Hypnotherapy
What is Hypnotherapy?
Everyone has experienced hypnosis of some kind, whether when daydreaming, reading a book, watching TV, or listening to music.
Hypnosis is a focussed state of mind that gives access to your subconscious mind to bring about changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviour – empowering you to become the person you want to be. Hypnotherapy puts you in control of your life.
Whereas counselling and other “talking cures” use psychological techniques alone, hypnotherapy is distinctive in that it addresses your unconscious mind directly using a variety of approaches which may include trance, story-telling, WSN, past life regression, or suggestion therapy. Change can thereby occur in a comparatively should period of time.
Using hypnotherapy in Chigwell, Essex I can help you bring about these beneficial changes in your life – based on your goals – through the use of hypnosis which many people experience as fun, or a deep sense of relaxation and calm.
What are the benefits of Hypnotherapy ?
Hypnotherapy is safe for many conditions and promotes good health by helping you to break free of destructive habits and patterns of behaviour. It promotes positive change by bringing greater understanding to your situation, it is faster than many other treatments and is a personal one-to-one process. Click Here to find out what Hypnotherapy is used for.
Can I be Hypnotised?
YES! Hypnosis is something that every healthy person has experienced at some point in their daily lives. Some researchers have claimed that we can spend up to 15 hours per day in a state of hypnosis.
Everyone can be hypnotised. If you can daydream, you can be hypnotised. If you have ever experienced a journey, perhaps by car and reached your destination not really aware of all the turns you made, all the lights you stopped at, then you can be hypnotised.
We all have the ability to go into hypnosis, but sometimes and in certain situations it is more difficult to achieve and so I will help you to develop your talent so you can use self-hypnosis whenever you need to.
Change can occur in quite light hypnotic states as well and in deep trance, and use a variety of techniques which suit your needs whether it is trance work or conversational hypnosis.
Can I benefit from Hypnotherapy?
It is probably true to say that everyone can benefit from hypnotherapy for one reason or another.
If you want to find out how you can Stop Smoking with Hypnotherapy in Chigwell, then click on the image to the right. 
I practice Hypnotherapy and several other techniques in Chigwell Essex. If you search for “personal trainers in Chigwell” you will be spoilt for choice.
Many of you reading this will know someone who has a personal trainer – you may have one yourself. You may know someone who pays for personal tuition or coaching for their children. Engaging me to help you achieve a goal is not different to working with a personal trainer or personal tutor. When you have definite goal to achieve, with the right teacher and guidance you can make leaps and bounds towards your goal.
Unable to move forward? Not sure where you want to be?
But what happens if you have creative or emotional “blocks”? What happens when the change that you desire isn’t so definite in shape or form? What do you do when you just feel stuck, unable to move forward, not fully in control of your life?
Who do you turn to then? If you choose hypnotherapy with me you are making a choice with benefits that could stay with you even when you haven’t time for making personal positive affirmations in front of the mirror. Benefits that don’t have you worrying about running late for the gym. Benefits that are still there, even if you haven’t sat in the lotus position for a fortnight.
Hypnotherapy in Essex can unlock your potential
You might feel unworthy of your promotion, or have a sense of “being found out”. You might not feel good enough to make a play for the best looking guy or girl. You might find yourself talking yourself out of enjoying occasional treats such as a holiday, or bingeing on food to numb emotional pain.
Or the image you hold of yourself privately, might make it impossible for you to buy the car you really want, buy the clothes you wants, or take the holiday you deserve. Even more worryingly you might avoid getting that niggling cough, or nagging pain seen to because you “don’t want to make a fuss”. These are some examples of limiting beliefs that stop you from making the best decisions for you, that stop you from fulfilling your potential and living the life your deserve .
As a Hypnotherapist I can help you to uncover the reasons behind the things that seem to be holding you back so that you can move forward. Working together with me you can achieve a peace of mind, sense of purpose, and successful outlook that open doors for you onto a life your can enjoy!
Among the transformative hypnotherapy skills I have at my fingertips to help you I am also
- an OldPain2Go Practitioner for pain reduction/removal
- Level 3 practitioner of WSN Counselling and Coaching.
