It is time for hypnosis to work its way into the mainstream of British medicine," says Professor David Spiegel, of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University.  (Sunday Telegraph, 7 June, 2009).  He wants the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to add hypnotherapy to its list of approved therapeutic techniques for the treatment of conditions ranging from allergies and high blood pressure to the pain associated with cancer treatment and bone marrow transplantation.

 

"Hypnosis changes expectancies, which decreases anxiety and stress, which improves the outcome.  I think hypnosis could be applied to a wide variety of symptoms where expectancy plays a role," clinical psychologist, Guy Montgomery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (New Scientist, 13 May 2009, 'When mind attacks body')"

 

Some of the key areas of successful treatment at the Tetbury Practice:

 

 

 

 

 

However, people come to us with a wide variety of other conditions, including loss of libido, hyperemesis, vaginismus, loss of sexual function, bed wetting, etc.

 

Hypnotherapists, Shirley Billson and Nicola Griffiths,, both trained at the Clifton Practice, Bristol and have the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma, the only UK national and externally verified hypnotherapy qualification. Both are members of the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH) and their work is clinically supervised to ensure good practice.

 

Shirley has a special interest in eating disorders, weight control, anxiety, insomnia and depression and successfully applies solution focused brief hypnotherapy.

 

Nicola has a particular interest in working with addiction (cigarettes, alcohol), IBS and insomnia and also uses solution focused techniques.