Marie Mongan established Hypnobirthing in the USA after she had experienced all four births of her children in the 50s and 60s without labour medication, using the theories of Dr Johnathan Dye of Buffalo New York and Dr Grantley Dick-Read of the UK, two pioneers in natural childbirth. Two of her birthings were entirely free of anaesthesia at a time when it was unheard of. Of course natural childbirth has been around since the birth of humankind and it was in Western societies that giving birth became more medicalised. Sharon Mustard, a colleague of mine then developed the Easibirthing method here in the UK with support and funding from the NHS in Salisbury.
Easibirthing seeks to enable you to have the most natural active birth you want, whether you plan a hospital or home birth. Optimum time is around 20 weeks and both partners attend, although you can come later to learn the techniques of self hypnosis, pain management and reduction, which help you stay calm and relaxed throughout the whole birthing process and put you in control and at the centre of the process. There are both group and individual couple sessions with full CD support.
I aim to do the work as carefully and thoroughly as possible, following the methodology set down in my rigorous training. Interestingly, Easibirthing is only offered to those already trained or in training as hypnotherapists, unlike some other courses in the UK. Thus, you can be sure you are receiving a professional service.
Get in Touch!You will need between 3-8 sessions, although, as you are in control of your own therapy length and intensity you can leave when you feel you can manage without my help. I always tailor make your therapy and give 100%, aiming to work with you as thoroughly and quickly as possible.
An initial FREE consultation of 15 minutes is available for you from Get Mind Fit to see if your problem would be appropriately treated with hypnotherapy. Afterwards, each session lasting around 50 minutes costs £100.
To cover administration costs, appointments not cancelled 48 hours beforehand or no shows may be charged a fee of £50.
I have trained in many different modes of hypnotherapy and other disciplines as I prefer not to stick rigidly to any one branch. If I am helping you make changes in your life I need to be able to change and mix and match too. This way I do not limit my capacity to work in a tailor made way with you. I use a mix of advanced clinical, hypnotherapy, cognitive, Ericksonian and solution focused therapy and pick whichever techniques are best suited to you. So it is fair to say I have a broad brush approach rather than rigidly following one school of thought as clients come in all shapes and are all individuals. All hypnotherapy is solution focused anyway as we all seek a solution to your issues. If you wish to experience regression that is fine; if you wish to have a choice of induction methods that is fine too. Nothing is set in tablets of stone so as to give you the best possible solution to your issues and the quickest, most thorough way of changing your life in whatever way you choose to do so. If I were to follow only one school of thought or techniques I would limit your choices of success.
No; you are in total control of your own thoughts. The hypnotherapist cannot make you bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, unless that’s is what you wanted to achieve and any good hypnotherapist would not consider those to be viable outcomes.
No. Stage hypnotists sometimes use similar induction techniques to a hypnotherapist, but stage hypnotists are using hypnosis to entertain people and use on stage those members of the audience who can go very deeply into trance and who wish to be famous or have their few minutes of fame.
No, you can move around and talk. This is what children do as they are naturally in trance. Having said that, I notice alot of people who spend alot of their lives in a negative ‘trance’ or state of mind, imagining the worst, resisting change and being stuck in a rut.
Yes if you want to. You only make the transition into hypnosis if you want to.
No, you already know how to do it. You have been doing it since the day you were born
No; there is hypnotic language used by sales people and in advertisements, in politics and meetings but you only accept these suggestions if you feel inclined to do so.
No.
No. Some clients occasionally fall asleep during hypnosis but hypnosis is not sleep
No.