Hypnotherapy For Insomnia, Harley Street
Is your lack of sleep starting to cause problems in your daily life?
Insomnia can have a significant impact on various aspects of your life, from your mood and cognitive function to your overall health and well being. Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early can lead to chronic fatigue and irritability, affecting your day-to-day life. Fortunately, hypnotherapy for insomnia offers a powerful and effective approach to addressing sleeplessness.
Insomnia hypnotherapy works by delving into the subconscious mind to identify and resolve the underlying factors that contribute to sleeplessness. Instead of merely treating the symptoms, this method focuses on altering the subconscious patterns and beliefs that disrupt your sleep. Through carefully crafted relaxation techniques and targeted suggestions, hypnotherapy for sleep helps reframe how you perceive and manage sleep-related stress. By accessing and modifying deep-seated thought processes, hypnotherapy assists in creating a more balanced and restful sleep experience. The techniques used aim to reduce anxiety and promote relaxation, thereby helping you achieve a more consistent and restorative sleep pattern.
At London Hypnotherapy & NLP, we integrate both hypnosis for sleep and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to tackle the root cause of your insomnia. This dual approach is designed to address immediate sleep disturbances while also encouraging improvements in your sleep habits. By combining these methods, we help you build long-term solutions for achieving and maintaining better sleep quality, leading to a more refreshed and energised you.
What is Insomnia?
A single restless or sleepless night is common, but when you find yourself repeatedly not sleeping enough or finding it difficult to sleep, you may have a condition known as insomnia. An average adult requires 7 to 9 hours of sleep to function optimally.
Those who suffer from insomnia often experience symptoms such as waking up multiple times during the night, finding it difficult to fall back asleep after waking up and feeling tired or irritable throughout the day due to poor sleep quality.
Sleep plays a restorative function for our health and overall quality of life. As per the NHS, 1 in 3 adults suffer from insomnia, and the condition is more common in older adults.
Types of Insomnia
Acute Insomnia
Also known as short-term insomnia, this type of insomnia usually lasts 3 to 14 days and is triggered by stressful events such as grief, jet lag, illness, starting new medications, and physical discomfort.
Chronic Insomnia
When you have trouble sleeping for a minimum of 3 nights a week for at least 3 months, you are said to have chronic insomnia. This condition can be further divided into primary (occurs naturally) and secondary (develops due to sleep apnea) chronic insomnia. This condition can be caused by medical conditions such as diabetes or Parkinson’s, medications, and lifestyle factors such as rotational shift work.
Onset Insomnia
This type of insomnia involves difficulty falling asleep and is mostly triggered by mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and depression. Caffeine and other stimulants can also lead to temporary onset insomnia.
Maintenance Insomnia
This occurs when you have trouble staying asleep or find it difficult to fall back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night. This condition is triggered by depression, GI reflex issues, sleep apnea, asthma and restless leg syndrome.
Behavioural Insomnia of Childhood
Behavioural insomnia of childhood occurs in almost 30% of children and can be divided into three subtypes: BIC sleep-onset, BIC limit-setting and BIC combined type. However, with early intervention, it can be easily remedied.
How Hypnotherapy Works for Insomnia
Hypnosis helps calm your subconscious mind, which may be the underlying reason you struggle to fall asleep. Since anxiety, stress, and depression are common causes of insomnia, hypnotherapy for sleep can significantly help in reducing their impact and promoting deeper rest.
Rather than putting you to sleep during the session, sleep hypnosis works by training your subconscious mind to change the unhelpful patterns and thoughts that keep you awake.
Get in touch with me today to learn more about insomnia hypnotherapy and how it can be an effective tool for a good night’s sleep.
Common Issues We Address with Insomnia Hypnosis
- Difficulty falling asleep despite feeling tired
- Frequent waking during the night
- Early morning awakenings that disrupt sleep
- Persistent worry or stress impacting sleep
- Racing thoughts that prevent relaxation
- Difficulty returning to sleep after waking up
- Unresolved emotional issues affecting sleep patterns
- Nightmares or disturbing dreams interrupting rest
- Reliance on medication or other aids for sleep
Common Insomnia Symptoms That Hypnotherapy Can Cure
Difficulty Falling Asleep Despite Feeling Tired
Hypnotherapy for insomnia assists in eradicating the barriers that keep one from sleeping. The overactivity of the mind is a common cause of insomnia, and this technique puts the mind into a deep rest and calms the mind before going to sleep.
