My approach

I'm Lynne Somerville a qualified, professional Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist working throughout Brighton and Hove and East Sussex.

I am trained based on cutting edge research from psychology and neurobiology. I use solution-focused therapy, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and elements of cognitive behavioural therapy to achieve your goals in the fastest, most effective manner. I also work from a Human Givens perspective. View the video to find out more.....

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I am a validated member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and bound by their code of ethics. I also work as a supervisor on a diploma course in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy run out of Brighton University. I am experienced in treating a wide range of issues.

What this all means is that this is a branch of therapy that has been around for a long time but not widely known about. As everything does, hypnotherapy has developed in various ways and you can get very different results depending on the training and the individual therapist. The Uncommon Knowledge training course has evolved to teach the most effective framework for using Psychotherapy to establish what change you would like from the session, why you have been unsuccessful yourself so far.

What experience and skills you have to make the change naturally. It then teaches the use of indirect hypnotherapy ( the client can not be made to do anything they disagree with or don't know about) which is used to begin the change in the session and make it feel increasingly automatic and natural when you leave. Whatever your problem, hypnotherapy can benefit you, whether you need to overcome a major problem or simply need to learn how to relax.

As the therapist I feel strongly about NOT influencing people's lives and decisions. We are all individuals and I believe that you should not be influenced especially when you are in a vulnerable state of mind as many clients are. I strive only to illuminate to the client the patterns of their behaviour and to give them the option of how to change the things they wish to in hypnosis and in their life.

My area of interest since a young age has been to find a solution to change parts of human behaviour.  I thoroughly enjoy helping people achieve the changes they really want to make and am glad to have found a very effective way of doing so.