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Learn how you can release anxiety and begin to think well, act well and feel well...Welcome to this websiteThe Wellington anxiety clinic uses natural methods to treat anxiety. Release anxiety and begin to think well, act well and feel well...You can get help, clients come in everyday because the anxiety that they are experiencing has a negative effect on their sleep, appetite, motivation, relationships and can be debilitating.If you are ready to get help to reduce anxiety, please have a look around this website to find out more about the natural methods that are used to treat anxiety.
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ServicesClinical Hypnotherapy is a quick and effective tool that helps people to work on a subconscious level to release emotional issues. NLP is a fantastic tool that can assist you in understanding how you may be building your negative self talk and looking at the programs that drive your feelings and experiences. This is an important part of helping any of my clients to release themselves from old destructive patterns and promote more empowering ones. Meditation classes are offered to help people learn how to practice mindfulness. Good meditation practice can help you to become more balanced physically and emotionally. Studies have shown that meditation can relieve stress and help to reduce high blood pressure.PhilosophyIs to provide a safe environment for you to learn tools to manage anxiety and work through strategies that help you to understand how to setup a healthy mind set so you can manage your emotions in a positive and resourceful way.
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Anxiety coaching
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Clinical Hypnotherapy
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Clinical Hypnotherapy
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy Coaching Being in a state of Hypnosis is not the same as sleep. We are always learning, changing and adapting to new things and when you engage the use of active suggestion it becomes a powerful tool to help break habits and negative belief patterns that may have been stopping you from getting what you want in life. As soon as you begin to address the issues I will begin to work on how you see and feel about it and what you want instead.What will you experience?Many people experience a feeling of heaviness or you may feel as if you are floating or detached from your body. You will still be aware of the sounds in or out of the room-everything seems clearer. Whatever you experience it is a wonderful way to explore the depths of your subconscious mind. When you are in this state you are very aware of your thoughts and feelings and you will still feel like you are in control. The job of a hypnotherapist is to guide you through a learning experience.Hypnosis helps you to uncover and understand what motivates you. It also helps you to identify any areas that need to be explored through the power of your imagination (subconscious mind). Your subconscious mind can be very creative, and learning how to use self hypnosis properly can be a very rewarding and a powerful tool.Change your negative patterns into positive and motivating patterns by learning how to be the master of your mind. You experience the power of being open to suggestion (self hypnosis) all throughout the day. For example, when going to sleep when waking in the morning, before you open your eyes, when day-dreaming, when using your imagination or visualisation. As a hypnotherapist it is my job to guide you through this positive and relaxed form of therapy and teach you how to effectively use your thoughts in that most positive way. But just remember you are always in control.
NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming
NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming. It is a technique that enables you to understand how your language affects everything you do. It helps you to improve your language in the most powerful and positive way. This allows you to reprogram how you react to things. NLP helps you to get in touch with your emotional triggers more quickly. It enables you to cancel out negative emotional patterns and replace them with positive and beneficial emotional wisdom, on a deep, subconscious level. This allows you to move on and create a positive attitude toward yourself and your environment.
Meditation
Meditation
I have been practicing meditation since I was 13 years old. It has helped me to keep in balance emotionally. I started to practice yoga and that introduced me to the art form of meditation. I really enjoy sharing what I know with others and have been privileged to see how it can make such a powerful change in peoples lives when they start to practice it everyday. For me it is like recharging my inner energy and it lets me feel more open to the opportunities that are in front of me. There are many different styles of meditation and as a hypnotherapist the style that I use when teaching people comes from my knowledge of hypnosis and yoga. When I teach people meditation I begin with showing them how to slow down the mind and the body using breathing techniques. I love seeing the reaction people have after they experience this form of relaxation. Meditation is different to sleep, You have a level of awareness because you are slowing down. If you have never tried meditation I would like to invite you to try it.Is it time for you to have a feeling of peace in your life? This is an opportunity to tap into your inner resources and to use meditation to enhance your feeling of wellbeing.Meditation. Helping you to be at your best. Breathing to enhance wellbeing. Guided meditation. Self healing meditation. Sound meditation. Walking meditation. Mindful meditation. Awareness meditation. Empowering meditation. Love and kindness meditation. Grounding yourself
Stress phobias
Information on stress and phobias
Stress
Tools for stress
Phobias
Stress
Stress and anxiety
Anxiety is an emotional state that many people experience, you are not broken it is an opportunity to learn how to reprogram the way you react emotionally to life. Anxiety can be a result of a traumatic event, fears or phobias that people might only experience sometimes or may experience daily.Through my hypnotherapy practice there are lot of people who come in wanting me to help them deal with anxiety and stress. It may be due to relationship issues at home or at work or just life getting busy and not being able to find balance. I find that people at any stage of their lives can be affected by this and learning tools to help them build the confidence and clarity to learn from those stressful moments is an important part of what I do as a hypnotherapist. People who have hit rock bottom don't always know where to start.What is stress?Stress is often your body's way of telling you that you need to address something. When we try to ignore the stress that keeps building emotionally, it can often result in migraines, sleep disturbance and ill health. It is important to listen to that wisdom within you, that part of you that knows who you are and what you need to find balance. When people choose to put aside an hour of their time, to focus on finding resolution within them, it is a great opportunity to listen to their wisdom and gain clarity around finding a way forward. Stress is often a very important part of keeping us motivated. If you were to go through life without experiencing stress, there would be no reason to change, adapt or to grow.How does hypnotherapy to deal with resolving stress?Hypnotherapy is not about sitting down with your eyes closed and listening to me talk at you, it is a method of getting you into a deep level of relaxation, were you are able to really slow down, and tap into your inner knowledge. Hypnosis can help to deepen your understanding of your situation and to find a way to resolve it quickly, and move on. My job is to guide you and together we can develop strategies and to build your motivation and inner confidence to follow through on what you need.Effects of stress on self confidence:There is an increasing amount of work related stress, and this leaves many people feeling emotionally drained; their loss of self confidence in the work place courses them to experience panic attacks. The thought of going to work and dealing with the workplace bullies scares them. I have helped many people who are dealing with stress, and together we begin to assess the situation so they can look at finding ways to effectively communicate and get the support that they may need to make the changes within their working environment, or to get the courage to look for other employment, where they will get the respect that they deserve. I always start by helping them to feel better in themselves so they have the right energy, to then take action in both this and other areas of their lives. If you or anyone you know may benefit from hypnotherapy coaching please feel free to contact me.
