Working with you to create positive & powerful change
Southsea Hypnosis
PLEASE NOTE: APPOINTMENTS CAN BE HELD FACE TO FACE AT MY OFFICE IN SOUTHSEA OR VIA ZOOM

Therapies Offered

You won’t need to choose which of these therapies for your session when you book! Sometimes I just use one modality if necessary but more often than not I will use a combination of those outlined below to suit your unique requirements.

Hypnotherapy

When you book an appointment with me, rest assured that I will tailor make the session to absolutely suit your needs. When working with you I draw on countless hypnosis and NLP techniques to ensure that you get the very best experience and the very best results, and if appropriate I will teach you techniques that you can use at home. The number of sessions will depend on several factors and I will discuss this with you before you commit. Often my clients need just one session and sometimes they need two or three. Sometimes this is simply because they have such positive results after the first session and they then think of other ‘issues’ that hypnotherapy could help them with!

Andrew’s testimonial:

“I went to Sarah as I was desperate to stop biting my nails. I had tried everything from sitting on my hands to using anti biting liquid but to no avail. Sarah worked with my negative beliefs, which I hadn’t even thought about before and abracadabra I now have nails that I am proud of and which I have to cut every week. She listens really well and was able to convince my unconscious that it was time to have healthy nails!“

Leanne’s testimonial:

“Great appointment with Sarah to help with low self-esteem and weight loss. It was the first time I had experienced hypnotherapy and I felt comfortable and relaxed all the way through.”

Kinetic Shift

Kinetic Shift is a rapid therapy, developed by Karl Smith, initially as a technique to clear Trauma and PTSD. It is a combination of the best bits of other therapies which have produced an excellent tool not just for use in the resolution of trauma, but to clear stuck emotions and anxieties which contribute to other problems.

Here’s an example. Fiona witnessed a horrific road accident when she was a child. Over the years, she has experienced flashbacks and occasional nightmares relating to the incident. She received counselling as a teenager and has used other therapies – none of which seemed to help. Our subconscious mind will always seek to either protect us or to keep us happy and in this instance Fiona’s subconscious would remind her of the road accident when it thought she needed reminding to stay safe. The constant flashbacks were having a more negative effect, as she got older, often coming up during times when she was driving or planning journeys. They eventually resulted in anxiety and panic attacks and more frequently occurring nightmares, adding layers and layers of useless and unnecessary anxiety into her life.

Using Kinetic Shift with Fiona cleared the negative emotions, thoughts, feelings, sensations and images from her mind, leaving her able to look back at the incident dispassionately. In effect it took the emotional charge out of the incident and gave her the peace she was searching for.

I use Kinetic Shift techniques to some degree in most sessions, however if you feel your old emotions and anxieties have been lingering and holding you back and you can’t put a name to a ‘condition’ then I can book an appointment for you solely using Kinetic Shift.

Here’s Fiona’s testimonial:

“Sarah thank you so much for our online session last month. I have left it a while to write this as I wanted to monitor the effects of the Kinetic Shift work. I can’t believe that such a simple process has left me feeling free of all that anxiety in just one appointment! After 33 years of symptoms which had got progressively worse I haven’t had one flashback or nightmare about the accident since working with you and in fact I was able to tell a colleague about it the other day without experiencing any negative effects. It’s now something that ‘just happened’; it’s still in my memory but not giving me any problems just as you said. I would thoroughly recommend Kinetic Shift to anybody who has any traumatic memories. “

John’s testimonial:

“I was curious about Kinetic Shift. I didn’t have any particular problems but had recently been feeling a little unsettled and anxious. Maybe the ‘Covid’ situation had rattled me somewhat. Kinetic Shift was a cathartic experience leaving me feeling energised, focused and clear of that niggle of anxiety that had been with me for the past few months. It was the first time I had experienced an appointment like this online and it worked really well. Would thoroughly recommend. ”

OldPain2Go®

We all know that pain is a warning. It tells us that we are hurt or injured or that something is not quite right with our body. Being in pain encourages us to take appropriate action. We put a plaster on a cut or we rest, or if we feel our pain won’t go away without investigation, we seek medical advice.

