I help people who expect a lot from themselves change the patterns behind overthinking, anxiety, self-doubt, sleep problems and unhelpful habits.
When a response keeps repeating despite your efforts, it may have become automatic. We examine what triggers it, what keeps it going and what you would like to do differently.
Moving between countries required repeated adjustment and, at times, affected my sense of identity. Demanding study and a career in supply chain also showed me how prolonged pressure can affect sleep, attention and physical tension.
My own experience informs how I listen to people dealing with anxiety, stress and protective responses, alongside my formal training.
Hypnotherapy helped me address difficulties that had persisted despite conscious effort. In sessions, we start with what has been happening, what the response may be doing for you and what observable change would help in daily life.
For the constant analysing, replaying conversations, planning ahead, and struggling to switch off.
For persistent worry, pressure, and a body that has learned to stay switched on.
For racing thoughts at night, difficulty settling, and waking up already tired.
Confidence and performance are a growing focus of the practice, and I also work with habits, phobias, feeling stuck and other patterns. See the full list on the services page.
Sessions focus on understanding the current pattern, rehearsing a more useful response and applying it outside the therapy room.
We begin by understanding the pattern: what triggers it, how it shows up, and what your mind and body have learned to do.
Using hypnotherapy and practical exercises, we rehearse a response that is more useful in the situations you want to change.
We reinforce the response and review whether it becomes easier to use between sessions.
We agree one priority, how it affects you now and two or three changes you would expect to notice in a typical week. We use those changes to review progress.
We start with the change that matters most, a simple starting point and two or three signs of progress we would both recognise.
We look for changes outside the session, such as recovering more quickly, sleeping better or returning to activities you have avoided.
At review points we agree together, we compare your week with the agreed starting point and decide whether to continue, adjust the approach or finish.
Most focused pieces of work take a small number of structured sessions rather than continuing indefinitely.
Many of the patterns that hold us back began as ways to protect us. Anxiety, overthinking, self-doubt or emotional habits often make sense when you understand where they came from.
Thoughts, physical responses, habits, emotions and self-image can reinforce each other. Hypnotherapy may help you practise a different response and create more choice in situations that currently feel automatic.
Most people have picked up a strange idea about hypnosis somewhere. Stage shows, films, swinging watches, people clucking like chickens. It makes sense to ask what is real and what is theatre.
No. That belongs to stage hypnosis, which is entertainment. Those volunteers are usually chosen because they are responsive, playful and happy to go along with the show.
No. You remain aware and able to speak, move, pause or stop. We agree the purpose and methods together.
No. If someone wanted to influence you, they would have more luck while you were wide awake. Politics, sales and marketing do that every day. Hypnotherapy is agreed, transparent and led by what you want to change.
It is a focused state used to work with habits, associations and responses. You remain aware and involved throughout.
I struggled with study, confidence and direction before rebuilding my habits and later earning a full scholarship to Peking University, where I graduated top of my cohort. That experience showed me how strongly self-image, environment and repeated behaviour can affect performance.
Before practising full time I spent years in high-pressure logistics and analytics roles, so when you describe deadlines, difficult people and a mind still going at 3am, I'm not guessing. I've practised hypnosis since 2019, trained formally, and my clinical hypnotherapy training is accredited by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM).
My approach is calm, practical and honest about what the evidence supports.
Read more about AdelHypnotherapy may help with patterns, habits, feelings and responses, but it is not a replacement for medical, psychiatric or emergency support. If something is outside my scope, I will say so. If you are in crisis or at risk of harm, please contact emergency services or an appropriate crisis support service.