Tools for stress
Nine tips for handling stress
What is the story that you are telling yourself and others - is it a story of stress? I teach my clients about looking at their reality filters. There are many ways you can see the same situation and it is always up to you how you choose to spin your story around the things that you experience. I was talking to a lady at the pools with her children the other day, she was telling me that she chose to not go swimming because she has had a migraine for the last three days. I asked her what she does when she gets a warning that it is coming and she said "I try to not take anything until it gets really bad and I can't cope anymore." I asked her way she didn't take Panadol as soon as she feels it coming on and suggested that if she were to catch it right at the beginning she would find it would not progress into a three or four day experience. The lady looked at me and said "true, I hadn't thought of it that way"; her reality filter was stuck in a position that was causing her more stress than she really needed to be experiencing. Year after year many people dread certain parts of the holiday session yet they often choose to do nothing about it and they switch into automatic pilot or survival mode mentally to cope with the stress and year after year nothing changes. If this sounds like you, I would like to invite you to take a step back and redesign what you want to do differently looking at the past as an opportunity to learn and take this holiday season to do things differently. These are my top nine tips to reduce your stress this Christmas and into the New Year.1. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of things that stress you and on another piece of paper write down what you would like to do differently. Then pick out of that list what you are willing to take action on and just do it... you may like to think of it as a new year's resolution list.2. Learn the art of saying "No, I can't do that I'm really too busy...."It is important to put your own needs first, you are going to be in a much better position to help others without feeling pressured to deliver more than you can realistically handle. Part of this is to start to delegate. If there are some things that you can get someone else to be in charge of, that can be an effective way of getting help. Write a list of things that you need help to do so you will feel more organised.3. Schedule yourself in, take some personal time for yourself every day even if it is just going for a walk, a swim, getting a massage meeting with a friend for coffee, listening to your favourite music, dance like no one is watching remember that every day is a gift and you deserve to be nourished and feel happy.4. Remember laughter is a wonderful way of releasing stress. You could get a book from the library that makes you laugh, go on line and look at Youtube for things to make you laugh. Remember when you laugh. You realise positive endorphins that make you feel good all over.5. Talk to yourself in a positive way this may seem quite obvious but I assure you this can be one of the most challenging parts to being more relaxed. Be your own best friend or positive coach. Be gentle with your words and you will find you will like yourself better.6. Take a breathing break by meditating on your breath. This is an empowering exercise that will help to relax you. Simply sit somewhere comfortable and close your eyes, imagine that your lungs and your stomach are like a balloon and every time you breath you feel your lungs and belly expand, hold the breath for a moment and then gently slowly let it go squeezing out the last bit of breath using your stomach muscles helping you to empty your lungs fully so you have room for the next new breath do this for 5-10 minutes it is a very powerful tool to help you to relax.7. Often we stress about things that haven't happened yet and we can fall into the trap of imagining the worst case scenario. Do a mental dress rehearsal of how you would like to see things working out. Not only can it be fun but you are also using your mind. In a powerful way you are hypnotizing yourself into a state of success.8. If you are feeling trapped about the way you are doing things, look for examples of people in your life who are living in the way you would like to live and have a think about what they are doing and saying that is different to what you have been doing and saying. If you wish to be successful copy what they do and you can be successful too. Remember you deserve the best that life has to offer. Enjoy developing yourself into the best version of you.9. Put the past where it belongs in the past. Only bring forward the positive things that you wish do more of. Remember you are not stressed - you have been experiencing stress. You do not have to own it by saying "my stress." It is only something that you have been experiencing, you are able to change your state of mind by thinking in a different way. Start reframing the statements that you are making to yourself and to others into empowering statements that reinforce that empowered positive you as you engage those positive reality filters, I am sure you will feel like an more relaxed and confident you.As a clinical hypnotherapist I find that hypnotherapy coaching is a powerful way to fast track this process effectively, helping people in reinforcing their reality filters.Author: Meredith McCarthy
Phobias
Phobias
