TranceForm Hypnosis

02/11/2026

This November, we’re talking about men’s mental health with straight answers.

Men make up just over a third of referrals to NHS talking therapies. In Healthwatch research, only one in five men said they’d self-refer if they were struggling.

It isn’t that men don’t struggle. It’s that asking for help can feel awkward, unfamiliar, or like admitting something. And plenty of men simply don’t know what happens if they do ask: what they’d be expected to say, who would hear it, what it would involve.

So for the rest of November, we’ll be answering those questions plainly:
Covering things like:
- How stress shows up in the body, and why “just relax” isn't working
- What the job can do to the nervous system, for emergency service and forces families
- How to start the conversation, with yourself or with someone you’re worried about
- What actually happens in a hypnotherapy session, and what doesn’t

If you’re a man who’s been getting on with it for a long time, this is for you. If you love one, it’s for you too.

No pressure. Just information.

If you need to talk to someone right now: Samaritans 116 123 (free, 24 hours) or CALM 0800 58 58 58 (5pm to midnight, every day). In an emergency, call 999.

01/11/2026

November is well known for Movember, an annual global charity campaign to raise awareness and funds for key men's health issues, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and su***de prevention.

This November my social media will focus on men's health from a mental health perspective. Addressing some of the issues I might see more often from men, or challenges they face that hypnosis can help with.

28/10/2026

It’s Halloween week still, so let’s talk about the service that sometimes makes people raise an eyebrow.

Past Life Regression.

You probably have a view already. Fascinating? Nonsense? A bit of both?

So here’s some information to help you decide.

In a past life regression session, you’re guided into a deeply relaxed, focused state of hypnosis and invited to explore whatever images, scenes and feelings arise. Often that’s a vivid story: a place, a time, a person who isn’t quite you.

What does it mean?
Well in reality that’s genuinely up to you.

Some people experience it as memory, some as imagination or symbolism and some as an absorbing experience they simply can’t explain.

You aren't asked to believe anything, and we don’t claim to prove anything about past lives. What we offer is a safe, guided space to explore, tailored to you.

This is an exploratory experience, not a treatment for a medical or mental health condition. If you’re looking for support with anxiety, trauma or a fear, we offer other approaches for that. Although some people do find it gives some help for them.

But if you’re curious, you’re exactly who it’s for. Bring an open mind.

Sceptic, believer, or somewhere in between? Tell us below.

Get in touch for a confidential chat.

27/10/2026

Some people love being scared this week. For others, it’s there every day.

Halloween is the one week of the year we choose to be frightened. Haunted houses. Horror films. Fake spiders in every shop window.
This is designed to be fun, and it is when you’re the one in control.

But for plenty of people, fear isn’t seasonal. It’s the spider they can’t share a room with. The flight they’ve turned down. The phone call they’ve put off for a week. The dark, the dentist, the lift, the motorway...

Here’s some information about fear:

1) It serves as a protection system. Its job is to keep you safe, and it’s very good at it. Sometimes it learns the wrong lesson and keeps sounding the alarm long after the danger has gone, or when there was never real danger at all.

2) Avoidance often keeps it going. Every time you steer around the fear, your brain takes it as proof that the fear was justified. So it grows, the neural pathways get stronger.

3) Fears aren’t always the ones you’d expect. Beyond the classics (water, flying, spiders, snakes, the dark), people tell us about fear of phone calls, commitment, failure, and even success.

At Tranceform Hypnosis, hypnotherapy can work with fears and phobias, guiding you into a relaxed, focused state where the subconscious mind is more receptive to change. Every session is tailored to the individual, because your fear is from your experiences.

This Halloween, enjoy the scares you chose.
And if there’s one you didn’t, get in touch 01244 915 745

22/10/2026

After listening to Spencer Greenberg on a podcast recently I think it is worth sharing some of the results for what current research is actually evidencing.
His latest work has been considering self help approaches and his pyramid showcases where the research rests.
Definitely an interesting book which consolidates many different approaches and suggests further reading if certain techniques work for you. This pyramid highlights what research is showing...enjoy! Which of these have you tried and had success with?

