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Christina’s Story

Christina’s Story

One major concern for me when I thought about starting therapy with Orla was the idea of having to discuss the contents of my intrusive thoughts – I hated the idea of this. But it turned out that this wasn’t necessary for the process. And as the process went on I...

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Meredith’s Story

Meredith’s Story

I’d been having problems over the course of a year or so with anxiety and recurring negative thought patterns. I’d also been finding my emotions really hard to manage and had been dealing as well with intrusive thoughts about a past trauma which I’d never had the...

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Kelly’s Story

Kelly’s Story

When I first made contact with Orla about the problems I was experiencing I was in a very bad place, stuck in very negative thought processes and patterns and ways of thinking. I felt like I was in a very dark hole. It was like a really black tornado. And I couldn’t...

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Elizabeth’s Story

Elizabeth’s Story

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...

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Sophia’s Story

Sophia’s Story

For two or three years, there’s been lots of things I’ve wanted to change. In particular, I’ve been becoming more and more aware that there was a need, for various complicated reasons, to move myself away from the business I started up ten years ago, and that now...

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Georgia’s Story

Georgia’s Story

I came to hypnotherapy because I was feeling really ‘stuck’ in life. I’d been working in a shop for thirteen and a half years, without ever having really meant to have chosen this as a job. I really very intensely disliked my job, and I’d wanted to get out of retail...

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