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Helping you to overcome:

Eating Disorders
Anorexia
Bulimia
Comfort Eating
Confidence
Depression
Anxiety
Panic Attacks
Bereavement
Weight problems
Sleeping difficulties
Stress
Low self esteem
OCD
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Hypnotherapy, Counselling and Equine Involvement Therapy

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Equine Involvement Therapy, Counselling and Hypnotherapy

can offer you a powerful sympathetic and understanding, way to recover and find FREEDOM from

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The horses will show you how to like and accept the person you really are.

I founded Equine Involvement Therapy on the testament of my own full and almost miraculous recovery from many years plagued by the symptoms of Anorexia/Bulimia. That was over 10 years ago now. I do know that recovering from an eating disorder can feel like an uphill struggle and there may be times when you don’t feel the effort is worth it. You may feel that to live without the behaviours associated with eating disorders will leave a strange gap in your life and it all seems hard and unimaginable.

The horses play a vital role in helping you through making that transition; they create a wonderful environment in which to rebuild your confidence and belief in yourself, and will encourage you to find the strength to overcome your doubts and fears. Horses are completely honest and unlike people never judge or criticize; they totally accept us for who we are. As you work with them and gain their trust and respect they will show you how it feels to be accepted for who you are and teach you to accept and value yourself in the same way.

Anyone can benefit from the Equine Involvement Therapy, there is no need to have had any experience with horses to truly benefit from their unique abilities, and the tasks that we do with them are as simple or challenging as you feel comfortable with. What we want is for you to be happy, recover and to succeed at all the things that we do together, so we will take things as fast or as slowly as you like.

Combined with hypnotherapy and counselling, Equine Involvement Therapy provides an exceptionally powerful approach to overcoming an eating disorder.

To learn more about how the horses can really help you I strongly recommend that you read the ‘What is Equine Involvement Therapy’ page.

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Can help you overcome an Eating Disorder, with empathy and compassion.

Sessions of counselling can be invaluable to give you insight into the problems you are experiencing and for looking at ways to move forward. I would normally combine counselling with one or more of the other therapies to form a more powerful and beneficial approach, especially with sufferers of eating disorders. Using CBT and Thought management counselling provide further ways to help you work towards your goal. Every single person is totally unique, so we look at you and only you, to devise the combination of treatments that will work for you.

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Can release you from a life ruled by an Eating Disorder.

Anorexia- Bulimia and the following eating problems respond extremely well to special techniques of hypnotherapy.

Stop over eating/binging

• Stop vomiting
• Stop comfort eating
• Eat healthily
• Build self-esteem
• Be comfortable and happy around food
• Like yourself and your body shape
• Solve weight problems

If you are suffering from Anorexia you are probably struggling with the idea of a having to change what feels like a vital part of your life, losing that control over your food intake and the thought of gaining any weight is very frightening. Maintaining that level of control over your eating and finding ways not to eat takes over your life and is extremely stressful and although the thought of being cured is terrifying you know that you are very unhappy.

Hypnotherapy does not try to force feed you or look at the weight or food issues at all, it takes the approach that actually, if you could feel happy, learn to like and accept yourself, stop thinking that you are not good enough; that you have to be perfect, learn to believe that you are worthwhile, and find a way to feel really in control of your own life, then the symptoms will look after themselves. Hypnotherapy can help build your self-esteem and help you shift those feelings of disgust and self-hatred that make you want to punish yourself.

Having battled with Anorexia and then Bulimia myself, I know that the feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem are miserable to live with and imagining what it would be like to live without those feelings is almost impossible. The stress and anxiety of maintaining the behaviour, striving to be good enough or to constantly please people is an incredible strain. I remember too, that the prospect of giving up the binge eating and vomiting cycle was actually very daunting and I remember thinking that it would leave a huge gap in my life, that could only be filled with anxiety and unhappiness.

By reading this the idea of making some changes is already becoming a possibility, you really would like to feel happy about yourself and your body, and to lead a normal life. Thinking of something other than food, and how bad you feel about it all, would be an enormous relief compared to what you are coping with at the moment.

Hypnotherapy, can very successfully help you change your unwanted behaviours, and change the way you feel about yourself and your body, in a remarkably short time, without the added anxiety of having to, directly address your diet or eating habits. When you have confidence, a high self-esteem and a feeling of control over your life, you will find that food no longer rules your life, because you no longer have any need for that behaviour to support you.

Hypnotherapy alone is an extremely effective route to recovery from an eating disorder and can show results very quickly. In combination with Equine Involvement Therapy and counselling, hypnotherapy becomes an even more valuable aid to recovery.

