Why I Love Being A Clinical Hypnotherapist

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Actually, I don’t like being a Clinical Hypnotherapist, I love it! Yet when someone suggested I might be good in this area back in 2006, I laughed out loud. At that point I was a Marketing Manager within the financial services sector and had no inclination to become a therapist. Ten years later and I just smile at the original suggestion and thank goodness someone did suggest it!

Main Reasons for loving my career

The main reasons are numerous but the top reason must be the reward! Not financial (that’s covered further on down), but the reward of someone saying “You’ve helped me change my life forever”, or “I can’t believe I’ve done it”, etc, etc. The list of rewards from customers’ positive feedback is huge. I can sit there with a huge grin on my face at the end of a session!

Nicola GriffithsMaking a difference to people’s lives is also right up there from the perspective of not simply going into a 9-5 job making money for someone else. In this career we actually make a difference to people’s lives.

Then there’s the variety of work, I never know what a customer will bring in next that needs sorting out. There’s also the variety of clients – I’ve worked with children through to pensioners, business people through to sports professionals, parents, students, and more. I’ve even have medical professionals, psychiatrists and psychologists come to see me for help with anxiety and insomnia.

I can choose my own hours of work, within reason. This means I can walk my dogs in daylight in mid-winter or spend a couple of hours with hubby sitting in the pub garden at lunchtime…over a coffee of course!

Then there’s the scope for expansion. Not only do I see clients, but I run a health clinic, I was a Supervisor (helping hypnotherapists be the best they can be – but I’m now retired from that), and I teach hypnotherapy to students in Belfast, Manchester and Southampton. When I trained as a hypnotherapist back in 2017, I never realised the variety of work I would undertake. And there are still various other options I could take should I wish to!

On top of all that, once my business was established, the pay was very good. This is not a key driver for me, but the mortgage still needs to be paid nonetheless.

Control of my life

Being self-employed definitely gives me a feeling of being in control of my life. For instance, not having to ask anyone for time off for a holiday – I just decide when I’m going to go. I’ll give my clients a bit of advance warning, and away I go. As mentioned above, I can work when and where I want (within reason). I also decide how much to pay myself – which is nice!

If someone had said to me early on in my life that I would have been a therapist, let alone a hypnotherapist, I would have laughed out loud. I’m quite an analytical person and I saw hypnotherapy as up the fluffy end.  Just shows how wrong you can be. Once I discovered hypnotherapy and started looking into it, I discovered ‘fluffy’ was simply not a word to use with clinical hypnotherapy.  I follow people like David Spiegel, Harvard’s Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, who’s an advocate of hypnosis. In an interview in 2016, when talking about hypnosis, he stated:

“It’s a very powerful means of changing the way we use our minds to control perception and our bodies.”

Well, what’s not to like?

I now enjoy teaching hypnotherapy as much as seeing my clients. It’s a joy to see the students develop and to

listen to the course feedback each month about how their clients have developed. One of our students recently fed back on a client’s progress, adding at the end “Talk about being on a high, how amazing is that?  Wonderful this work we do”.

I can’t think of anything better to add than that!

So if you want to make significant changes not only to your life, but those of others, then maybe you should get in touch with us to find out more?

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