(Phone/Skype) of how hypnotherapy can best help you to create change and overcome your challenges …it may just make the difference!
You were born with a clean slate, with the freedom to fulfil your potential. Along the way life gives you experiences that can leave you with overwhelming feelings, emotions and negative thought patterns that you just don’t know what to do with them.
It is in the subconscious mind where all the memories are held. It is the feelings and emotions felt in the body that reminds you of those memories being replayed.
I often hear people say “I have these feelings and thoughts I don’t like but I don’t know what to do with them.” That is where I come in. Working at a subconscious level to release these unwanted emotions and thoughts to create change, frees you to move forward to live your life how you want to live it.
Since obtaining a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Andrea Lane has evolved into being more than a hypnotherapist that started her career in Mental Health over 35 years ago. Andrea works successfully with an integrated approach that attracts clients from South Australia, throughout the Western District and the Mallee region, of all ages to her Woodford and Warrnambool based practices.
Andrea assists people in all areas relating to the mind, emotions, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Such as: anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, spiritual issues, stress, smoking, addictions, weight management, habits patterns, fertility, birthing, fears and phobias.
Andrea is empathetic and offers a positive, caring, nurturing environment where people feel safe, heard and understood. It is in this supportive collaborative therapeutic relationship that empowers people to process, release, heal and gain greater insights into themselves. The result is that they change the way they feel about themselves and life events.
Ask yourself, ‘When is enough, is enough?’. How much longer do I want to live feeling and thinking this way? When you decide you are ready, then I am here. We can work together to put you in the drivers seat of your own change. To transform old wiring to new wiring, so that you to think, feel and live your life with a new perspective, greater insights and resources to fulfil your potential.
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Read MoreA habit or an addiction could be viewed as a mechanism of self soothing or self medicating to deal with emotions and thoughts that overwhelm and a person cannot cope with. Are you ready to get your life back on track? The most important thing to begin your change, is that you are doing this for yourself.
What is your desire level to quit?
The main ingredient to being successful is your desire level to change and quit. The desire is your want to change, not the emotional triggers that have kept you using or in that habit pattern of behaviour and thinking. Ask yourself; ‘Where do I sit on the desire scale to quit my habit or addiction?’ Rate it on a 1 – 10 scale. One being the least and 10 being the most desire you have to quit? When rating yourself, know that a desire level over a 7 is a good indication that you are ready to quit. If you rated under a 7 ask yourself:
“What is my reason to keep doing this to myself?”
“How does that make me feel?”
“Am I ready to deal with these feelings?”
If you are not ready to quit and would like help to get you to a point you are ready, your program can include pre-quit preparation sessions.
Whether you view yourself having a habit or an addiction, we work together to create a strategy that is individually tailored to you. It takes into consideration the emotions behind any behaviour and thought patterns that contribute to your pattern of use.
The length and timing of your sessions takes in consideration:
The aim is mastery of yourself – Taking Charge of Your Own Change
The number of sessions required is dependant on the type of habit and or addiction. The following is a guide only.
– E.g. General Habits 3-4 sessions
– Smoking: Programs vary from 1 – 6 sessions depending on desire to quit & other issues.
– Alcohol: 6 – 12 sessions
– Drug Dependency: 12 or more sessions
Most people know what to do, but just can’t find the willpower or motivation to commit to changing their eating habit patterns.
Weight management is the management of:
There are strategies when put into place that makes your body sing. Swapping foods that are not aligned with your body type with foods that work for you, makes a huge difference to the ease of releasing those extra kilos.
It is not just about food. What are you really eating? What’s eating you up? Is it safe to be slimmer? Why use food as a mechanism to control things in your life that you feel you can’t control?
By resolving underlying subconscious emotional issues and creating a new beneficial pattern of behaviour that is aligned with health and wellbeing, your body naturally changes to become the size and shape you want it to be.
You become in charge of your change, therefore you feel healthier, happier and more motivated to live your life based on health and wellbeing.
So no more Yo Yo dieting. Switching to a health and wellbeing lifestyle instead of dieting means there is no start date and no end date. That outdated dieting model is where old lifestyle habit patterns may sneak back in. No more!
As a general guide the number of sessions you require are usually between 4 -6 sessions.
All sessions time frames are arranged based on an individual’s needs.
Fertility: It is important to acknowledge the importance of the mind/body connection in the process of conceiving. The subconscious mind is the holder of belief systems, thought patterns and coping strategies. The body is the holder of emotional memory and stress responses to past experiences, that may influence the ability to conceive.
