Dear Dr David Kraft

I am looking for a psychotherapist who can helping me with my IBS. I have been to the GP and I still suffer from IBS. I get bloated, and stomach cramps; I also suffer from diarrhoea and constipation although this alternates and only happens occasionally. Te doctors said that this was all down to stress and I felt that this was the case too. When I am not at work–I am a solicitor–I do not have any symptoms at all. I love y work but it is so stressful. My GP, who is also a friend of mine and the family, suggested that I see a hypnotherapist but someone who is also trained in psychotherapy. I looked at your website and found your name. Can you treat me. I also see that you have written a paper on the treatment of IBS using hypnotherapy, and you obviously have had a great deal of experience in this form of treatment. In the paper you use hypnotherapy and use a river approach. I thought that this sounded interesting, but I don’t know much about it. My family are worried about me because this has affected my social life too. I want desperately to see a hypnotherapist now so that I can get better. So, after much deliberation, I decided to go to you, to get some help privately. I have been to a hypnotherapist in London Before. He used hypnotherapy to treat my anxiety, but the hypnotherapy, in this case, transformed me into someone who was not stressed but who had IBS. This is no good. I want to be able to cope with the stresses of life without converting it into pain or anxiety. I think that I am a little bit neurotic and I want to use the hypnotherapy to help me control this. Can you do all this? If you can help, please e-mail back. I know that the treatment might last a while but I am ready to sorry this IBS out now.

 

Thanks

 

Mrs F

 

Dear Mrs F

I can certainly help. Please give me a ring on 0207 467 8564 and arrange a consultation session. In this session, we will construct a treatment programme that that suits you. When you are in treatment, you will notice an immediate difference in the way you feel. The hypnotherapy also help you to get better on your own, and I will teach you self hypnosis for you to use in stressful situations. In my experience, the hypnotherapy has long lasting effects.

Dr Kraft

 

Dr David Kraft is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the Section of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, a member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH), and on the General Hypnotherapy Register. He has written several articles in academic journals on the subject of hypnosis and psychotherapy integration–including a paper on the use of covert sensitization, articles on the treatment of driving phobia, hyperhidrosis, mouse phobia (in press) and IBS, and reviews of the use of hypnotherapy in the treatment of psychosexual disorders, sleeping disturbances, anxiety, bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Dr Kraft has been published in Contemporary Hypnosis, the journal of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis, and in the Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. David runs a successful psychotherapy practice in London. 

 

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Dear hypnotherapist/psychotherapist

My name is Margaret. I have been working really hard to try to take off weight. I have a comprehensive understanding of the principles of taking off weight. I understand that you have to eat small meals and that you should not snack in between eating sessions. I also understand that sugar is not helpful and that we should reduce a fat intake. I know of of this. I have taken off a stone so far. But I have these sessions that take place where I don’t care. I binge eat and the more I eat the more I don’t care. I say to myself, ‘Well, I have eaten this so I might as well eat this cake as well, or this pizza, or this pint of beer’. And then in the morning, I feel really guilty and it puts me back three days worth of dieting. Or more…….

Can you help me stop having this attacks? I have many friends that have tried hypnotherapy and they have been helped for all sorts of problems. I have looked on your website and I have been really impressed. I look at the section entitled, ‘Weight Loss Hypnotherapy’. What is ‘Weight Loss Hypnotherapy’. Can it help me with my binge eating and will it help me to take off weight in the future? I am in it for the long term and really want to get to my ideal weight. Hypnotherapy must be the right thing for me. I want it to empower me to have more control. At the moment I am 11 stone, but I am not tall and my ideal weight is 9 stone. I am also doing exercise at the gym and this has helped me to take off weight in the past. I am also looking trimmer and fitter. I reallly hope hypnotherapy will work. The cardiovascular work that I have been doing has given me more energy too, but some weeks I put on muscle and weigh more. I only weigh myself at the end of each week, and I don’t do this every day. I am looking for a top hypnotherapist. Someone who really knows what he is doing. A hypnotherapist based in somewhere like Harley Street like yourself.

Can you get me an appointment and how do I do it.

Margaret

Dear Margaret

Yes certainly I can help. One used to have to go to one’s GP to get a referral letter, but now, all one has to do is to go to London Hypnotherapy UK or London Psychotherapy directly, and then book an appointment. The links are below:

www.londonhypnotherapyuk.com and www.londonpsychotherapy.co.uk

‘Weight Loss Hypnotherapy’ is the general name given to treatment programmes which use hypnotherapy to help people to take off weight. Some hypnotherapist use a strict regimented approach which last s for a certain number of weeks; I, however, tend to build a treatment programme around the needs of the individual client, and this strategy is tailor made to suit your needs. I have had a great deal of success working with a number of people who have had eating disorders. However, binge eating, in any any of its forms is not classed as an eating disorder. Certainly, the aim of the hypnotherapy is to help you to take off weight and to keep it off in the future.

If you would like to book a session, please feel free to ring me at 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF. I look forward to speaking to you. The number is as follows: 0207 467 8564.