As a hypnotherapist I see many people with different phobias wanting to be released from them forever. I get really excited when I see how dramatic the change can be for them.This for me is a perfect example of what a phobia is, how hypnosis and NLP can be used in combination as a powerful tool.The other day I had a client who was petrified of not just spiders, but anything that looked like spiders. Even objects that were around her home that reminded her of spiders would cause her to panic and run away. She came into my office and I noticed immediately her whole demeanor changed. As she sat before me she was so tense, and I listened to her telling me about how she is around spiders. It was consuming her. She was not even able to watch anything on TV that had insects on it.I started talking to her and within the first ten minutes of the session she found herself saying that spiders were cute. She looked at me and with a puzzled look on her face she asked: "what did you just do? I can't believe I just said that!"I use language (NLP) from the time that a person walks through my door and through interpreting that person's story and asking them to think of something from another point of view can really help them to shift strong emotional patterns.Shortly after meeting this woman I met her husband to discuss his fear of public speaking. I spoke to him for a while and he told me that she had come home and found a spider in the house that night and calmly got a jar and a piece of paper and had saved the spider and took it into the garden and set it free. He could not believe his eyes. This was a lady that could not even cross a room if she saw a spider in the past.When I see this huge shift in people I feel so happy because I know that they will be able to relax more.If you feel that you have a phobia like fear of flying, heights or anything else, and you would like help with it call me and I will do my best to help you.I record each session on to CD so it can be used to reinforce each session. To make a booking phone 04 577 1116 or email info_meredithmccarthy.comI have seen many of my clients benefit with how they think about what they want to achieve and begin on their journey that transforms their lives. Whether it is to stop smoking, lose weight, get over a phobia or just feel more confident, hypnotherapy is a fantastic tool.
Practioner information
Meredith McCarthy
Meredith is a full (Professional) member of the NZ Association of Professional Hypnotherapists Inc.She is the current President of the NZAPH and is passionate about helping raise the profile of hypnotherapy in New ZealandShe is a registered Member with the NZ Hypnotherapy Registration Board, and is currently a board member of the NZHRB. She gained her training as a professional through the Osmosis Academy of Hypnotherapy in Auckland and has been practicing in Wellington since 1993. The Osmosis Academy is recognised both nationally and internationally and it meets the same standards that have been put in place by the Hypnotherapy Guild in the USA. Meredith has also had training in motivational interviewing for smoking cessation and has helped many people over the years with their addictions to smoking. She is a Reiki Master/Teacher and runs many workshops that help people gain the skills they need for creating positive change in their lives.
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Lunchtime Meditation GroupTime/ DateEvery Friday 12pm-1pm (1 hour) This group does not run during school holidaysLocation56 Pipitea Street, Thorndon, WellingtonPhone04 473 4478All donations go to charityI have been running meditation retreats for many years and enjoy teaching people how to relax and settle the mind. This is your opportunity to understand the art of mindful thinking. I have over 17 years experience as a hypnotherapist and I enjoy teaching meditation and self hypnosis and hearing how people have benefited. Good meditation practice helps to reduce stress and anxiety.All levels welcome. Stress-less classes at your work...Learn to reduce your stress and feel more balanced.I am a registered clinical hypnotherapist with over 17 years experience and have been teaching self hypnosis and running meditation retreats for many years. Here is your chance to form a group at your workplace and learn these foundation tools that are used by millions throughout the world, helping to reduce stress and anxiety. Create a retreat space at work. All you need to do is gather together your work mates and I can come to you.One hour class $110 inc GST- Introduction to meditationThree one hour classes $330 inc GST- Introduction to the foundations of meditation- Introduction to self hypnosis and post hypnotic suggestion- Putting it into daily practiceHalf day course duration four hours $440 inc GST- Introduction to the foundations of meditation- Introduction to self hypnosis and post hypnotic suggestion- Putting it into daily practice- Covering three styles of meditations
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Clinic appointmentsI offer one on one coaching sessions.It is recommend you start with a 90 min session, then following your session up with a number of one hour sessions on a weekly or fortnightly basis to help you through this process and reinforce the positive changes that you have made. Most people may have between three to five coaching sessions.Cost30 minute session $55.0060 minute session $110.0090 minute session $165.00Half day coaching session available 3 hours $300.00Full day coaching session available 7 hours $700.00This is tailored to your individual needsAll prices include GST
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The Harbour City Tower29 Brandon StreetLevel 4, Suit 409WellingtonThe Manuka Health Center11 Hector Street PetoneClinic hoursMonday: Petone 9:00am - 5:00pmTuesday to Thursday: Wellington 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFriday: Wellington 10:00 am - 8:00 pm(closed Saturday - Sunday)ph 04 577 1116 cell 027 699 3950info_meredithmccarthy.comwww.the wellingtonanxietyclinic.co.nz
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