OCD

OCD affects approximately 1 in 40 people worldwide.

Although common, it is unfortunately often widely misunderstood and undiagnosed. People with OCD can experience intrusive and repetitive thoughts, images, urges or feelings (obsessions) that are ego dystonic (against a person’s values and beliefs).

For people with OCD, these thoughts and feelings feel significant and the individual attaches meaning to them leading to a significant amount of distress. In order to relieve distress associated, they perform physical or mental compulsions.

Although compulsions can provide short-term relief, this unfortunately feeds the OCD and can keep people trapped in a vicious cycle of obsessions and compulsions.

How can Hypnotherapy help OCD?

I understand how difficult living with OCD can be as I have myself had this condition from a young age. I specialise in OCD- using all of the knowledge and skills I have learnt over the years to help others to live a life where obsessions and compulsions are not controlling their lives.

Through hypnosis I work with the subconscious part of the brain. This part of the brain- the emotional, fight/flight/freeze area- is responsible for the subconscious patterning of obsessions and compulsions. Hypnosis can teach this area of the mind to calm itself down and adopt new patterns and behaviours. By lowering general anxiety and stress, the OCD symptoms will decrease and dissipate.

I can provide Hypnotherapy alongside other OCD therapies such as Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) to compliment and enhance overall treatment success.

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