Andrew Flounders
Professional Hypnosis for everyday health and happiness
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All of my individual sessions are completely bespoke to you. Put simply, they are as unique as you are. I specialise in depression and Anxiety and related problems such as habits and addictions
“Andrew Flounders, Bsc (Hons), CQSW, DipHyp. Over 25 years exeperience in working with individuals to help them transform their lives”
Andrew Flounders
Be Hypnotically Happy
Depression has many forms. It can sap energy, hope and motivation from everyday life or even grind you to a complete halt. It often exists alongside anxiety.
It can have may causes from adverse childhood experiences, changing social structures, sedentary lifestyles and traumatic experiences. It is often treated primarily with medications despite the mechanics of this being poorly understood.
My approach to depression is very practical and I work with clients by tackling head-on the symptoms of depression. I can help you:
Understand it – learn what it is, what is happening in the brain and the role and function of your Autonomic Nervous System in the feelings and responses of depression. Learn that you are not ‘crazy’, alone or helpless. There are real underlying systems that you can learn to understand and change through hypnosis and Biofeedback techniques.
Improve Sleep – sleep is crucial to our health and wellbeing and it is one of the first things to suffer when we are depressed or anxious. Rumination, restlessness and increased ‘dream state’ or REM sleep have a number of adverse effects. Clearly poor sleep leads to tiredness and lack of energy and motivation exacerbating what is already occurring. Through a combination of hypnosis, self-hypnosis and sleep hygiene strategies I can help you to improve your sleep and energy.
Increase Motivation – Hypnosis and NLP are excellent for accessing and utilising inner or hidden resources.
Regain Hope – hypnosis is ‘believed in imagination’. Through Guided Visualisation, Hypnosis and EMDR you can regain control of your feelings, imagine something different and better and install strong beliefs that you can really be happier, stronger and more resilient.
Notice and change dysfunctional Thinking – Depressions is characterised with ‘black and white’, ‘all or nothing’ thinking patterns. I will teach you to see them, call them out and challenge them
Take Practical Steps to fill your joy pot – depressions is hard work, so can joy be sometimes. learn to take those crucial steps that can make all the difference.
Be Hypnotically Healthy
Stress can be a killer. The effects of chronic stress on our general health, functioning and immune system are becoming increasingly well understood. Chronic stress and chronic health conditions are often intertwined.
Reducing stress, increasing resilience and the ability to mange effectively and healthily in the modern world are incredibly important.
I use a multi-faceted approach to help you change your lifestyle, understand and rebalance your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and help you achieve wide-ranging benefits in your health and outlook. I can help you:
Understand it – learn what chronic stress is, what happens in the brain and body, how you can become ‘calibrated’ to be stressed and how to reset this.
Use Biofeedback – Learn the importance of Heart Rate Variability as an insight into the functioning of your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and your general health. Learn how to use biofeedback to to activate your natural ‘rest and digest’ state and improve vagal nerve tone.
Lower Blood Pressure and improve sleep – Using tried and tested relaxation techniques, Self Hypnosis, Guided Visualisation and Biofeedback techniques you can naturally lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety and rumination and rest better.
Be Sustainably Slim – being overweight can be a natural outcome of anxiety and chronic stress and will compound the health implications of chronic stress. Become slimmer by addressing the underlying causes of why you overeat and engaging your bodies natural weight management system.
Be more motivated – doing some of the practical steps that increase your fitness, improve your health and meet the complex needs of the human organism can be hard. Learn what the underlying blocks are, why you self-sabotage and install powerful beliefs that you can achieve what you set out to.
Build Resilience – it’s great to be able to be more calm, to relax and to be motivated it’s even better to be able to maintain this and bounce back in the face of inevitable pressures. learn the tools to be sustainably, hypnotically healthy.
Be Sustainably SlimWe are getting fatter. Why? Lifestyle? Availability of so much food? There is a bigger, hidden reason. Stress.
