Pain

Overview:

In April 2023, the UK’s Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) called for healthcare staff to give patients hypnosis recordings to help them manage their anxiety pre-operation and reduce their need for sedation during surgery.

In 2006, a live television broadcast captured a British woman, Pippa Plaisted, as she underwent the removal of a skin tumour with hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic. Pippa underwent the surgery completely pain-free with no increase in her heart rate or blood pressure. After the surgery, Pippa reported feeling no pain and was discharged without any complications.

Pain is far more than just a physical sensation. It’s a complex and multi-dimensional experience involving sensory, emotional, and cognitive elements. Pain can be acute (short-term) or persistent (chronic) and hypnotherapy can help with both types.

The brain plays a crucial role in interpreting pain signals. When evaluating pain cues, the brain’s response can vary from immediate reflex actions to more complex emotional and cognitive responses. The brain takes into account your past experiences of pain, your current emotional state and your beliefs about how you can (or can’t) manage pain, before deciding how to respond.

This is why hypnotherapy is highly successful at helping people holistically manage their pain by reducing the way in which pain is anticipated, perceived, processed and responded to.

Through deep relaxation and the reframing of emotions, your pain perception can be altered freeing you to enjoy a pain-free life.

Facts:

  • Approximately 43% of UK adults experience chronic pain, which is pain lasting longer than three months.

  • Chronic pain is more common in women than men.

  • Pain and mental health are interconnected. Pain affects mental health and mental health affects how we experience pain.

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How hypnotherapy can help:

By guiding you into hypnosis, you will become highly receptive to positive suggestions to reduce your perception of pain.

You will be taught coping mechanisms including Glove Anaesthesia, Anchoring, Reframing, Colour Breathing, The Comfort Dial and Self-Hypnosis.

We will explore your history with pain, address your current pain narrative and tackle the root cause.

We will identify your specific pain triggers, learning how to manage these triggers and where possible eliminate them.

You will complete practical exercises including creating a Pain Inventory.

You will be taught relaxation and release techniques.

You will experience ego-strengthening to lift your mood and build a positive sense of self and purpose.

We will review and revisit anxious memories related to pain, enabling you to re-code a new pain response. 

You will experience age progression and future mapping enabling you to move towards living a normal life free from pain.

You will receive direct suggestions, leveraging your neuroplasticity and encouraging the formation of new neural pathways which is vital for long-lasting change.

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Transformation in 3 Simple Steps

  1. Discovery Call

20 minutes - Free

2. Initial Consultation

60 minutes - £25

3. Hypnotherapy Session

60 minutes - £85

  • I'd never tried hypnotherapy before and now wish I'd started it sooner. The way Gemma set up and held the space made the whole process feel really safe and relaxed. I have a noisy brain and was sceptical this would work for me but it gave me a proper

    "I'd never tried hypnotherapy before and now wish I'd started it sooner. The way Gemma set up and held the space made the whole process feel really safe and relaxed. I have a noisy brain and was sceptical this would work for me but it gave me a proper break from it in a way that felt truly restorative. Highly recommend."

  • “Working with Gemma has been a truly transformative experience. When I first started therapy, I was overwhelmed by stress and struggling to cope. Through your compassionate and insightful approach, you helped me understand the roots of my stress and gave me practical tools to manage it effectively.”

  • "Gemma was brilliant, from the moment I stepped into the room she made me feel calm and at ease. Any questions I had were answered clearly and she listened carefully and compassionately to me throughout our work together. I can safely say that if you put your all into therapy, you get a whole lot more out of it than you will ever have expected. Thank you Gemma."

  • “Managing and running my own business results in me having a lot of stress and coping with a huge amount of other people’s stresses too. I contacted Gemma about hypnotherapy and whether she thought that may help. I was really impressed with her personal and professional manner throughout our first meeting, instantly grasping what industry I worked in and showing empathy for the areas of life that I found most stressful. Even now in times of stress I still mentally use the green shiny pebble in my pocket creating space and allowing me to breath and realign my thoughts. I would highly recommend Gemma for any hypnotherapy sessions that you may be thinking about.”

  • “I had the privilege of participating in hypnotherapy sessions with Gemma to help me manage stress and the experience truly exceeded my expectations.”

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  • "It was a pleasurable and relaxing experience having hypnotherapy. Gemma is very attentive, professional and engaging."