A QUIET HOUR IN A COMFORTABLE CHAIR.
Nothing about a one-to-one session resembles the stage show. You sit down, fully clothed, and are guided into a relaxed, focused state, the same everyday state you drop into when a film pulls you in or you drive a familiar road on autopilot.
You stay awake. You stay aware. You can hear everything, you remember it afterwards, and you can open your eyes and stop at any moment. Hypnosis isn’t sleep and it isn’t mind control - it’s focused attention, and you’re the one doing the work.
Phoenix is also the comedy stage hypnotist behind the live show, more than a thousand performances at sea. A session shares the skill, not the spectacle.
Enquire about a session
Smoking
The most common reason people get in touch, usually after trying several other things first.
Eating habits
Snacking patterns, portion habits and the automatic reach, the behaviour, not the scales.
Confidence & nerves
Public speaking, interviews, performance and the moments where nerves get in first.
Stress & winding down
Learning to switch off, including simple self-hypnosis you can use on your own afterwards.
WHAT HYPNOTHERAPY IS,
AND WHAT IT ISN’T.
- You stay in controlYou can’t be made to do or say anything you’d genuinely refuse to. You can stop the session, open your eyes, or change your mind at any point.
- No guarantees, from anyonePeople respond differently and nobody can promise an outcome. If someone guarantees you a result, be sceptical - of them, and of us.
- It is not medical treatmentHypnotherapy is a complementary approach. It doesn’t diagnose, treat or cure medical or psychological conditions, and it isn’t a substitute for care from your doctor.
- Talk to your GPFor anything medical or mental-health related, start with your doctor. Hypnotherapy can sit alongside that care - it shouldn’t replace it, and Phoenix will say so.
Nothing on this page is medical advice, and no claim is made that hypnotherapy will treat, cure or prevent any condition. If you are under the care of a health practitioner, please talk to them before starting anything new.
“I was lucky enough to meet Phoenix after one of his AMAZING shows on-board the Carnival Spirit. I was curious about hypnosis & the power of the mind & we spoke about a few issues I had growing up. Phoenix asked if I would allow him to hypnotise me which I gladly accepted. When he had finished, I felt light and no weight on my shoulders, since then I have placed myself into situations that I ‘normally’ would not cope too well with, with no problems whatsoever. This is simply the best I have felt in a long time. Thank you Phoenix for sparing your time to allow me to have a better life, you are an amazing person.”Brian NevilleAfter a personal session on the Carnival Spirit
One person’s experience, shared with permission. Individual experiences vary and this isn’t a claim about what a session will do for anyone else.
WHERE THE TRAINING
COMES FROM.
- UK Hypnotherapy Training CollegePhoenix trained in hypnotherapy at the UKHTC in England, now the Jacquin Hypnosis Academy, under Freddy Jacquin and Anthony Jacquin.
- Taught in person, then dailyThe course was taught in person with Anthony Jacquin in Sydney, then daily by correspondence for its full length.
- What the sessions work withPhobias, anxiety and pain, approached through rapid and progressive inductions and psychological reframing.
WHAT THE RESEARCH
ACTUALLY SHOWS.
- AnxietyA 2019 meta-analysis of 17 trials in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis found the average person treated with hypnosis finished less anxious than about 79 per cent of untreated controls, with the gap wider again at longest follow-up. Results were stronger still when hypnosis was combined with other psychological treatment.
- PainA review of 85 controlled trials found hypnosis using direct analgesic suggestion produced clinically meaningful pain reduction in 42 per cent of highly responsive people and 29 per cent of moderately responsive ones. Response varies widely from person to person.
- PhobiaA systematic review and meta-analysis of hypnosis for dental anxiety and phobia found it effective at reducing both.
These link to published research, not to this practice, and none of it guarantees an individual result. They are here so you can read the evidence yourself rather than take anyone’s word for it: the anxiety meta-analysis, the pain review, and the dental phobia review.
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