Steph McGee Hypnotherapy

26/06/2025

🚨‼️Anxiety is our brain’s smoke alarm.
And sometimes, it goes off even when there’s no real fire, just some overcooked toast..again (just me then?)

Our brain has a special region called the amygdala, an almond-shaped part that’s constantly scanning for danger. It’s fast, emotional, and very, very cautious.

When it senses a threat, real or imagined, it triggers our body’s ‘fight or flight’ response, you know the feeling, that feeling of dread and racing heart, tense muscles, short breaths, and that familiar surge of adrenaline. And we feel…well, yuck!

🚨 That’s anxiety. It’s our survival system trying to protect us.

The problem?
Our amygdala is our smoke alarm and it doesn’t know the difference between the burnt toast and our house being on fire.
It can even set off the fire alarm if we are having a tough conversation or a we are stuck in a traffic jam,
Anything might feel an emergency.

🧠 Meanwhile, our prefrontal cortex, the calm, logical part of our brain, is the clever bit, it is slower to respond and it it is able to think clearly even though the amygdala appears to be producing that high-pitched scream of our smoke alarm . Luckily, it is able to assess the situation rationally.

✨ But here’s the hopeful part, we can strengthen our prefrontal cortex through things like mindfulness, hypnotherapy, and deep breathing techniques. Would you like to know more about Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH)

SFH isn’t about ‘getting rid of’ anxiety. It’s about teaching our alarm system when to take a breath.

Because we don’t need to fight our brain, we just need to help it feel safe.

And we’re here for that. Contact your local
for a chat.

06/01/2023

I am amazed they only received 3 opinions on this, I don't know any Hypnotherapist who haven't fallen in love with online working - we are all at it!...to the point that now? You have to look quite hard to find anyone who's working in person! BUT on the upside, you can work with ANYONE, ANYWHERE in the world. So casting your net out for the right therapist has now gone from fishing in a little pond to the wide open the sea 🧜‍♀️ And sorry about the fishing metaphor - no idea where that came from 😆 The sportiest I get is

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05/04/2022

Nina (not her real name) wanted a calm & natural birth. And who doesn't? Right?!
But when she first found me? She was juggling a bunch of personal stuff, full of self doubt & there was yet another wave of covid flooding in.
She was feeling a level of anxiety that just wan't HER.
After signing up for my group hypnobirthing course she dived in for her 30 min 1:1.
It's ASTONISHING how much we can cover in 30mins.
Her anxiety dropped. She had a plan. And she started moving forward.
Feeling amazing through her pregnancy. Even the choice towards an induction wasn't enough to throw her off course. She had more support. More hypnosis. More positive induction preparation.
Her anxiety dropped. She made a plan. She started moving forward.

Autonomous Hypnobirthing is different. Hypnosis for birth is the real deal.