Multi-award-winning solution-focused Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, Coaching, and Counselling.
Helping people locally and worldwide since 2014 with confidence, self-esteem, and positivity. Tackling anxiety, phobias, depression, weight management, and more. Call 07724 855395 (UK number) or book your free initial consultation on the ‘Book Now’ button above.
Sessions are available in Timperley or online via Zoom, offering support to clients both locally and to English-speaking individuals worldwide.
Hypnotherapy & Counselling
Altrincham Manchester & Online
Welcome to Great Minds Clinic – and well done on taking this first positive step.
I’m Debbie Daltrey, founder of Great Minds Clinic. Whatever you need support with, we are here to help you – and by reading this, you’re already on your way to consciously making a change.
Working together towards a positive future
Feelings of anxiety and low mood, phobias and dependence – these are all part of being human. However, you do not have to be stuck with these conditions or feelings. I will work with you on a tailored programme that’s right for you, and I will stay with you for every step on your journey. You can find a positive future, and we can do this together.
A solution focused approach to anxiety and stress
This approach helps people to make significant, positive changes in their lives in a relatively short period of time. By using a combination of solution focused hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, coaching, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), counselling, and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).
Using solution focused hypnotherapy or a combination of techniques, I’ll encourage you to focus on how you want things to be. This helps you to visualise a calmer, more enjoyable and positive future. We then set achievable steps to enable you to reach your goal.
Along the way, we’ll talk about the human mind and how it influences our thoughts and behaviour. By understanding our own psychology, we’re better able to manage our emotional and mental wellbeing.
Counselling services are available if you need to talk in a confidential, non-judgemental setting. Counselling can provide support to help you to cope with situations. Perhaps you are looking to find a way to move on from past troubling events. Perhaps you would benefit from exploring your feelings with somebody who will properly listen, and give you space and time to work things through. Counselling can be useful for loss and bereavement, trauma, stress, anxiety or depression. No problem is too big or too small to talk about.
Solution-focused hypnotherapy combines hypnosis with psychotherapy to look at what you would like to achieve and focuses on the present and the future to achieve those worthwhile goals. Clients are encouraged towards a positive mindset, focusing on how they want things to be. It’s in this way that clients can visualise and achieve a more enjoyable and fulfilled future.
How therapy can lift that weight
Overcoming anxiety
Because I’m an Anxiety UK-approved therapist, many of my clients come to me for help with anxiety. This can include generalised anxiety disorder, PTSD, OCD and social anxiety. I use various types of therapy for anxiety; and we also look at how the anxious brain works, which helps us understand why we feel as we do. With support and positive strategies, you will overcome anxiety and regain confidence.
Coping with stress
It’s impossible to avoid stress in our busy lives. What we can do, however, is prevent stress from overwhelming us. Signs of stress can even be physical, and it can eventually lead to burnout. By understanding how stress affects us and developing stress management strategies, we can stay calmly in control under pressure.
Help with low mood
We all feel low from time to time. Low mood becomes more of an issue if it comes on for no clear reason, or doesn’t go away after a while. This debilitating state often causes us to shut out enjoyment and support from our lives, leading to a low-mood cycle. Therapy and counselling can help you break this distressing cycle.
Overcome negative thinking
Everyone has negative thoughts sometimes; however, sometimes we can get trapped in a cycle of thinking negatively about ourselves and our world. This can impact on everyday life, leading to low mood and depression. I can help you break those negative thinking patterns, replacing those unhelpful feelings with calmer, more positive thoughts.
How to stop overthinking
Overthinking is the state where our brains repeat and analyse the same thoughts without progressing to a positive outcome. The anxious overthinker churns over an issue with no solution, and faces a constant stream of negative thoughts. It can be exhausting. Solution focused hypnotherapy helps you break this constant anxiety cycle.
Therapy for insomnia
Insomnia is usually related to all these forms of anxiety. By treating the anxiety, most people find that sleep disorders often simply improve. We’ll look at the reasons behind your insomnia as well as the actual sleep problems themselves, and take steps along a treatment path (usually a combination of clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy).
