A hypnotic state occurs naturally in everybody when certain physiological and psychological conditions are met, and with the assistance of a skilled hypnotherapist, it is possible to use this state in hypnotherapy to make deep and lasting changes to thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

Hypnosis is a valuable therapy with which to release past trauma and decondition established habits. Even though our personal unconscious only ever seeks to promote our well-being it can often be the seat of faulty learning from our childhood, leading to low self esteem, under achievement and sometimes worse.  Often it attempts to protect us by raising our fears and anxieties to phobic levels to keep us from a particular activity or stimulus it sees as dangerous. Utilising hypnosis this way in therapy often facilitates an unconscious re-learning process.