Frequent Waking During the Night
Reducing occurrences linked to subconscious causes of night awakenings can enhance the chances of better sleep. Hypnosis for sleep helps by relaxing the mind and body, reducing the amount of interferences that cause the person to wake up during the night.
Early Morning Awakenings That Disrupt Sleep
It is known that insomnia hypnotherapy can help change subconscious patterns that cause you to wake up. Redeeming the mind from the power of short sleep cycles allows one to wake up naturally when it is time to wake up.
Persistent Worry or Stress Impacting Sleep
Stress and anxiety are primary causes of insomnia as they affect the normal patterns of sleeping and waking up. Stress reduction and minimising worry are treatments that insomnia hypnotherapy provides, altering the conditions to encourage sound sleep.
Racing Thoughts That Prevent Relaxation
Hypnosis can reduce mental activity and enable an individual to come up with strategies on how to handle the excitability of thoughts. Methods applied in hypnotherapy enhance relaxation and the state of mental calmness, which contributes to the onset of sleep.
Difficulty Returning to Sleep After Waking Up
It is also vital to understand the ways to free yourself from any tension you may be experiencing right after waking up. Hypnotherapy provides ways to get back to sleep with the help of reconditioning the subconscious mind.
Unresolved Emotional Issues Affecting Sleep Patterns
Feelings can affect sleep more than physical discomforts do. Hypnotherapy for insomnia can assist in proactively managing these issues as a route to recovery of emotional stability and effective sleep.
Nightmares or Disturbing Dreams Interrupting Rest
Psychoanalysis can assist in reprogramming the causes and reasons that result in nightmares or traumatic dreams. Therefore, by altering these patterns, you can have a more restful and less disturbed sleep.
Reliance on Medication or Other Aids for Sleep
The use of hypnotherapy helps to reduce the dependency on sleep aids or medication. As you deal with the causes of insomnia completely, the need to use medication will significantly decrease or even be eradicated completely, hence improving sleep naturally.
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Why Choose Dr Kamal for Hypnotherapy for Insomnia in London?
Dr Kamal is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner based in London, offering hypnotherapy for insomnia. With over 25 years of experience in mental health, Dr Kamal combines Clinical Hypnosis, Psychotherapy, Counselling, NLP, and Psychology to provide a holistic and tailored sleep hypnotherapy treatment.
Fees and Hypnotherapy Session Requirements
At London Hypnotherapy & NLP, our treatment for insomnia is client-oriented and guarantees you the best help concerning your sleep disorders.
Fee Per Session: A single appointment of hypnotherapy costs £190 and the appointment usually lasts for an hour. In terms of the number of sessions, this may also differ for different patients due to the factors like the intensity of the insomnia and one’s reaction to the therapy. Most of the clients are usually relieved by a single session, but some may require a number of sessions to complete in order to solve sleep problems.
Session Options: Options: Here we plan appointments to be highly convenient: clients are free to come to our Harley Street facility in London or to take appointments online. This flexibility is to enable hypnotherapy to be streamlined to fit into your lifestyle.
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Hypnotherapy for Insomnia FAQs
Can hypnosis replace sleeping pills?
Hypnotherapy for insomnia is an alternative treatment and is often seen as an effective method to reduce reliance on medication. However, you must always consult your GP before starting or stopping any medicine.
Can anyone be hypnotised?
Most people can be hypnotised; however, you must be open to the process, willing to accept the suggestions of the hypnotherapist and work with a skilled professional.
Can hypnosis assist with nightmares or PTSD-related sleep issues?
Yes, hypnotherapy helps to remove and desensitise the traumatic triggers and foster emotional healing. Hypnosis is often beneficial for overcoming phobias and traumas.
Will I lose consciousness during hypnotherapy?
No, you are always in control during sleep hypnosis. You are just in a deeply relaxed state. You can “wake up” whenever you want.
Is sleep hypnosis safe?
Yes, hypnotherapy is a safe and non-invasive treatment when conducted by a trained professional such as Dr Kamal. Unlike pop culture representation, there is no mind control involved in curative or solution-focused hypnotherapy that we follow in London Hypnotherapy & NLP.