Effie Gardner, member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and validation board General Hypnotherapy Standards Council

ÿ   Not everything faced can be changed, but nothing can change until it is faced!

I have been in full time practice for fifteen years as a counsellor, hypnotherapist, practitioner of nlp, life coach and healer and have seen many clients turn their lives around assisted by one of the systems I employ or a combination of them. Perhaps there are very few human experiences I know, that are as humbling as witnessing the bravery of an individual as they overcome their difficulties and problems. 

I have had the privilege to work with hundreds of people over the years, saw them reach their healing goals and then surpass them too. The following list is a partial description of issues people who consulted with me, have benefited from as they reached their successful outcomes at their own and comfortable pace. For example:

•        Stress management and/or control.

•        Overcoming all known exam, test, interview nerves and anxiety.

•        Increased relaxation and the elimination of tension.

•        Recovery from and elimination of stress, anxiety or depression symptoms.

•        Overcoming stage fright and public speaking nerves.

•        Promoting a positive mental attitude.

•        Resolution of work or relationship related stress.

•        Overcoming insomnia.

•        Harmony of body, mind and emotions.

•        Healing and recovery of the inner child.

•        Support for increased self-confidence and assertiveness.

•        Improved overall quality of life and intuitive awareness.

•        Improving the quality of personal and social circumstances inadvertently attracted into one’s life.

•        Resolution and elimination of shyness, phobias, guilt, anger or panic attacks.

•        Improved decisiveness, memory and self-application.

•        Alleviation of allergies, hay-fever, asthma, nail biting, irritable bowel syndrome and stammering symptoms.

•        Increased focusing and concentration.

•        Facilitation of a better career path.

•        Improved reflexes.

•        Pain control and/or management (including chronic pain).

•        Elimination of limiting habits, phobias and other self-defeating sequences.

•        Increased self-organisation, motivation and efficiency.

•        Resolution of self-image conflicts.

•        Improved interpersonal relationships at home, work and socially.

•        Coping and overcoming bereavement.

•        Elimination of allergies, skin disorders and headaches (including migraines).

•        Strengthening the immune system.

•        Elimination of jealousy, lack of self-esteem, lack of concentration.

•        Increased ability to earn and hold onto money.

•        Assisting, supporting and promoting the body’s own self-healing capacities during or after illness.

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All therapies aim to facilitate the individual to resolve their most pressing personal problems and difficulties. While in treatment with me, you will acquire new coping techniques, you will be able to heal your circumstances and create the life you will want to have. Furthermore you will acquire skills to maintain your achievements and build on them. You too have the power to be happy, no matter what.

Today we all live busy lives and technology is progressing at ever increasing pace. However, are human being and unlike equipment we need time to adjust or keep up with our advancement and evolvement. As we go through life, many of us inadvertently forget how to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of  life, before we realise that we are totally stressed out or at a breaking point. Placing ourselves under moderate stress can be good, useful, healthy, fun, even exhilarating most of the time and we can maintain this state of affairs for surprisingly long periods without experiencing adverse side affects. What one's stamina can endure when we are twenty is not the same at sixty or as much fun either. Being motivated and ambitious is one thing, driving ourselves relentlessly is quite another and it is of little surprise when this can tip too many of us from moderate stress to stress related illness (i.e. depression or heart disease).

By default of living we encounter many challenges and most we overcome as if walking on water but not all. Events that really, really challenge us, also will provide opportunities to make us stronger. Therefore, when you are not as strong as you would like to be, there is no call on anyone to suffer unduly before allowing themselves benefit from professional help. Emotional anguish is every bit as deserving of immediate attention as a physical injury.

When you consult with me, throughout treatment you will be encouraged and supported while you resolve your important issues but without prolonging your treatment unnecessarily. Every session increasing the effectiveness of the previous one, through setting achievable, meaningful and healing  goals for peacefully living with yourself or others. Progress will be at a personal and comfortable pace. As my belief is that we are human being and that we respond best to duty of care I do not offer one off treatment sessions. 

ÿ   Please note: 

Like everything in life, every therapy is suitable for some people more than for others. For some problems counselling is more appropriate, for others hypnotherapy, nlp or a combination of styles. But no one approach to treatment is a silver bullet for all problems and for every person in the world. 

When contacting me, it helps to briefly talk about what you aim to resolve in treatment. Then, we will have a brief initial, free consultation to ensure that the skills, training and experience I have are best suitable for what you wish to achieve and the time that we will spend in the first appointment is therapeutic for you from the start.

Often the person who suffers (even with multiple or severe problems) may not always recognise this for themselves. With teenagers in particular this can be the case and an anxious or exasperated loved one with all the best intentions make the initial call to arrange an appointment. In such situations, the person with the problem may not be ready to deal with their difficulties yet, even though they forcefully state that they will give anything if things would be resolve. Professional translation this means that until the sufferer picks up the phone, asks for help and make their own appointment they are not ready. For their carer however, can be very difficult to just stand by. This does not imply that a sufferer should be unduly pressurised to take action, but a few unambiguous words must be said at the same time as gentle encouragement.

ÿ   So... ! Who can benefit from resolving their mind, body and emotional challenges... ?

If you visit therapy websites you probably know that things are not as well as they could be for you, especially when the words you read resonate with you. The therapies presented here are truly unique and they could help you onto the road of a healthier, happier and a more satisfying way of life. Therefore, do not decide off-hand that your difficulties, issues or problems are too trivial and too difficult to resolve. You are welcome to discuss with me how a therapy style listed here could support and assist your healing journey. 

Who are the people who seek therapeutic assistance as a means for resolving their mind-body-emotional challenges?

Well... invariably they are individuals from all walks of life, both men and women be they: 

•        Legal and health professionals,

•        Carers and homemakers,

•        Cricket and rugby players,

•        Mature and young parents,

•        Mature and young students,

•        Managers and Trainers,

•        Musicians, Actors, Writers, Painters, Sculptors, Fashion designers and people from other creative arts,

•        IT professionals,

•        Amateur or professional Athletes and Sports people,

•        Architects, Engineers and Builders,

•        Office and telesales professionals,

•        Minicab, Taxi and Truck drivers,

•        Human Resource Specialists,

•        Counsellors and Consultants,

•        Practitioners of complementary medicine and alternative healing,

•        Those in employment and/or self-employment,

•        People in between careers and in retirement,

•        Individuals who believe that they too deserve happiness, well being and of course is true!

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