For Sleep disorders/parasomnia - sleep walking, adult bed wetting, sleep eating, insomnia, night eating, nightmares etc.

Sleep disorders are successfully treated by Alice Pinion at the Maldon Hypnotherapy Clinic with Hypnoanalysis - a unique and highly effective form of Hypnotherapy.

Parasomnia's are a group of sleep disorders involving abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur during the various stages of sleep. They include:

Sleep walking (somnambulism): About 4% of the adults experience somnambulism compared to problematic childhood sleepwalking which is reportedly up to 17%

Night Terrors: A typically amnesic state where the sufferer can act panicked, screaming running blindly and making violent movements.

Restless Leg Syndrome/Periodic limb movement disorder: Sufferers experience itching, burning, discomfort in their legs or sudden involuntary movement of limbs that's worse when resting or asleep. All this causes sleep disruption as they wake to move or scratch their legs.

Bruxism (teeth grinding): Grinding of teeth during sleep that causes, jaw pain, sore mouth, wear of teeth and sleep disruption for them and often their partner.

Other sleep disorders:

Sleep Eating: AKA sleep-related eating (disorder), nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED) and sleep-eating syndrome. Sleep eating is characterised by sleep walking that's coupled with excessive nocturnal overeating (compulsive hyperphagia) which the person is unaware of doing. The main problems suffered include the obvious battle with becoming overweight (despite daytime diet and exercise regimes); relationship tensions as some sleep eaters can be violent if disturbed; physical risks similar to sleepwalkers of self-injury during an episode; daytime fatigue and daytime anxiety from the sleep pattern disturbances. Memory of the sleep eating is usually at best sketchy and normally entirely absent. Sleep eating is an outward expression of an underlying anxiety problem so is very treatable by Hypnoanalysis that removes the cause of the symptom.

Night Eating: Night eating is often classed as an eating disorder (rather than sleep eating which is a sleep disorder) and is characterised by ongoing, persistent pattern of late-night binge eating that the person is aware of. Like most eating disorders Night Eating is often accompanied by depression and low self esteem and is also treatable with Hypnoanalysis.

Adult bet wetting/Nocturnal enuresis (see Blowaway for help with childhood bet wetting): This emotionally stressful problem isn't alway due to an organic/physical cause. It can often be yet another expression of anxiety and often occurs with other night time stress symptoms and day time anxiety problems.

Chronic Insomnia: The difficulty getting off to and remaining asleep during the night, which when chronic leads to functional impairment in the day. Chronic insomnia often accompanies other problems such as anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.

Night Sweats & nightmares: Nightmares and night sweats (sleep hyperhidrosis not organically caused by for example infection, hormone changes etc) can often be another uncomfortable night time anxiety symptom.

Hypnophobia/somniphobia is the abnormal fear of sleep.

Most people with any of the above or other related sleep disorders have often tried many different management techniques, remedies, therapies and often medications to ensure healthy natural sleep with varying degrees of success. Through hypnoanalysis however, adult sleeping disorders and their associated other issues can be and regularly are resolved permanently and completely (see Children's problems page for help with sleep issues in kids).

Sleep disorders and other anxiety disorders are almost always created in childhood, regardless of the onset of symptoms, possibly even years later. Bottled up emotions are projected onto an object, behaviour or situation, causing the symptom, phobia or obsession. The only way to truly achieve relief from chronic sleeping disorders is to release the bottled up emotions driving them. As these emotions are locked down out of the conscious domain, many other talking therapies don't access them and if anything may exacerbate the problem. However, using Pure Hypnoanalysis those feelings are accessed and released and resolved for good.

If any of this sounds interesting and you'd like to free yourself from your sleeping disorders once and for all, be rest assured that Hypnoanalysis offers an effective, refreshing and altogether very different approach by actually getting to the genuine source of the problem rather than just masking or managing symptoms.

In the entirely understanding and non-judgemental atmosphere of Alice's highly professional consulting rooms in Maldon you will work together with her using Pure Hypnoanalysis to allow those bottled up emotions which reside deep within your unconscious mind to naturally surface and be cathartically released - leaving you feeling lighter, better, free from all those symptoms.

Support, understanding and empathy are all integral when working with Alice and you'll soon see it is not like that of other talking therapies or counseling. Instead of just raking over the past and trying to intellectually come to terms with issues, Hypnosis and Free Association allow the spring cleaning of the unconscious reasons for your sleeping issues. In doing so any directly and often many indirectly related symptoms disappear for good and you can just simply get on with happily living that life you've always wanted and be the person you've always wanted to be. No brainwashing involved, no more management of symptoms, stresses and insecurities just to get by - quite simply you will have the choices as the same person you were but crucially without all the unconscious baggage holding you back in life. Oh and be able to sleep deeply and healthily and enjoy all the knock on benefits of finally sleeping well.

Sound interesting? Why not call up for an informal chat or to arrange a no pressure face to face free initial consultation at the Maldon Hypnotherapy Clinic, Essex where you can confidentially and thoroughly discuss your problems. Just call Alice on 07906 059022 or email alice@alicepinion.com

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Alice also successfully helps with other related problems including (but certainly not exclusively):