Loosing weight can be a real battle, and until I became a hypnotherapist, I didn't realise there were so many different reasons why people have challenges loosing weight. Some of the reason I have discovered are far from the obvious eating too much, eating the wrong foods, eating the wrong quantities and lack of exercise. There is also comfort eating, self sabotage, limiting beliefs, poor self esteem and bad self image to consider. What I have done to make my weight loss programme as effective as possible is to initially provide a free consultation. It seems to me that if you're going to share your true thoughts and feelings with someone, you need to be completely comfortable with that person first. So the free consultation give people the option to meet me and then say, yes, I can work with you (which mostly they do) or no thanks, you're just not my cup of tea.
Between that appointment and the next time I see them, I ask them to do a food diary. Far being from me to patronise, generally people know what's good for them, however, sometimes seeing it in black and white gives them the nudge that reminds them, they're not really doing themselves any favours in their diet. If it is the case that their diet is poor, I remind them of the health problems that arise as a result of an unhealthy diet.
Then it gets very individual, for example, there are NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques that would be more appropriate for some rather than others. For those that have an internal conflict (I can loose weight, no I can't) there is a process called a parts integration that I may use. For those with disempowering beliefs, I may use a belief change. For those with a bad habit, I may use hypnosis…the list goes on. And I think it's pleasant for people to know that the therapy is very much tailored to meet their individual needs.
Now, people do not keep coming to see me until they've reached their desired weight, that simply isn't necessary. They just need to get to the stage where they know exactly what to do to loose the weight and they know like they know their own name that it is absolutely going to happen, that they will keep going until they do. For most people, that's anything between 2 and 6 sessions, each lasting 1 hour.
So if you're not happy with your figure, why not book an appointment to come along and see me in my therapy room in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire?
Gemma Bailey is qualified hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR), American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH), British Board of NLP (BBNLP) and American Board of NLP (ABNLP) as well as being a member of the NHS Directory of Complimentary and Alternative Practitioners.
She is based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and has helped many clients and patients throughout South East England.
Her vast areas of expertise include helping with weight loss, quitting smoking, stress, bad habits, phobias, confidence building, performance anxiety, regression, Life Coaching and much more. She also offers an exclusive 6 hour, one off session in which a person can overcome all of their emotional problems or anxieties that are holding them back. This is called Turning Point, and details of these sessions can be found on her website.
Gemma is also a qualified trainer of NLP and runs a training company called People Building which provides NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner Training. Details of these trainings can be found at http://www.peoplebuilding.co.uk
For more information on Hypnotherapy, NLP therapies and Life coaching, visit http://www.gemmabailey.co.uk
