Ginny will use the methods right for you and the presenting issues.  Using NLP, Hypnotherapy, Solution Based Therapy, IEMT and EFT in the appropriate environment, provides a very powerful and effective treatment.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was founded by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in the mid seventies.  It examines the mind and how we think (Neuro), our communication to ourselves and others (Linguistic) and our individual patterns and strategies which can generate both effective and ineffective behaviour (Programming).  NLP techniques are highly effective in helping people to break old patterns and replace them with new and positive behaviours. 

Integral Eye Movement therapy (IEMT)

Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) developed by Andrew Austin is an effective technique that helps both adults and children.  Throughout our lives, events and people shape our responses to both positive and negative situations.  When we experience something negative, it leaves an emotional imprint.  IEMT explores "how did we learn to feel the way that we feel?".  By using eye movements to address these emotional imprints, IEMT helps clients to better stay out of past negative experiences and often enables change where no other approach has previously worked.

"I saw Ginny when I was really struggling with working through a traumatic workplace situation I had the misfortune of being exposed to.  Constantly reliving the event was causing me a great deal of anxiety and stress and I could not help but think about it.  The opportunity to seek assistance from Ginny in the form of IEMT presented itself and after 1 session I started to feel remarkably better about the situation and was left wondering why I had previously been so worried about it.
 
I would highly recommend IEMT to anyone who is in a situation that is causing them discomfort.  Ginny is an amazing therapist with great insight who will surely improve your quality of life given the opportunity."  JL

Solution Based Therapy

Solution Based Therapy uses practical strategies to help people make positive changes in a relatively short period of time.  It is future orientated in that it focuses on what the client wants to change and how to do so, rather than spending a long time going back to how and when the problem started.  It is therefore very gentle and empowering, enabling change to happen relatively quickly.  Ginny’s work is heavily influenced by Bill O’Hanlon the founder of Possibility Therapy and developer of Solution Orientated Therapy.  His methods focus on people’s competence rather than their deficits, their strengths rather than their weaknesses, their possibilities rather than their limitations.  Solution Based Therapy draws heavily from Dr Milton Erickson. 

Biofeedback

Ginny uses a biofeedback machine (a heart-rhythm device) to help children and adults reduce pain, stress and anxiety.  The machine provides immediate visual feedback on the impact stress has on the body.  Ginny shows the client how to use certain breathing techniques to get the mind and body working together and the amazing thing is that this can be observed on the computer.  It is an incredible way of finding out how you can influence your health either negatively or positively.  Children love the child friendly visual displays on the biofeedback machine which helps them learn how to change their emotional state.   

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is simply an altered state of awareness that is generally called a trance.  It is a natural state whereby your focus of attention is inward, rather than on what is around you.  Everyone has experienced this trance state many times in their lives.  Common examples are getting lost in a daydream, being absorbed in a good book or T.V. programme and being unaware of things going on around you, and driving your car safely yet being unaware of much of what happened during the journey.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.  
Milton H. Erickson

Contrary to popular belief, when you are hypnotised you are NOT asleep or unconscious.  Everyone experiences trance differently.  Some describe it as a drifting or floating sensation, a feeling of heaviness, lightness or deep relaxation.  Other people simply feel relaxed and don’t even feel like they are in a trance.  For most forms of treatment it doesn’t matter if you go into a light or deep trance, in fact most of the work will be done with your eyes open.  However you experience going into a trance, it will be just as effective.  In the relaxed state of hypnosis, you are aware and in control, in fact your concentration and awareness actually become heightened.  In this altered state of awareness your unconscious mind can become highly responsive and will accept the changes you want to make quickly and easily. 

There are several avenues of approach to the unconscious mind and a hypnotic trance is only one of the techniques used.  A skilled therapist will communicate with the unconscious mind to enable you access beneficial inner resources so that you find solutions to issues, change unwanted behaviour patterns, regain control over your own responses and achieve your goals. 

Ginny uses Ericksonian Hypnotherapy which is sometimes known as the Utilisation Approach.  She does not use Authoritarian (stage hypnosis) and rarely uses the Standardised Approach (one script for all clients with that same issue).  Ericksonian hypnotherapy is highly effective and is based on the work of one of the greatest and most effective hypnotherapists of all time; Milton H Erickson.

"Every person has within themselves all the resources necessary to get over any problem, and the duty of the 
therapist is to enable the person to access and utilise those resources."   Milton Erickson

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

Emotional Freedom Techniques derives from Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and is based on correcting imbalances in the body’s energy system.  It is applied by tuning the client into the emotional problem and tapping their fingers on certain acupressure points on the body.  In addition it utilises eye movements and voice tone to activate different parts of the brain.  The aim is to unblock and balance the body’s energy system which results in a reduction of the emotional intensity of the problem.  Once the energy imbalance is corrected people achieve balanced emotions.  Other substantial benefits can include relief from physical problems, control over cravings and a much improved self-image.  It is an effective tool that adults and children can learn and use outside of the therapy room.