Eating too much to unhealthy levels is an addiction. The underlying causes of most addictions is anxiety.
Most weight loss programmes focus on controlling the calories. And these can work because weight-loss is basically expending more calories than you consume. The problem is that they are not sustainable.
As long as you stick to the diet you will lose weight. Fall off the wagon and you put it back on. And you WILL want to fall off the wagon. Because diets can be hard, boring, obsessive and unnatural. Dieting is like a prison sentence and who doesn’t want to get out?! When we lose weight we praise the plan. When we put it on we blame ourselves. Maybe the plan was wrong ….
The only real way to get out of the cycle and end the yo yo dieting is to deal with the hidden underlying causes. The psychology of feeding ourselves too much. The anxiety feeding the habit.
I can help you:
Learn the psychology of overeating – Understand and address the dysfunctional thinking patterns.
Understand anxiety – Understand what anxiety really is and learn to address it, control it and reduce it with hypnosis
Understand head hunger – Learn the difference between real hunger and cravings. Learn to retune your Autonomic Nervous System into its natural ‘rest and digest state’. Learn the power of ‘neutral breathing’ and coherance. Relearn to tune into your bodies natural hungry/full signals
Reactivate your bodies built in weight management system – we inherently know what to eat, when to eat and how much to eat. And listening to and following these signals can be massively rewarding. Learn how to hear them and feel them and respond to them effortlessly
Crush Cravings – Learn powerful and effective techniques to banish cravings or head hunger instantly. Control the cravings and make better decisions – easily.
Utilise the Virtual Gastric Band – This powerful technique can kickstart feeling fuller more quickly, reducing intake and losing weight quickly as you learn to take control more permanently.
Ditch the diet – stop counting calories, looking at the scales, obsessing over food, good food, bad food and ‘sinning’. Take control. Lose with effortlessly and for good.
About Me
Hello! I’m Andrew. I’m a husband, dad and grandad. I’m passionate about family, the environment and helping people.
I have personally experienced anxiety and depression for many years but often didn’t actually realise it. I was always described as ‘so laid back I was lying down’. But this wasn’t a real laid back. As I came to discover it was much more about a deadened sense of emotion, a lack of motivation and self-sabotage and at times a crippling self-doubt and anxiety. Looking at it now it seems strange that something so unhealthy could be so misunderstood by myself and others.
Why was I like that? As with many it is rooted in adverse childhood experiences and with that comes also chronic health conditions such as high blood pressure, heart problems and so on. And I’m not alone in the this. In fact research suggest that many chronic health conditions can be associated with or often by childhood experiences.
I’d like to say that that’s why I became a therapist but it’s not so. I was a Social Worker for many years working in child protection and as part of that engaged in Child Play Therapy. I found that such an inspiring experience that I studied NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis and other topics and eventually gave up Social Work and became a full time therapist.
Despite having skills and ability in this work and being able to profoundly help so many people, it took a number of years and a breakdown before I began to look at myself, use the skills and techniques I taught others on me and sought professional help for my own issues.
This has been invaluable, not just for my, ongoing, healing but to truly experience being at the receiving end of therapy and to understand the qualities that make it a good or bad experience. Through this I learned that there are significant differences in the nature, quality and practice of different therapists. Not surprising I suppose. What did surprised me was the quality of experience I received wasn’t related to their experience or qualifications. What, mattered was their passion, their interest in me and the ‘effort’ they put in to proactively work with me and my issues. In this respect it wasn’t the clinical psychologist or the GP that most left an impression on me, it was a hypnotherapist in Australia via zoom in the middle of lockdown.
This had a big impact on me, not just in terms of therapy but in truly valuing what I have to offer others. My therapy style is proactive, passionate, resourceful and tenacious. I care about outcomes and work hard with my clients to achieve them. That’s why I charge more now. Because it’s worth it and because it helps me to attract those clients that really want to invest in themselves and really want to change.
If you are one of those people, I’d love to hear from you.
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