How Hypnotherapy Can Help You

Stress, anxiety, and fear are learned responses shaped by past experiences, which means that the mind is equally capable of relearning healthier, more supportive patterns. Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious processes that influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, helping you reduce anxiety, manage stress, and break unhelpful cycles.

 

Because we naturally enter light hypnotic states throughout the day, hypnotherapy feels familiar and can create meaningful change in fewer sessions than many traditional talking therapies. With training across a range of therapeutic approaches — including Hypnosis, NLP, EMDR, EFT, and solution‑focused techniques — each session is tailored to your individual needs.

 

This personalised approach supports emotional wellbeing, resilience, and long‑term transformation.

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Stress and Anxiety Management

Stress and anxiety are learned responses -  which means they can be unlearned! Our hypnotherapy sessions help soften tension, calm the mind, and create more space for clarity and ease. Many people describe it as finally being able to breathe again.

 

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Boosting Confidence

Confidence in yourself grows when old doubts loosen and your inner voice becomes kinder. 

Our hypnotherapy sessions help you reconnect with your strengths and step into situations, old and new, with more ease and self‑trust.

 

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Addiction Management

Limiting beliefs can feel like writing on the walls — ideas formed long ago that quietly shape how you see yourself and what you believe is possible. In our hypnotherapy sessions, we gently explore where these beliefs came from and begin to loosen their hold. creating space for growth, possibility, and a deeper sense of self‑trust.

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Phobia Management

Phobias are learned fear responses - and the reassuring truth is that they can be gently unlearned. Whether it’s fear of flying, spiders, sickness, driving, heights, needles, or public speaking to name but a few, our hypnotherapy sessions help soften fear at its roots, ease physical reactions, and build a growing sense of safety and control.

 

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Overcoming Limiting Beliefs 

Habits like smoking often begin as coping mechanisms, but they can be gently unlearned. Our hypnotherapy sessions help to soften the triggers beneath the habit, making it easier to regain control and move toward a healthier, freer you. 

Willpower is still needed, but using the power of the subconscious helps make change feel far more achievable!

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Performance or Exam Stress

Exam, interview, and performance pressure can overwhelm even the most capable mind. Our sessions help calm the stress response, clear mental fog, and sharpen focus so your natural abilities can shine. With a growth‑mindset approach and healthier thinking patterns, challenges begin to feel like opportunities rather than threats.

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As a Teacher, Tutor and Accredited Hypno4Children Practitioner, I am qualified to work with children from age 5 on a whole range of issues. I hold an enhanced DBS check.

With the younger age group (5-10), issues that could be addressed might include:

Anxieties including School, Test and Exam Anxieties, Worries, Phobias, Fears, Confidence issues, Trauma, Anger problems, Insomnia, Bed wetting, and more.

General issues that can be tackled with the 10-18 age group might include:
Behaviour, Confidence, Social Anxiety, Friendships, Relationships , School, Bullying, Depression, Exam Stress, Self-Harm, College or Uni Stress, Pressure to Succeed, and more.

Ways of Working Together

Hypnotherapy works equally well online and face-to-face, so it's really down to where you'd feel most comfortable and at ease to speak freely.

In-Person Therapy

Online Therapy

Why not join me for your      session in our cozy, comfortable, air-conditioned therapy room in Longfield, Kent? 

It’s the perfect spot to relax and focus on your well-being.

Or maybe online sessions might be more convenient for you? Just make sure you have a stable internet connection and a comfy, quiet space where you won’t be interrupted.

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Privacy: Your privacy is important to me, and anything we talk about during our sessions will stay between us, in line with my Privacy Policy.  Insurance: I have the necessary insurance as required by the National Council for Hypnotherapy. Safeguarding: For anyone under 18, or a vulnerable adult not deemed Gillick Competent, I ask that a parent or another trusted adult be present during our sessions. Disclosure and Barring: I also hold an Enhanced DBS check for safety.   Training: SCCP (Surrey College of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy)  Continuing Professional Development: I undertake regular professional development and am a Registered Member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy MNCH (Reg.), a Member of the National Society of Psychotherapists (NSPsy) and am an Hypno4Children Practitioner.  Disclaimer: While hypnotherapy can be very effective, everyone's experience is different and success is not guaranteed. The time it takes to reach your goals can also vary, but the best results happen when clients are fully committed to the process.

©Copyright Julie Howlett and LEAP Hypnotherapy. All rights reserved. Revised December 2025.

 

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