About Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic

Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic – At Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic, Yorkshire, we offer a wide range of hypnotherapy & CBT treatments in Leeds centre at affordable prices.

Who are we?
The practice offers hypnotherapy in Leeds, and is run by Daniel L. McDermid who graduated in psychology with a BSc conferred by the University of Leeds. He is a full member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis and holds a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis (www.lcch.co.uk ) and also holds a practitioner diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy through the LCCH.

Daniel L. McDermid is also the treasurer of a non profit charity called Alpaca Maraca.  http://www.alpacamaraca.com/.  Alpaca Maraca is a small charity set up to provide Animal Assisted Therapy for children with special needs. The charity is sponsored by Brookfield Alpacas http://www.brookfieldalpacas.co.uk/.

Daniel works with children at the charity which is a member of SAFEchild and he also has a full CRB check.

How does hypnotherapy work?

Clinical hypnotherapy should not be confused with stage hypnosis, which you may have seen on television or at a live show in a pub or elsewhere. Stage hypnosis is conducted purely for entertainment and conducted by performers.

Clinical hypnotherapy sessions at Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic, in contrast, are designed to help people and are conducted under strict ethical conditions by trained experts.

Hypnosis techniques are employed during therapy but at all times patients can be assured that they remain in full control and can never be impelled to do anything they do not wish.

Patients are placed in a hypnotic trance which allows the hypnotherapist in Leeds to make suggestions to the patient’s unconscious mind. The unconscious stores a person’s knowledge, his or her learnt skills, attitudes, habits and beliefs as well as controlling such automatic functions as breathing and heart rate.

When speaking to the unconscious mind a patient can gain a lucid insight into his or her problems.
It might be useful to recognise that while the conscious mind deals with matters that we are at any one moment explicitly aware of, it is small compared to the unconscious. The conscious is like the the tip of an iceberg to the unconscious.

What is a hypnotic trance?

There is nothing to fear. Everybody has experienced a hypnotic trance at some point in his or her life. For example waking hypnosis may occur naturally when an individual’s attention is fixed on one thing, for example while driving or watching television etc. Daydreaming can also be regarded as a trance state. Other states of hypnosis include a state when one is falling asleep, which is know as the hypnogogic state and during the period of waking up, or hypnopompic state. These are all light trances. There are three depths of trance and a hypnotherapist can take a patient to the deepest, if that patient so wishes. The first is a light trance, the second a medium trance and the third a deep trance.

What is Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy?
At Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic we offer cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy (CBH) with principles of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT).
We follow the treatment pioneered by leading American psychotherapist Albert Ellis who devised the ABC model designed to help the patient gain emotional responsibility.

“We are largely but not exclusively responsible for the way we feel and act by the views we take of the events in our lives.”

(Dryden 1995)

CBH involves giving the patient an intellectual insight of their beliefs and integrates this gained knowledge into emotional insight through the aid of hypnosis.

If this seems complicated, all will be explained at the initial consultation.

We’re always pleased to hear from you so if you have any queries or would like to arrange an appointment, please contact us using the details below.

Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic
Lion House
41 York Place
Leeds
LS1 2ED

Tel: 0113 244 2050

Mobile: 07745739186

email: daniel@leeds-hypnotherapy-clinic.co.uk

Leeds Hypnotherapy treatments to help you stop smoking, lose weight, cope with the demands of sport and much more in Leeds city centre.

Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic, West Yorkshire, offers a wide range of hypnotherapy treatments including, quit smoking, weight management, phobias & many more. We operate on an appointment based session which is both affordable and successful. If you need help with something which is troubling you such as anger and hostility, anxiety and stress, assertiveness training, bed wetting, bereavement and loss, concentration and much more, please feel free to contact us at Leeds Hypnotherapy Clinic.