Welcome
Hi, I’m Tom Phillips and I help people every day, just like you, to manage stress and anxiety, including Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), fears and phobias. The great news is that I help them to do this in only 5 weeks.
However long you’ve been suffering with you own personal challenges, what would it mean to you to be in a much better place in only 5 weeks?
If your computer or laptop wasn’t working and you took it to an I.T. specialist, you wouldn’t be impressed if they said that they needed to see your laptop every week for 6 or 12 months, would you? So why should your mind, which works just like a computer, be any different?
My aim is to get you to where you want to be in only 5 weeks. I want to make myself expendable. This is better for you emotionally, physically, and financially.
Services
How I will help you
Clinical hypnotherapy is a way of helping your subconscious mind deal with life and challenges more effectively.
Stress and anxiety are your body and mind’s way of telling you that something in your life is not right.
I will help you to manage these using powerful hypnotic techniques, neuro linguistic programming and common sense.
We cannot change the past, but we can help to change the way that we look at past events and the way that we think and feel about past events so that they no longer trouble us in the present or the future.
As well as being a clinical hypnotherapist I have also run my own training and coaching business for 15 years. I will help you to launch your new business or scale your existing business as a therapist, life coach or counsellor
We are only born with 2 natural fears, loud noises and falling. All other fears and phobias are learned. The good news is that we can unlearn what we have learned.
Most people spend more time every year planning their holidays than they do planning their lives! You may feel like your life is a rut or maybe your life is great, and you want to take it to the next level. Whatever your situation, I can help you.
Testimonials
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Clinical hypnosis is a therapeutic approach that works with your subconscious mind. In relative terms your conscious mind is the size of a golf ball and your subconscious mind is the size of a beach ball. Your subconscious controls a lot of things that you are unaware of such as happiness, joy, confidence, and relaxation. Your subconscious also controls things like stress, anxiety, and phobias. Clinical hypnosis helps by tapping into your subconscious and removing unwanted thought processes and emotions or unwanted and unpleasant memories.
Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP is a set of methods and technologies that works with your subconscious by understanding your thought patterns. Our thoughts determine our feelings, and our feelings determine our actions. If you are having unhelpful or unwanted thoughts, you will have unhelpful or unwanted feelings. These lead to unhelpful actions. When we understand our thought processes, we can change them to be more productive and helpful. This changes the feelings we associate with the thoughts and the actions we take as a result.
Anxiety is often described as a feeling of unease or being unsettled. Often, people suffering with anxiety cannot pinpoint a specific cause for their anxiety. They just know that something “doesn’t feel right.” This feeling can range from mild discomfort to much more severe and physical symptoms such as headaches, palpitations or a racing heart rate, stomach upsets, muscle and joint soreness, lack of energy and insomnia.
Stress can present itself with many of the symptoms that accompany anxiety. Stress usually has a more defined cause such as an exam like a driving exam, having to present in public (this is also the number 1. Phobia in the world), or a specific person such as a manager or colleague that you don’t get on with. We all experience stress regularly in our lives and often we cope well with it. For many people though, their coping mechanisms do not help and if the stress goes on long enough or is intense enough, this causes them real problems.
PTSD is a delayed response to stress. This can be related to a specific event such as being in a traffic accident or a series of events such as going through a series of company reorganisations in the place where you work. The reaction to such events surfaces long after the events themselves have passed. This can be weeks, months or even years. Your mind and body store the trauma of the event and life appears to continue until the stored trauma surfaces both emotionally and physically. This can happen in several ways such as feeling restless, losing sleep or your appetite, overeating, smoking, drinking, becoming withdrawn or unexpectedly aggressive.
GAD is like anxiety but individuals suffering from GAD have anxiety about several things or situations that most people don’t. This could be things like going out in public, what others think of them, being rejected, or being ridiculed. Symptoms of GAD are often like the symptoms of anxiety and stress.
A phobia is an exaggerated fear response to a specific stimulus such as public speaking, snakes, and spiders. Often it is just the thought of the thing that causes the phobia, that causes a phobic response. Someone with a phobia of spiders may only have to think about a spider to experience a phobic reaction. Reactions to phobias can be severe and include vomiting and fainting.
Probably not, although I have had clients fall asleep in sessions. This is a good sign as it means they feel comfortable and safe. During our sessions you will be in a much more relaxed state. I may want to ask you questions whilst you are in this state, so you won’t be asleep, just very, very relaxed.
No. One of the primary functions of your subconscious is to protect you, so it won’t allow you to do anything that may harm you emotionally or physically. Despite what you may have seen in movies or TV shows, you cannot be hypnotised against your will.
Yes. I prefer to see people in person and can work over Zoom, Teams etc. if required.
It depends on the age of the child and what is happening for them. I have 2 excellent colleagues who specialise in working with children. If I think it’s appropriate, I will refer you to them.
Yes, but you really must want to lose weight or stop smoking before I will work with you. Many people see clinical hypnosis as a magic wand that can be waved, and they’ll stop smoking or lose weight as a result. This doesn’t work in the long term. You must be 100% committed before I will work with you in these areas.
No. We can provide invoices if you want to claim on your insurance.
