Mental Health Day Every Day Yesterday was “World Mental Health Day”. This is a necessary day in my opinion to highlight the importance of mental health awareness and to keep mental health issues in the forefront of the discussion of … Continue reading →
A Minister for Suicide Prevention In what I believe to be a major step for the government’s mental health strategy, it was announced today that Jackie Doyle-Price has been appointed a Health Minister with responsibility for suicide prevention. This announcement … Continue reading →
Metaphor and Hypnotherapy This weekend I was teaching Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, one of my favourite topics. One of the main reasons for this is that it incorporates metaphor into the therapeutic dynamic. Metaphor is perhaps the most basic way we learn … Continue reading →
Hypnotherapy and Celebrity PTSD As regular readers will know, I will often praise celebrities who come out and discuss their issues with mental health. The latest to do so is Kiera Knightley. In the early part of her career she … Continue reading →
Hypnotherapy and Language Patterns One of the topics which really interest my students is the use of hypnotic language patterns. It is also one of the topics which confuse them as well. Hypnotic language patterns have existed from the beginning … Continue reading →
Cuddles and PTSD This morning I was reading an interesting article about a New Zealand woman who was suffering with PTSD. She said how helpful it was that her husband was willing to be woken up in the night for … Continue reading →
Hypnosis and False Memory As I previously wrote this week, there has been a conspiracy theory in right wing US publications and by right wing pundits that Professor Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who first made sexual allegations against Supreme Court … Continue reading →
Bogus Awards and Hypnotherapy I am a great believer that people of note should be recognised as such. Practitioners who go above and beyond in their clinical, academic research, or teaching roles should be recognised and be seen as examples … Continue reading →
Worst Kind of Hypnotherapy Promotional Piece I was looking today about what to write about, and came across an article, in OK Magazine about a star from the TV programme TOWIE undergoing hypnotherapy to deal with some of her issues. … Continue reading →
The Practice of Hypnotherapy Internationally I have just returned from one of my frequent visits abroad. I love soaking up new cultures and reacquainting myself with cultures I have previously been exposed to. One thing that I have noticed, the … Continue reading →
