Hypnotherapy in Knutsford, Manchester, Cheshire.
Change the way you think.
Change the way you feel.
If you want to feel slimmer, fitter, healthier and be able to spend quality time with your loved ones – you’re not alone.
Solution focused hypnotherapy is a gentle, practical way to help you – whether that’s easing anxiety, building confidence, improving your relationship with food, or letting go of habits like smoking.
You stay fully in control throughout, while we focus on simple, positive changes that actually fit into your life.
What is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy?
Solution focused hypnotherapy in Knutsford, Cheshire.
If you’re looking for hypnotherapy in Knutsford, solution focused hypnotherapy is a gentle, practical approach that helps you focus on where you want to be – not what’s been holding you back.
Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, low confidence, unwanted habits or stress, hypnotherapy supports positive, lasting change.
You might be looking for:
- Hypnotherapy for anxiety to feel calmer and more in control
- Hypnotherapy for weight loss and healthier habits
- Support with a phobia, such as flying
- Help to stop smoking or vaping
- Confidence for exams or a driving test
Together, we focus on your goals and build simple, manageable ways to help you get there.
How does Hypnotherapy Work?
How hypnotherapy works
Hypnotherapy works by guiding you into a deeply relaxed state – similar to that calm feeling just before you fall asleep.
In this state, your mind becomes more open to positive suggestions, while you remain fully aware and in control.
If you’ve ever wondered “does hypnotherapy work?”, the process is about helping your mind let go of unhelpful patterns and replace them with more positive ones.
We start by talking through what you’d like to change and identifying the thoughts and behaviours that will help you achieve your goal. During hypnosis, these are gently reinforced, helping you create long-term change.
Over time, this makes it easier to:
- Stay calm in stressful situations (including anxiety and overthinking)
- Make better choices without constant effort
- Let go of unwanted habits like smoking
- Feel more confident and in control
It’s not about forcing change – it’s about helping your mind work with you.
Hypnotherapy is particularly effective for treating stress, anxiety,and panic attacks, because at its core hypnotherapy is based upon reaching a relaxed state.
It is also great for: Quitting Smoking – usually achieved within one session, Weight Control/Loss – normally requiring 3 sessions with 3 weeks breaks in between, Insomnia, Shyness, Fears and Phobias, Public speaking, Interview Techniques, Sports Performance- particularly improving technique and self confidence.
By the time most people think of using hypnotherapy to help them give up smoking they have tried many other methods: nicotine patches, nicotine gum, will power and self help books. The problem is you will be always fighting against your sub conscious mind. At Hylands Hypnotherapy I teach you how to use your own sub conscious to assist you to stop smoking.
Most often we know why we are overweight, over eating, eating the wrong foods, comfort eating, lack of exercise, etc. With hypnotherapy you can address the problems in your subconscious mind and change the way you eat and exercise day by day, without having to go back to dieting, ever.
EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based therapy recommended by both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and NICE for treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related issues.EMDR helps your brain safely reprocess traumatic memories, removing their emotional charge so you can finally move forward with calm and clarity.
You don’t have to relive painful experiences or go into detail about what happened. EMDR focuses on the feelings and sensations that arise, helping you reframe them in a way that restores balance and emotional freedom.
EMDR can help with:
PTSD and trauma; Anxiety and panic attacks; Grief and loss; Low self-esteem and confidence; Childhood or relationship trauma; Phobias and fears, stress and burnout.
Life Coaching is all about getting the right balance for you so you can reach your full potential in all areas of your life.
Hylands Life Coaching gives you the opportunity to look at all areas of your life:
Home, Creativity, Career, Health and fitness, Relationship, Family, Friends, Finances, Rest & Relaxation and Personal Growth
Neuro Linguistic Programming is the study of what makes us tick or a toolkit for personal and behavioural change. In other words: How we think, how we feel and how we make sense of everything in life and the world around us to have more choices at times when we might consider we are otherwise ‘stuck’.
If you need to cancel your appointment over 24 hours in advance then no payment is due. If less than twenty four hours notice is given then 50% is due. If a top up session on the smoking cessation programme is not attended with no prior notice then the guarantee of further sessions is void.
I am committed to protecting your privacy. I will only use the information that I collect about you (Data Protection Act 1998) and will not knowingly or willingly disclose it to a third party without your explicit consent. I collect information about you for only two reasons, to ensure that you require the required course of treatments and in order to be able to contact you. I will never collect sensitive information about you without your consent. The personal information I hold will be held securely in accordance with my internal security policy and the law.
Hypnotherapy Knutsford, Cheshire and Manchester
Imagine how great you will feel once you have changed your life for the better. Hypnotherapy can help you achieve those goals, book today and you can start reducing the stress in your life, quit smoking for good or lose the weight you’ve been trying to for ages. Life can be better so make it better.
Nothing tastes better than the sweet taste of success.
Hypnotherapy
A situation of deep relaxation similar to day dreaming (you know what is going on around you and you are in control) during which the hypnotherapist can access your subconscious to resolve the unwanted behaviour, replacing it with a positive solution.
Karen Baker BSc (Hons) Psychology, Dip HSM, Dip AH, Master Practitioner Hypnotherapy, GHR, Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching, trained in EMDR therapy.
Karen graduated with a degree in psychology in 1989. Since then she has spent nearly twenty years in the health care profession. Having decided she wanted a more direct approach to helping people, she then trained as a Clinical Hypnotherapist completing her Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Stress Management, Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy and in 2008 became a Master Practitioner in Hypnotherapy at the British Ethical School of Therapies.
A Validated Practitioner with the General Hypnotherapy Standards Register and a Nationally Registered Hypnotherapist, Karen conforms to their National Code of Ethics for Hypnotherapists. She has a Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching and has also trained in EMDR for conditions like PTSD, stress and trauma.
Karen has her practice in Mobberley, Cheshire with its convenient links to the M6, M60 and M56 motorways and direct railway links with Manchester and Chester.
