“Life will not change if you change the content of your life. It will change if you change the context of your thoughts about your life.” – Debasish Mridha

Anxiety & Stress

Do you find yourself worrying all the time, irritable and short-tempered? Perhaps you struggle to get to sleep, or stay asleep, because you can’t stop your mind going over things that have already happened or might happen tomorrow? Do you find it impossible to switch off and relax? Or feel constantly on edge, always on the look out for something bad happening? These are all signs that you are suffering from stress and/or anxiety.

Anxiety is a normal reaction that we all feel at times. It is a response to extreme situations when we are feeling under pressure, perhaps when we’re going on a first date or have a job interview for example. Acute anxiety can work in our favour, helping us to keep going, get the job done and meet deadlines; but chronic anxiety does not. When it becomes a constant presence, anxiety can have a negative effect on every aspect of life. When we feel threatened, our subconscious mind triggers the fight or flight response, and when our anxiety or stress levels are high, this response is triggered inappropriately. The purpose of the flight or fight response is to prepare our body to run or fight – our heartrate and respiration rates rise and we produce stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol. When there is no need for us to react physically, these hormones remain in our system for a longer time and can have a negative effect on many aspects of our health – weight, blood pressure and sleep to name but a few.

How it Helps

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy helps you to understand what’s happening in the brain, and how to make changes to the way you think and behave that will reduce those anxiety levels and put your conscious, intelligent mind back in control.

Hypnotherapy could help you to get back in control and smiling again……..

Hypnotherapy for Anxiety & Stress - Solutions Focused Hypnotherapy at KD Hypnotherapy Skipton

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Just want to say a BIG THANK YOU. I felt really positive all the way round 102 miles. I have never felt like that in any event before. Even knowing I could have been 4-5 hours faster has not made me feel negative and annoyed. I’m deffo in a much better place now

Sue

I’ve just encountered my first spider! I calmly got a cup and paper and placed it outside! THANK YOU!

Ruth

I think it’s really helped improve my life.

Kim

Following a few traumatic years after the very quick loss of mum after being diagnosed with cancer and being there for my dad and losing him also two and half years later with cancer the mental stress had taken its toll. I gave into antidepressants, I thought I could cope but knew I wasn’t. I gave myself a timeline of only 12 months to be on these and I kept to it. At this point I was also working on a very important project at work and personally I needed to find my inner strength and remove layers of built up stress and anxiety, that’s when I spoke to Karen. The difference in how I feel, how I deal with various situations and the way I look at life has totally changed, my anxiety no longer exists, I approach life’s challenges in a more relaxed and calm manner. You need to invest in the most important aspect of your health, your mind.

Jane

Sought help from Karen for a couple of phobias after she was referred to me by a friend. From the first time we met, Karen made me feel really comfortable and relaxed. She puts me really at ease and helped me to gain the confidence to tackle my fears. I can’t recommend Karen highly enough. Thank you Karen.

Bevan

I would highly recommend Karen for hypnotherapy. I first attended a relax session just to try it out and found that actually I was a lot more stressed out than I realised. The relaxation helped me to de-stress and also the chat before helped me to reassess my work life balance and make some pretty big decisions at work which ultimately made me speak up and change things. The positive thinking and reinforcing that through the subconscious is now part of my everyday thought processes and I have found that I am much happier. I can spot now when I am under too much pressure and can speak up before it gets to too much a stressful place. It is so important to be able to see these signs early before stress takes over and does some very strange things with your mind!.

Jemma

I have been to see Karen about issues with confidence. Karen is a very calm and easy person to talk to. She is very good at explaining how the mind works, why we can become stressed and anxious and has helped me to think more positively about my life. The hypnotherapy itself is very relaxing but the message gets through. As a result I feel more in control and confident that I will be able to deal with whatever life throws at me. It has had a positive effect on my life and I would have no hesitation in recommending Karen.

Karen

For as long as I can remember I have been afraid of heights. Started out as an issue I acknowledged with mild anxiety but some 40 years later became a full-blown fear which affected my life and filled me with dread. To the point that I had to check what I was doing daily to ensure that I would avoid doing anything involving height. Particularly edges. Especially bridges. I met Karen some time ago on a counselling course and it was when she posted that she was studying hypnotherapy I contacted her to challenge her to help me get over this, what was to me an irrational but real fear. I didn’t expect much but was willing to give it a go. The result was astonishing. When I next had an issue to deal with, even though I was aware of my tension, I was able to relax enough to get through the situation which has now perpetuated my confidence. I am now able to function with many situations where in the past I would have moved heaven and earth to avoid. I can wholly recommend this therapy with Karen.

Mike

I was watching TV tonight and out of the corner of my eye I saw a black shape about the size of a conker gliding on my wall. It was a spider. My usual reaction of a flutter of the heart didn’t happen, and I just paused my TV, got a cup and put it out my window. No hassle, no reaction whatsoever! Then I spotted another one, I did the same thing of capturing it and putting it out of my window, as it is only an enemy of my imagination, but was able to keep my cool, calm composure that you were able to teach me! I could not be more thankful for what you have enabled me to do! I would have cried and screamed at my parents before I had ant sessions with you.

Ruth

Just a quick update, have been cigarette free for two weeks……….it has been incredibly easy and I want to thank you, I didn’t think it would be so easy. Very pleased and proud of myself.

Karen

I’m so very grateful, I cannot thank you enough. Thank you thank you sooooo much xxxxx

Victoria

Thanks to Karen, I have been able to massively reduce my stress and anxiety, be more positive about day-to-day life and break a habit which started due to my anxiety and have tried to break for the past 6 years. If you’re looking at hypnotherapy, I definitely recommend KD Hypnotherapy.

Keira