These actual cases are representative of just some of the many concerns that are presented to us and the results that were achieved. Our clients’ details are strictly confidential and actual identities and personal details have been restricted for obvious reasons.

Smoking Addiction:

• Male aged late 20’s who had been smoking since he was 10 years of age (having had easy access to his smoking family’s constant supply of cigarettes). He found that giving up smoking was too difficult even after many attempts to go “cold-turkey” and using patches and gum. In his occupation as a builder he was always surrounded by other smokers. Following our first hypnotherapy session he immediately stopped smoking and has over a period of time referred many other smoker friends who have also become non-smokers. 

• Female aged 67, addicted to cigarette smoking for 52 years. She stopped smoking from the first session.

• Female aged 59, smoking for 42 years. She had tried various methods without long term success and her weight increased with every attempt. She stopped smoking from the first session and has been able to maintain her weight level.

• Male aged 50, smoking between 80 to 100 cigarettes per day. His doctor referred him to us as he required a series of operations for damage to his lungs and blocked femoral arteries. He reduced his cigarette smoking to 6 per day after the first session and then stopped completely following the second consultation.

• Many more examples are available concerning the successful outcome to stop smoking.

Gambling Addiction:

• Male aged early 30’s who was addicted to gambling his entire salary on poker machines in whatever hotel or club he could find. He had a compulsion to try to win back his losses which just kept accumulating. After the first hypnotherapy session he stopped gambling and following two further sessions (conducted three years ago) he is now saving money and has paid his gambling debts back to friends and family. 

• Female aged early 40's. She had a part time job in an office next door to an RSL club. On every payday, she could not pass the club without gambling on the poker machines. Following hypnotherapy she has been able to avoid the club and has saved enough money to take her family on a holiday.

• Male aged 27. On his 18th birthday he was taken to a club for the first time and won a $1,000 jackpot. He joined the club and proceeded to lose the entire amount plus additional money. At the age of 27 following years of gambling on poker machines and casinos he was in extreme debt, owing money to family and friends due to his gambling addiction. Following three Hypnotherapy sessions he stopped gambling and is in the process of rebuilding his life.

• Male aged 23. Total losses on poker machines amounted to $170,000. His worst day was a loss of $18,000. He has not gambled from the first visit.

• Male aged 51. A professional trainer and speaker who was undergoing a stressful personal life. He found some relief from stress while playing poker machines and eventually developed a serious gambling problem losing around $2,000 per week. With hypnotherapy he was able to resolve his stress problems and found relaxation away from gambling.

Anxiety; Stress; Depression; Panic Attacks:

• Male aged early 40’s, a member of a local sporting club. He had been overseas for a two year period in rural England on a working holiday and upon his return could not venture outside his home, suffering panic attacks when around crowds. Hypnotherapy helped him to readjust to the city life he had left two years previously allowing him to once again shop in shopping malls and face the crowded transport system.

• Male aged early 20's who found it impossible to find work or go on holidays due to severe feelings of anxiety. With three sessions of hypnotherapy he was able to go on a Pacific Cruise with his family and is now studying for a degree at university.

• Female aged 32 in a failing relationship. She was finding it increasingly difficult to get out of bed each morning. Her work in an office was noticeably deteriorating and she was starting to eat excessively. Hypnotherapy allowed her to come to terms with the relationship ending and to move on with her life. She is now able to work effectively and has since referred many clients for various treatments.

Fear:

• Female aged late 20’s who had a fear of animals. This fear restricted her freedom to even walk around her own neighborhood. Under hypnotherapy, she was able to regress to the first fear episode as a young girl and discovered that the fear actually belonged to her mother who had a morbid dislike of animals. She realized that in reality it was the mother’s problem and not hers and she is now able to peacefully co-exist with animals.

• Male, early 30's had a fear of hypodermic needles since childhood. He urgently required blood tests and was unable to enter the doctor's surgery. Following hypnosis, he was able to calmly sit through all the tests without any problems. 

• Female, mid 20's also with a fear of hypodermic needles. She had to be physically restrained whenever an injection was required. Hypnosis enabled her to mentally switch off and relax while in the doctor's surgery. Following is an email received from her: -

  Hi Barry

  I just wanted to let you know that I finally had my first cervical cancer injection today - it was a bit tough waiting but I got through it with no dramas...and the doctor was happy not to be punched out :)

  Thanks again for all your help

• Female aged 21 with a fear of flying. She had been a regular airline passenger until a forgotten incident involving her mother's fear of flying affected her. With hypnotherapy she was able to let go of her fear and enjoy an overseas holiday.

• Female aged 21 with a fear of elevators. She was employed in a large company and always used the stairs. Finally she sought help and after three sessions is now able to enter any lift without fear.

Weight Issue:

• Female aged early 50’s weighing 15 kilos over her desired weight. She was unable to resist food, especially cakes and pastries in between meals. She did little exercise and had lost motivation to control her food intake. At the end of three hypnotherapy sessions, she had lost 5 kilos and was walking both in the morning and evening, enjoying her “quiet time”.

• Female weighing 150 kilograms. She was able to lose 40 kilograms with hypnotherapy, a diet supervised by a qualified dietician and a referral to a personal trainer for a special exercise program.

• Male weighing 19 kilos over his desired weight. He couldn't resist the lavish meals served in his company's bistro which were provided as part of his salary package. At his last visit, he had lost 6 kilos and had started exercising in the company gym.

• Male aged 51 with high blood pressure and weight related problems. He was able to lose 5 kg in a three week period. He has since reported back that his health problems have improved and he has continued to lose weight.

