Hypnotherapy for Stress Management

Helping Executives, leaders, and high-performing professionals to find balance and relief.

Do You Feel Your Life is Not Manageable Anymore?

It can feel tough to deal with everything on your plate when too much is happening in life. Are you stressed out, overwhelmed and running on autopilot?

Maybe you are overloaded and can’t keep up with the many requests, pings, and messages. Your calendar may at times be triple booked and you are working long hours to get on top of everything.

Maybe you have just been promoted, started a new job or took on a new project and feel out of your depth or constantly stretched to meet your deadlines.

Various responsibilities at home and at work weigh heavily on your shoulders and you may feel guilty for not doing more for work and for letting your family down. 

You have missed major milestones in the lives of people close to you and have not spoken or messaged friends or family in a while, because you are too busy. 

You get more duties poured onto your agenda and you don’t know how to say ‘No’. 
It is more than crunch time. You have stopped exercising or doing things you enjoy because you don’t have time.
• You can’t switch off and sleep poorly as a result.
• You want things to change but you don’t know how.
• You can’t stop working.
• You may have gained or lost weight because you are so nervous and sick to your stomach. 
• You are overeating, drinking, vaping, or smoking to keep working or to calm down and chill-out. 

If any of this sounds true for you, I want you to know that what you are experiencing is a sign of our time. Many people in your circumstances need support considering the pressure and challenges you are facing. You may think you are not important, or don’t have time, but you do not need to respond to all requests around the clock. You don’t have to be always ON. There is a time to look after yourself.

Hypnotherapy for Stress Management Can Help You to Get Your Life Back

Life can be very different. Imagine a life where you could…
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• Set your focus and achieve your desired goals.
• Develop a sense of good enough. 
• Delegate and let go with ease.
• Confidently say ‘No’ to requests and be comfortable.
• Renegotiate timelines and feel good about it.
• Switch off, relax and do what you love.

Imagine as you stand on your balcony enjoying the morning sun you realise how far you have come. You now consciously decide what you put on your agenda instead of scrambling with whatever your agenda throws at you. You smile as you put on your trainers and go for a run in the fresh air. 

Imagine an evening when you shut down your laptop and grab your bag, you look back at the day with satisfaction. You have accomplished what you set out to do and are now heading off to the city for dinner and drinks with friends.

You get out of your car and walk to the childcare centre. As your little one runs towards you, you realise that you have now a life that you are not only comfortable with but proud of.

While you stretch out in your lounge enjoying a glass of wine rather than needing one, you now relax although not everything has been completed.

Find Balance And Create The Lifestyle You Are Happy With

Stress Management helps you to move towards your ideal life where you know what to focus on and how to create the work-life-balance that is right for you, so that you feel you have enough of everything.

 You will develop effective skills you need to cope and deal with all of your stress and discover things about yourself that you haven’t realized before.

You will identify the drivers behind your actions and what makes you tick so that you can use that for your benefit in a way that feels natural to you.

Even if you are not usually comfortable opening up to people, Hypnotherapy for Stress can be a way out of overload.

I have helped Executives, senior managers, and professionals to find effective ways to deal with their overload so that they could focus on their priorities, create work-life balance and make space for what is really important to them.

Sabine Lehner is a trained hypnotherapist. She offers hypnotherapy for stress management.

Hypnotherapy For Stress Management

How does it work?

In 45–50-minute, online one-on-one sessions we work through a structured flow of steps,  with individual interventions tailored to you.

Hypnotherapy for Stress Management entails conscious conversations for objective setting, planning and reflection. The other part is hypnosis to identify the triggers for your stress and you will be guided to imagine and experience what the life you want looks and feels like.

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Pre-talk

We start your Stress Management with a free 30-minute consultation so that you get to know me, I get a first understanding of your situation and I can create a preliminary treatment plan for you. In preparation for the consult and the following steps I will share forms and adequate questionnaires with you to fill-in. I will also give you initial helpful tools to help you relax, anchor your focus and improve your sleep. In this pre-talk we will only engage in a conscious conversation.

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Explore & Describe

In this step in the first session, you describe your situation around your stress and potential unwanted habits that you use to chill out. We start working with the questionnaire and we will record your feelings, thoughts and behaviours in more depth as well as explore your personal history. You will identify your triggers, automatic behaviours and habits that are detrimental, so that you get a good understanding of your autopilot and can work towards dropping what no longer serves you.  

For the path forward you will identify the goals and outcomes you want to achieve such as being able to relax, quit vaping, start exercising, reduce drinking etc. You will start here to experience therapy under hypnosis to take the first steps towards altering thoughts, feelings and behaviours in a state of relaxation and focused attention. 

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Build Your Foundation

In this step you will start building your skills to deal with stressful situations and break the stress cycle so that you can stay calmer, focused and more at ease. This will also help you to minimise relief seeking in detrimental habits. 
This is the foundation for subsequent interventions and paves the way to rewire your brain away from being on autopilot and automatic behaviours to taking control and making conscious choices.

