Therapist. Specialist in Anxiety and OCD recovery - I help people recover their full mental health so that they can create the life they want to create | Solution Focused Hypnotherapy | NLP | Time Line Therapy
"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 for a long time, but I never seemed to be quite able to do so. Also I was always making plans to use my free time to study or to start my own business, but never quite managing to do this either. I struggled with motivation and discipline and would frequently become distracted. I’d get really cast down when I’d apply for other jobs and not get them, and then this had happened so many times that I just started to give up. I wasn’t sure exactly what the problem was, or what was stopping me doing what I wanted to do. Maybe it was procrastination, maybe it was a fear of trying and then failing, or maybe it was low self-esteem. As soon as I started messaging Orla and finding out a bit more about hypnotherapy and how it might help, I felt better about things, and more positive and hopeful. Now, a year or so on from when I started sessions, I have experienced so much change and development that I am in an entirely different place. I have learnt how to shift myself out of an anxious state, or out of ‘procrastination mode’, and into a more positive, focused state. This had made applying for jobs a great deal easier and quicker. Before, it was a case of spending a long old time just sending out one application, and really sweating blood and tears over it, with a lot of stress, a lot of unpleasantness, and many hours spent. Whereas recently, I have ended up firing off many, many applications for things I am interested in, doing them well and efficiently, and feeling pretty good about this. I am so much more positive and confident now and I have a new job that I am starting next month. It’s not my ideal job or anything, but it is not a retail job, and it moves me in the directions I want to be going, and towards the kind of work I want to do. There are things that are difficult or awkward about it, which previously would have prompted me to reject the idea, but now I am just making it work...." (Georgia, 39, Education Professional) You can read the rest of this client's story here: https://lnkd.in/e5ZNsp3f I so love and delight in witnessing people making really major transitions in their lives as part of their therapy journey, and how the impact of that can ripple out from around that one person.... for example in terms of the person connecting more with their skills, talents and sense of purpose when it comes to their working life.