Your mind is incredible and has the power to overcome those things we over focus on that get in the way when trying to become pregnant.
When our body is under stress it releases hormones that include cortisol and adrenaline to prepare us for the fight, flight, freeze and faint response as if we are in danger. Continued release of these stress hormones tells the body that the time is not safe to conceive a baby.
Sometimes we hear or experience something that is negative to us on a subconscious or conscious level that may produce a thought and an undesired emotional response. Like a mouse on a wheel, emotions create thoughts, which creates more emotions and around it goes. This compounding of thought and emotional responses may create a habit response that may have an impact upon fertility.
An Israeli study on women undergoing IVF showed an increased conception rate of women who had hypnosis compared to those who did not. Working with the subconscious mind offers an
opportunity to release stresses stored in the body so that the body’s potential to conceive is increased.
Hypnosis can assist in the release of blocks, unhelpful belief systems and undesired emotion problems that may impact upon the body’s natural ability to conceive. General guide of 4 – 6 sessions.
Birthing with Hypnotherapy – For a more comfortable and calmer birthing experience. In the modern world it was realised through observing the birthing practices of women in many Asian and third world countries that birthing itself was not normally a painful event. Whereas the western birthing model over the last century or so has made it more of a medical process that has disengaged women from their natural instincts and intuition that uses the body’s natural innate abilities tobirth naturally.
Thank goodness that is changing. There is still a way to go as birthing as the language associated with birthing may produce an unconscious response associated with the survival mechanisms of fight or flight that may create stress, fear and tension. So many times have I heard from mums to be, that as soon as she told others that she was pregnant all the negative pregnancy and birthing stories were regaled. Fear created tension and tension created pain.
Hypnosis incorporated as part of a woman’s birthing plan, can assist to connect to the innate natural abilities of their birthing body for a natural approach to a safe, easier and more comfortable birthing experience.
Since 2012, after being trained in The Mongan Hypnobirthing Method it has been a privilege to work with women and their partners to give the best opportunity to experience the joy of natural birthing that creates the most nurturing bonding experience with their baby.
The 2-hour six session program includes:
We all have experiences that create memories which are stored in various interconnecting regions of our brain as short-term or long-term memory. The more information is used or repeated, the more likely it is to be retained and stored in long term memory.
Psychological trauma can be defined as an experience or events that involve actual or threatened death, serious physical harm of self or to others. One of the most effective ways people often cope with an overwhelming event is dissociate from that event. It is a mental process that disrupts and disconnects the functions of identity, memory, thoughts, feelings and experiences.
There are varying degrees of trauma. Little trauma’s are events that you may not even remember or seem insignificant at the time. Then there are more complex traumas that result in significant emotional responses and thoughts that are triggered and compounded over time. The compounding of triggered responses often can impact upon a person’s ability to live a life free of fight, flight, freeze and faint responses such as anxiety and depression.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may develop after a person had been through an intense ordeal where physical harm or life or safety was threatened to themselves or others. As a result a person may have feelings of fear, helplessness, shame, terror, anger, anxieties, depression & other emotions associated with persistent frightening thoughts, memories and day/nightmares.
You can rewire your brain and body’s responses to take back control and live life as you deserve to live it … happy and fulfilled.
The environment you grow up in and the subsequent life experiences create a map by which you live your life and form the relationships you have with others. Whether a relationship is a friendship, love interest, work, business or general interactions with others, we respond from the map of the world we created. Often this is created from early childhood experiences. As a result overtime, undesired patterns of behaviour, thoughts and emotional responses can impact upon your life and those in it. It is time to take responsibility for yourself, to change any unresolved issues and accumulated emotional baggage.
Let’s work together in a safe non-judgemental environment to create a relationship with yourself that you like and enjoy living with. Then you will begin to attract people into your life that are deserving of you.
We will:
Easing the Anxious Mind.
The course consists of six weekly sessions for children and adults. The time frame of the course is organised based on individual needs.
Children: After school and during school holidays.
Adults: During the day and / or evenings.
Creating a Great Relationship with Yourself.
Can you answer the question? ‘Who Am I?’ A clue is that you are not, the life roles you play, e.g. mother, husband, friend, daughter, son. By discovering ‘Who Am I”, by ‘Being Who I Want To Be’ as a starting point is a spring board to feeling more comfortable and confident living in your own body. The flow on is creating healthier, happier relationships with others and being true to yourself in the life you lead.
Compassionate Tapping – First Aid 4 The Soul (Commencing 2019)
This six week course, 1 – 1.5hrs once a week or a full day workshop is a combination of two powerful healing techniques that can bring about major changes and profound healing at a very deep level.
