Lauri Stateman PGCE, DSFH
Fully Qualified Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist
What is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy?
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a gentle, modern approach that helps reduce anxiety, build confidence, and support lasting emotional change. It’s not about digging into what’s wrong or reliving the past, it's about helping your mind feel safe again and reconnecting with what’s already strong within you.
This gentle approach brings together the latest neuroscience with psychotherapy and hypnosis. We now understand much more about how the brain works, especially when it comes to stress and anxiety. A big part of the process involves calming the area known as the primitive brain, the part that handles survival responses like fight-or-flight, panic, and overthinking. At the same time, we’re engaging the left prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain linked to calm, rational thought, decision-making and focus.
“You won’t be asked to explain everything or fix yourself because you’re not broken.”
Who Is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy For?
Whether you're struggling with anxiety, overthinking, low mood, or just a sense of being overwhelmed or unfulfilled, hypnotherapy can help you reconnect with calm, clarity, and emotional strength, without pressure or judgment.
Hypnotherapy meets you where you are. Each session includes positive conversation, goal-setting, and guided relaxation. Hypnosis helps create the right conditions for change, allowing the brain to absorb new, helpful patterns more easily. You won’t be asked to explain everything or fix yourself because you’re not broken. We simply focus on steady, manageable progress that builds over time and helps you feel more like you.
This is what makes the approach so powerful: it's your mind doing the work, in a way that feels safe and achievable.
This collaborative process supports your mind in letting go of fear and discovering the resources already inside you. Helping you shift from negative patterns to calmer thinking, clearer focus, and greater self-trust.
As this shift happens, you begin to feel more in control, more resilient, and better able to move forward. For many people, it’s about stepping out of survival mode and gently finding themselves again.
“Helping your mind feel safe again and reconnecting with what’s already strong within you.”
At Seeds for Happiness I offer gentle, compassionate support to help you create meaningful change. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a gentle and strengths based approach. I will work with you to reduce anxiety, build resilience, and reconnect with the version of yourself that feels more hopeful, grounded and in control. You do not have to figure it all out on your own. Together we will plant the seeds for lasting growth.
Are you ready to feel calmer, stronger and more in control?
Sowing Seeds of Positivity
If you’re struggling with something that’s getting in the way of enjoying life, you’re not alone and and you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can be incredibly versatile , gently helping you shift unhelpful perceptions and patterns of behaviour, find clarity, and feel more like yourself again.
Below are just some of the areas I support clients with:
- Anxiety and general overwhelm
- Panic attacks
- Stress and burnout
- IBS
- Low mood and depression
- Difficulty sleeping
- Chronic pain
- Addictions and unwanted habits
- Stopping smoking or vaping
- Fears and Phobias
- Trauma and emotional triggers
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Relationship or intimacy issues
- Weight and emotional eating1
- Fertility
- And more...
This isn’t a complete list, so if something is bothering you and you’re not sure whether Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is the right fit, feel free to get in touch. You can complete the online contact form, and I’ll be happy to arrange a free 10 minute phone call to answer any questions you may have.
Fully qualified with CPHT, fully insured, DBS checked, and a registered member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH). I also hold a BA Honours in Fine Art, a PGCE, and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), and am committed to safe, ethical, and professional practice.
