Odete Daniel, Counselling Cognitive Hypnotherapy, NLP Practitioner

Odete Daniel, Counselling Cognitive Hypnotherapy, NLP Practitioner I also offer a holistic approach to those interested.

I enjoy supporting individuals to achieve the change they are looking for by providing tools that can assist you to move to where you want to be, assisting as you move forward on your journey.

Neuroplasticity is the whole pointHere's the thing nobody mentions about "rewiring your brain" — it's not a metaphor. It...
08/09/2026

Neuroplasticity is the whole point

Here's the thing nobody mentions about "rewiring your brain" — it's not a metaphor. It's mechanical.

Neuroplasticity is your brain's ability to physically change based on repeated experience. Every time you practise a thought pattern, a response, a way of reacting to stress, you're strengthening the neural pathway underneath it — like a path through grass getting more worn the more it's walked. Do it enough times, and it becomes the default route your brain takes without you deciding to.

That cuts both ways. It's exactly how anxious spirals get so automatic — years of walking the same path. But it's also exactly why change is possible: a new, calmer response, practised repeatedly, becomes its own well-worn path too. The brain doesn't know the difference between "old pattern" and "new pattern" — it just reinforces whatever gets repeated.

This is why one session, however good, rarely undoes years of a different pattern on its own. It's not that the work didn't land. It's that a single walk down a new path doesn't erase the old one — repetition does.

It's also exactly why the 50-minute sessions are built around consistency rather than intensity. Weekly, steady, cumulative — that's how a new path actually gets worn in.

This is why the steady, week-after-week sessions exist.

The short version of a longer answerI wrote a longer post a little while back about why sessions come in three lengths, ...
08/09/2026

The short version of a longer answer

I wrote a longer post a little while back about why sessions come in three lengths, not one. If you missed it, here's the short version.

50 minutes — £90. Hypnotherapy, breath work, take-home regulation exercises. The steady, week-after-week kind of work.

2 hours — £190. Hypnotherapy, breath work, and a full sound bath. Long enough for the body to catch up with the mind, not just the mind to understand something.

2.5 hours — £250. The deep session. Hypnotherapy, energy healing, sound. For when you're ready to properly look at something, not just talk around it.

Three different jobs, not three tiers of "how serious you are." Plenty of people start at 50 minutes and never need more. Plenty of people need the longer session first, before weekly work even makes sense.

If you're still weighing it up, that's exactly what the free call is for — no pressure, just a straight answer.

50 min / £90 · 2 hrs / £190 · 2.5 hrs / £250. Not sure which is yours? Free 30-min call.

Honest answer: it depends, and anyone who gives you a fixed number before meeting you is guessing.It depends on what's g...
07/09/2026

Honest answer: it depends, and anyone who gives you a fixed number before meeting you is guessing.

It depends on what's going on, how long it's been building, whether it's one specific issue (a phobia, an upcoming event) or something more woven into daily life (chronic anxiety, long-term sleep issues, burnout). Some things shift meaningfully in a handful of sessions. Others are a longer, steadier process — and that's not a failure of the work, it's just the nature of unpicking something that took years to build.

What I won't do is sell you a fixed package upfront before I actually know what we're dealing with. Instead, this usually gets discussed openly either on the free consult call or after the first proper session, once there's a clearer picture of what you're working with and how you're responding to the work.

If you want a number before you book anything, ask me directly — I'd rather give you an honest "it depends, and here's why" than a confident number I've made up.

Ask this exact question on the free 30-minute call — I'll give you a straight answer.

January isn't for resolutions, it's for restCaption:Every January, the same list appears everywhere: new gym, new diet, ...
07/09/2026

January isn't for resolutions, it's for rest

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Every January, the same list appears everywhere: new gym, new diet, new five-year plan, new version of yourself by February. And every January, most of those lists quietly disappear by week three.

Here's a different way to think about it. A resolution is a decision made by your prefrontal cortex — the calm, logical, forward-planning part of your brain. But the follow-through happens in a nervous system that might still be running on fumes from December, bracing from a year that didn't let up much, running low on the actual resources needed to sustain a new habit.

You can't will your way past a depleted nervous system with a good enough goal.

So before you write the list — or instead of it — the more useful question might be: what would it take to actually feel rested first? Not "productive rest," not a spa day as a reward for surviving the year. Actual regulation. A nervous system that isn't still braced can build new habits far more easily than one that's exhausted and being asked to try harder.

Start there, and see what changes on its own.

What would "starting the year well" look like if it didn't involve a list?

Let's take the mystery out of this one, because "sound bath" can sound like a lot before you've experienced it.You lie d...
06/09/2026

Let's take the mystery out of this one, because "sound bath" can sound like a lot before you've experienced it.

You lie down. There's no water involved — the "bath" is the sound washing over you. I use instruments like gongs and singing bowls, which produce sustained, layered tones and resonant frequencies rather than a melody you'd hum along to. You're not meant to "get" anything from it intellectually. You just let it move through the room, and through you.