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Understand & Design

In this part you will experience a number of hypnotherapy interventions to connect to your subconscious and uncover the root cause of your stress. You will identify what drives you, what you subconsciously want to achieve but also what you are trying to avoid.

You will also realise that the same mechanisms that stress you have helped and pushed you forward to great success, only now things spin out of control and your drivers go to unmanageable overdrive. You will recognise that a great drive and an achiever’s mindset propel you forward to success when set to the right level.

You will design what a successful life looks like for you, and what it means to have enough of everything, of work, relationships, families, hobbies, time to yourself and so on. You will also review how much of the life you want overlaps with the one you have got, what you want to keep and what you want to change to get there.

As part of this stage, you will resolve inner conflict, successfully dissolve self-doubt, resolve any self-beliefs that get in your way, limit or derail you and build up your confidence to navigate you to your ideal life.

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Create & Re-enforce

You are now on your way to living your new life, with confidence in your abilities and beneficial emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Success comes with repetition and reinforcement of the new rewiring of your brain which over time feels more and more natural and becomes automatic as if it has always been this way.

You take action and see how the newly thoughts and feelings emerge in day-to-day situations. You move forward with deciding on which actions to take what to focus on, what to delegate, how to relax and let go or go after what you really want.  

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Hypnotherapy For Stress Management FAQs

What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that uses counselling and psychotherapy tools under hypnosis for you to most effectively deal with your stress. It is specifically aiming to help you build your work-life balance, make life decisions on what is important in your life, how you want to live and what you want to work so that you enjoy what you are doing. It also helps you to resolve inner conflict and to alter beliefs that gear you up into overdrive or that hold you back so that you can move forward and achieve your goals and desired life.

The reputation of hypnosis has suffered in the past due to the so-called stage hypnosis where people were manipulated into doing all sorts of embarrassing things, so you might therefore also think of a pendulum swinging woo-woo hypnotist. Rest assured, I don’t have a pendulum and I am as far from esoteric, woo-woo magic and mind control as it gets. In fact, research and neuroscience show that Hypnosis is a powerful tool to change the activity level in certain areas of the brain and influence how the mind controls perception and the mind-body connection. It can positively change your awareness, thinking, beliefs, emotions, and behaviours.

How does Hypnotherapy work?
Hypnotherapy alters the thinking without thinking – the automatic thoughts and feelings that emerge in your mind and trigger stress behaviours and unwanted habits. You learn how to relieve that stress and tension, stay calm and unwind so that you do not need anything to help you relax or sleep. There is no loss of control or mind control of any sort involved, as all hypnosis is self-hypnosis that you learn to enter at will with my guidance.

Hypnotherapy works with a trance state that is similar to an everyday human experience such as immersing yourself in a good book or watching a film, going for a run, driving or walking somewhere without the recollection of how you got to your destination. In trance you are in a state of focussed attention, where you are immersed in your inner world, while you can still hear and respond.

A Hypnotherapy session always starts with a conscious conversation on how you are feeling. We may also use assessments to determine progress, reconnect to what happened since the last session as well as what the focus is for the current session. During the following hypnosis you enter a state of relaxation and inner concentration and connect with your subconscious. You can still hear, respond and you are in control. We work to meet your needs and achieve the set session objectives and overall goal by e.g., identifying the root causes and events that fire your stress cycle to then change those feelings and thoughts and replace automatic behaviours.

You may also update your beliefs or find solutions to big life challenges by tapping into your inner creativity.

When is Hypnotherapy for Stress Management needed?
As you may have experienced yourself, simply knowing something cognitively does not necessarily mean you can control your habits or emotions such as fear of not being good enough, missing out or being rejected. With Stress Management you update your autopilot of go-to thoughts and automatic behaviours while avoiding or minimising an inner resistance. In other words, some people say to me “I can’t help myself, I can’t stop doing what I am doing.” The goal here is to effectively alter your beliefs and thoughts in a way that they then feel natural and right to you, so that you avoid or minimise having to fight battles with yourself or working against your instincts of what is right or wrong.
How long does Hypnotherapy for Stress Management take?
The duration of the treatment and number of required sessions is individual depending on your situation and the level of your stress. As Hypnotherapy is considered a highly effective brief therapy, most treatments entail between 6-12 sessions. Most clients experience benefits of the treatment after the first 1-2 weeks.
How often should I have a session for Stress Management?
One session every week or every other week is recommended to build on each other, continuously work towards outcomes and get the most out of the sessions for effectively relearning and rewiring your brain.

Get Started And Find Balance

Ready to make the first step to turn things around and get on top of the overwhelm? 
If you are feeling stressed out, running on autopilot, if it is all too much and life is not manageable anymore Stress Management may help.

Start now to kick habits, be excited and to create the life you want. During your free online consultation you can share what’s going on for you and we can explore how I can help.