Crookes Hypnotherapy Founding Principles
Crookes Hypnotherapy has two founding principles:
Effective, Evidence-Based Therapy
I believe in research, statistics, and science, ensuring my practice is informed by credible evidence. I'll assess the therapy's effectiveness within two or three sessions, and if needed, help you find alternative support.
Sensible Prices
Sessions start at £35, showing that quality mental health support can be affordable. Wherever you seek help, I strongly encourage you to always check your therapist’s training, affiliations, and experience for proper care.
And the principles in more detail…
Effective, evidence-based therapy.
Why? Because I am an experimentalist. Which means that I believe in the value of independent research, statistics, and science - rather than mere opinion or traditional dogma. It’s good for the reader to know that clinical hypnosis is supported by much scientific evidence. And personally, I try to keep my ideas, approach, and practice informed by credible research, something I publicly display on my professional reading list. Working with me is not guaranteed to help you, but consider it an experiment: we can try, see if it’s useful, and go from there. You, the client, should know if the work together is helpful or not within two or three sessions., and I am happy to openly discuss this with you. Hypnosis cannot help everyone; and where I cannot help, I will aim to find someone or some service that can help. There is nothing worse than a therapist who does not humbly accept the limits to their own ability, for all practitioners have them. Whether they realise it or not is a different matter.
2. Sensible prices.
Why? Because many individuals are on long NHS waiting lists and usually wait months, perhaps even years, to be seen. Which means that many people rightly turn to the private sector - to people like myself. But far too often people are priced out of mental health support by practitioners who overcharge for their services. I offer sessions from £35, and I don’t believe the myth that lower prices equals a poorer service, though sometimes it might. It is very important for service users do their homework on their therapists. And how do I do my homework on good therapists? Good therapy service providers should make it clear where they were trained, what the quality of this training was, what professional organisations they are registered with, how much experience they have, and why they do the work they do.
It’s all about returning the favour of effective mental health support I was lucky enough to receive.
Ten years ago I received hypnotherapy in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy, and found it very helpful. As a teenager I struggled with anxiety, confidence, direction, and strong negative emotions.
By working with a compassionate and competent therapist, I learned to understand myself, my own experiences of mental health, and how to move forward in a positive way. I was lucky. Not only was this therapist skilled, they were also financially accessible. That is why I strive to keep my prices low, and my services effective.
And since then, both as a student and a working professional, I have continued to engage with the same therapist, both for ongoing emotional support and professional development in the trade.
When therapy is done right it can be life-changing. And an experience of competent therapy helps me to be an effective therapist today. That’s why Crookes Hypnotherapy exists: to support sound mental health in the community.