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What Can Be Achieved In One Session?

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Ruth Culver

Quite often, a single session of hypnotherapy is all you need to solve the problem. In 2014, I received a call from a wonderful painter, Helen Latham. Like many creative people, she’d hit a patch of “artist’s block”, and…

Tagged with: artist's block, performance anxiety
Posted in artist's block, Blog, Hypnotherapy, performance anxiety

Medical Doctors & Hypnosis

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Ruth Culver

The Royal Society of Medicine is holding an event this evening to draw the attention of doctors to the benefits of using hypnosis as an adjunct to medical treatment. Presented by doctors currently using hypnosis, as well as patients giving…

Posted in Blog, dental phobia, Hypnosis, insomnia, Pain relief

British Champion!

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Ruth Culver

Declan is 16 and had been spotted as a British Olympic hopeful. He was being trained by the best coaches in the land, but suddenly he’d started losing. It was a big knock to his confidence, and this sport which…

Posted in Blog, Hypnotherapy, Sports Psychology, teenagers

A Musical Term for Healing

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Ruth Culver

I just wanted to share this beautiful quote from Toko-pa, which came to mind today while working with a client who is showing great courage in working through painful memories of an abusive childhood: “In music, we call it ‘sympathetic…

Posted in Blog, Uncategorized

“I wish I could go there every day”

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Ruth Culver

I was recently working with a lovely boy who had been excluded from primary school for persistent angry outbursts. It was very clear to me after just a short while that lashing out was how he reacts to feeling unsafe,…

Posted in Blog, children

Why New Year resolutions don’t work

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Ruth Culver

This time of year I always get a rush of calls from people wanting to make changes in their lives. They often want my help with things they’ve been trying to change for years, without success. Most people rely on…

Posted in Blog, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy

Inner passions get centre stage

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Ruth Culver

I’m going a little off piste in my blog this week, exploring the psyche through theatre, prompted by the coincidence of seeing two plays in which the characters’ inner thoughts are presented alongside the words they speak out loud. Passion…

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"What an awesome facilitator you are! Very skillfully held, and with the perfect amount of holding, intervention and heart."

"Wow! What a day yesterday was. So grateful for everything I experienced. I feel different. Much lighter than I have for a while. My daughter just asked why I looked so good!"

"I appreciated your gentle, open, accepting approach and your wealth of knowledge and insights. I will be back."

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