Anxiety In Children, Coping Better In Lockdown
Let’s face it – It’s a bit tricky at the moment isn’t it? Dining tables and bedrooms have morphed into work desks and classrooms, our old weekday routines have been flung out of the window as we yet again find ourselves weeks in to another lockdown. The kids are frustrated, trying to learn in a…
Rewiring The Brain – Breaking Negative Cycles
For a long time popular theory was that our brains were “hard-wired” after our formative childhood years. Neuroscientists now know this is not so and we can change our brain and our behaviour over time, meaning our brain is more like modelling clay than hard, breakable porcelain. Neurons in our brains fire up as we…
Villains & Chickens – What is Hypnosis?
What is Hypnosis? In Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we use a combination of solution focused talking therapy aka Psychotherapy and trance aka hypnosis. I find people are usually cautious of hypnosis and given the way the media chooses to portray the subject it comes as no surprise. I remember when I was a child, seeing hypnosis…
Anxiety
1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England [1], 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (like anxiety and depression) in any given week in England[2]. These figures are from long before the recent Coronavirus pandemic and although there is no official updated…
