Bad habits

Whether you bite your nails, can’t stop looking at our phone or pull at your hair, bad habits can be not only tiresome and embarrassing but can lead to feelings that your actions are beyond your control. Often they can even lead to, taking hair pulling as an example to large clumps of hair being pulled out and areas of baldness. This compounds the feelings of hopelessness leading to feelings of further embarrassment, having to brush your hair in a certain way to cover patches of missing hair. Similarly if you bite your nails, you can feel self conscious, not being able to wear nail varnish or confidently shake somebody’s hand.

How can I help?

The good news being with 1-2 sessions of Cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy can help. By understanding the relationship between the habit or behaviour and the thoughts and feelings around it we can recognise and rehearse the lead up stages to the habit and apply simple techniques or new behaviours to stop the habit entirely. Many people find that the confidence they gain from conquering an undesired habit spreads to other areas of their lives. CBT has been proven to be very effective in treatment for habit reversal, when combined with hypnosis the treatment becomes even more powerful and evidence has shown that in some cases the habit is reduced by 97.5%, which is significant. We can look to understand what is going on emotionally, behaviourally and cognitively and target the root causes of the habit and why it is being maintained. We can work together to help you transform an annoying or unhealthy habit by installing a competing healthy habit in its place.

I offer a free 20 minute consultation, if you have any questions or are still unsure how I can help please feel free to contact me via phone or email.