Hypnotherapy as a term is widely used, and many assumptions are made as to what it is. There are many different types of hypnotherapy and it is used in a vast number of different ways. It’s a fair assumption that what it means to one will be radically different to...
Traumatic experiences are not something that you can compare. What’s traumatic for one person won’t be the same for another, but they always have the same elements in common. Here we look at what constitutes a traumatic experience and why it’s not possible to compare...
Eating disorders affect millions of people in the UK alone. The people who are suffering from an eating disorder are diverse, from all ages and every different background. But there is likely to be one thing that links all of these different cases, and that is trauma....
Seventeen year old art student Mia has been struggling with anorexia nervosa for around 5 years. In actual fact, although formally identified 5 years ago, she now realises that the problem started much earlier on. It would seem that even as young as 5 she was using...
Sexual abuse can affect anyone of any age. The ongoing trauma that it can cause means that the effects can live on much longer past the events themselves. This article aims to explain how the brain responds to sexual abuse and to look at whether therapy can allow the...