I’m a hypnotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice here at the Surrey Hypnotherapy clinic, in the Woking and Guildford area of Surrey, UK.

Nightmares are disturbing dreams that are associated with negatrive feelings such as dread, anxiety, fear and panic. These disturbing dream can be so intense that the person wakes up in a state of panic, maybe sweating heavily and it  may take them some time to calm down from the bad dream and return to sleep.

At best this can lead to a disturbed night's sleep. At its worse it can lead to being unable to return to sleep, and waking up tired and exhausted the next day - and quite possibly it can lead to it being difficult to fall asleep the next night, and subsequent nights, for fear of having the unpleasant experience repeat itself.

Nightmares may begin in cjhildren between 3 and 6 years old, and tend to decrease after the age of 10. During the teen and young adult years girls appear to have nightmares more often than boys do - and some people have nightmares as adults and throughout their adult lives.

For many adults the frequency and severity of their nightmares are such that their nightmares don't present a particularly big problem to them in their life.

But for some other adults they may be experiencing a nightmare on 6 nights of the week, maybe even lucid dreaming, and then this becomes a big problem for them in their life !

I discovered that I could help people with recurrent nightmares by accident !

Essentially I would be using my therapy on clients to help some other problem and then, part way through their therapy I would ask my clients how well they felt they were progressing with their therapy ?

And I started to notice an increasing number of clients would report, in many cases, that, yes, they were starting to feel better with regard to the problem that they had originally consulted me for help with etc. (as expected) - but also they would say things like:

• I'm sleeping better at night.
• I haven't had a nightmare for a while now - just normal dreams. Dreams like other people have.
• I don't seem to have been woken up in the night by a nightmare for a long time now.
• I feel more confident now when I get ready for bed and no longer have that sense of apprehension and nervousness about what the night might bring for me.

I noticed that there was almost a pattern emerging. My clients were consulting me for help with one problem, and in the process of providing relief for that problem they were also experiencing relief for a problem, or symptom (of recurrent nightmares), that they hadn't mentioned during our initial consultation meeting, and they weren't really aware of it, and they didn't even know that they had the problem.

These clients thought that having regular nightmares was just something that they did - and hadn't realised that it was problem that they really didn't have to put up with in the way that they were.

In effect, these clients had been experiencing nightmares for a number of years, and for so long, that they hadn't even realised that there was anything wrong - they had been thinking that what they were experiencing was 'just them' and 'that was the way they were' !

After a while I 'put two and two together' and realised that their nightmares were almost magically disappearing for these clients during their therapy, whilst on the way to resolving their other problems and issues that had brought them to me for therapy...

The therapy that I specialise in is similar to the traditional, and established, psychoanalysis type therapy that you may have heard of, where you effectively lie on a couch with your eyes closed, speaking out your thoughts to me, your therapist

The difference with what I actually do is that the traditional psychoanalysis type therapy approach only really works well when the client is nicely relaxed - and so I help the client to first get into a nicely relaxed state by using Hypnosis before starting the therapy.

The effect of the enhanced relaxation is that it makes it easier for you to access, and identify, the particular problem areas that you have. And with this therapy, and my special techniques, we work together to identify and rectify the cause(s) of your brain fog and maybe also any other symptoms that you might have, as well.

And the benefit of using Hypnosis in the way that I do is that it greatly accelerates your therapy – and reduces a traditional, 'old fashioned', psychoanalysis type therapy down from about 1000 hours, of seeing a therapist maybe 3 times a week for 4+ years, to something more like just 9-12 hours of therapy over 6-8 weekly sessions !

If you would like more information on how this successful treatment could help you to sleep easily at night and without the distress and exhaustion associated with recurrnet nightmares, please contact me to arrange a FREE initial, and confidential, consultation, and get started on changing your life straight away.

I discovered that I could help people with recurring nightmares by accident !

Essentially I would be using my therapy on clients to help some other problem and then, part way through their therapy I would ask my clients how well they felt they were progressing with their therapy ?

And I started to notice an increasing number of clients would report, in many cases, that, yes, they were starting to feel better with regard to the problem that they had originally consulted me for help with etc. (as expected) - but also they would say things like:

• I'm sleeping better at night.
• I haven't had a nightmare for a while now - just normal dreams. Dreams like other people have.
• I don't seem to have been woken up in the night by a nightmare for a long time now.
• I feel more confident now when I get ready for bed and no longer have that sense of apprehension and nervousness about what the night might bring for me.

I noticed that there was almost a pattern emerging. My clients were consulting me for help with one problem, and in the process of providing relief for that problem they were also experiencing relief for a problem, or symptom (of recurring nightmares), that they hadn't mentioned during our initial consultation meeting, and they weren't really aware of it, and they didn't even know that they had the problem.

These clients thought that having regular nightmares was just something that they did - and hadn't realised that it was problem that they really didn't have to put up with in the way that they were.

In effect, these clients had been experiencing nightmares for a number of years, and for so long, that they hadn't even realised that there was anything wrong - they had been thinking that what they were experiencing was 'just them' and 'that was the way they were' !

After a while I 'put two and two together' and realised that their nightmares were almost magically disappearing for these clients during their therapy, whilst on the way to resolving their other problems and issues that had brought them to me for therapy...

The therapy that I specialise in is similar to the traditional, and established, psychoanalysis type therapy that you may have heard of, where you effectively lie on a couch with your eyes closed, speaking out your thoughts to me, your therapist

The difference with what I actually do is that the traditional psychoanalysis type therapy approach only really works well when the client is nicely relaxed - and so I help the client to first get into a nicely relaxed state by using Hypnosis before starting the therapy.

The effect of the enhanced relaxation is that it makes it easier for you to access, and identify, the particular problem areas that you have. And with this therapy, and my special techniques, we work together to identify and rectify the cause(s) of your brain fog and maybe also any other symptoms that you might have, as well.

And the benefit of using Hypnosis in the way that I do is that it greatly accelerates your therapy – and reduces a traditional, 'old fashioned', psychoanalysis type therapy down from about 1000 hours, of seeing a therapist maybe 3 times a week for 4+ years, to something more like just 9-12 hours of therapy over 6-8 weekly sessions !

If you would like more information on how this successful treatment could help you to sleep easily at night and without the distress and exhaustion associated with recurrnet nightmares, please contact me to arrange a FREE initial, and confidential, consultation, and get started on changing your life straight away.