The same clinical training that allows me to work with senior women on the deepest patterns of self-talk also equips me to support what surrounds them — the exam-anxious teenager in the next room, the family member working through grief, the colleague managing chronic pain, the quieter struggles a senior woman rarely names out loud.
When a client's wider life is in distress, her own work cannot fully land.
This is the wider practice.
The presenting issues most often brought to me, and most often resolved within a focused course of sessions. Each addresses the pattern at a level conscious effort alone cannot reach. Each is offered in collaboration with your medical team where relevant.
For the persistent unease that competence and performance do not quiet. Working at the level beneath the strategies.
Most attempts to quit fail because they address the behaviour, not the subconscious wiring beneath it. Direct work with the pattern itself.
When the conscious mind has tried every regime. Working with the emotional and identity-level relationships with food and body.
Nail-biting, hair-pulling, procrastination, compulsive checking — patterns that willpower cannot reach. The kind of change that lasts.
Beyond rehearsal and beta-blockers. Recoding the body's response to attention, scrutiny, and authority.
When the racing mind will not yield to the breathing exercise. Calming the underlying loop, not just the symptom.
Flying, enclosed spaces, needles, spiders, dental work, vomit, blood. Specific phobias often clear quickly once the pattern is addressed.
Chronic pain, migraines, post-surgical recovery — in collaboration with your medical team. The psychological dimension of pain often holds it in place.
When the system is fine and you are not. The body keeps score; this is the work of changing that score.
When you know what to do and cannot begin. Working with the parts that resist, not against them.
For students preparing for matric, university, professional certifications. For the children and grandchildren of clients who are quietly underperforming.
The loss that does not move. The grief that resists the standard stages. Gentle, structured work to release what is ready to be released.
Some of the deepest patterns we carry live in our most private experiences. Fertility journeys, sexual confidence, intimacy phobias, and reproductive loss are often suffered in silence — because they touch what feels most personal. Clinical hypnotherapy creates a safe, structured space to address the psychological and emotional dimensions, in collaboration with your medical team.
For the emotional and psychological dimensions — the anxiety, the timing pressure, the relationship strain. Adjunct to medical fertility care, never a replacement for it.
Performance issues, low desire, the loop where one difficult experience creates the next. Direct work with the patterns underneath, alongside your GP where appropriate.
When earlier experiences have left a body-level response that the conscious mind cannot override. Slow, careful work that respects readiness.
Miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy loss — the grief that compounds with each cycle, that often ties into guilt, performance, and the next attempt. The work of allowing what wants to be felt, and releasing what is ready to release.
Reproductive loss and intimate-life struggle rarely sit on their own. They tie into guilt, performance, identity, and the ability to attempt again. Addressed gently, the ripple effect runs the other way too — and the wider system begins to settle.
Some patterns sit deeper than the conscious mind can readily reach. Where appropriate and with full collaboration, sessions may include regression work — a therapeutic exploration of earlier experiences that may be holding a current pattern in place. This is offered selectively, not routinely, and only when a foundation of safety and readiness is established.
Regression is a clinical technique requiring specific training. I am qualified to facilitate it; whether it is appropriate for you is determined jointly, in your time, and only after we have built the working relationship that makes it safe.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation, in confidence. You describe what is happening; I describe how I work and whether I am the right person to support you. There is no pressure to continue.
Where the work is medical in nature, I collaborate with your GP, specialist, or treating practitioner. Where you do not yet have one, I will say so directly and recommend that route first.
Sessions held in person in Sandton, Johannesburg, or online for clients elsewhere. Rates on enquiry.