Mainstream talk therapy including cognitive behavioural therapy, definitely has its place. However over the past decades experts have come to realise that to get to our underlying survival physiology (which drives the majority of our behaviours) we must get to the body and unconscious where much of this is stored or mobilised.

The latest neuroscience has even found that actual brain activity is different in those clients who have had trauma which is still affecting their current state/behaviour, even if the distressing incidents took place decades ago.

The power of negative beliefs over us can be overwhelming. For example in modern culture, corporations aim at “problem -crisis- solution” as a marketing ploy to sell products. It’s no wonder that even in a good functional family and having a positive environment, being bombarded by this alone over years can result in feelings of inadequacy eg: I’m too fat, I’m too ugly, I have an embarrassing car, my house is not big enough, I’m too poor to enjoy any reasonable type of holiday, I’m not successful enough, I am a failure etc…….

The purpose of therapy that reaches to  the unconscious mind, is to uninstall those negative self beliefs and unconscious core beliefs about the world.  Then the unconscious mind can reorganise itself back to the way it was without those negative programs.

Trauma is not what happened to us, but what happened inside us as a result of what happened to us.

“Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds” ~Gabor Maté

“Trauma” in the therapy context is better described as distressing events rather than physically catastrophic incidents. It is subjective and personal and not an objective standard as each person is affected differently by what they perceive to be distressing.

Trauma doesn’t have to as dramatic as being held at gun point during a robbery, but can arise from a single incident such as being bullied at primary school.

Clients often seek counselling or therapy because they have relationship issues or anxiety or depression, or they may have what they describe as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia or other body pain which their doctor cannot find a diagnosis for.

These are more than often not the issue, but the symptom. The unconscious mind is powerful and can even cause real or perceived illnesses (or psychosomatic illnesses with real physical symptoms), regardless of whether it was intentional or not.

Memories of distressing events if not processed and stored properly at the time, can cause ongoing problems as the nervous system and body system has never really returned to calm afterwards in relation to such a trigger Mind Renew therapies aim to assist clients to process those memories properly once and for all, with the aim that the symptoms no longer appear.

No. Our therapies operate during the time that the client is fully aware and alert. During dynamic imagining process in TRTP or speaking to the unconscious mind in EP or RTC there may be a slight lowering of brainwaves when we ask you to do imagination exercises. We do not use clinical hypnotherapy.

There is no full muscle relaxation or meditation involved in our therapy modalities. This is so even if the client is listening to the therapist and imagining scenarios. It is not a trance or deep meditation. The client is in control.

Our therapies work with your own will and your own imagination to reach  areas of the mind to get to the root of the problem, which may not be easily reached with conscious cognitive thinking/intellectualizing and everyday talking/reasoning.

In comparison, hypnotherapy aims to get a client to a theta or lower brain wave state with fully relaxed muscles and the client may be more directed what to think (e.g they may be told to imagine each they put a cigarette in their mouth they feel sick). So hypnosis is more directive to the client what to do whilst they are in a very deep relaxation state.