This is me back in 2010 I was in a really bad place. To the outside world, it looked as though I had my life together, but inside I was suffering with crippling anxiety and panic attacks. I was drinking alcohol as a coping strategy and I was picking my scalp as a form of self harm.

Here’s what most people don’t tell you: therapy doesn’t always lead to change. I spent years in the cycle of anxiety, panic attacks, constant overthinking. I tried everything: counselling, CBT, endless sessions of unpacking my past. Yes, it gave me insight, but the anxiety never really shifted. It stayed. Lurking. Tight in my chest. Heavy in my mind. I honestly believed that this was just who I was - anxious, wired wrong, and destined to “manage” it for the rest of my life.

But then I found hypnotherapy. Not the stage kind. Not the woo-woo kind. Just a space where something finally clicked. I realised anxiety wasn’t who I was, it was something I was doing. A pattern, a response from a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the moment I understood that, everything changed. Because if it was a pattern I had created, I could also undo it.

I didn’t just want to feel better, I wanted to understand why hypnotherapy worked when nothing else had. So I trained to become a Clinical Hypnotherapist. I studied everything I could about the brain, the subconscious mind, and how deeply our thoughts and behaviours are shaped by the beliefs we don’t even know we have.

Today, I help people like you break out of those loops, not by endlessly talking about the problem, but by changing the pattern that created it.

We work together in a focused, results-driven way. You don’t need to be in therapy for years. You don’t need to keep repeating your story. You just need to be ready to change and open to the fact that you can.

Because you can.

Pretty much everything that I hear from my clients, I have experienced myself. At the age of 44, I was diagnosed with ADHD, which has also given me a great insight into neurodivergence and how to recognise our strengths and work with them.
 

Louise Squires HPD, DSFH, MNCH (REG.) AFSFH (REG.), MHS (REG.)