The aim is to give you a resource that empowers you to take control of any underlying issues that may result in overwhelming emotions, thoughts or physical discomforts. It places you in the driver’s seat of being able to heal yourself so that you can enjoy your life in health and wellbeing.
The course is designed into two Phases.
Phase One: Foundation Course
Phase Two: Advanced
Suicide Prevention and support services for those experiencing some form of trauma:
24hour / 7 days a week services.
Lifeline Australia:
13 11 14
www.lifeline.org.au
Beyond Blue:
1300 22 46 36
www.beyondblue.org.au
Suicide Call Back Service:
1300 65 94 67
www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au
MensLine Australia:
1300 78 99 78
www.mensline.org.au
Kids Helpline:
1800 55 18 00
www.kidshelpline.com.au
Services for Non emergency events:
Headspace: 1800 65 08 90
www.headspace.org.au
Gundiitjmara Health Clinic:
3 Banyan Street, Warrnambool
03 5564 33 44
It is said that life happens while you live it. Therefore, the issues that arise are many and varied. If life creates issues that results in undesirable thoughts and emotions we can work together to change that.
*Anxiety * Stress *PTSD * Birthing * Fertility *Fears * Grief *Sadness *Depression *Life Issues *Relationships * Confidence * Memory *Motivation *Relaxation *Cravings * Sexual Issues *Negative Self Talk *Body Image *Athletic Performance * Exam Stress * Bulimia *Anger *Guilt *Food issues *Sleep Issues * Self Esteem *Emotions *Habits *Gambling *Trichotillomania *Smoking *Impotence *Phobias *Weight Management *Spiritual Issues *ADD *ADHD *Obsessions *OCD *Chronic Disease * Cancer *Physical ailments *Chronic Fatigue etc…
Over the years I have worked with many age groups from children as young as three to adults in their 90’s. People of all abilities and disabilities. All have had issues that interfered with
their ability to enjoy life and live it without impediment. The main criteria for being successful is that you want to make changes and you are making those changes for yourself.
The time frame of creating change is very individual and therefore a general guide is given here for the benefit of providing information that allows you to plan your change.
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Compassionate Tapping integrates a number of techniques that can bring about major changes and profound healing at a very deep level that addresses psychological issues and patterns of behaviour.
Extended Individual Programs are tailored to meet individual needs that results in a desired outcome. Permanent change of complex issues such as PTSD,
Read MoreThese sessions are where we collaborate in a therapeutic healing environment to create significant shifts in a condensed period of time, to release blocks,
Read MoreThe time frame of creating change is very individual and therefore a general guide is given here for the benefit of providing information that allows you to plan your change.
General Issues:
4 – 6 Sessions.
It has been proven time again, the benefits of a session three months later after the last appointment, as it is amazing what can be discovered at this session after life continues to be lived that assists to re-enforce the changes already made.
Session times can be arranged to be one, two or three hours in length.
The time frame between each session takes in consideration each person’s individual needs and to work with best practice of re-wiring and creating new neural pathways that lead to changing the way a person feels and the integration of new positive patterns of behaviour.
Why choose a program over and above individual sessions?
Creating programs encourages individuals to commit to a process of change by giving themselves sufficient time and space for healing, growing, learning and the processing of new information. It provides a greater opportunity and potential for change to occur when an individual can plan around their needs. Programs attract clients who have a strong desire and motivation to make changes in their lives, which are the key ingredients for a client to successfully reach their goals and desired outcomes.
The advantage of a person working within a needs-based designed program, is that the time given is based on what a person has identified that best works with the way they process information and the time-frame they need for break-throughs, new insights and understanding.
Individual sessions often have some of the following characteristics:
Symptoms. In many cases these cannot be fully addressed in one short session or in ad-hock sessions.
Deeply rooted issues require commitment and timely paced sessions. Ad-hock one by one sessions of therapy reduces the success rate to rewire and create new neural pathways that make permanent long-lasting change.
Programs have the following characteristics:
First Aid 4 The Soul
Compassionate Tapping integrates a number of techniques that can bring about major changes and profound healing at a very deep level that addresses psychological issues and patterns of behaviour.
Carole McCormack and Andrea Lane formed The Compassionate Tapping process in one of those ah-ha moments when working on clearing their own stuff as part of their self-care. The more they used this process on themselves and then with their clients, the more they realised this wonderful healing technique needed to be shared.
The world is changing and both Carole and Andrea are passionate about healing people not only through the work they do as Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists in their private practices, but by empowering them to take control of their own healing and change their lives for the better.
