Calm Minds for counselling and hypnotherapy
Stockport, Cheshire and Greater Manchester

Calm Minds is a holistic therapy centre based in the centre of Bramhall in Stockport (Cheshire, Greater Manchester) offering counselling and hypnotherapy treatment.

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You are probably visiting our website, because you are looking for help with: stopping smoking; losing weight; getting rid of a phobia; relationship issues; bereavement; stress; anxiety; depression; or life is just getting on top of you.

I’m Jonathan Lloyd and I’m a qualified hypnotherapist and counsellor and I can help you with all of these issues.

Take smoking for instance; have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to give up? Have you tried everything? I am not surprised that you have struggled, as statistically only 6% of us can give up using willpower alone and it doesn’t get much better with Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). It's the same for everybody else in Stockport, Cheshire and Greater Manchester!

Using counselling and hypnotherapy I have helped many people to stop. They have found it strangely easy to switch off the craving and not replace it with another one (eating comes to mind). The hypnotherapy process is very simple, and nothing like the stage shows. You enter a very relaxed state and the therapist makes the suggestion to the subconscious mind that the craving for tobacco is switched off, and reinforces what harm it was doing to you.

And what about stress - what are we like when we get obsessed about being in contact all waking hours and anxious if our Blackberry is out of signal? We have formed a deep attachment to material lifestyles, peer pressure and chasing the dream: “if only I could win the lottery that would make me happy!”

All this stress and anxiety caused by our own perceptions causes so many problems and can ultimately kill us.

Just talking it through with a counsellor can be extremely beneficial. Taking time to look at your whole life, where you spend all your time and energy and where your self-care is, can be useful. Also, there are techniques like meditation, mindfulness or self hypnosis that can help to restore calm and order.

It is time to take care of yourself; you are no use to others if you reach burn out!

If you run the video (above) then you’ll hear me talk about counselling and hypnotherapy in more detail as part of an interview for www.inexess.tv.

I am registered with the Counselling Directory.