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
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.
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
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.
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:-
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.
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) 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!
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.
My fees for standard sessions in Bristol and Central London and for telephone counselling
My unique Consumer's Guide to many different types of psychotherapy, self-help and personal development.
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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
To arrange an appointment, or for more information, ring and speak to me direct. Clinics for hypnotherapy & counselling in Clifton, Bristol, Avon BS9 1JE; Portobello Rd, London W11 3DL; and in Taunton, Somerset, TA2 7BZ
0845 351 0604
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