- Hypnotension Practitioner – hypotension helps reduce high blood pressure naturally.
- IEMT – Integral Eye Movement Therapy – especially useful for distressing memories and PTSD.
Among the many things that Hypnotherapy can help with are:
Stopping Smoking
You can Stop Smoking with Hypnosis in Chigwell.
Will powered is required. You have nothing to lose – but your health to gain! Click the image below to be taken to my Stop Smoking page.
Gavin Bowtell is a Stop Smoking Hypnotherapist in Essex and Hertfordshire accredited by the Central Register of Stop Smoking Therapists.
Stress management:
e.g. work issues, road rage, bottling things up, anger, insomnia, allowing work to interfere with home life.
Anxiety related issues:
e.g. social anxiety, exam nerves, public speaking, performance anxieties, driving tests, panic attacks.
Depression:
whether this is a long-standing condition or something new and unwanted in your life, there are many ways of defusing this.
Fears and Phobias
Spiders and other insects and animals, flying, traffic, open space (agoraphobia), closed in spaces (claustrophobia),public speaking, dentists and other medical situations.
Specific conditions
such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), and insomnia benefit from hypnotherapy. If you suffer from a condition that is made worse by anxiety or stress, such as acid reflux, psoriasis, eczema, or asthma for example then hypnotherapy could help you by relieving stress. Hypnotherapy can also be used to in pain control, for example in dentistry, childbirth and even in brain surgery.
Who recommends Hypnotherapy?
Many organisations and charities recommend Hypnotherapy; for example the NHS, Cancer Research, and the mental health charity Mind NICE – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, among others.
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Warriors, Settlers and Nomads - Counselling & Coaching
The ability of the WSN Plus practitioner to build a profile of an individual’s personality with a high degree of accuracy means that WSN can illuminate problems in inter and intra-personal relationships and lead to permanent solutions, by resolving conflicts, reducing tension, and releasing the natural resources of the client.
It can be of use in getting the best from social, romantic and work based relationships – whether you are the employer or the employee. It does this by equipping clients with the ability to identify their own personality types 
and the dynamics of the personalities of others, bringing insight and understanding to a variety of situations.
All WSN Counsellors & Coaches have completed initial training with reputable schools/institutions. Level 3 Practitioners have undergone the most extensive training in this method of working and have the highest level of expertise. Follow the link to find out more.
WSN - for Understanding your personality.
WSN or Warriors Settlers and Nomads is both a system for understanding and profiling personality, and for doing therapy!
It helps me to identity and use the best approaches for working with you toward the change you require. There are three levels of WSN. I am the first therapist to have archived certification in the highest level of WSN – WSN Extra.
Just as there are three primary colours which combined give us all the colours we can see, so WSN works with 3 parts of the personality that contribute to your overall character. We call the parts your Warrior, your Settler and your Nomad. and whilst it might sound extremely simplistic, it is actually more sophisticated than there is room in this blog post to explain. You could understand your Warrior, your settler or your Nomad as your Firm, Friendly or Fun part. Or as your Controlling, Caring and Charismatic part if that helps.
However simplicity is not only attractive it is also very useful. When you begin to understand these parts within yourself, you can immediately begin to piece together a much better understanding and appreciation of yourself, who you are and why you experience the world and others as you do. You can even become aware of why others see you differently to the way yourself.
How WSN Can Help You
Self-understanding can lead to self acceptance and from there to greater self-esteem and confidence. When you understand you own personality better, with WSN you can begin to spot the dominant personality types or parts in other people, allowing you to predict and understand with greater accuracy how others are likely to behave. This is an excellent skill to have in the work place for easing office tensions and factory-floor difficulties. Socially, it helps in understanding friends and social interactions better. And WSN is also useful in your love life for gaining a better understanding of past relationships and how to choose a compatible partner, or understand your current lover.