• Female in her late 20's was unable to lose weight due to her "addiction" to sweets and rich foods. She was unable to pass any confectionery aisle in supermarkets without buying herself a "reward". Hypnotherapy enabled her to find the reason for her overindulgence and allow a release. She was amazed that from her second consultation that she was unable to eat any more of these foods and instead prefers healthy foods.

Weight Issue Binge Eating:

• Female aged mid 30’s who was eating healthy food with her family but between meals was eating large quantities of confectionery hidden around the house. Hypnotherapy helped her to discover that she was secretly “rewarding” herself resulting from her early teen years when she was left to fend for a young family by neglectful parents. After three hypnotherapy sessions she had resolved and come to terms with her hidden feelings. She no longer eats any confectionery. 

Sport (Performance & Anxiety):

• Female aged mid 20's - an amateur boxer suffering greatly from anxiety and nerves leading up to her first exhibition boxing match. She sought help to calm down and to perform well - and we had time for only one session. This is an email received from her following the match -

  Hi Barry,

  I won : Thanks for your help - the other boxers who were fighting that night described me as "disgustingly calm".

  JG

Relationships :

• Female aged late 30’s who had been sexually abused at the age of eleven. She had never been able to have a happy relationship with a male that endured beyond a twelve month period. Under hypnosis she was able to resolve her connection to the past traumatic event and was able to move on.

• Male late twenties. He was in a happy relationship but developed erectile problems. This started to affect the relationship and was damaging his self esteem. Medical tests confirmed that it was a psychological problem and not physical. Hypnotherapy was his last resort and he was able to find out the reasons for his problem. He was able to achieve a satisfactory sexual relationship with his partner and his self esteem improved.

• Male, mid 40's unable to have satisfactory sexual relationship with his wife. Following hypnotherapy he was able to achieve a full erection and sustain ejaculation until both he and his wife were satisfied.

Self Esteem:

• Female aged 16. She was the Dux of her school in every class from kindergarten. The previous year she had slipped to the bottom of her class and had not done any assignments that year. This followed her parent's divorce and her mother unable to cope with day-to-day activities. The girl had lost the closeness of a father she dearly loved. Under hypnosis, she was able to relive the joy of achieving at school and responded well to self esteem strengthening. Last year she sat for her School Certificate and achieved an overall score in the mid 90% range. She is determined to take back her Dux status this year.

• Male aged 32. He was overweight during his teenage years and was the target for bullying at school. He had not been able to have a normal relationship with females. Finally, he sought help with hypnotherapy and was able to build up his confidence to the point where he started ballroom dancing lessons and had joined a social club, something he would normally have shunned.,

• Male in early 40's, had an accident while at an all boys' school and became the butt of jokes from fellow classmates. He eventually married but always felt inadequate around men in social situations. Hypnotherapy helped him relax and build up his self esteem. He is now able to attend gym, sporting events and social functions where men are present.

Alcohol Addiction:

• Male aged 51. He would drink a 2 litre wine cask at night and stay in the hotel drinking beer in the afternoons. He made the decision to give up alcohol and tried hard without success until his mother made an appointment for hypnotherapy on his behalf. He has not had any alcohol since, confirmed by his mother a year later when she made an appointment for herself for some other problems.

• Female aged in her early 40's. She constantly drank wine and spirits during the day while alone at home, concealing her drinking problem from her family. She hid bottles around the house that she was buying from the local bottle shop. She has not had any alcohol since her first visit and has been able to work full time in her family's business.

• Male in his mid fifties would come home from his hectic job and proceed to open a bottle of wine to drink while his wife prepared dinner. She would have have one glass and he would consume the rest, quite often opening another bottle for himself. With hypnotherapy, he is now able to have one glass and sometimes two with alcohol-free days during the week.

Sexual Problems:

• Female aged in her mid 30's who had never experienced an orgasm in spite of being happily married and having an active sexual relationship with her husband. Hypnotherapy allowed her to discover an early incident in her life  that had unconsciously been troubling her. Once she released this, she started to notice improvements in her sexual feelings.

• Male aged 31 who could not achieve an erection. His partner was threatening to leave him. Under hypnosis he was able to trace his problem back to an evening when he had been exhausted following a stressful day at work. He was unable to satisfy his partner that evening and she had made a demeaning remark to him. His sexual performance has now improved.

• Male aged 28 who had a premature ejaculation problem. He found that he could not control his ejaculation once foreplay commenced. Following hypnotherapy, he was able to prolong his performance by using non sexual visualizations until he was ready for ejaculation.

• Male aged 49, married with two children. He was frequently visiting massage parlours for sexual gratification, particularly when undergoing stress at his work. Over a long time period, the visits had increased to around  three to four per week and were becoming a major financial and emotional problem. With hypnotherapy he was able to discover the reason for his addiction. He has since stopped the visits and replaced them with a genuine remedial massage once a month and follows a stress reduction program.

Chronic pain:

• Male aged early 70’s suffering from pain for 20 years without any identified medical cause other than it had originated from the time of an operation for a nerve problem. His many medical doctors over the years had told him it was just an imagined pain but whether this was true or not, he was suffering in his mind from real pain. With three hypnotherapy sessions he had lost all of the pain sensation and is now leading a life free from this pain.

• Male, late 50's, suffering from Trigeminal Neuralgia, the "suicide pain". Surgery to the trigeminal nerve (facial / jaw area) had improved his condition but he retained a chronic pain problem which interfered with his sleep. Using self hypnosis, he was able to relax before bed and his sleeping pattern improved.

Nail Biting:

• Male aged mid 20's had been biting his nails since his adolescent years. He stopped this habit after the first hypnotherapy session and now regularly manicures his strong and healthy nails. 

The above factual case studies are shown here to illustrate some of the problems that have been successfully treated with Hypnotherapy in our clinic. There are many others involving problems or addictions not shown here.