It’s a really hard decision to make, I know, if you do decide to ask for help I can guarantee that I will make it as easy for you as possible and at no time are you committed to do more than you want to. Please do ring me, I do want to help, find out a bit more about me, and the therapies I have to offer, see how they could help you, talk to me about your needs, concerns and worries, and then you can always have a think about it all afterwards, before you make a decision.

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Hypnotherapy, Equine Involvement Therapy, Counselling

Can dramatically reduce anxiety levels, so will help you to feel much better and more able to cope.

Do you feel that life is overwhelming and you long for some peace of mind?
Do you wish that you knew how to stop worrying about everything?

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The horses can help you replace anxiety and panic attacks with peace calmness and control.

Even if you are nervous around horses initially you will find that quite quickly you are inspired by their love of peace, quiet and tranquillity. They have the wonderful ability to soothe and calm, which creates the perfect setting to work on overcoming your anxieties and fears.

The horses will give you with an invaluable insight into how to cope with those awful feelings of stress and anxiety; by just being with them you will discover exactly what it is that triggers them and at almost the same time you will learn how to deal with those same situations in a calm, relaxed and controlled way.

The horses will help reconnect you with the strengths that you had forgotten you had, their ability to see us for who we really are, will show you that actually you are a exceptional person who does have strengths as well as weaknesses just like all the rest of us, and you can use those strengths to conquer your fears, quieten your mind and live a happy relaxed and fulfilling life.

You might think that dealing with horses is hardly the same as coping with the stressful challenges of life itself, actually when you can be peaceful and relaxed around the horses and see them reflect that back to you, you will have got all that you need to cope with the situations in life that would previously have caused you to feel anxious or to panic.

I have 7 horses and ponies kept naturally as a herd, they are very used to people and love the relaxation of being groomed. It is with this task that we would begin to unravel your knot of fears and concerns, the horses and I are very good listeners, and we want you to leave us feeling a great deal better than when you arrived, so we will work in a way that is unique and personal to you and that will benefit you the most.

I would normally offer the powerful combination of Equine Involvement Therapy and Hypnotherapy to really help you, and give you every opportunity to have complete peace of mind.

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Can help you to completely change your anxious thoughts for positive beneficial ones.

I would normally combine the therapies I offer to create an even more effective and powerful treatment for Anxiety and Panic Attacks, unless the circumstances suggested that counselling alone would be the most beneficial.

Using several very specific forms of counselling, I can show you how to manage your anxieties and panic attacks so successfully that they no longer interfere with or affect your life. Working with your negative thought patterns, helping you to relax naturally and at will, helping you to believe in yourself and your true capabilities will make you feel much better, as our thoughts are directly related to the way we feel. Counselling gives you the opportunity to talk through your problems with someone who really wants to listen.

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Can help alleviate, extreme anxiety. To live without all that stress would be wonderful wouldn’t it?

Feeling anxious is an awful feeling and can prevent you from doing so many of the things you would like to do. Never being able to relax and enjoy life is very stressful and leaves you feeling drained and unhappy. Hypnotherapy can help you, by giving you the opportunity to learn how to relax whenever you want to. Hypnosis itself is incredibly peaceful and whilst you experience that state of soothing deep relaxation, we can help you change the way you look at events, memories, peoples attitudes towards you, or your life in general, whether from the past or the present, so that you are no longer filled with dread or anxious thoughts.

Hypnotherapy can help you to respond differently to your thoughts so that a fear of the future or a situation that you have got to deal with can be dealt with more confidently, without anxiety and worry. By changing the way you think about things, will help you feel much better about everything in your life, opening up all the opportunities that you were previously too anxious or afraid to take.

Panic attacks are caused by interpreting situations or thoughts in a way that your body identifies as dangerous, so it reacts as though it has to escape from a danger, like a prey animal would from a predator. Your heart beats faster, your breathing quickens and you feel you want to escape and run away. Hypnotherapy helps you to change your interpretation of those situations so that they no longer pose as threat, or a danger to you, you can then deal with them in a relaxed and calm way. During the deeply relaxed state of hypnosis we can help you change those negative limiting thoughts for positive beneficial ones, or we can remove a negative re-occurring thought, perhaps related to an event from the past, leaving you free from the feelings of panic.

If you feel that you have reached a stage where you really have had enough of struggling on your own, then give me a call and talk to me about how you would like me to help.

I want you to be glad you have taken that first step, so I will do all I can to make it as easy for you as possible

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Equine Involvement Therapy, Counselling, and Hypnotherapy can help you feel like a different and happier person.

You can completely change the way you view your self, your life and other people. Lift the dark cloud of depression for good.

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Can bring you out of the darkest depression with the help of the horses

Has life reached a point where there feels like there is very little point and no hope of anything ever being any different, yet you long for things to change, to have a life and to be happy?

