Freedom from Fear
About Us
Robin Oxley is a qualified Behavioural Psychologist who has over 25 years experience as a Clinical Hypnotherapist. He also runs the training school BESTCOACHING. Accreditations are with IPTI (Independent Professional Therapists International), GHSc (General Hypnotherapy Standards Council) and thhe Hypnotherapy association
You can be assured that your treatment is in good hands. Robin uses his skills as a therapist and life coach to ensure that the client is motivated to act on the hypnotherapy suggestions that are used.
His former students will often refer challenging cases to him for depth psychology.
What is Hypnotherapy?
The term "hypnosis" is derived from the Greek word hypnos, meaning "sleep." Hypnotherapists typically use exercises that bring about deep relaxation and an altered state of consciousness, also known as a trance. Many people routinely experience a trance-like state while they are watching television or sitting at a red light. A person in a trance or deeply focused state is unusually responsive to an idea or image, but this does not mean that a hypnotist can control the person's mind and free will. On the contrary, hypnosis can actually teach people how to master their own states of awareness. By doing so they can affect their own bodily functions and psychological responses.
How does hypnosis work?
When something new happens to us, we remember it and learn a particular behaviour in response to that circumstance. Memories stored in our brains hold the original physical and emotional reactions that occurred when the given memory was first formed. Each time similar events occur again, the physical and emotional reactions attached to the memory are repeated. These reactions may be inappropriate or unhealthy. In some forms of hypnotherapy, the trained therapist guides you to remember the event that led to the first reaction, separate the memory from the learned behaviour, and reconstruct the event with new, healthier associations.
During hypnosis, a person's body relaxes while their thoughts become more focused and attentive. Like other relaxation techniques, hypnosis decreases blood pressure and heart rate, and alters certain types of brain wave activity. In this relaxed state, a person will feel very at ease physically yet fully awake mentally. In this state of deep concentration people are highly responsive to suggestion. If you are trying to quit smoking, for example, a therapist's suggestion may successfully convince you that in the future you will have a strong dislike for the taste of cigarettes.
There are several stages of hypnosis. The process begins with reframing the problem; becoming relaxed, then absorbed (deeply engaged in the words or images presented by a hypnotherapist); dissociating (letting go of critical thoughts); responding (complying whole-heartedly to a hypnotherapist's suggestions); returning to usual awareness; and reflecting on the experience.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
- B.A.Hons (Psychology)
- Dip.AHT (Hypnotherapy)
- Dip.Management Studies
- Reiki Master
- Dip LCH (Life Coach)
- M.R.C. (Reflexology)
Service Categories
EFT, Energy Healing, Hypnotherapist, Life Coaching, NLP, Reiki, Weight Loss
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