Anger is a natural emotion. It alerts us to threats and unwanted feelings, but if you are experiencing this emotion too frequently, and losing control over your behaviour, using it as a shield in some way, this destructive response can have a negative impact on your relationships with your partner and children, as well as damaging your own heath.

Recent scientific studies have found that frequent anger outbursts can lead to anxiety, heart disease and hypertension. The by-product of anger can lead to making further negative health choices like smoking, to either prevent or recover. Some people try and stop being angry but repression can build up and create more problems.

There are a number of ways of managing anger in the short term. (Read my published article at dad.uk on Hypnotherapy for Anger) These include relocating to a different environment- preferably outdoors; deep breathing; writing it all down; and flushing out the stress hormones with exercise are also beneficial. But these may not always be practical in the heat of the moment.

By working on an unconscious level, hypnotherapy manages the triggers which cause anger. CBT and mindfulness give you the coping strategies to become calmer and more relaxed, in situations which might have caused you to flare up in the past. You are able to have control over your thinking and emotions and respond to your environment with balance and perspective. Call for a free consultation

If you have an addiction, you’re not alone. According to the charity ‘Action on Addiction’, 1 in 3 people are addicted to something - whether its physical like ‘binge drinking at the weekend’ with no ‘off - button’, or emotional like anger.

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy first looks at your underlying and emotional reasons for the addiction. Its these emotional satisfactions that drive you to seek a short - term reward or hit, releasing the dopamine that keeps you in this cycle or ‘programme’.

Whether its money problems, peer pressure, confidence and low self-esteem issues, therapy involves making better choices in dealing with life events rather than drinking to numb the pain of divorce; chocolate after a busy day at work; shouting to release stress; or shopping to avoid dealing with a failing marriage.

Hypnotherapy will gently help you to learn how to change this ‘addiction programme ‘or ‘compulsive shopping programme’ in your mind. You will begin to get a different perspective on your addictive behaviours which finally puts you back in control of your life.