82 popular self-help techniques ranked by how strongly the research supports them — by ClearerThinking.org.

21/10/2026

Spencer Greenberg is a mathematician, founder, CEO & creator of Clearerthinking.org.
After listening to him on a recent podcast i thought i would share his intrinsic values test.
Values are what we consider to be important but modern research is revealing more and more about how our values interact and operate in our psyche.
Greenberg argues that intrinsic values are those we hold as being the most important. The ones we value for valuing sake!
In hypnosis we consider values as being those things we would make effort to achieve and that they can be motivated towards what we want or away from what we do not want. This test gives you some insight into what your most important values are but not what actions you take to achieve them.
If you want to explore achieving success in alignment with your values, get in touch.

https://buff.ly/jWu8TvF

Explore and discover your intrinsic values, the foundation for making meaningful and authentic life choices.

14/10/2026

Day 10: Did You Know (Sleep edition)...
..your brain replays your day while you sleep to decide what to keep?

In our last fact I mentioned the importance of REM. Well, during sleep particularly during the transition between REM and non-REM stages, the hippocampus replays patterns of neural activity from the day. It’s essentially running a review, deciding which experiences to consolidate into long-term memory and which to let fade.

Research from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke confirms that memory consolidation most likely requires both non-REM and REM sleep. Neither alone is sufficient. The brain needs the full architecture of a proper night’s sleep to do this work well.

So what does this mean for hypnotherapy?

When hypnotherapy helps establish new patterns such as calmer responses, healthier associations and updated beliefs the quality sleep consolidates those changes at a neural level. Hypnotherapy and good sleep are not separate interventions. They work together and that's why we always recommend good rest following a session.

13/10/2026

Don't forget that if you have a habit you no longer want, hypnosis can help. From smoking, caffeine and alcohol to nail biting and OCD. The combination of techniques we offer at Tranceform can help.

Get booked in to find out how, and look forward to a new way of doing things!

09/10/2026

Day 9: Did You Know (sleep edition)...
..your best and most vivid dreams happen just before you wake up?

Why is that?
REM sleep is when the most vivid dreams occur. Different factors can influence the intensity but it is during that REM period your brain is most active and that is why. Sleep doesn’t deliver REM evenly across the night, though. Early cycles hold very little REM, and REM periods stretch longer as the night goes on. That’s why the dreams you remember tend to be the last ones before you wake. Sleep cycles throughout the night in 90-120 minute intervals ad most REM occurs in the early hours of the day, before waking.

This matters for more than dream recall. REM sleep is the stage during which the brain processes emotionally charged experiences, essentially running them through a kind of nightly emotional editing suite, stripping away some of the distress while retaining the memory. Cutting sleep short, even by an hour, disproportionately reduces this final, REM-rich phase.

For people carrying unprocessed emotion such as anxiety, grief, or trauma, REM sleep is doing some of the brain’s most important healing work. Protecting sleep length and quality isn’t just good advice. It’s therapeutic!
Hypnosis can help processing and aid quality sleep. Get in touch if sleep issues are impacting your life.

06/10/2026

Day 8: Did You Know (Your Sleep edition)...
..alcohol might help you fall asleep but it adversely affects the rest of your night?

Alcohol is one of the most widely used sleep aids in the UK. And it is understandable when you know that It depresses the central nervous system, reducing the time it takes to fall asleep.

But, the effects are not so positive when you unravel the rest. After you fall asleep alcohol suppresses REM sleep and causes more awakenings in the second half of the night.

REM sleep is when emotional memories are processed, stress hormones are regulated, and the brain consolidates learning. Suppress it consistently and the effects accumulate: low mood, heightened anxiety, difficulty concentrating, emotional reactivity, all of which make the next night's sleep harder too.

Many people using alcohol to manage anxiety or aid sleep are caught in a cycle where each solution makes the underlying problem worse.
It is not a healthy solution.
Hypnotherapy addresses both ends of that loop. It addresses the anxiety driving the behaviour, and the sleep disruption sustaining it.