Contact me by phone on 07980 146522, email me on nicole@nicolehuthwaitetherapy.com or use the contact form on this website

I work Tuesday to Saturday from 9.00am to 6pm, appointments are available outside these hours by request but are limited.

I am based in Alnwick, a beautiful market town in Northumberland easily accessed from the A1. 4D Clayport Street, Alnwick, Northumberland. NE66 1JU

The chat lasts between 30 – 60 minutes during which we cover:

• Your issues and concerns
• How you would like to change.
• A brief background gathering exercise to help me understand you better.
• An explanation of how the therapy process will work.
• Answering your questions around costs, cancellation policy and how many sessions might be needed

All sessions are 100% confidential, I am bound by a strict code of ethics, which are standard for any medical practitioner. However there are some exceptions to this, these include requests by a court of law, intention to harm yourself or others, acts of crime or reports of child abuse.

No but clients often find it useful if they prepare a list of issues or questions written down beforehand.

Psychotherapy is classed as a talking therapy. It is used to treat emotional problems and mental health issues. As well as talking, the therapy could use a range of methods including hypnotherapy.

A trained Psychotherapist offers a safe environment where you can express your feelings and gain a deeper insight into the issues you face. Psychotherapy sessions are confidential and non-judgemental. You can talk about things that you might feel unable to mention to someone else without fear of it being disclosed or judged. Psychotherapy will aim to get you where you want to be using a variety of tools, my psychotherapy sessions are not prescriptive and are tailored to each individual that I work with.

Hypnosis or hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance. The person’s attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored. It is used to make positive change.

Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not a state of deep sleep. It does involve the induction of a trance-like condition, but when in it, the client is actually in an enhanced state of awareness, concentrating entirely on the hypnotherapist’s voice. It may be surprising to learn that we experience trance states often during the course of our daily lives, driving home and wondering how you got there, losing yourself in a book without really taking it in are all forms of mild trance. Even passing into ordinary sleep involves a kind of trance state.

The experience of hypnosis is similar: neither asleep nor awake and a little like daydreaming, with a pleasant feeling of deep relaxation behind it all. Hypnosis allows you to naturally enter into a different state of consciousness (trance) so that, for therapeutic purposes (hypnotherapy), beneficial corrections may be given directly to your subconscious mind.

In this way, hypnosis is an effective way of making contact with our inner (subconscious) self, which is both a reservoir of unrecognised potential and knowledge as well as being the unwitting source of many of our problems. Altered states of awareness have been recognised for thousands of years and hypnosis is widely accepted as a beneficial therapy to access our inner potential.

Techniques can be used to reveal issues from an individual’s past that may be causing them distress, or the approach can be focused more on their present problems.

Typically, I start with:

• A welcome chat where you can ask any other questions you have and get comfortable.
• Induction. I will lead you into a state of deep physical and mental relaxation.
• Once deeply relaxed, I can then begin ‘change work’ using techniques and approaches discussed and agreed to help you towards your goals.
• Once the ‘change work’ is complete, I will gently begin the transition to wakefulness, in which you are gradually brought out of your trance.

Hypnosis has the capacity to work for most people, but some are more susceptible to suggestion than others. Being fully committed to the process and feeling that you can trust your hypnotherapist is key. It’s also important to keep an open mind, as any scepticism may subconsciously dampen your susceptibility.

Hypnotherapy is especially helpful for habit breaking, stress-related issues and for a range of long-term conditions. In recent years the approach has been gaining steam in the medical world after a recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recognised hypnotherapy as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).