Good quality hypnotherapists can't avoid using counselling and psychotherapeutic skills, in fact, some of the best ones use them well. The initial call and assessment session involve active listening, demonstrating empathy, understanding, and positive regard, using effective questioning, and paci...

From 2020 to 2022 8.5 million people in Australia aged between 16–85 experienced a mental disorder at some time in their life, and an estimated 4.3 million had experienced a mental disorder in the previous 12 months1.  Most will continue life the best they can and muster on with the resources an...

Re/lapses happen all the time when we’re trying to make changes, and most people will have tried several times and not succeeded at many kinds of things in life, love, leisure, work, and business, before they eventually succeed, or make a decision that due to countless failures, change is perhaps...

Although perceived as being a wacky new therapy by some and still very much misconceived amongst its critics, hypnosis was used in Ancient Greece and Egypt over 4000 years ago.   In more recent times Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) (who lends his name to the word ‘mesmerised’) achieved amazing s...

The average American adult is estimated to make 35,000 decisions a day (Sollisch, 2016). Most of these are benign whilst others are thought to have negative consequences for controlling our behavior and the quality of subsequent decisions (Pignatielle, et. al (2020). This phenomenon, known as de...

When someone sets out on their smoking career, there's very little awareness of what will become should they decide to make it their lifelong endeavor to become a smoker.  Some try it very early in life and hate it, only to return to it sometime later to help them cope or 'enjoy' life more. It g...

Today on World Thrombosis Day, and incidentally my 51st birthday, I'm compelled to share and raise awareness of the signs/symptoms of one of the world's leading killers. Thrombosis will kill 1 in 4 of us worldwide every year. More people will lose their life through thrombosis each year than AID...

NLP stands for 'neuro-linguistic programming'. 'Neuro' refers to the brain/neurones and sensory apparatus (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic (feeling), olfactory (smell) and gustatory (taste)), 'linguistic' refers to language and other means of communication (pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes, smel...

Smoking is an addictive behaviour classified by three or more of the following criteria: tolerance, withdrawal, higher consumption than intended, desire or failing efforts to control use, excessive time spent in substance-related activities, reduction in other activities due to substance use, and...

Motivation is generally accepted as a requirement for success. With motivation, we can get from Point A, where we are, to Point B, where we want to be. Without it, change work can be slow and often grind to a halt.  So anything we can do to maintain motivation is of value to all involved. One th...