My one-to-one sessions, held in Aylsham, Norfolk, revolve around gut directed hypnotherapy. This involves inducing mild hypnosis during which you’ll be led through a series of suggestions and imagery aimed at lessening pain, bloating and other IBS symptoms, and restoring control over your bowel movements. It’s important to understand that gut directed hypnotherapy is nothing like stage hypnotism or acts you may have seen on TV. This method is well established, supported by research, and completely safe. It aims to calm, relax, and alleviate symptoms and to gently lead patients towards a more positive state of mind. As well as the hypnotherapy, part of each session will be devoted to looking at your life, thoughts and feelings, and the potential connections between these aspects and your IBS symptoms. This aims to promote attitudes such as calmness, assertiveness, and positive thinking, while challenging negative thought patterns to do with pessimism, perfectionism, trying to please overmuch, or driving yourself too hard. Everything that takes place in sessions is private and confidential. As an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy I am bound by its code of ethics. I will however need to contact your GP or gastroenterologist to let them know you are seeing me and the outcome of treatment. Although I meet most patients following a referral from a gastroenterologist, you can also book an appointment directly with me – as long as you’ve seen a doctor and causes for your symptoms, other than IBS, have been ruled out. Ready to tackle your IBS? Why not get in touch to discuss your options?          home    self help success individual sessions    benefits of one-2-one    appointments about IBS    stress and IBS    research    about me    links    contact     This is a psychological approach in that it focuses on stress as a key ingredient in triggering IBS symptoms...   read more           Copyright © Adrian Blake 2010.