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 wanted to have hypnotherapy to help me with confidence at work. I’ve struggled over the years with a sense of not being good enough and struggling to believe in my own ability. Even though I am a high achiever, at times I would easily slip into a pattern of negative thinking which undermined my ability. I experience quite a lot of stress at work and also wanted to figure out some good ways to deal with this, as previously this had brought on feelings of anxiety. I am really surprised and pleased at how quickly the hypnotherapy sessions with Orla have made such a difference. Orla created a warm and safe space to voice my insecurities and I was so pleased to constantly put into practice the helpful tools and tips that Orla recommended. I feel so much more confident now, particularly when contributing to meetings and discussions at work." (Michelle, 32, Higher Education Professional) This is a past client reflecting on the outcomes of the work we did together. You can read the rest of her story here: https://lnkd.in/enZnZS_i It's interesting to me that for many people stress is interpreted purely as a negative. I think we hear so much about the potential negative impacts of stress that it can definitely seem this way. And of course there are definitely situations, working conditions, and so on, that can be causing too much stress for anyone, or too much stress for a particular person. At the same time, too low a level of stress can actually have a negative impact too, as we are actually designed to be handling stress to a certain extent, and stress is not inherently bad. (Of course bearing in mind that different types of things cause different amount of stress for different people and that people have different 'optimum' levels of stress.) Coming at the idea of stress from the point of view of wanting to 'find your optimum level' of stress, and type/s of stress, and having ways of responding to all stress which use hypnosis as a means to access your own resources more quickly, easily and fully, can be transformational. This is what this particular client was able to do, and she found that it changed everything, including - but not limited to - massively reducing her experiences of anxiety.
