HYPNOSIS FOR NAIL BITING & HAIR PULLING
GET NICER NAILS AND HAIR NOW
Embarrassed by your unsightly nails? Nail biting is simply the continuation of a childhood habit (thumb-sucking) that brings us comfort when we feel stressed, and responds particularly well to hypnotherapy. Picking at, or biting, the skin around the edges of your nails is a habit that hypnotherapy can also successfully combat.
If you experience irresistible urges to pull out your hair (trichotillomania) or break off split ends, leaving you with noticeable hair loss, hypnotherapy can help by bringing this habit into conscious awareness and helping you discover other ways to relieve stress and anxiety.
Three sessions are usually all that’s required to put you on track to having hands – or hair – you’ll want to show off, not hide.
SESSIONS REQUIRED
For therapy to be effective, you need to commit to a minimum of three sessions.
TESTIMONIALS & PRESS
‘After 36 years of nail biting, I finally decided to stop, so as not to pass this habit on to my son. After seeing Lisa, I’ve not bitten my nails – and it’s been over 16 months.’ GM
‘I bit the skin around my nails and I wanted to stop. Lisa was great on all fronts: I believed she actually cared about me personally and could seriously help me. I did all the things she suggested in the sessions and to my surprise, it worked! I knew I wanted it to (and gosh, you really have to want it to!) but I didn’t realise how much progress I’d make.’ IR
‘Thanks so much for your amazing assistance in my quest to quit biting and picking at my nails. I saw instant success after our second session and have been (mostly) sporting a set of fine-looking fingernails. I confess I almost had a wobble last week (a rough week when our cat went missing and a close friend died), but I’m ramping up my self-hypnosis to keep the temptation to pick at bay. I’m going abroad for a month next weekend so hopefully I’ll be able to relax a bit and spend time buffing my nails to a high shine.’ JF
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OBESSIVELY PICKING AT MY SPLIT ENDS TOOK OVER MY LIFE
Lisa Jackson sees clients who have been picking their hair for decades, as well as others for whom it’s a new and worrying habit they want to curb. Lisa says: ‘I aim to remove the unhelpful habit but at the same time work together with my client to find something else that will give them a sense of comfort. That might be anything from taking regular sips of tea to playing with a stress ball to popping bubblewrap. We also agree on practical strategies such as wearing a hat or headscarf, to put a physical barrier between them and the bad habit.
‘Hypnotherapy aims to bring the unhelpful unconscious habit into conscious awareness. While they’re hypnotised, the client isn’t told they won’t do these things, rather they’re told that whenever they’re about to do these things they will immediately stop, and then only be able to carry out that behaviour by making a conscious decision to do so. This is a way to counteract many people’s resistance to being told not to do something. The hypnosis session is then reinforced at home with the client mentally rehearsing times when they formerly would have turned to the unhelpful habit but instead see themselves performing the new, alternative strategy. It can be treated in as few as three hypnotherapy sessions, provided they don’t reveal very serious emotional issues.’