WSN Transformational Counselling and Coaching
All level 2 therapists have access to and training in WSN personality profiling which can be done using a more complex form of the programme given below. It can help with a number of performance related issues, at work, in sport, in acting and other life situations. It is very useful for helping to resolve fears, phobias and social anxiety, depression. It can also of use in discovering where the invisible “blocks” or “obstacles” to success or happiness lay, and thereby showing what needs to be developed or resolved.
WSN is an excellent tool for bringing balance to the personality and for unleashing natural resources within you that might have been inhibited or suppressed.
Using the FREE programme
- When using the free programme below drag the marker with your mouse to a position between 0% and 100% to indicated how true each statement is for you.
- When you have evaluated all 12 statements click”next”.
- Now you are taken to the next page that tells you a bit more about your broad personality type.
With the software I have I am able to give a more precise evaluation that can act as a pathway into therapy.
Call me to find out more 020 8170 0060
FREE Basic Personality Profile
When you have downloaded and used the Free Basic Personality Profile you might want to discover how you can more easily identify the personality types of others. You can read more here: CLICK HERE
WSN 3 – The Highest Level.
I was thrilled to become the first therapist to become a certified Level 3 WSN practitioner. This third and highest level of Warriors, Settlers & Nomads, takes the original concept the ultimate level.
In addition to working with the three basic personality types, and nine subtypes, WSN 3 practitioners also work with the most fundamental drivers of human behaviour that create three fundamental types: Type A (Threat Recogniser), Type B (Fairness Focused) and Type C (Ultimate Survivor) respectively.
Now I can help my clients with greater accuracy! How? Well, now we can take the cognitive approach of WSN and BWRT® to create a powerful combination therapy. Furthermore, it takes account of the way your cerebellum works. This part of your brain is the “first responder” to anything stimulus you experience. This means your total way of being is brought into the therapeutic process for great precision in accuracy in directing therapy. The find out more about the cerebellum follow this link “The Brain’s Secret Powerhouse that Makes us Who We Are.”
Furthermore – the WSN 3 approach allows the therapist and client to work more easily together to unleash the natural resources of the client’s psyche to bring about change and success in a way that is natural to the client.
Gavin Bowtell is a registered hypnotherapist in Chigwell, East London.
Gavin’s Essex Hypnotherapy practice is within easy reach of Hainault, Grange Hill, Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Epping.
Many clients come for hypnotherapy from Enfield, Hertfordshire, Kent and further afield, Scotland the USA and even Brazil!
Hypnotherapy appointments are available face to face, and sometimes via Skype.As a professional hypnotherapist dedicated to obtaining the change you want and need Gavin also makes use of other tried and tested techniques.
Besides hypnotherapy Gavin also uses NLP, EFT, WSN Counselling & Coaching, and IEMT.
Gavin is a certified practitioner of OldPain2Goand Slim via Hypnosis. He is also an advanced practitionerof BWRT® – BrainWorking Recursive Therapy.
Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT)
lntegral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) in Chigwell, Essex.
What is IEMT?
At my hypnotherapy practice in Chigwell, East London, I see many clients with issues of anxiety, anger, stress PTSD, and trauma to name but a few.
One of the most effective therapies for these problems is IEMT.
IEMT is a way of dealing with troubling memories, intrusive thoughts, and unwanted emotions. It is particularly useful in cases of PTSD and can bring about amazing results in as few as two sessions.
How does IEMT work?
You’ve heard the saying “you’ll see things differently in the morning” or “Sleep on it before you make a decision”, and “you’ll feel better after a goodnight’s sleep”. It isn’t the time between going to sleep and waking that makes the difference to the issue in hand – it is what you do when you are asleep that makes the difference.
When you go to sleep your brain goes through several “cycles” and one of them is REM sleep. REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement. You can tell when someone is in the REM cycle of their sleep because their eyes move back and forth behind closed eyelids. No one quite understands – yet – exactly what is happening. But is seems that a sort of mental and emotional housekeeping is taking place. Things you have experienced through the day are processed, filed away and understood. Memories and things you have learned are consolidated and encoded. Things you did not understand obtain some perspective.
When using IEMT I direct your eyes in specific ways so as to allow that processing of thoughts, emotions, memories to take place. This often means that old problems are suddenly updated with greater understanding.
