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Psychological Aptitude & Peak Performance

WELCOME

Welcome to Rhett Haverly Wellbeing & Hypnosis

Counselling combined with strategic, hypnotic and therapeutic relaxation, are processes by which you can begin to slip through the cracks of your daily existence and into a rich and satisfying life.  

The treatment focus is entirely centred around the needs that you present and you and you alone determine the path forward toward your desired outcome.

Confidential and professional life counsel, whether for the purpose of improving performance or settling past issues, is an invaluable personal investment.

Counselling, undertaken in a progressive environment, will free up energy by resolving issues that exist in and perhaps out of peripheral awareness. The structure of the intervention experience naturally provides the means necessary to navigate consciously the problems you may be experiencing and resolve them.

If you've noticed difficulty forming or maintaining relationships whether you see yourself at cause or whether you feel you're at effect, don't hesitate, make a call

- come and talk.

If you're not happy with the way you're feeling, behaving, or responding to events in your life, don't wait, come and see me. 

Do you believe that with the right mind-set and the right attitude you can improve your focus, mental-resilience, and physical performance?

Then book an appointment with me now.

Effective treatment can liberate you from repeating cycles of ineffective thought and behavioural patterns.

What has been learned can be unlearned.

There is no failure only feedback.  You either achieve or you learn.

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0423 108 459  Level 1 Studio Suite 34 Campbell st Bowen Hills

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Counselling & Hypnotherapy

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Bookings Essential

Why two Hours?

Traditionally psychologist, psychiatrist, therapists, and counsellors will spend what is termed the 'therapeutic hour' with you in therapy.  That length of time refers to the 45 to 55 minutes of in-session face-to-face therapy that you receive.  

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I believe that a solid hour and a half is the minimum amount of time needed to get anything useful done in therapy.  Because of this I set my sessions at two hours.  

• A two hour session means that you can drive safely in peak hour, find our car park, and be five minutes late without compromising on your experience.  It's important that you're relaxed about coming in and can concentrate on developing solutions or finding resolution rather than on the frustrations of traffic. 

• That also means that you can spend fifteen minutes talking about how much you might dislike your job and then spend another fifteen remembering what you came to see me about (Maybe it's connected to your job). A two hour session gives you time to talk and be treated like a person.

• It provides a chance to debrief and discuss things you may have already touched on without the oppressive sensation that you are forfeiting your session covering old ground. Therapy can be difficult, time consuming, complex, even draining.  It's especially important that you have room to pace and orient yourself, and to make sure that you get a chance to feel certain with what you're saying.

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• Two hours offers the necessary period in which to have a proper discussion about 'what has been' and 'what is' going on for you, and what you're looking to achieve.  If you've ever participated in an hour long session you're probably aware of the hinderance that such a constraint places on communication.  

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• Finally, a two hour session offers you the opportunity to participate in hypnosis, even if it's just for a short while for the sole purpose of relaxing and unwinding. 

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With a two hour session you can easily and safely forget about time. That means that your attention is free to focus on you and the experience you came for.  Everybody needs a chance to get comfortable, establish trust, unpack, and feel understood, I need a chance to get comfortable, unpack, and feel understood.  I've never had anyone tell me the time took too long, in actual fact most people are surprised when I announce that time's almost up.

WhaT Advantage does Hypnosis Offer?

Believe it or Not  we're always on some level operating on automatic-pilot, and for good reason.  Imagine how laborious it would be if you had to -consciously- remember and then execute every detail of every action, every time that you wanted to do something.  Something as difficult as making a coffee or as simple as driving a car.

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So what do I mean by always on some level, operating on, automatic-pilot?  Well... I mean that you know how to do that thing without thinking about it.  Sure, maybe you have to occasionally consider where you left your coffee mug or if there is any milk left in the fridge, but most of what you're doing you have already learned to do on auto-pilot, including 'remembering' to 'remember' to remind yourself whether there is enough milk.

Automatic learned behaviour ensures that we can accomplish an extraordinary number of complex tasks and engage in a multitude of sophisticated social interactions without completely melting down and burning out.  

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So what does any of this have to do with hypnosis?  Well... a better description than hypnosis might be -The exclusive, voluntary, internalisation, of concentration and awareness on a single foci of attention- you might imagine a person was entranced if they were fixated on a candle flame in a darkened room.

In fact hypnosis has had many names including, mesmerism, fascination, mono-ideaism, auto-suggestion, somnambulism -the list goes on- and to this day professional hypnotists still enjoy debating definitions such as 'unconscious' and 'subconscious' mind and there still remains a question as to whether 'trance' or 'relaxation' are even needed.

The important thing to realise is that what emerges is a state of heightened suggestibility, focus, and internal resourcefulness.  The hypnotic state is a naturally-occurring state, however, it is an 

altered state compared to how you usually behave.  It is very similar in experience to day-dreaming, deep concentration, imagination, visualisation, and other perceived learning states, even meditative and therapeutic states.  

Neuro-scientific research has differentiated the hypnotic state as being markedly, and measurably different from those -just mentioned- specialised experiences however Hypnotists do employ processes that make use of imagination and visualisation etc..

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Although medical science is uncertain as to what hypnosis is exactly (not entirely uncertain) some of it's highest paid, most respected and most specialised technicians such as Anesthesiologists are trained to administer hypnosis for pain control (for people allergic to regular anaesthetics) disease management, and recovery.

For the PhD. candidates who've read this far Anthony Gaile's theory of Neural Mutual Inhibition offers a promising and testable hypothesis for what may be taking place neurologically during hypnosis.

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Why use hypnosis in therapy?  Well... the short answer is because in a hypnotic state, -a state of exclusive, voluntary, internalisation of concentration and awareness- you tend to perform much more effectively and much more easily when engaged in visualisation and relaxation processes and that tends to benefit therapy.  In fact properly-structured, well-executed,  and targeted hypnotic interventions are so powerful that pack-a-day smokers will quit for life with as little as an hours worth hypnotic intervention.

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How does that help?   That's a good question.  Let me begin by saying that Life is challenging and because Life is challenging we sometimes get stuck.  

Sometimes we get stuck doing really dangerous things, in really dangerous ways, in really dangerous places.  When that happens we risk destroying everything we've worked for and depend upon, ourselves, our relationships, our environment, etc.. 

The hard part is understanding how that happens, and what we've taught ourselves to do about it.  Remember at the beginning how I said that most of what you do is automatic?  

That makes it difficult to recognise and change behaviour.  No one wants to repetitiously think about how they're making coffee and people Definitely Do Not Want To CHANGE! the particular way THEY make it.  

Well this same thing can happen when you get stuck in a difficult problem or relationship.

We've all had 'help' from friends who didn't know what they were doing and experimented on us with their 'advice'.  And we've all at some point continued to 'cut-a-corner' even though we knew we were taking a risk doing so.  Well that's kind of like how bad solutions take hold.  A part of us uses a bad strategy to try to change a bad solution until it becomes automatic.  Because we've got good at it we do the bad solution and the bad changing strategy a lot and that leads us to do it more quickly and effectively, more habitually. 

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That's where a good therapist can help and Hypnosis is just one particularly versatile and useful tool amongst many that therapists employ to help toward finding solutions, resolution, and a more beneficial strategy moving forward.  

So now you know!