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 — 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 become the best version of ourselves.
 

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