IEMT is Straightforward
IEMT is very straightforward in the hands of the skilled practitioner and it looks deceptively easy.
For you IEMT sessions could quite easily be the easiest therapy sessions you will experience. Be under no illusions a practitioner like me can be direct, provocative, even blunt at times. However – and this is the beauty of IEMT – we do not have to spend hours talking about stuff you’ve already talked about or gone over before. And let’s face it, if talking about – how many times is it now? – hasn’t helped it’s likely that something else will be needed.
What happens during and appointment?
Hopefully you will have fun. My clients usually smile and laugh a lot. Hopefully you will also leave feeling like a weight has been lifted, feel freer, more able to think clearly. You might also suddenly obtain some insights into the old problem.
As soon as you arrive for an IEMT session I will begin working. Once you have seen how I am going to work I’ll tell you a bit about myself, if I haven’t already given you that information. Then I will ask you to tell me what you want me to do for you, how you want to be helped and how you want to change. You might arrive with the idea that you need to sit and tell me every single thing about the problem as you see it. However, I will have already demonstrated how little information I need from you, and therefore, once I have had enough information to begin working I will begin. There is no point dragging out the process of you feeling better! Let’s get started!
Where does IEMT come from?
There is the short answer and there is the long answer. The short answer is that IEMT was developed by Andrew T. Austin out of the work done by Dr Connirae Andreas with EMI. EMI or Eye Movement Integration was her NLP version of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming). Steve and Connirae Andreas considered EMI to be gentler and more effective than EMDR. They now fully endorse the both the work of Andrew Austin and his method of IEMT.
What do I do now?
Now is when you pick up the phone and calll 020 8172 0060 and leave message with your name and number and I will call you back unless I can speak to you right now.
Or you can email me hello@essexmindcoach.co.uk for more information or to book your appointment. If emailing to book your appointment please let me know what medications you are taking, and what conditions your are currently diagnosed with.
IEMT is now available near Chigwell, Hainault, Grange Hill, Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Epping, and other surrounding areas of Essex. Here in the comfort of my therapy room in Chigwell, East London you can take advantage of the tried and tested techniques including Hypnotherapy, NLP, BWRT®, EFT, OldPain2Go and WSN Counselling & Coaching. Gavin’s clients come from all over London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Cambridge, and even as far as Scotland, Bristol and Brazil
For cases studies clink the links below. These case studies are provided by the kind consent of previous clients.
IEMT in a Client with Bilateral Esotropia.
IEMT and Anosmia – loss of sense of smell.
Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology is an umbrella term for a number of approaches to alleviating and resolving emotional distress.
“Energy is the blueprint, the infrastructure, the invisible foundation for the health of your body. Your body is composed of energy pathways…that are in dynamic interplay with your cells, organs, moods and thoughts. If you can shift these energies, you can influence your health, emotions and state of mind.” quotation from The Healing Power of Energy Psychology by David Feinstein, Donna Eden & Gary Craig.
Included under the Energy Psychology umbrella are Thought Field Therapy (TFT) created by the psychologist Dr Roger Callahan, and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) created by Gary Craig. Both these therapies are commonly known as “Tapping Therapy”.
I often use these approached with clients, teaching them as “home-work” and self-help techniques that can speed up the overall process of therapy. EFT and TFT are excellent for on-line therapy. In fact they perfectly compliment almost every aspect of the work that I will do with you and are something that you will have for ever – that you can use with your children, friends and family too.
Free "Between Sessions" Journal worth more than £40!
Clients are provided with a FREE “Between Sessions Journal” worth more than £40 which contains 7 self help techniques, plus audio and video demonstrations.
The FREE “Between Sessions Journal” contains SEVEN self-help techniques, plus audio and video demonstrations!
Colour Breathing 1 – audio recording.
Colour Breathing 2 – audio recording.
Progressive Relaxation – audio recording.
Stress Buster Self – Hypnosis – audio recording.
Garden of Relaxation Self-Hypnosis – audio recording.
Supreme Coping Guided EFT – audio recording.
EFT Demonstration – video recording.