Frequently Asked Questions

No, you can proceed with the therapy only if you feel confident and comfortable that it will be beneficial to you following the assessment session. Even so, you can discontinue it whenever you want.

Unfortunately Medicare does not cover counselling therapies as yet .

It is a way to explore feelings, worries, thoughts, that are troubling you with the aid of a qualified professional. This is provided in a safe and non-judgemental environment. It can be a mechanism to develop certain skills in life, work through a change so much needed for a better version of you.

It may be of assistance to you when you are facing challenges due to life events, changes imposed to your life which impacted you so much that you feel stressed, scared, anxious or lost. It may also be appropriate if you want to learn about yourself, as you go through your feelings, attitudes, worries. If you feel negative, inadequate, stupid, scared of social contacts, unhappy with what you say or look like.

Yes absolutely. Confidentiality is a critical element in the counselling process. However, there are some exceptions that, by law, as a professional I am obliged to report, as in when requested by a court of law, or if I become aware that you are at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or yet if you consent to share your records with other professional.

Hypnosis is a method of inducing a person into a trancelike state of consciousness through profound relaxation. Such natural state of mind is a learning state that everyone enters at different degrees multiple times as day. In this state you are many times more suggestible compaired to when you are awake. Hypnotic trance is an inward focus like being totally absorbed while watching a movie, reading a book or driving a car.

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic modality that combines counselling/psychotherapy techniques with the altered state of mind reached through hypnosis to treat various disorders, conditions, and habits the client wishes.

Hypnotherapy has shown to be very effective in treating: Fears & Phobias, Anxiety & Depression, Stress, Insomnia & Poor Sleep, Weight Loss, Chronic Pain, Migraines, Panic Attack, Low Self-Esteem & Lack of Confidence, Procrastination, Trauma, Skin Conditions, Unwanted Habits & Addictions, various behavioural issues, and also it is used to Enhance Performance.

No, hypnosis doesn’t put you to sleep nor take control over your mind or will.

You will be aware of what the therapist says as you are totally present. The focused state enables the therapist to tap into your subconscious mind and make positive suggestions to thought patterns, habits or the negative effects of traumatic incidents.

Most likely, yes. The lightest state of hypnosis, which is called alpha state, can be achieved relatively easily. Everyone enters a hypnotic state, multiple times a day. Many people in light hypnosis would not think they are in trance, but they are, and changes happen.