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Suzanne Chamier
BA (Hons), P.G.C.E. ADHP(NC) ECP UKCP MNRHP GHR
I have been in practice as a Counsellor and Hypnotherapist since 1988 after an initial career in the NHS as a personnel manager. Hypnotherapy can be an invaluable tool in helping people to quit smoking, control their weight problems, reduce insomnia and minimise phobias. Most importantly, the combination of counselling and hypnotherapy helps an individual to look at a personal problem, understand and clarify it, and reach their own informed decision as to what to do about it. Positive thinking, regaining confidence and learning relaxation techniques and self-hypnosis are all part of this life-enhancing process. Life coaching for individuals and marital therapy for couples is also available.
What is Counselling? Counselling is a process which helps an individual to look at a personal problem, to understand it and to reach some decisions about what to do about it. It is a different process to giving advice. Counsellors listen carefully to your concerns, look at what you are saying, or not saying, and help you towards your own solutions. The counsellor’s aim is to help you develop your own coping skills and your own resources.
Confidentiality Trust in the confidentiality of the relationship with your counsellor is critical to the success of the counselling process. Suzanne is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), and is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), the National Register of Hypnotherapists & Psychotherapists (MNRHP), the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) and is a European Registered Psychotherapist (ECP), all of whom lay down strict codes of ethics. She is required to have regular supervision, which means discussing cases with her accredited supervisors. However, they too are bound by the same rules of confidentiality.
If Suzanne feels that you are a danger to yourself or others, she may feel the need to breach confidentiality – with your permission and after discussion with you.
Finishing Counselling Counselling can be a challenging process and you may feel after one or two sessions that you do not want to go again. It is worth discussing this with your counsellor rather than just not turning up. Looking at why you might want to stop can often be as important as dealing with your problem itself. If you are unhappy with the way your counsellor is working please discuss it with her.
Alcohol & Drugs
Please do not take alcohol or non-prescribed drugs before a session as it may interfere with the process.
Hypnosis & Hypno – psychotherapy For over two hundred years the technique of hypnosis has been used in medicine to treat a wide range of physical, psychological and emotional disorders. It has also long been recognised that hypnosis may successfully be combined with other approaches and techniques in counselling & psychotherapy. In 1997, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) formally endorsed the new term, hypno-psychotherapy, as the ‘branch of psychotherapy which uses hypnosis’.
Hypnosis & The Mind Hypno-psychotherapy recognises that there are many ways of looking at how the mind works. Some people, for instance, take the view that our thoughts and actions are mainly affected by the way we look at the world and how it treats us. Others believe that we are mostly driven by our ‘subconscious’ mind, which is taken to be the store of all our past experiences and emotions. Whatever theory of the mind is applied, hypnosis can be integrated with appropriate psychotherapeutic approaches to help bring about positive changes.
Hypno-psychotherapy can help to achieve positive and lasting results in:
Cessation of dependencies and habits:
e.g. Smoking
Eating Disorders
Nail-biting
Managing a personal crisis:
e.g. Accident/trauma
Miscarriage
Bereavement
Redundancy
Divorce
Coping with illness
Achieving personal growth: Optimising psychological well-being:
e.g. Building/re-building self-esteem e.g. Stress
Resolving relationship difficulties Anxiety
Enhancing job/career satisfaction Depression
Improving sporting performance
Management of stress related disorders:
e.g. Phobias
Panic Attacks
Insomnia
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Only a selection of the many challenges we face, as fallible human beings, are mentioned above. There are many others and they can be discussed in strict confidence with the therapist.
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