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Tips to stop body-focused repetitive behaviours (Skin Picking, Hair Pulling, Nail Biting)
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs), such as nail-biting, hair-pulling, and skin-picking, are more complex than many understand. As a hypnotherapist specialising in these conditions, I want to explore the intricate connections between BFRBs and other mental health challenges and unresolved emotional experiences.
Tips For Maintaining Weight Loss After Ozempic or Mounjaro
Melbourne Clinical Hypnotherapist shares tips on maintaining weight loss success for people who want to come off weight loss injectables like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Saxenda.
9Tips To Quit Vaping
Melbourne Clinical Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell gives 9 tips to quit vaping. Hypnotherapy can fast-track habit change and embed the resilience and determination to succeed.
Does Hypnotherapy Really Work for Anxiety?
Melbourne Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell answers the question - Does Hypnotherapy Really Work For Anxiety?
The Heartache of Losing a Pet: Understanding and Navigating Grief
Losing a loved pet is an acutely painful experience. In this article Melbourne Counsellor and Clinical Hypnotherapist discusses the impact of grief and how to work through it.
Boosting Mood Through Behavioral Activation: How Hypnotherapy Can Help Shift Your Mindset
Behavioural activation is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals struggling with depression or low motivation by encouraging engagement in meaningful activities. By focusing on small, intentional actions, people often find themselves breaking free from cycles of avoidance and inactivity, ultimately experiencing improvements in mood and mental well-being
No More Impulse Spending: Empower Yourself Financially
Financial stress is one of the most common causes of stress I’m hearing about in my counselling and clinical hypnotherapy practice at the moment. Impulse spending can provide a brief thrill but often leads to regret, frustration and financial problems. Taking control of your spending habits and creating a sustainable financial plan can be liberating and empowering.
Feeling Let Down By Life?
Life is filled with moments when things don't go as planned—relationships end, career goals are delayed, or personal achievements fall short of what we envisioned. Disappointment and unmet expectations can weigh heavily on our emotions....
Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves: Understanding Bias and Emotional Triggers
The stories we tell ourselves about our experiences shape how we view the world and how we respond to it. These stories, or the meaning we assign to events, are often drawn from our past, where we have gathered countless memories, perceptions, and emotional reactions. While this process is natural and helps us make sense of life, it also tends to have a significant negative bias. As a result, we may find ourselves jumping to conclusions or making assumptions that are neither accurate nor helpful....
Do you want to feel comfortable?
Melbourne Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell writes about how hypnotherapy can help you feel comfortable feeling a little uncomfortable, and pave the way for personal and professional growth.
Walking Is Your Best Step To Health
Walking is one of the simplest, yet most effective, forms of exercise that offers a wide range of benefits for both mental and physical well-being. Whether you're walking to lose weight, manage stress, or clear your mind, this low-impact activity can have profound effects on your overall health. In this blog, we'll explore the numerous benefits of walking, including its impact on weight loss, stress management, cognitive processing, social connection, and the body's nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems.
ADHD and Burnout
In this blog, Melbourne Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell talks about ADHD and Burnout. Why are people with ADHD more susceptible to burnout, and how can they avoid it?
The Four Agreements: A Good Entry Point To Understanding And Living in Alignment with Your Values
In a world full of noise, expectations, and societal pressures, it can be challenging to stay true to our personal values. We often find ourselves lost in the pursuit of what we think we should do, rather than what truly aligns with our inner beliefs.
The Top 10 Most Common Phobias and How Hypnotherapy Can Help
A phobia is an intense, irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity that is typically out of proportion to the actual danger posed. Unlike ordinary fears, which are natural responses to genuine threats, phobias are persistent and can significantly interfere with a person’s life. While a fear may cause discomfort, a phobia often leads to avoidance behaviors, panic attacks, and a profound impact on daily functioning.
Understanding the Six Types of Depression and How Holistic Therapies Can Help
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) involves persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities, and severe disruption to daily functioning. Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD), or dysthymia, is a long-term condition characterized by chronic low mood. Bipolar Disorder includes alternating episodes of depression and mania, significantly affecting stability. Postpartum Depression (PPD) impacts new mothers, hindering their ability to care for their newborns. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) causes depressive symptoms in specific seasons, typically winter. Atypical Depression includes mood reactivity and sensitivity to rejection.
Holistic therapies offer hope. Hypnotherapy helps reframe negative thought patterns, while EFT releases emotional distress through tapping on meridian points. EMDR processes and integrates traumatic memories, reducing their emotional impact.
The Impacts of Stress on Your Health and How Hypnotherapy Can Help
The effect of chronic stress on our health should not be underestimated; in this blog, Melbourne Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell discusses the various health conditions exacerbated by stress and how hypnotherapy can be used to address the underlying cause
The Hidden Dangers of Vaping and How Hypnotherapy Can Help You Quit
The Hidden Dangers of Vaping and How Hypnotherapy can help you. quit. More and. more research is telling. us that vaping is not the safe alternative to smoking that we were led to believe it was. In this post Melbourne Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell talks about how hypnosis can help you quit.
The Benefits of Magnesium for Anxiety: Separating Fact from Fiction
Melbourne Hypnotherapist Georgina Mitchell writes about the benefits of magnesium for anxiety management