Equine Involvement Therapy is so different from seeking traditional help from a traditional counsellor. Instead of sitting in the, quite intimidating claustrophobic environment of the counsellors consulting room, desperately wishing you were somewhere else, you will be out in the open with the relieving and encouraging distraction of the horses.

Talking to me in their company can feel a lot less threatening, and their gentle kind presence can be enormously comforting. I am a counsellor, so yes, we will be talking things through, but the horses will be showing us all the time, how we need to progress with their incredible capacity to pick up on our emotions and clearly convey them back to us. You can feel that life is worth living again; the horses and I will help you to rediscover what that feels like, even if you don’t believe that now, you are reading this and by doing that you have made a huge effort, so yes you can feel that life is worth living again, and you really do deserve to be happy.

The tasks we do with the horses can be very very simple or quite challenging depending on your progress and how you feel. We want you to get better and that means succeeding, so we never ask you to do anything that you are not completely happy with.

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Can lift you out of your darkness and help you find the light at the end of the tunnel.

Hypnoanalysis can very successfully help relieve you of your depression by uncovering the original cause, and releasing the emotions attached to it at its root. Combined with suggestion hypnotherapy the benefits are outstanding.

Depression can feel like living in a dark black hole with no way out and you may feel as though there is nowhere to turn and no hope of finding a solution or an escape from the bleak feelings you are experiencing. Hypnotherapy can help you, by unlocking the mental blocks that are preventing you from being happy and living your life to the full.

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Can help you talk through your problems and help you look at them in a different way so that they are no longer problems.

I would normally combine counselling for depression with one or more of the other therapies offered to provide the very best opportunity for recovery

Depression can make you feel as though your life has come to a standstill and doing anything can seem like an enormous effort and what is the point anyway? By talking to someone who is non-judgemental, empathetic and caring can make the difference between, feeling isolated and alone, to being in a place where you feel positive and capable of finding the solutions which will help you start your life again.

If living with your depression has reached the stage where you want help to bring you out the other side, please do ring me or email me, I really want to help, and I will do all I can to make your decision to the right one.

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Hypnotherapy, counselling and equine involvement therapy can make an incredible difference to the feelings you have about yourself; it is possible to feel really confident and to truly like, who you are.

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Can help you gain confidence, and learn to believe in yourself with the support of the horses and their total acceptance of who you are.

You will learn what it feels like to like and accept yourself

It can take a lot of courage to ask for help, especially when finding that courage requires a confidence that you don’t feel that you have, I will do all I can to make it easy for you, and to help you feel good about your decision to come to us.

The horses really do provide a wonderful kind and truly beneficial environment, which will bring out the very best in you, raising your confidence and self-esteem throughout the process. Horses are completely accepting, totally honest and non judgemental, being with them gives you the space and time to rediscover the real you, through them you can begin to allow yourself the pleasure of accepting and loving who you are. It’s a really good feeling and once you begin to feel better about yourself everything else will seem so much easier.

Horses excel in their ability to recognize our weaknesses and strengths from the moment they set eyes on us. This gives us the opportunity to see exactly what needs to be worked on, and to discover strengths and a sense of self- confidence that you didn’t know existed, all this you can then carry through into your everyday life.

My 7 horses and ponies are very used to people and love attention, they will give you the inspiration you need to overcome your anxieties. The tasks that we complete with them can sometimes be no more than watching them or grooming them, as your confidence grows you can progress to something more challenging. Don’t worry, at no time will we do anything that you are not completely comfortable with, as what we want is for you to gain in confidence, succeed and feel really good about yourself.

To learn a little more about the true benefits that Equine Involvement Therapy can achieve read the ‘what is’ page or ring or email me on the contact number at the bottom of the page

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Can help you to understand why you feel so bad about yourself, and show you that there are ways to change that for the better, so that you can live your life to the full.

Specific forms of Counselling can help you to change the negative thoughts that lead you to believe that you are no good and strip you of your self- confidence. By talking things through in a confidential professional and caring environment we can work together to find positive and beneficial ways for you to change the way you think and help you to feel much happier and better about yourself.

The above Therapies are highly effective individually and in combination.

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Can totally change the way you feel about yourself, we can get to the reasons behind the way you feel, and then build up your self-esteem and confidence so that you can really enjoy being who you are and enjoy your life

Our thoughts and feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem or confidence, usually begin back in childhood when we were vulnerable and easily influenced. Parents, relatives or teachers for example, all had their own problems and issues about themselves, which usually unintentionally, they passed onto us. We then carry those thoughts and beliefs around with us, as we grow older, causing us problems with the way we cope with our lives as adults. The feelings we have about ourselves and the way we think that other people see us are not actually true, as we are still thinking like the child we once were.

