About Lulu Appleton

My hypnotherapy sessions are aimed at freeing people to enjoy a new, healthier, happier life. This can mean finding new ways of dealing with all the worries and constraints that can hold you back and prevented you from being the best you can be.

We all worry about different things. Some are small and insignificant to others, but enormous to the worrier. This distortion makes the problem hard to endure.

Making it ’right-size ’, bringing it into the present day, dilutes its impact. This releases the problem and it also releases the person from their emotional prison.

I advise clients to live with a minimum of ’shoulds’ and ’oughts’, worrying less about what others think. I recommend creating their own philosophy for living and trusting their own intelligence and intuition instead.

A combination of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is a powerful and effective method of discarding things you don’t want in your life and identifying those things you want to achieve.

Our conscious minds are all reason and logic but the unconscious mind runs on pure emotion. If the issue that troubled us was just in our conscious mind, we could stop this minute. Since hypnotherapy accesses the unconscious mind, it can disconnect the old thoughts and behaviours that limit you and which you no longer want - but found you have been unable to stop.

The simplest changes can make a massive difference and turn your life around.

INDIVIDUAL BELIEFS
Individual perceptions describe the different ways each one of us sees things: these are unique perceptions, formed from our own lives, shaped by our personal experiences, and their perspective can be clouded or heightened by our emotions.

They emerge from our belief system which probably began in childhood, when the rules we were taught to live by were first set out by parents, and were usually based on what their parents taught them, passing from one generation to the next.

We all experience positive, passionate emotions, which motivate, inspire and enhance our lives. There are also bleak, negative emotions which are just as strongly felt but which produce the opposite effect and which can disturb, depress and paralyse our progress.

But just as life is never either entirely black or white, so it is with our emotions: there are many shades of grey in our attitudes and feelings and it only takes the slightest movement to upset the balance. That’s why balance matters in almost everything.

LOSING WEIGHT FEELS WONDERFUL
Get it right, and weight loss can be one of the most rewarding and healthy steps you can take for yourself.

Yes, it can also be challenging and demanding - if you allow it to be. But it can also be simple, much easier than you probably imagined and can leave you feeling absolutely terrific.

Have you ever wondered why it can be so difficult to stop doing something you don’t want to do any more? However illogical, it can seem impossible to discard unwanted habits that may be holding you back. It’s not a lack of willpower or discipline. It’s not physical hunger. It’s Emotional Hunger and it’s your mind telling you to eat, not your body.

Hypnotherapy accesses your unconscious mind, and enables you to disconnect all the old thoughts and habits that sabotage your intentions and get in the way. It can also inspire you and motivate you to lose weight, once and for all, easily, effortlessly and naturally.

SELF ESTEEM IS PRICELESS AND COMES FROM WITHIN
You have to give this to yourself. No one can give it to you with compliments or flattery. This is something you earn and give to yourself because you deserve it and it comes from pride in achievements and a sense of your own value.

CONFIDENCE IS GOLD
The way we see ourselves mirrors the way others see us. Comfortable confidence means you don’t change yourself to fit in, you are comfortable with who you are. You know your strengths and your limitations. As your inner confidence emerges, you become your authentic, real self.

Comfortable confidence comes from a sense of your own value. Whether it’s climbing a mountain or cleaning your room, your achievements, however large or small, contribute to a sense of pride.

ANXIETY AND PANIC, STRESS AND WORRY
We can grasp fears with our minds, but anxiety grips us from within. Anxiety is not a condition - it’s a symptom. The brain is signalling that something is not right. Don’t allow yourself to enter victim mode.
Fear is a bully and if you face it, it backs down.

Please email me: luluappleton@gmail.com

My training, work experience and any achievement

I trained with the National College of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy and qualified in 1997 and am on their National Register (NRHP). The NRHP is an accredited member of UKCP and Rules of Membership ensure registered therapists maintain the highest professional standards as set out in the NRHP’s code of ethics and practice. This includes undertaking a minimum of 20 hours supervision per year and 150 hours over a five-year cycle of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

I am the co-author with Uri Geller of MIND MEDICINE, published in October 1999 and re-published October 2001, and have also written a great many articles across a range of subjects including psychology, health, environmental issues and lifestyle for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Daily Mail and Daily Express as well as magazines such as BBC Wildlife Magazine. I am an Accredited NHS Editor and Writer through the Centre for Health Information (CHiQ).

The National College for Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy is Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), was formed in 1989 with the aim of establishing the profession of psychotherapy, with agreed common training standards and ethical requirements.

The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy offers accredited training in clinical hypnosis and hypno-psychotherapy and is accredited by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education, The European Association for Hypno Psychotherapy (EAHP).

Further Information

HYPNOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
The combination of these two therapies produces one of the most powerful and dynamic techniques. When used together, they deliver the fastest, safest and most effective results.

Hypnotherapy accesses your unconscious mind, and enables you to disconnect all the old thoughts and habits that hold you back. Psychotherapy can help you understand what’s going on with you so you can make spectacular changes to your life, effortlessly and naturally. You feel positive and empowered. You really can become the person you want to be.
Sometimes the smallest changes can make a massive difference.