At London Trusted Therapy, we recognise that many difficulties — such as anxiety, phobias, chronic pain, unwanted habits, or limiting beliefs — are maintained by automatic patterns formed outside conscious awareness. Hypnotherapy works directly with these subconscious processes, gently bypassing conscious defences so that change can feel more accessible and, for some people, faster than through talking therapy alone.
Our approach combines clinical hypnosis with psychotherapeutic understanding, addressing both symptoms and the emotional patterns that sustain them. In this relaxed, absorbed state — similar to meditation or being lost in a book — you gain access to inner resources such as calm, confidence, creativity, and resilience, allowing change to emerge in a way that feels natural, supported, and aligned with your goals.
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Hypnotherapy is particularly valuable for people who have tried other approaches but found certain patterns resistant to change. If you experience anxiety, phobias, or automatic responses that feel beyond conscious control, hypnotherapy works directly with the subconscious processes that maintain these patterns.
You may benefit from hypnotherapy if you struggle with specific fears or phobias — such as fear of flying, social anxiety, dental phobia, or panic attacks — or with unwanted habits like smoking, overeating, or compulsive behaviours. When you know what you want to change but feel unable to do so, hypnotherapy helps bridge the gap between insight and action by addressing automatic behaviour at its source.
Hypnotherapy can also support those managing chronic pain, sleep difficulties, performance anxiety, low confidence, or limiting beliefs. By accessing inner resources such as calm, resilience, and focus, this approach can help you unlock capacities that support healing, personal development, and meaningful change.
Hypnotherapy in couples work can help partners develop deeper empathy and understanding by experiencing each other's perspectives more fully. Through guided imagery and relaxation, couples can access compassionate states that facilitate connection and healing.
You might benefit from hypnotherapy as a couple if you're working to overcome specific relationship patterns — such as automatic defensive reactions, intimacy blocks, or communication breakdowns — that seem to happen despite your best intentions. Hypnotherapy can help rewire these automatic responses.
This approach is valuable for couples dealing with sexual difficulties or intimacy blocks rooted in anxiety, past trauma, or performance pressure. Hypnotherapy can help both partners feel more relaxed, present, and connected in intimate situations.
Hypnotherapy can be integrated into family therapy to help family members develop relaxation and self-regulation skills that reduce overall family stress and reactivity. When individual family members learn to manage their own anxiety or anger through self-hypnosis, the entire family system benefits.
Families benefit when specific members — perhaps a child with school anxiety or sleep difficulties, or a parent with stress-related symptoms — receive hypnotherapy as part of the overall family treatment. Individual change creates ripples throughout the family system.
This approach helps families where habitual patterns of interaction — such as escalating arguments or avoidance — happen automatically and are difficult to interrupt. Hypnotherapy can help family members develop new automatic responses that are more constructive.
Hypnosis is a natural, focused state of awareness where your conscious mind relaxes whilst your subconscious becomes more accessible. It's similar to being deeply absorbed in a film, meditating, or that drowsy state before sleep. You remain aware, in control, and able to reject any suggestion that doesn't align with your values.
Much of your behaviour, emotions, and physical responses are governed by subconscious patterns formed through experience. Hypnotherapy allows you to access and update these patterns directly, rather than trying to override them with willpower alone. This is why change through hypnotherapy can feel easier and more natural.
In the hypnotic state, carefully crafted therapeutic suggestions become more readily accepted by your subconscious mind. These suggestions are always aligned with your goals and values — you cannot be made to do anything against your will. Suggestion works by offering your mind new possibilities and perspectives that feel true and helpful.
Clinical hypnotherapy is always a collaborative process. You remain aware, can speak, and can emerge from hypnosis at any time. We work together to create suggestions and imagery that resonate with you. Trust and safety are essential — hypnotherapy works best when you feel comfortable and willing to engage in the process.
