If you want to dive a bit deeper into some of the issues which can be treated with hypnotherapy, have a look through Karen’s blog articles. Topical and informative, these articles are packed with tips and strategies for dealing with the typical problems she sees daily in her busy practice.

Wedding Speech Nerves: How To Feel More Comfortable Giving Your Speech

By Karen Martin

You’ve been asked to give a speech at a wedding. Perhaps you’re the best friend of someone getting married, a parent who wants to say something special, or one of the people celebrating their own marriage. You know it’s an important occasion, and you’d love to say something that means a great deal to the people involved. But there’s a problem. You’re already dreading the speech.

Our Top Five Fears

Everyone is afraid of something. It doesn’t matter where you live, the year you were born, your skin colour or creed, our top five fears are a natural component of the human experience. They part of our primeval, genetically determined survival instinct. Without them, our chance of recognising danger and avoiding it or defending ourselves would be considerably reduced. The whole point of those top five fears is to keep us safe.

Finding Ways to Tackle Adolescent Problems

As if handling the hormonal and bodily changes wasn’t enough to tackle, teenagers typically encounter pressure to succeed at school as well as the social uncertainties which come with the transition to adulthood. As a result, many youngsters find this one of the most arduous periods of their life. Left un-checked, the weight of these countless pressures can frequently leave a mark by damaging the teen’s confidence and self-esteem, and leading to a feeling of “not being good enough”.

Helping Kent School Children Beat Panic or anxiety

Anxiety is a form of stress that can have physical, mental and emotional symptoms. Negative expectancy of future events may cause big problems in youngsters and the way these negative thinking styles are set up can vary hugely. Feelings of lack of control are common in sufferers of tension and anxiety so children, with their limited independence, can be very vulnerable.

Stammering And Social Anxiety: When Speaking Feels Like A Risk

Being bullied can be both a cause and effect of a speech impediment as it often leads to the acute self consciousness which creates social anxiety. Tunbridge Wells hypnotherapist Karen Martin advises a young man crippled by fear of ridicule.