Currently there are:
• A two-day Phase One workshop that teaches the fundamentals.
• A one-day Phase Two workshop that teaches how to really connect a person to their issue on a deeper level, by- pass resistance to get to the core of their issues and to clear it.
These workshops are very practical and experiential.
What was said by those who have attended the Compassionate Tapping Phase One Workshop:
Extract from JJ Thank you for a wonderful two days. You created a wonderful safe space for all participants to share in all the activities and processes of self-healing. I found the workshop to be full of knowledge, informative, loving and presented in a warm caring environment. I feel I have some new strategies to be able to help myself through life’s challenges and be able to pass these practices on to my children. I encourage anyone to participate in this as a strong tool to continue as their self-healing journey.
DC Thanks very much for facilitating some powerful tools. Very profound I think and thanks for the supportive culture you developed.
KB I found the workshop to be very informative to be able to go away with the tools to aide selfhealing for both me and my family. I see myself being able to utilise the tools given in dealing with any situations as they arise. Both Andrea and Carole are so inspirational and knowledgeable in their teachings and I would highly recommend Compassionate Tapping for self-healing.
Teach The Facilitator Workshop will be launched in 2020.
These sessions are where we collaborate in a therapeutic healing environment to create significant shifts in a condensed period of time, to release blocks, emotions, feelings that are holding a person back and to propel significantly towards making desired goals. The synergetic healing energy created in these sessions allows us to explore more deeply without interruption those unknown factors behind a person’s issues, emotions, feelings and resulting Behaviours.
People who experience these sessions make significant changes in a short period of time and often opt for a break through session as their first therapy session.
Break Through Sessions are a minimum of three hours and range up to a full day or over a number of days. They often encompass a variety of therapies from Hypnotherapy, Visual Emotional Repatterning System, Brainspotting, Tapping / EFT, NLP, Mindful practices and other psychotherapy techniques.
Hypnotherapy is:
Hypnosis with therapeutic techniques and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) to assist you make desired changes. It is a very natural trance like state that alters the frequency of the brainwaves from an active alert conscious state into a very relaxed meditative state where we can directly communicate with the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is literally our supercomputer that stores patterns of behaviour and belief systems we have developed over time. That is why hypnosis is so quick to change those unwanted, undesired behaviour patterns and resulting emotions.
NLP is:
A system of working with the mind, its programming and the mental pathways of our senses. By
working with the belief systems, patterns of behaviour, the way the brain stores and retrieves
information, gestures, postures, the language we use and our senses, NLP is often able to quickly
help you make changes at a subconscious level.
Visual Emotional Repatterning System (VER)-The Bi-lateral Five Eye Movement Process Andrea completed EMDR training in England and has used Bi-lateral Eye Movement and stimulation effectively within her practice with clients achieving great results. Over time the bi- lateral eye stimulation was adapted to become Visual Emotional Re-patterning (VER) that can be used effectively within the hypnosis process or outside of it.
Our body is incredibly engineered so that within us all there is a system that is geared on a physiological level to process information to bring about balance and a good state of mental health. Normally negative emotions through this adaptive process are released, learning takes place and they are integrated to be available for future use. Where emotional events occur such as with trauma or stress, this system could possibly become unbalanced.
It has been noted that the use of bi-lateral stimulation through the eyes or other means can assist in creating change by processing and releasing stored information and emotions from the mind and body.
Read MoreHypnosis with therapeutic techniques and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) to assist you make desired changes. It is a very natural trance like state that alters the frequency of the brainwaves from an active alert conscious state into a very relaxed meditative state where we can directly communicate with the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is literally our supercomputer that stores patterns of behaviour and belief systems we have developed over time. That is why hypnosis is so quick to change those unwanted, undesired behaviour patterns and resulting emotions.
A system of working with the mind, its programming and the mental pathways of our senses. By working with the belief systems, patterns of behaviour, the way the brain stores and retrieves information, gestures, postures, the language we use and our senses, NLP is often able to quickly help you make changes at a subconscious level.
Visual Emotional Repatterning System (VER)-The Bi-lateral Five Eye Movement Process Andrea completed EMDR training in England and has used Bi-lateral Eye Movement and Stimulation effectively within her practice with clients achieving great results. Over time the bi- lateral eye stimulation was adapted to become Visual Emotional Re-patterning (VER) that can be used effectively within the hypnosis process or outside of it. Our body is incredibly engineered so that within us all there is a system that is geared on a physiological level to process information to bring about balance and a good state of mental health. Normally negative emotions through this adaptive process are released, learning takes place and they are integrated to be available for future use. Where emotional events occur such as with trauma or stress, this system could possibly become unbalanced. It has been noted that the use of bi-lateral stimulation through the eyes or other means can assist in creating change by processing and releasing stored information and emotions from the mind and body.