Strategies to stop smoking
Many of us struggle to give up smoking, and one of the reasons for this is that it’s often treated as a physical addiction. However, there are also often emotional and psychological reasons tied to our need for a cigarette. Hypnotherapy helps you let go of those unhelpful habits and negative thoughts that have been barriers to successful quitting in the past.
Reduce symptoms of IBS
This may sound surprising, but therapy reduces symptoms of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). Severe or prolonged stress can affect the bowel, so hypnotherapy for anxiety and stress can actually help to calm an IBS flare-up. I work with my local private hospital trust to provide hypnotherapy for IBS patients.
Hypnotherapy for phobias
Many of us have phobias: some are small and manageable, while others feel all-consuming. There’s no need to be controlled by your phobia – techniques such as hypnotherapy can help you overcome this specific anxiety disorder. I offer help for phobias of all kinds, from fear of flying to presentation nerves. I also help clients increase their confidence and improve self-esteem.
Losing weight
Losing weight isn’t easy for those who have an emotional connection to food. Hypnosis can be a useful tool as it allows you to let go of the bad habits and negative beliefs that may have been acting as a barrier to any weight loss attempts previously. Not only this, but hypnotherapy allows you to replace these bad habits with much more positive approaches. It does this with the power of positive thinking, help with managing unhealthy cravings, and a positive attitude towards a healthy lifestyle.
Counselling
I provide counselling as a service on its own if you need to talk in a confidential, non-judgemental setting. Counselling can provide support to help you to cope with situations (such as loss, bereavement or trauma), or perhaps you need to explore your feelings with someone who will truly listen. Simply speaking out loud can help you feel a weight’s been lifted.
Solution focused hypnotherapy
Solution-focused hypnotherapy can help with a range of problems. Common areas are anxiety, stress, phobias, weight management, depression, or a wish to improve confidence or self-esteem.
Hypnosis itself reduces anxiety, and this is done very simply through relaxation and visualisation, allowing the client to focus on the positive aspects of their life that encourage a shift in perspective.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in Manchester, Altrincham, Hale, Sale, Trafford, Cheshire and convenient for Stockport, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Warrington, Salford, and surrounding areas for help with anxiety, depression, addictions, confidence, insomnia, weight loss, phobias, and more. These days of course, with modern technology, you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own home if you live far away, we can do our work online over Zoom just as effectively, and I work with clients from all over the World.
Feel free to contact me to book your complimentary initial consultation, or use the ‘Book Now’ and let’s get started on making life feel better.
“I am more positive, feel calm and no longer feel like a weight is being carried. I am able to deal with situations calmly”
If you’d like to know how therapy can help you, here are some of the reasons why people approach me. This list isn’t exhaustive, and if you have a problem you think can be helped by coaching, hypnotherapy, or counselling, please get in touch.
I’m Debbie Daltrey, the founder of Great Minds Clinic and an Anxiety UK Approved Therapist. I’m a solution-focused therapist, clinical hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, coach, and a BACP registered counsellor. I am also a supervisor, and a senior lecturer to new and practising hypnotherapists.
How can hypnotherapy help you in your everyday life?
Clients come into either Altrincham or Manchester and online, to see if hypnotherapy can help them with a range of issues that they face.
By working with these clients to provide a range of services, it allows them to break through problems and come out the other side a happier, healthier version of themselves.
Solution-focused hypnotherapy services are available for clients throughout the Manchester and Altrincham area, and online working with people across the world.
Altrincham and Manchester Online for Hypnotherapy and counselling
Working online is just as effective as face-to-face and now clients can have access to these services, no matter their location.
Clients have benefitted from the provision of a varied range of hypnotherapy services in Manchester and Altrincham since 2014 gaining a wealth of experience that allows clients of all types to be helped and with a variety of needs.
Click the ‘book now’ button to organise your free initial consultation and assessment, and find out how hypnotherapy can help you. Alternatively, you can use the contact form to ask any questions or call on 07724 855395 (UK) and your call will be returned as soon as possible.
Let’s get started on making life feel better.
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