Hypnotherapy recognises the profound connection between mind and body. The relaxed, focused state of hypnosis can influence physical processes — reducing pain, lowering blood pressure, improving immune function, and facilitating healing. Your imagination in hypnosis can create real physiological changes.
Hypnotherapy helps you access inner resources — calm, confidence, creativity, courage — that you already possess but may have difficulty accessing consciously. Rather than depending on the therapist, you learn to use self-hypnosis and access these resources independently, building genuine self-efficacy.
We don’t just do hypnosis — we integrate hypnotherapeutic techniques within a broader psychotherapeutic framework. We understand the psychological and emotional context of your difficulties and use hypnosis as one tool among many.
Every hypnotherapy session is customised to you — your goals, your learning style, your imagery preferences, your pace. We don’t use generic scripts but create bespoke therapeutic suggestions and metaphors that resonate with your unique situation.
We teach you self-hypnosis skills so you can access helpful states independently. Rather than depending on the therapist, you develop the ability to use these tools on your own — for relaxation, confidence, pain management, or any other goal.
We work with you, not on you. You’re always consulted about the content and direction of hypnotic work. Your autonomy and agency are respected — hypnosis enhances your own capacity for change rather than imposing external control.
We recognise that if change were simple, you would have done it already. When hypnotherapy doesn’t produce immediate results, we explore what the resistance might be protecting or communicating. Sometimes the conscious mind wants change whilst a part of you has good reasons to maintain the status quo — we work with this complexity.
Each session includes an induction — a process of guiding you into a relaxed, focused hypnotic state. This might involve progressive relaxation, imagery, breathing, or other techniques. The trance feels deeply relaxing, like meditation or deep absorption. You remain aware and in control throughout.
People vary in their natural responsiveness to hypnosis, but most people can benefit from hypnotherapy. Willingness, trust, and practice increase your responsiveness over time.
Involuntary physical responses to mental imagery or suggestions — for example, your finger lifting in response to a yes/no question, or arm levitation. These demonstrate how powerfully the mind influences the body.
Suggestions given during hypnosis that continue to influence you after the session ends. For example, a suggestion that you'll feel increasingly confident, or that cigarettes will become unappealing. These create lasting behavioural and emotional changes.
Rather than viewing the subconscious as an adversary to be controlled, hypnotherapy treats it as a wise, protective part of you that can become a powerful ally in change once it understands and accepts new directions.
In hypnosis, seemingly contradictory experiences can coexist comfortably — you might feel both deeply relaxed and energised, or both separate from your body and intensely aware of it. This flexibility of awareness allows for creative problem-solving and reframing.
Starting hypnotherapy requires openness and willingness to experience trance, but you don’t need any special abilities or preparation. Many people worry they won’t be able to ‘go under’ or won’t be hypnotisable — in reality, most people can experience therapeutic trance with guidance and practice.
Some people worry about losing control or revealing secrets. In clinical hypnotherapy, you remain in control, aware, and able to reject suggestions that don’t feel right. You won’t say or do anything you don’t want to — hypnosis doesn’t override your values or judgment.
Hypnotherapy helps you move from feeling stuck in automatic patterns to experiencing fluidity and choice. It works directly with the subconscious mind where habits, fears, and responses are encoded, making change feel easier and more natural than fighting against yourself with willpower alone.
You just need to be willing to experience it. With guidance, trust, and collaboration, you can access the powerful resources of your own mind and create the changes you want to make.
If you want a therapeutic approach that works directly with your subconscious mind to facilitate healing and change, we’re here to help. Together, we gently access the deeper patterns that shape your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, supporting meaningful transformation that feels natural, sustainable, and aligned with who you are.
Should you feel that your first session did not meet your expectations or that your therapist wasn’t a good fit, we will provide another session completely free of charge with a different practitioner.
We are proud to work in partnership with major UK and global insurers, as an approved mental health provider, supporting various clients in their therapy journey around the globe.
