Issues I help with using hypnotherapy, cognitive-behavioural hypnosis, life-dynamic counselling and relationship counselling in Bristol, London and Taunton include the following:

Alcohol over-use

Anger management

Anxiety and anxiety attacks

Becoming “unstuck” and moving forward

Career setbacks

Childhood trauma

Surviving the effects of parents (or even grandparents) who were alcoholic, divorced, manic-depressive, absent, abusive, depressed, went bankrupt, had a secret affair or were emotionally caught up in traumatic events such as the second world war

Chocalholism

Commitment phobia

Confidence

Crispaholism

Decisions

Deepening intimacy

Dental phobia

Depression

Diet trauma - failing so many diets that you become afraid to eat

Divorce - as it affects your present family or as your parents' divorce still affects you years later

Driving test nerves

Eating problems

Eczema and skin conditions

Emetophobia (fear of being sick)

Emotional pain and turmoil

Erectile dysfunction

Exam nerves

Fear in life

Fear of driving / driving phobia

Fear of flying

Fear of public speaking

Finding meaning and understanding

Guilt

Habits

Inner conflicts

Insomnia

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

Lack of confidence

Lack of motivation

Motivation

Negative self-image

Negative thinking

Panic attacks

Phobias – of snakes, cats, driving, buttons, heights, dogs, lightning, needles, dentists, vomiting, flying …

Medical symptoms for which there is no medical cause

Post-traumatic stress

Quitting smoking

Re-building self-esteem

Recovering from a toxic relationship

Rediscovering meaning

Regaining a sense of control

Relationship problems and break-ups

Self-confidence

Self-esteem

Self-worth

Sexual abuse

Sexual difficulties

Shame

Shyness

Sleep problems

Social anxiety

Social phobia

Stage fright

Stopping smoking

Stress

Success anorexia (inability to let yourself be successful)

Vaginismus

Hypnotherapy, cognitive-behavioural hypnosis, hypno-psychotherapy
and relationship counselling in Bristol, London and Taunton

Solve your problems with the magic deep inside you

It's a major step to seek help, and finding the right therapist is a difficult choice. People want to feel safe and respected. They want their issues treated with sensitivity, understanding, and real expertise. Above all they want neither endless talk nor a couple of days of feeling good, but effective results.

Am I the right person to help you? To find out, I invite you to explore the in-depth information on this website. Is is based on my 30 years wide-ranging experience of the world of personal development. Some of it is unique and not to be found elsewhere on the internet.

If you feel I may be who you are looking for, please don't hesitate to ring me directly, and if necessary meet me, in Bristol or Taunton, for a free half-hour initial meeting. (0845-3510604 / 0117-968-7307). It's really important that you feel safe with you go to see, and know they have faith in you as a person.

My work is different. Again and again, clients who've been to other therapists tell me that I am the first person who has actually helped them.

I draw on a wide range of really effective methods. Some are not widely available. One of the methods which clients tell me is the most useful (male-female balancing) is used by only two other therapists in the UK.
I focus on what's right in people, and I'm very accepting of what's wrong.
My approach is not clinical, medical, or "mental health" oriented, but human, intuitive and respectful. It's important that you feel both safe to discuss intimate matters, and respected - and if necessary challenged - that you have every capability to resolve things. That's why what I do is successful - I have faith in you.
We work collaboratively to mix and match what I do to what you need. I integrate methods aimed at here-and-now action in everyday life (eg solution-oriented therapy, cognitive-behavioural hypnosis) with methods to heal deeper, maybe hidden, emotions (hypnoanalysis, inner child healing, family constellation). I teach self-help methods including self-hypnosis and EFT.
Some problems invite a transpersonal perspective. While working for everyday life to change, I never lose sight of the wider vision of the journey through life.

The commonest question people ask me is "I saw a counsellor for 10 weeks [or months]. I understood things better but nothing actually changed. Will this really be different?" My answer is an emphatic "Yes."

With the right approach, a relatively short number of sessions can get to the heart of the matter and create the process of change that you need.

I aim to advertise with integrity, and only offer you what is real. The inescapable reality is that some issues take a longer time. That's life. No therapy whatever can avoid or shorten that. But it is very real that pivotal change can happen in a short time.

My approach is an invitation, and a challenge, to discover that you are magic - that is real, too. Whether you believe it or not, within you, you have hidden treasures. You have resources ranging from fun to fearlessness, from acceptance to assertivness, enough to heal whatever problem faces you. You have within you the ability to live life calmly and wisely, with strength and tenderness, with love and joy, achieving far more, and feeling far happier, than you might have ever imagined possible. And you have all the amazing abilities of the unconscious mind, plus the power of conscious (also called "mindful") choice.

