, the past event is truly over.
The best result is when someone can think and talk about it and feel safe doing so.
Every client is different though and if you work with me we will do what is right for you.
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When you work with me, we do not worry about the labels.
If you were traumatised and it still effects you, then we just need to work with the thoughts and feelings that are causing you problems.
With me, we work at a level that everything is thoughts and feelings and I have ways to help you feel safe with those thoughts and feelings or change them completely.
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During our first session we will cover this - what is hypnosis and how is it a part of our day to day psychology?
When you experience fear or anxiety when you are in no danger this is self-hypnosis - you are experiencing imagination as reality.
You are already experiencing hypnosis or there would not be a problem.
Simply exploring this idea with me could be enough to resolve the issue.
Hypnosis is about focus and engagement, not losing control. I will introduce you to hypnosis in a way that is comfortable for you.