Registered Psychotherapist

David Bonner has studied the process of hypnotherapy since the late 1980s and practises this with regularity for individual clients, when its use is appropriate.

David skilfully uses the combination of direct suggestion, metaphor and imagery to induce a profound state of relaxation.

Being "lulled" into this state, a pleasant and entirely safe trance is induced, at which time the unconscious mind, like a positive and receptive sponge, can absorb previously agreed information to full effect.

The state of trance has been likened to that feeling just before natural sleep when the telephone rings and you just can't be bothered to reach out and answer it.

The unconscious mind - the powerhouse of can do/can't do - success/failure, is unusually receptive to that positive suggestion in the trance-like state, and translates through to daily life in a powerful and effective way.

When fragmentation of positive intent is negated, when half a mind to change ceases to be the norm, and when the "inner person" and "outer person" (conscious and unconscious) are in harmony and work together, then remarkable progress can be made.

David Bonner also likens this process to the use of an oven. The oven is useless unless you have something to place within it, but more than that, the ingredients must be in exactly the right proportions.

Therein lies the skill, the initial joint work and understanding, together with the rapport between therapist and client that swiftly needs to be and will be put in place.