I am expert in helping people to remember, or discover, these positive parts of themselves. It brings so much self-belief when you do so. I'm intuitive in understanding the hidden roots of a problem, and when you make friends with the hidden root, so much suddenly becomes possible.

My wide ranging 30 years' experience of the world of personal development has shown me just how much change and happiness is possible. You can solve your problems, you can feel positive, you can have loving relationships. I don't want anyone to settle for less.

What issues do I work with? - whatever life is throwing at you. That includes all the problems in the panel on the left, plus also relationship counselling. In addition, I have specialist programmes using hypnosis, hypnotherapy and hypno-psychotherapy in Bristol, London and Taunton for stress, weight and eating, smoking, insomnia, panics, fears and phobias, depression and confidence.

One day, you'll look back and
see your problem left behind.
To do that, you have to take a first step forward.
To make an appointment, or to find out how I can help you, please just ring and speak to me directly.
I'm happy to talk or, in Bristol and Taunton, to arrange a free half-hour introductory meeting.
0845 3510604 / 0117-968-7307
Begin changing your life today!

About different therapies

Relationship counselling and relationship coaching

Sometimes, relating is painful, commitment elusive. True intimacy may be challenging. If it comes to that point, deciding whether to stay or go may be painfully unclear. In relationship counselling and marriage guidance (couples therapy) I work with the whole person to help reconnect with love, trust, confidence, sexual pleasure, assertion, independence and joy. I integrate work for emotions, communication, thinking patterns, behaviours and individual healing. I work with singles or one or both partners (often one is enough) and with all phases of relating - finding a partner, deepening the relationship, finding commitment, and if necessary with separating and recovering.

Hypnotherapy and hypnosis

Try this: just close your eyes and think of something delightful - a flower, your favourite food or music, someone you love. Focus on that for a full two minutes. As you do, you are starting to enter hypnosis - hypnosis is that simple. Many common preconceptions are just wrong:-

No-one imposes their will on you. You aren't required to "lose control."
You take on board what's agreeable to you, nothing else.
You are not asleep or "gone". You are present and know what's going on. It's quite like lying half-asleep in a deckchair.
You remember normally.

Hypnosis is relaxing and 100% safe. But it's not in itself therapeutic. Hypnotherapy is therapy using hypnosis to help re-programme the unconsious mind. (FAQ on hypnosis). Over 10,000 scientific research papers testify to the effects, causes or benefits of hypnotherapy. Hypnosis really works. It is the most research-validated form of complementary therapy.

Hypno-psychotherapy

Psychotherapy refers to a range of very different ways of helping people mentally, emotionally and behaviourally. Hypno-psychotherapy refers to using hypnosis to deepen and empower a variety of therapeutic techniques to access the unconscious mind, release trauma or deal with deeper-seated issues.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) focusses on how what we think and say to ourselves influences how we feel and act. I work extensively with such self-talk or inner dialogue, but I add a lot more. While CBT has achieved fame in the NHS as the "best" or "most research-supported" therapy, this is misleading. In my wide experience of the whole world of personal change, CBT is no more than one component, no matter how essential, of a complete therapy package.

Don't put up with feeling down - do something about it. To make an appointment, or to find out how I can help you, please just ring and speak to me directly.
I'm happy to talk, or in Bristol and Taunton to arrange a free, half-hour introductory meeting.
0845 3510604 / 0117-968-7307.
Begin changing your life today!

My catchment area for hypnotherapy, hypnosis, hypno-psychotherapy, life-dynamic counselling and relationship counselling

Andrew White: hypnotherapy, hypno-psychotherapy, life-dynamic counselling, couples counselling, marriage guidance, relationship counselling and family constellation therapy in Clifton, Bristol BS9 1JE; Portobello Rd London W11 3DL; and Taunton TA2 7BZ. My partial catchment area for hypnotherapy and life-dynamic counselling: Bristol, London, Taunton, Clifton, Bath, Redland, Thornbury, Yate, Alveston, Portishead, Keynsham, Westbury-on-Trym, Stoke Bishop, Somerset, Avon and Wiltshire.

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My unique Consumer's Guide to many different types of psychotherapy, self-help and personal development.

Personal development and relationship communication workshops and seminars.

Some tests and quizzes for stress, for confidence, for depression and for eating disorders.

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us." Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandela in his acceptance speech
as president of
South Africa

"You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist teacher nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King

"We must do the things that we think we cannot do...I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face... "
Eleanor Roosevelt

"We are what we think...With
our thoughts, we
make our world."
Gautam Buddha

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
Maori proverb

"Be realistic - plan
for a miracle."
Osho