Hypnotherapy for Depression & Emotional Health
Overcoming depression and emotional struggles often feels like an uphill battle, but with the right support and techniques, hypnotherapy can help restore balance and improve emotional well-being.
Depression & Emotional Health: Restore Balance with Hypnotherapy
Emotions play a vital role in how we navigate life, helping us connect with others, process experiences, and find meaning in our journey.
However, when feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or emotional fatigue take hold, they can overwhelm us and cloud our sense of purpose and well-being. Depression and emotional struggles often act like a heavy fog, holding us in patterns of negative thinking and draining our energy.
Hypnotherapy offers a gentle yet effective way to address these emotional challenges, helping you reconnect with inner strengths, shift negative patterns, and foster a renewed sense of balance and resilience.
Types of Depression & Emotional Health We Can Help You Overcome
Common Emotional and Cognitive Signs
Persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or emptiness.
Loss of interest or enjoyment in activities you once loved.
Feeling overwhelmed by guilt or worthlessness.
Difficulty concentrating, making decisions, or remembering details.
Thoughts of self-harm or suicide.
Physical and Behavioral Signs
Changes in appetite or weight (eating too much or too little).
Trouble sleeping or sleeping excessively.
Low energy, fatigue, or a sense of lethargy.
Feeling restless, agitated, or unusually slow in your movements.
Withdrawing from social activities or neglecting personal responsibilities.
How Can Hypnotherapy Help With Depression & Emotional Health
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy can help you lift the weight of depression and restore emotional balance. We'll explore the underlying emotional patterns contributing to your depressive feelings and identify practical steps to manage and overcome them. Together, we’ll create a new, empowering narrative, helping you visualize a brighter future and take manageable steps towards emotional well-being.
For specific emotional triggers, we can use quick, safe techniques to address the subconscious thoughts that reinforce negative emotions. Through hypnosis, we’ll reinforce positive, lasting changes, gradually shifting your mindset toward a healthier, more resilient outlook.
These techniques are rooted in proven neuroscience, leveraging a natural process to reprogram the brain and neutralize the emotional triggers that contribute to depression.
Stephen Hardy
DSFH, HPD, AfSFH, MNCH (Reg.), CNHC (Reg.)
I’m a clinical solution-focused hypnotherapist and coach.
My mission is to help people have more fulfilling, fun lives and careers.
As a clinical hypnotherapist, I work with both the conscious and subconscious minds, using a combination of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, CBT, and Neuroscience, mixed in with my experience of working in senior corporate positions.
The goal is to enable rapid positive change, through helping clients reframe their thinking, and creating new patterns of behaviour. It’s a positive, fun approach.
Testimonials
Free Discovery Call
We'll spend 30 minutes exploring your current challenges and establishing whether Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy is a good fit for you.
The relationship between a therapist and a client is fundamental to the success of any engagement. This is an opportunity to get to know me and find out if my style of engagement would work for you.
You will gain a fresh perspective on what's been holding you back, and confidence in your ability to move forward in life.
An opportunity for you to ask me any questions or address any concerns you may have.
FAQs
What is Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy? How does it differ from more traditional therapy?
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy is a proven, fast and effective agent for long term change, and has been successfully deployed in several organisations including Northumbria Police.
I take a holistic approach to supporting clients, addressing the cause of their problems, not just the symptoms. Unlike some other therapies, I don’t focus on a client’s issues beyond gaining an initial understanding. I also don’t perform any regression work or focus on past trauma. Sessions are conducted in a solution-focused manner, helping clients move forward with their lives. I use a combination of NLP, CBT, neuroscience, and hypnotherapy to facilitate rapid change in our clients. The goal of solution-focused hypnotherapy is to enable rapid, sustainable change.
Is Hypnotherapy safe? Will I lose control?
I use an element of trance in sessions to accelerate the therapeutic process, with solution-focused hypnotherapy being a core element of sessions. Trance is a very familiar state. All of us go into trance many times every day, for example, when we’re focusing on something we love doing, driving a regular route, or jogging. Trance is when the conscious and subconscious minds come together in focus, allowing you to access the vast resource library in your subconscious and helping you to get the very best out of yourself. It’s a myth that anyone can make you do something against your will in trance. You’re always in control, and your mind will “wake” you if it doesn’t feel safe or if there’s something you need to address. Typically, clients find this part of the process very relaxing and enjoyable.
Do you provide online sessions, and if so, are they as effective as in-person sessions?
Yes and yes!
Since Covid, many people have developed a preference for online interactions. The bulk of my sessions are now conducted over Zoom, giving clients the opportunity to relax within the comfort of their own homes.
The only request is that you ensure you have access to decent WiFi and are in a place where you can comfortably relax with minimal distractions.
Are there any conditions you can’t treat?
I specialise in working with clients who have mild to moderate anxiety or depression and related disorders. As a solution-focused hypnotherapist, I also work with individuals with high levels of anxiety or depression; however, clients need to be aware that this can be a longer process, and they may need to do this in conjunction with taking medication as diagnosed by their medical professional.
Suffering from a psychotic episode can mean that hypnosis is contraindicated, therefore hypnotherapy should not be received in that scenario. Those with a history of psychosis but who aren’t currently suffering from a psychotic episode can benefit from hypnotherapy to help address anxiety-related disorders.
Some physical ailments can be psychosomatic, but it’s important that they are properly assessed by a medical professional.
How many sessions does it take to overcome anxiety?
Everyone is different and I take a client led approach. You know how you feel and how many sessions you need to get to where you want to.
From experience, roughly 10-12 sessions is probably a good rule of thumb, however some people have significantly less, some a few more.