Once we are satisfied that rest or treatment or temporary pain killing medication will do the trick, we can stop focusing on the pain and hope to get back to ‘normal’ pretty soon.

Sometimes though, this doesn’t happen. Our subconscious minds want to protect us and make us happy – and if it thinks that giving us that pain signal has served a purpose, it will continue to do so – long after the need for it has passed. Sometimes too, it simply forgets to turn off the pain.

Steven Blake’s OldPain2Go® methodology is a process which allows you to connect with your subconscious and ask it to turn off any unwanted and unnecessary pain signals. There are several things to consider:

It sounds incredibly simple and almost unbelievable that this can work to relieve pain so quickly. It’s not magic – just a simple method of communication.

You don’t have to believe it will work in order to create the change – you just have to want it to work.

An OldPain2Go® practitioner will only work with you if you have had a medical diagnosis and been told there is nothing to help you other than pain relief methods.

  • OldPain2Go® will not stop new pain signals from developing so there’s no danger of missing a new warning signal. It simply does as it says and works on old pain.
  • OldPain2Go® is a talking therapy – no hypnotic trance is necessary.
  • One session is usually all that is required to produce dramatic results.

Booking a session will require you to be in one of the following situations:

  • You have had tests which have proved inconclusive and have been discharged from further investigation, or
  • You have a degenerative condition, or
  • You have a named condition whereby you have been told pain relief is your only option for treatment, or
  • You have had permission from your GP to try complementary therapies.

For detailed information please look at Steven Blake’s website www.oldpain2go.com

Richard’s testimonial:

“I was at my wits end in constant pain from an old leg injury. It left me feeling tired and miserable and was affecting my mood. On a good day my pain was 4/10 and on a bad day it was 8/10. I read about OldPain2Go and my brother told me that Sarah was offering it in Portsmouth. I organised an online appointment not feeling convinced that it would work but desperate for something to help. Amazingly I have had no pain since that one hour spent with Sarah. Even if you don’t believe it’s going to work, give it a go and you will be amazed at the results!”

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprogramming)

Recently shown on international media as the ‘go to’ therapy by Prince Harry and originally designed to dissolve traumatic reactions related to unpleasant memories, EMDR works to find, process and resolve disturbing experiences from the past and change the beliefs we have adopted about ourselves relating to those negative experiences. The emotional ‘sting’ will be removed from the old memory and more positive resources will be installed to help cope with future experiences. As with all the techniques I use, your session will be led by your own experiences. We work at your pace to remove the ‘emotional sting’ from the old memory and install more positive resources which will help you cope with any future problems. EMDR is also an effective treatment for fears and phobias.

Carol’s testimonial:

“Thanks Sarah for seeing me so quickly. The drive up north was painless and even though I was prepared to grit my teeth and face the enormous lorries on the motorway which used to scare me senseless, gritting my teeth wasn’t necessary as I breezed through the drive so easily.”

EMOTIONAL FREEDOM (TAPPING) TECHNIQUE – EFT

EFT works in a similar way to acupuncture (but without the needles!). Using specific tapping points on your body, I show you how to tap whilst engaging with negative thoughts, feelings, emotions, images, sensations or beliefs which takes the negative energy out of them. EFT focuses on the meridian points (or energy fields) to restore balance to your body’s energy. It is believed that restoring this energy balance can relieve negative symptoms an old experience or emotion may have caused. Once I have taught you the process, you can use EFT to help with any future problems. EFT is especially useful in anxiety related situations.

Gemma’s testimonial:

“……and I love that you taught me the self-help tapping therapy which I am practising using at home. It really helps when I start thinking negatively again……”