Alleviate Stress & Anxiety and break Unhealthy Habits
Your Hypnotherapist: Dr Paul Deighton
Dr Paul Deighton is a vocationally registered and highly experienced Medical Practitioner who graduated from the UNSW in 1980 with an M.B., B.S.
He has been practicing as a General Practitioner in Sydney, Australia since 1983 after four years of hospital residency in Wollongong, Shellharbour, Bulli and Liverpool Hospitals where he was exposed to a broad array of medical conditions both physical and psychological.
During his career, he has developed a special interest in assisting families and individuals to better identify and manage their mental health issues. In 1994, he completed intensive training in Medical Hypnotherapy through the College of Medical Hypnosis, Sydney.
Hypnotherapy is a relaxation based treatment strategy that enables patients to control the effect that excessive stress has on their physical and mental wellbeing. Using this treatment tool, coupled with targeted counselling, Dr Deighton has helped many patients overcome (excessive) stress based conditions including debilitating anxiety disorders, various addictive thoughts and behaviours, poor self esteem / self confidence and stunted personal growth and development.
Stress & Anxiety - Causes & Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms:
The modern world’s demanding and competitive lifestyle leads to high stress levels, worsened by social media and constant pressures from work, relationships, and finances. Many struggle with multitasking and unmet expectations, causing guilt, low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. Unresolved stress lingers in the subconscious, affecting mental and physical health.
Stress triggers both positive and negative responses in the body. While short-term stress can enhance performance, excessive or prolonged stress leads to anxiety, nervousness, and impaired functionality. Anxiety differs from stress as it persists even without a specific stressor.
Unhealthy coping mechanisms like overeating, smoking, or substance abuse may develop, further harming one’s well-being. To naturally reduce stress and anxiety, maintaining a balanced lifestyle with sufficient sleep, exercise, relaxation techniques like hypnotherapy and meditation, and a healthy diet is essential.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hypnotherapy is the practise of Hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. When we are talking about Hypnosis, we are not talking about someone having power over you or the loss of your control. It does not involve quacking like a duck or talking in strange tongues as the movies would have us believe.
Rather, Hypnosis is the act of guiding someone into a state of deep physical and mental relaxation after which communication with their subconscious mind, utilizing positive self belief reinforcement and functional coping mechanisms, can result in better processing and prioritising of their thoughts and consequent short, and long term, behaviours, significantly reducing the impact of stressors on their overall wellbeing.
Most of the time we are not consciously aware of the reasons behind why we are acting or reacting to things the way we do. With the altered state of consciousness that is experienced during Hypnotherapy, patients are able to let their mind go beyond everyday worries and thoughts, into a sleep-like state. By focusing on something other than their everyday thoughts, people are more readily able to tap into their subconscious.
Hypnotherapy works by guiding the individual into deep relaxation, creating an altered state of consciousness similar to sleep. Most people are initially aware of their surroundings, but as their relaxation deepens their conscious mind becomes free to escape to any place of their choosing eg, the beach, garden, rainforest. This takes their conscious mind off current stressors.
Once their conscious mind is settled their subconscious mind is able to communicate more openly. This enables the therapist to facilitate mental reprogramming and address specific concerns.
Hypnotherapy can help you by addressing various mental, emotional, and behavioural challenges. It can be used to reduce stress, anxiety, and fears, improve sleep, boost confidence, and break unwanted habits like smoking or overeating.
It can also help with pain management, phobias, and emotional healing by accessing the subconscious mind to reframe negative thought patterns. If you have a specific issue in mind, I can explain how hypnotherapy may assist with it.
The benefits of hypnotherapy vary from patient to patient.
For some people, hypnosis is effective very quickly, after even 2-3 sessions. For others, it takes longer to reach the desired level of change.
It is imperative to build a strong, trusting relationship with your Hypnotherapist in order to be able to fully relax and truly tap into your subconscious mind, allowing you to reset and reprogram your thoughts and behaviours.
It is important to commence hypnotherapy with an open mind and a willingness to change. Like any sort of therapy, a person must first want the change to happen for it to be truly effective.
Consolidatory sessions are advised and can be tailor made to suit each individual.
