Richard Braybrooke

I'm Richard Braybrooke. I am a hypnotherapist and counsellor. I've been running my private practice since 2000, helping people deal with stress, anxiety and depression as well as helping people get rid of unhealthy habits like smoking and overeating. 

My passion is showing people how to open up to the creative power of our own consciousness. As we tap into that, using easy-to-learn techniques, we can start to change our self-image and create a more happy, fulfilled life. Hypnotherapy itself is a type of therapy that uses the state of hypnosis to bring about desired changes. 

Hypnosis is a meditative state where you are no longer identified with the programmed part of your mind and are therefore more open to seeing and creating new, positive programs. This might be feeling relaxed and confident when you are in a plane, or it might be feeling positive and focussed about work or business. Hypnotherapy can help with a wide range of issues. Sometimes people want to work through big life changes, like bereavement or divorce or coming to terms with health issues. Hypnotherapy can help you work through all sorts of situations more calmly and positively. 

Most of my work is brief therapy. That is to say between 1 and 6 sessions, with a focus on creating specific outcomes. Generally, sessions are held weekly.  As well as being a hypnotherapist and counsellor I am also a qualified Pilates teacher, specialising in one-to-one work using the Reformer and other Pilates apparatus. Personally, I find the combination of working with the physical as well as the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of ourselves is an ideal balance for me. 

Finally, as well as offering many tried and tested therapeutic techniques, something I have come to value greatly over the years is the actual therapeutic arena we create together. That arena is transformational in itself and I hope you'll find the time we work together is a magical, empowering time.