Its hard to go through life with a really poor opinion of your self I would like to show you that it doesn’t have to be that way, so please do give me a call, talk to me and I will do everything I can to help.

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Hypnotherapy counselling and equine involvement therapy can help you come to terms with anger, resentment or guilt and find ways to dissolve those emotions, leaving you feeling free, light and happy.

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Can help as the horses will mirror your emotions, teach you how to become free of guilt and resentment and show you how to control your anger.

Equine Involvement Therapy creates an ideal environment for you to release the pent up feelings that relate to anger or resentment. With the help of the horses we can work together to get to the root of your anger and help you find ways to change the way you deal with it. Once you understand where it is coming from the horses are extremely effective at showing you how to channel that energy more effectively and calmly. The horses behaviour towards you, is a fantastic and inspiring indicator into your progress and their subsequent connection and respect for you will help you see how incredibly liberating it is to be without the oppressive weight of those damaging emotions.

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Will give you the opportunity to find the reasons behind your strong emotions and to find ways to live without them.

Talking through the issues that relate to your intense feelings of anger or resentment and finding ways to change your perceptions of the reasons behind them can be an extremely effective way of dealing with them.

Hypnotherapy, Equine Involvement Therapy and Counselling can be highly effective individually or in combination.

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Is an outstandingly effective way to release unwanted emotions.

Hypnotherapy is an extremely effective way of releasing unwanted damaging thoughts and emotions, leaving you free to enjoy your life and be happy.

Using a particular form of hypnotherapy the deeply rooted causes of your problems can be uncovered and addressed. By discovering the reasons behind the feelings you are experiencing and by changing your perception of the circumstances that created them, those feelings can be released in hypnosis leaving you completely free of the destructive and limiting thoughts and emotions that you have been suffering.

You know that living with such strong emotions can make you feel unhappy, so please call me when you have had enough of feeling that way. I will do all I can to help.

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Provide the ideal tools to help you find out why your efforts with food are constantly sabotaged and to gain the confidence you need to maintain a healthy weight and eating pattern.

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Can help you build up your confidence and self-esteem which are so closely related to our eating habits; help you shift your focus off, and lessen the anxieties you have over food. Leaving you feeling in control.

Equine Involvement Therapy can help you build up your confidence and self-esteem so that the need for comfort eating becomes a thing of the past. The horses can help you to believe and accept yourself for who you are. Horses are incredibly intuitive and will highlight your weaknesses and strengths and then by interacting and working with them, they will show you how to build and focus on those strengths so that you can become confident and self-assured. Problems with losing weight are often related to inner conflicts and feelings of low self-esteem that go back as far as childhood, with the involvement of the horses these can be resolved within their gentle and accepting environment and the need for dieting can become a thing of the past as you find yourself losing weight naturally.

A regular weight loss of about 2lbs a week will help you maintain that loss and will help you to reach your desired weight and stay there.

Once you are moving forward with renewed confidence we can help further by looking at nutrition, health and food issues that will make your every day eating a pleasure rather than a battle.

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Can bring about amazing results in a remarkably short amount of treatment

Many people spend a huge proportion of their lives dieting and being depressed and disillusioned with themselves when they seem to fail in their efforts and constantly end up regaining the weight they had successfully lost. If you want to lose weight and are finding it difficult to do so then you are probably struggling against an inner conflict that sabotages your hard work.

With a specific form of hypnotherapy and hypnosis you can trace the root of the conflict and resolve it for good. Once the conflict is resolved you will no longer need to force yourself to lose weight you will do so naturally.

This form of hypnotherapy and hypnosis can unlock the emotional barriers, which are often created in childhood, that are preventing you from successfully losing weight. Once you have unlocked those barriers you will find that you can lose that weight freely and easily at a sensible and satisfying rate.

Unlike most weight loss programs this form of hypnotherapy will get to the real reason why you have had so much difficulty with dieting and will resolve the problem from where it began.

To follow the sessions of hypnotherapy and hypnosis we can help further by discussing your nutritional and dietary needs so that a regular eating pattern can be put into place that will allow food to become a pleasure and not a battle.

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Can solve food and weight problems with knowledge, understanding and solution- based therapy

Counselling can help you resolve the problems that surround your daily eating routine so that food can be put back in its proper context rather than being a constant worry and concern. With the support of a counsellor you can successfully lose sensible amounts of weight on a regular basis that will take you down to your desired weight.

Coping with weight problems or fighting eating difficulties can be a nightmare, as food takes up such a large part of out lives. Call me, put an end to your problems, I really want to help, so pick up the phone or email me soon.

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