 

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Dear hypnotherapist

I am a housewife and have had two children. I am so depressed here. I want to escape. Every day I do ironing, I take the children to nursery, I do the washing up and I do the cleaning. I wait all day to have sex with my husband. That’s all I can do is wait for him so that I can have ssome fulfilment in life. He has a great life. He goes to work and has work lunches and chats to sexy young secretaries all day, while I am stuck at home with the kids. I feel that my life is pointless and I feel really angry with him. I want to punish him because I have no life and he has. I have tried to talk to him but he is either amorous, and I have to take advantage of that, or he is tired, or he just wants to watch the television. I am depressed, but I have started to take it out on him in other ways. I have tried denying him sex, but that only punishes me. I am now trying to sleep with another man at the school. He is very nice to me and makes me feel special. The other day, I went back to his place and we lay on the sofa together. We kissed, and that was nice, but then he put his hand up my skirt and it made me feel alive again. I really need to talk to someone about this because now I feel guilty that I have let myself down and I have betrayed my husband. I need a psychotherapist. A friend of mine had psychotherapy treatment with an excellent lady and she solved her problems in a really short space of time. Are you a psychotherapist or a hypnotherapist, and can I have hypnotherapy too. I am looking for a really good psychotherapist in London and in central London too. I live in North London and can travel easily into the centre of town. How many hypnotherapists of psychotherapists work at your practice. Also what type of hypnotherapy or psychotherapy do you do. Thanks M

Dear M

I am both a psychotherapist and a hypnotherapist. Of course, hypnotherapy is an option that we can discuss during the consultation therapy. There are, as you know, many types of psychotherapy-Freudian psychotherapy, Adlerian psychotherapy, Kohutian psychotherapy, Kleinian psychotherapy, Jungian psychology etc. I use psychodynamic psychology and I often combine this with hypnosis–I suppose, my approach comes under the banner of integrative psychotherapy. I am an independent.

If you would like to book an appointment, please ring 0207 467 8564.

Yours sincerely

Dr David Kraft   

 

Dr David Kraft (PhD) is an independent psychotherapist who uses hypnotherapy as an adjunct to his approach. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a full member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH). David trained at the London School of Management Science and gained the Dip.Cl.Psy. He also has two diplomas in clinical hypnosis–the DCHyp and the A.Cert.CS.Hyp. He is a member of the Section of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine  and has published articles in both national and international journals.

 

Dear London Hypnotherapy

I need to talk to someone about my problems. I am ill. I went to a hypnotherapist last year and she made me worse. She gave me lots of things to do between sessions. She called it homework. Homework? I am not at school. She said that my depression was a direct result of my thinking and that I should use positive thinking to help me with my problems. She said that she would use NLP to help me and that I should trust the whole procedure. But I felt stupid. I felt stupid talking to myself and the more I talked to myself the more silly and out of control I felt. I feel out of control. I am sure that hypnotherapy is helpful but I want to go to a proper psychotherapist so that he or she can help me. I really need for you to listen. I have been doing some reading and I chose you because you use psychotherapy in your approach. I had psychotherapy, well, counselling, when I was in my twenties and I found that this was useful and gave me a huge amount of control of my life. I would be most grateful for a session later this month, please.

Thanks Anthony.

Dear Anthony

Thanks for the e-mail. It sounds like you had a bad experience with this hypnotherapist. I am a psychotherapist and I do a tremendous amount of listening in the session. I occasionally make suggestions (homework) but this is a very rare occurrence indeed. My approach is to listen and to provide support; I also try to be unbiased and completely non-judgemental. If you would like to book a session with me please ring my office on 027 467 8564.

Best wishes

Dr David Kraft. Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist

 

Dr David Kraft (PhD) is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH). He is also on the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR Reg.), holding the General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP). He is also a member of the Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine Section of the RSM. David has a diploma in clinical Psychology, a diploma in clinical hypnosis and advanced certificate in clinical and strategic hypnosis. He has written articles on driving phobia, covert sensitization (in the treatment of the addictions), hyperhidrosis, eating disorders (including anorexia and bulimia), sexual disorders, anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and sleeping disturbances. He has published an obituary in the British Medical Journal and in Contemporary Hypnosis and the Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Dr Kraft has a successful practice in Harley Street, London, UK.

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Dear hypnotherapist

I have been trying to find a hypnotherapist here in London for some time now. I suffer from anxiety and have panic attacks. My brother went to a hypnotherapist in Harley Street about four years ago and he found it very useful. He didn’t know why he was having episodes where he became claustrophobic but he had a few sessions with this lady and she was able to help him to discover what was happening. You see, I want someone like this–someone who is good, and also someone that just doesn’t tell me what to do. I am quite afraid about this. I looked up many sights on the internet and I type in ‘Harley Street Hypnotherapist’ and ‘Top Hypnotherapist in London’, but it is a complete maze. I came across your site recently and I thought that I might give it a go. What in fact do you do and do you think you can help me? I chose your website and London Hypnotherapy UK because it looks like you are well qualified and are able to deal with my sensitive issues. I hope that hypnotherapy will help me to achieve some of the goals that I want to achieve in the near future too.

Derek

Dear Derek

Thanks for  the e-mail. There are a lot of hypnotherapists on the web and it must be frustrating trying to find someone who is suitably qualified to do a proper job. Principally, I am a psychotherapist. I use hypnotherapy as an adjunct to my approach–that is to say, the hypnosis enhances the psychotherapy work that I do, making it more effective and powerful. I can certainly see you. If you would like to book an appointment, please do not hesitate to ring me on 0207 467 8564.

 

Best of luck

 

Dr David Kraft, Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist

David Kraft is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a full member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis. He is a member of the Hypnosis ad Psychosomatic Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. BSCAH. David is also on the General Hypnotherapy Register, holding  the General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP). David has a diploma in clinical psychology and two diplomas in hypnotherapy. He is published in both national and international journals on hypnosis and psychotherapy integration. David works in Harley Street, London, UK.