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I treat many different physical and emotional symptoms with hypnoanalysis. Many physical symptoms are the result of stress on the mind as well as the body. There is a lot of current research in the new field of psychoneuroimmunology or pni. (If you are interested in discovering more about this you might want to look at the Bristol Cancer Care website which has more information on this and a good introductory book is Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology by J.H. Daruna, published by Elsevier Academic Press.) This research is providing neurological evidence of the effect of stress and anxiety on the body at a cellular level and demonstrates how too much stress weakens the immune system and lays us open to disease and physical symptoms.

I often find that clients who may have come with emotional issues notice that minor and occasionally major physical symptoms disappear as they start to feel better in themselves. Typically people find back pain improving, they find themselves less susceptible to picking up coughs and colds. Allergies and sensitivites to food or other allergens improve and sometimes disappear. It is certainly true that, in part, this is simply because it is easier to cope with small physical symptoms when you feel better in yourself, but it now seems that these conditions really do get better when internal emotional stress is released.

The emotional symptoms I treat are many and varied and include self destructive behaviours such as eating disorders, Tourette’s syndrome, and self harm including cutting and hair pulling. All of these symptoms are manifestations of distress. Some people manifest their distress by taking things out on other people by bullying or violent behaviour. Hypnoanalysis is directly designed to get to the bottom of the stress and remove it thereby removing the symptom.

The lists below will give you an idea of the range of symptoms that I treat in my hypnotherapy practice. Additionally, some of the items are linked to pages with more information about specific symptoms or groups of symptoms.