Hi and thank you for taking the time to visit our website. I’m Sue Peckham and I’m a professional, full-time consultant hypnotherapist here at Hampshire Hypnotherapy Centre.
It’s really important for you to make the right choice of therapist when you’re considering seeking professional therapy so I hope you’ll find it helpful if I just tell you a bit about myself.
About 12 years ago I found myself struggling to stay in a difficult marriage and after 4 years of indecision and constant trying, realised it was time to stop trying and leave for good. It was a really difficult thing to do as I had 2 wonderful sons who, although no longer at school and independent, were still living at home. (It’s so hard to put yourself first when you’re a MUM, isn’t it?). During this time I became more and more withdrawn and I piled on a massive amount of weight as I found comfort in food. My self esteem could not have been much lower. I was working in a school at the time and must have driven my boss mad as some days I was so tearful or prone to bursts of anger that he never knew from one day to the next which ‘Sue’ was going to be coming to work!
I lost all interest in socialising, my health, my job and I spent hours on the internet shopping and running up huge credit card bills. I didn’t realise just how low a point I’d reached personally until I looked in the mirror one day and just didn’t recognise the person looking back at me. I had put on 3 1/2 stone and I looked so miserable.
I went to see my GP who prescribed a short course of antidepressants and some counselling and I felt a little better for a while but inside I still felt out of control most of the time and very scared of the future. I divorced and moved in with my parents, took an extra part-time job to try and make ends meet and for a few months felt very depressed. I felt like I’d failed and let everyone down. The guilt was overwhelming.
Most of my working life had been spent helping children with emotional and behavioural problems and I had studied psychology for many years. I realised that I needed professional help to recover from my depression and low self esteem. I began to look for a therapy that could help me. It was during this time that I began training with the HCB and qualified as a hypnotherapist and hypno-analysist. As part of my training I went through hypno-analysis myself and the results of this personal therapy really did change my life.
I am now far more content with everything in my life and wake up each morning looking forward to the day ahead. I love my work, have a great home, fabulous friends, and have never been happier. But I think the thing that gives me the most happiness is that my sons are proud of me and we have such wonderful, happy, times together. They have commented that I am very different to the unhappy mum they used to see.
Our childhood experiences and the bottled up emotions attached to them have such a profound effect on the ‘grown-up’ we become. We carry around so much pain that we are not consciously aware of and it makes it difficult for us to behave in a rational way when that pain is being triggered all over again by events in our adult life. Hypno-analysis helps us to uncover the cause and get rid of any bottled up emotion still trapped inside us. I was so surprised at the relief I felt almost immediately after finishing my therapy. Since then I have just continued to feel better and better.
This therapy usually only takes between 6 to 12 sessions (Everyone is different so it’s difficult to predict the exact number of sessions that will be needed). The sessions are usually about a week apart so it does require a commitment on your part for a couple of months but it is really worth it. Especially when you consider that traditional counselling or psychotherapy can take years to complete!
So if you want help with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, weight loss/control, anorexia, bulimia, sexual or relationship problems or indeed any of the problems listed on our symptoms page, please give me a call at any time. I guarantee that it will be the best decision you’ve made and you’ll wish you’d done it months ago.
There are times when we feel so bad about ourselves that we feel we don’t deserve anything better but you deserve to feel happier, more content and more confident and I can help you achieve that with hypnotherapy and hypno-analysis.
Just picking up the phone and calling me or dropping me an e mail can make you feel better so why wait? Do it today and together we can get rid of your unwanted symptoms for good.
I look forward to hearing from you and to meeting soon.
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