The effect is closer to what happens when you finally sit down after a long day and your shoulders drop half an inch without you deciding to relax them. Sustained, textured sound gives the nervous system something steady to settle into — no lyrics to follow, no rhythm to keep up with, nothing required of you at all.

That's the actual mechanism: not magic, just a body finally being given permission to stop bracing, with sound as the cue.

It's included as part of the 2-hour session, after the hypnotherapy work — deliberately, not by accident. More on why tomorrow.

The full sound bath is part of the 2-hour session — here's why it's included.

What actually happens on the free 30-minute callI get asked this a lot, so here's the honest version — no marketing glos...
06/09/2026

What actually happens on the free 30-minute call

I get asked this a lot, so here's the honest version — no marketing gloss.

You book a slot. We get on a call, video or phone, whichever you prefer. There's no script, no sales pitch, no pressure to book anything by the end of it.

I ask what's actually going on — not a form to fill in, just a real conversation. What's been happening, how long it's been going on, what you've already tried, what you're hoping is different on the other side of this.

Then I tell you, honestly, what I think would help. Sometimes that's the 50-minute weekly sessions. Sometimes it's the longer 2-hour or 2.5-hour work. And sometimes — genuinely — it's "I don't think I'm the right person for this, here's who might be," or "this sounds like something to bring to your GP first."

That last option doesn't come up often, but when it does, I'll say it. This call exists so you don't have to guess your way into the wrong session, or talk yourself out of the right one.

Twenty minutes to ask questions. No obligation either way.

Book the free 30-minute call — link in bio.

Meet your "protector" partIf you've ever thought "I know this anxiety isn't rational, but I can't switch it off" — you'r...
04/09/2026

Meet your "protector" part

If you've ever thought "I know this anxiety isn't rational, but I can't switch it off" — you're not fighting yourself. You're fighting a part of yourself that thinks it's helping.

In cognitive hypnotherapy, we sometimes work with the idea of "parts" — not multiple personalities, just the different roles your mind plays depending on the situation. The part that triggers your anxiety before a big meeting, or won't let you fully relax on holiday, or replays an awkward conversation on a loop at 2am — that part isn't trying to ruin your life. It's trying to protect you from something. Rejection. Failure. Being caught off guard.

The trouble is, it learned its job a long time ago, in a different context, and nobody's told it the job's changed.

So instead of trying to silence or override that part — which usually just makes it shout louder — the work is about understanding what it's actually trying to protect you from, and showing it a better way to do that job. Not fighting it. Negotiating with it.

Most people are surprised how much calmer things get once the "protector" feels heard instead of overridden.

What does your protector part usually sound like? Comment below.

The client who hadn't flown in six yearsA few years ago, someone came to me who hadn't been on a plane since a bad fligh...
04/09/2026

The client who hadn't flown in six years

A few years ago, someone came to me who hadn't been on a plane since a bad flight through turbulence. Not "a bit nervous about flying" — hadn't flown at all. Six years of holidays planned around ferries and long drives, and a standing excuse for every wedding abroad.

The flight itself hadn't been dangerous. But somewhere in that hour of turbulence, their nervous system had learned a rule: flying means losing control, and losing control means danger. And once that rule is written, it doesn't need logic to keep running — it just needs a boarding gate.

We didn't spend the work re-living the flight in vivid detail. That's not the point, and it's not necessary. Using timeline technique, we visited that moment from a safe emotional distance — enough to understand where the rule had been written, without reactivating the fear that came with it. Then we did the quieter work: teaching the nervous system a different, calmer response to the idea of being somewhere it can't just "get off."

They flew to a wedding in Portugal the following spring. Not fearless — just no longer governed by it.

This is a composite story, not one specific client, told to protect privacy while showing how the work actually goes.

Fear of flying holding your holidays hostage? Let's talk.

Someone snaps at a colleague over a typo. A missed text turns into a spiral of "they're angry with me." A perfectly safe...
04/09/2026

Someone snaps at a colleague over a typo. A missed text turns into a spiral of "they're angry with me." A perfectly safe presentation feels like a threat to your life.

None of that is you being dramatic. It's your amygdala — a small, almond-shaped structure in the brain — doing exactly what it evolved to do.

The amygdala's job is to scan for danger, fast, before your slower, rational brain even gets a vote. When it decides something is a threat, it can override logical thought entirely. That's an amygdala hijack — your emotional brain taking the wheel before your thinking brain has finished reading the map.

The problem is, it can't always tell the difference between a tiger and a Tuesday morning inbox.

This is exactly why hypnotherapy doesn't try to talk you out of anxiety with logic alone. Logic is a prefrontal cortex tool — and the prefrontal cortex isn't the part in charge during a hijack. Hypnotherapy works with the emotional brain directly, in the language it actually listens to.

You're not overreacting. You're not broken. You're running very old software in a very modern world.

Save this for the next time someone tells you to "just calm down."

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