Hypnotherapy in Lincoln

Rachael L Eccles
Clinical Hypnotherapist

Dip Hyp, ASHPH, GHR, GHSC, GQHP, MBIH, UKCHO.   Registered with the NHS Directory of Complementary Health practitioners
Compulsive Behaviour

Compulsive Behaviour

Hypnotherapy can help you to change automatic behaviours and things you feel compelled to do. The drive to repeat the same behaviours and rituals comes from a desire for comfort, to enable you to feel secure, safe and reassured. Repeating things that give you a secure feeling tend to reinforce those reassuring feelings more. The good news is that these habits can be broken down with careful efforts. If you have compulsive habits, OCD, or compulsive behaviours, you do need to "want" to change as you will have to actively work with the hypnotherapy for it be successful.

Hypnotherapy is useful for a huge range of psychological and medical conditions, it is excellent for breaking bad habits, addictions and phobias and OCD, and can provide outstanding results in personal improvement of all kinds.

Compulsive behaviours usually begin through the desire for comfort and reassurance. Checking and repeating behaviour can get out of hand from something that is reassuring and logical to something that is out of control. Usually the sufferer and those close to them are aware there is a problem but compulsive repetitive behaviours are hard to control because of the sense of relief gained from repeating the actions and sometimes there are perceived dangers from failing to repeat the actions sufficiently. Overcoming these fears is key to controlling the problem. With a careful approach, establishing the root causes of the compulsive behaviours can be achieved fairly rapidly through hypnotherapy. Reinforcing your power to choose whether or not to perform the repeat actions or behaviors then becomes the focus of therapy. Success can be seen to begin usually within 2 sessions of hypnotherapy.

Some common compulsive behaviours Skin picking
Hair pulling/plucking
hand washing
compulsive checking
compulsive cleaning
nail biting
compulsive shopping
compulsive gambling

 

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Rachael Eccles, Clinical Hypnotherapist
Rachael L Eccles
Clinical Hypnotherapy in Lincoln

Phone: 01522 793663
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