I help people move away from severe Anxiety and/or OCD and towards feeling deeply calm, and truly themselves.
Would you like my free ‘Calming Self-Hypnosis Guide for People with Anxiety?’
Would you like to wake up each morning feeling calm, positive, peaceful, and looking forward to the day ahead, your heartbeat steady, your mind quiet? This easy-to-use video based guide could be your first step….
RENEW YOUR MIND
Imagination versus Anxiety
Imagination versus Anxiety is my 6-month intensive 1-2-1 therapy process, helping people to move away from severe Anxiety and/or OCD so that they can stop feeling terrible (too much of the time) and start feeling amazing (most of the time). You can read more about this 6-month process here:
Already know you’re interested in doing therapy work together? You can book in for an initital consultation call here:
Ongoing Therapy
There’s also another way to work with me in a therapy process – this approach is less intensive, more ‘slowly, slowly, gently gently’, and still very highly effective in helping people to move away from anxiety, OCD, depression and towards being calmer, happier, more confident and more authentically themselves. You can read more about this option here:
When I first came to see Orla I was suffering from terrible Anxiety and OCD, which I had endured for thirty years or so. I had a complex and exhausting system of checking and re-checking, which extended from the way I locked my car, locked up my house, arranged things in my house and put my bank card back in my wallet, to the way I performed certain tasks at work. And I was also continually plagued by upsetting thoughts about awful things from my childhood.
Now, having come to hypnotherapy sessions with Orla for a number of months, and going through a process of learning how to use my own mind differently, I can honestly say that I have stopped all forms of checking, which is a huge relief and saves me a lot of time, energy and embarrassment. A friend I was out with the other day was simply astonished when I didn’t have to go through my usual lengthy ritual with the bank card!
….And even more wonderful (….) those upsetting thoughts have completely gone. My mind feels quiet and peaceful, and I can focus on what I want to achieve without things from the past getting in the way.
Because I was in such a bad way at the time I started sessions, I wasn’t sure particularly how much hypnotherapy could help me. My anxiety and depression were very bad at that point, and I was so often preoccupied with very negative thoughts, that it was difficult to imagine anything making it any better. I’d tried a lot of other methods and therapies before as well, and nothing had really worked, and so I didn’t have much patience left I suppose. I was sick of things not working and I found it difficult to feel hopeful at all. I was afraid it would be a waste of money and time and that it wasn’t going to be any kind of a help to me, not for real. And that maybe there actually wasn’t any help for it really, that there wasn’t anything that could change it.
Now, having come to hypnotherapy session for around a year, I am in a much more positive place, and feel, for the first time in a long time, genuinely hopeful about my future. One of the things I knew I needed help with was how to deal with negative thoughts, because this was a huge problem for me. In fact this is one of the things I asked Orla about when we first spoke on the phone, and one of the reasons I decided to go for it with the hypnotherapy was because she said that this is something that hypnotherapy can help with. And it absolutely has. Now I have ways to deal with my anxiety when it is getting too much – I know what I have to say to myself and what I have to do to feel differently.
I have a long history of anxiety and depression, and things have improved for me significantly since I started seeing Orla for hypnotherapy, and I have so many tools now to help me in the future. I’m really learning that the more time I think about the good things in my life, the more I’m going to feel good….
….Now, at the end of my sessions, I feel a bit better able to cope with life generally. I feel happier and I feel more equipped to deal with the future. I feel like it’s allowed me to get to know myself a bit more. I’ve been finding out who I am, and what I like and enjoy. I didn’t really think about that before. And then of course, using the structure that we practice in the middle part of each session where you picture the immediate future in a positive way, I have also been working on trying to do more of those things that I like. And this change has had a huge impact in terms of my mood and the way that I am feeling on a day-to-day basis.
Aside from therapy work, there are other ways of working with me, including carefully designed and structured freestanding sessions, plus courses, workshops and trainings:
from the blog
Jacqueline’s Story
When I first started therapy, I was struggling with frequent panic attacks, Anxiety and the destructive and upsetting thought processes of OCD - I’d had struggles with anxiety almost my whole life pretty much, definitely since I was a small child, as a result of...
Anthony’s Story
In the early stages of starting therapy, my panic attacks were so bad that I was nervous about what the hypnosis might be like, in that I knew that it was also an ‘altered state’. But in fact it wasn’t a problem. I found it good, beneficial. I felt that it was...