“The depressed need the support of society to enable them to overcome their problems.”

Leslie Lim, Depression, the misunderstood illness (2008)

I believe that Michael Yapko is one of the leading researchers in depression in the world. And what he has said is that there has been a huge amount of research into the biological reasons for depression and how antidepressants can be used in treatment, but not so much on the social aspects and this impact on well being. He, therefore, spent a huge amount of time looking at how these aspects affected well being and how we can change our lives, within our support network, to reduce or eliminate depression.

At London Hypnotherapy UK, David Kraft believes strongly that individuals suffering from depression need supprt from their therapist not only to deal with their problems–negative ruminations, sleep dysfunction, eating disorders or other associated conditions–but also helping them to adapt to and control their social environment. This can be done in the psychodynamic psychotherapy as well as in the hypnosis.

David Kraft is a fellow of the RSM and a member of BSCAH.

Covert sensitization is a reliable and effective form of treatment. It has been used very successfully in the treatment of alcoholism, cigarette addiction, cannabis addiction, compulsive gambling, exhibitionism, obesity and juvenile delinquency. (Cautela, 1967). This treatment approach may also be applied to cigarette smokers. David Kraft, a member of BSCAH, and fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, has used this approach successfully over the last few years. He pairs the unwanted behaviour with a feelings nauseous: before the client picks up the cigarette. He combines the aversion with other techniques, including ‘the non smoker walk’ and split screen imagery. He also gives suggestions that cravings will be non-existent or hardly present. The result being that many clients have few cravings. In the paper that Dr Kraft recently published, the client had no cravings whatsoever, and he said that this was significant in helping him to stop smoking once and for all.

Smoking has a deleterious effect on every organ in the body.

London Hypnotherapy UK is dedicated to helping people give up smoking once and for all. The treatment is a complete abstinence programme, but is long lasting.

David Kraft is an experienced psychotherapist who is based in Harley Street London. He has published 17 papers in academic journals and continues to research. He is a fellow of the RSM and a member of BSCAH. 

David Kraft does not recommend individuals going to lay hypnotherapist. He suggests that individuals requiring treatment should go to an accredited health professional, psychologist or registered psychotherapist. David Kraft, of London Hypnotherapy UK and London Psychotherapy, recommends BSCAH and the UKCP.

Smoking has a deleterious effect on nearly every organ in the body and is responsible for many life threatening diseases, thus reducing quality of life and life expectancy (Mikhailidis et al.,1998; Balbi et al., 2010; ASH, 2011), says Harley Street psychotherapist David Kraft.

If you would like to give up smoking, please phone 0207 467 8564 for an appointment today.

Reference

Kraft D (2012). Successful treatment of heavy smoker in one hour using split screen imagery, aversion, and suggestions to eliminate cravings. Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy, 29 (2): 175-188. 

David Kraft is a psychotherapist with a successful practice in Harley Street, London. He also uses hypnosis in is work. He has published several articles in academic journals on many subjects including agoraphobia, social phobia, sleeping disorders, anxiety, and the treatment of alcoholism. David is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of BSCAH.

For an appointment, please do not hesitate to ring the office on 0207 467 8564.

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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.

Dr David Kraft. Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist

Dr David Kraft is a top hypnotherapist and psychotherapist in London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis. David has a diploma in clinical psychology and two diplomas in clinical and strategic hypnotherapy. He has also given lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine and has published in both international and national journals in the field of psychotherapy integration and hypnotherapy. Dr Kraft is currently based in Harley Street, London where he has a successful private business.

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.

Psychotherapist in Central London 

Specialist Psychotherapist here in central London.

Available: Counselling, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy

Address: 10 Harley Street, London, W1G 9PF, UK.  

Looking for a specialist psychotherapist in London?

Perhaps, it is worth considering what sort of psychotherapist you are looking for. There are lots of diferent types.

Psychotherapy is often a lengthy process: during the course, the client expresses his thoughts on present day issues, he talks about his feelings and the therapist will look at how his past has affected his life—particularly in relation to his childhood. The client is encouraged to drift from one thought to the next—a technique known as ‘free association’.

During this process, he gains considerable insight into his life, and he will often find conflicts or forbidden thoughts that, when analyze, have a releaving effect. He may begin to remove or shift unwanted repression, and this, in turn, helps the ego to deal with difficult scenarios in a more appropriate fashion. The psychotherapist job is to help the client to acknowledge and unpack these feelings.

Dr David Kraft is a skilled psychotherapist who also uses an approach known as psychodynamic psychotherapy. This process falls within the remit of integrative psychotherapy. Psychodynamic psychotherapy treatment is often a much shorter process.

Dr Kraft says that, often, clients who come for therapy want to be better in the shortest possible time. They also want to feel that they are improving straight away—they don’t want to be in therapy for years. He, therefore, uses strategic psychotherapy in order to faciliate change in the shortest possible time. Hypnotherapy can be used to quicken and enhance this process.  

Can I improve straight away?

Yes. Dr Kraft has had a great deal of experience working with individuals who have needed urgent attention; sometimes, clients feel better after one or two sessions. It is the support that they are given that helps them to lead their lives in a healthy way. They begin to be able to help, and take care of, themselves. Dr David Kraft believes that constant, reliable support is the key to psychotherapy. Some people thrive because of their weekly psychotherapy sessions.

How do I choose the right psychotherapist in central London?

Psychotherapists must have had therapy themselves: they must have had the experience themselves in order to empathize with their clients. When you book a session with a psychotherapist, it is important that you book a few sessions to see whether you feel comfortable in that setting. Trust is extremely important: you must trust your therapist before you embark on your journey—however long or short that might be. The best psychotherapists are the ones that let you decide how frequently you attend sessions. You must be in control of your psychotherapy if you want to be in control of your life! 

How do I book an appointment at London Psychotherapy?

For a consultation appointment at London Psychotherapy, ring 0207 467 8564.