Bi-Lateral Eye Movement experiments have shown to enhance the retrieval of memories that is associated with enhanced inter-hemispheric interactions. The lateral eye movements appear to disperse the unresolved emotional charge associated with events that enables a person to move past them so that thoughts and emotional triggers no longer have an impact.
It is thought that our bodies are constantly processing our emotions. The brain and body are intertwined systems that are constantly interacting with our environment through the use of all our senses. The more senses are involved in an experience, the more the brain remembers it and the deeper the impact on our emotional systems. Traumatic experiences create long lasting physical and emotional impressions that are imprinted on our Limbic System and more so if they have been stored and compounded upon since Childhood.
Therefore our emotional life is physically imprinted upon our bodies and it carries with it all our emotional sense memories from childhood. That is why when we experience a familiar smell, sound, or place it can create a flood of memories that can either be pleasant or it can challenge us to maintain our composure and this is where we can often feel like a child again.
We can Re-pattern our Limbic System through various therapeutic techniques to create new neural patterns to help regulate our neural system to improve our moods and lighten our emotional responses so that there are changes to the way we think about things.
Re-patterning = to change the behaviours, beliefs and negative emotions that comes from subconscious patterns or programming. The use of bi-lateral eye stimulation allows these patterns to emerge into conscious awareness so that they can be addressed. Our system is physiologically geared to process information so that on a physical, mental and emotional level, good health and wellbeing can be achieved.
When problems or issues commence, it is often a result of earlier experiences with many having a root cause in childhood; these are compounded and are set in motion when repeated. This may result in creating known or unknown belief systems, behaviour patterns and consequently a structure of identity. In relation to Trauma, research has shown that when remembered the memory centres in the frontal lobe become less active or may even shut down and a person my get overwhelmed by feelings and impulses.
The Limbic System responds with increased activity, especially in the Amygdala (has been called the brains smoke detector and is the emotional memory centre) and creates feelings as if we are in danger right now. The Brainstem (The reptilian brain) reacts instinctively to the Amygdala and like an alarm going off, the heart rate increases, hyperventilation may occur, muscles become tense and we either speed up or slow down.
So to treat any traumatic memories we stir up the thinking brain. When the Frontal Lobe is more active it can identify the emotional and body responses as memory or flashbacks. It can then identify the body’s response and emotional reactions as just memory and it follows through by sending signals to the Limbic System that we are safe instead of in danger. The result is the Amygdala changes in thoughts; the emotions turn off and recognises the message as a memory that results in calming down any activity.
Research on Bi-Lateral Eye Movements can be found through research completed on REM studies and EMDR.
Research suggests that bi-lateral eye movements have a robust and systematic effect on patterns of cortical activation and facilitates episodic memory via the corpus callosum mediated inter-hemispheric interactions. The right – left hand to eye movements selectively activate the contra-lateral hemisphere (Bakan & Svorad 1969) and it is reasoned that repeated bi-lateral eye movements should result in simultaneous activation of both hemispheres. REM studies via EEG readings support the theory that the bi-lateral eye movements facilitated inter-hemispheric interactions and it has been hypothesized that bi- lateral movements induce a specific neurological state.
In resent basic research to stimulate further applied memory researches it concluded bi-lateral eye movements induced changes in hemispheric activation that appear to have a systematic relationship with memory performance and the way information is retrieved.
The dominant theories that have emerged as a result of studies are:
Is an effective technique that helps eliminates highly charged emotions, memories and physical traumas by using the same meridian points that an acupuncturist may use. It is like acupuncture but without the needles. The benefits of the mind / body connection is that by tapping on certain points on the head and body, trapped emotions and associated memories are processed and released.
Andrea is a kind and caring hypnotist who I highly recommend. Andre has helped me with a bad habit of mine and consequent other issues that I have tried to overcome for nearly 30 years.
After just tree visits, Andrea helped me to take control of my life with VER, Hypnotherapy and EFT. My life has now been transformed to a new healthier happier me.
I would like to thank Andrea from the bottom of my heart.
AH
I am not drinking Coke anymore. Thank you so much for all your help.
FS
Thank you for seeing my daughter as the difference in her is remarkable.
In just one visit.
I now have may daughter back.
Afterwards her session, she said she felt so much lighter and happier.
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