About Mindcalm Hypnotherapy

My name is Bob Davies and I am a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist. I specialise in helping people get free from the vicious grip of depression easily and quickly – I give people their lives back.

What do we know about depression? What has scientific research uncovered about this terrible condition, which is increasingly affecting more people worldwide?

Depression is not a biological or genetic disease; there’s no gene for depression, you can’t have a physical test at your doctor’s to see whether you’re depressed or not. And actually, rates of depression have risen almost 1000% since 1945. This huge increase also takes into account the fact that depression has largely become de- stigmatised and there is less shame attached to admitting to suffering. It’s rising in all age groups, but particularly in young people.

I will help you understand the ‘Cycle of Depression’ and show you how to break that cycle.

Like all the emotions, depression is a form of communication and what it’s conveying is: “my life isn’t working”; “I need help”; “I’m stuck”; “something is seriously wrong”; and “I don’t know where to go from here”. And we do find that when people are depressed, the confidence they have in their own abilities to problem-solve becomes severely affected.

Between us we can start to address these problems and move you forward, out of depression.

I also deal with the more common disorders like Stopping Smoking, Anxiety, Stress, Phobias, Insomnia and much more. Contact me and find out what help is available

My training, work experience and any achievement

I trained with David Newton at The Clifton Practice (CPHT) in Bristol, one of the country’s leading hypnotherapy training schools where I was awarded the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD), the only externally accredited professional hypnotherapy qualification in the UK. The Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (DHP) and The Certificate of Solution Focused Brief Hypnotherapy (SFBH)

I have also trained with Terence Watts of The Essex Institute and became a registered practitioner in Brain Working Recursive Therapy (BWRT).

It’s a modern, new, cutting edge and non hypnotic therapy process for positive change! A therapy based on one man’s insightful interpretation of modern psychological experiments. A form of Psychotherapy BUT used in a unique, easily understood way that achieves release from the root of the problem.

In a session, the client is guided to use their just their own thoughts - without the therapist even needing to know what those thoughts are - in a special way to create a totally natural change that comes from within the client rather than from something the therapist says or does.

All the work is done in a completely ‘awake state’ and doesn’t use hypnosis or any mysterious spiritual or religious ideas of any sort - it’s completely logical, practical and down-to-earth, and all it needs to be successful is for the client to want something in their life to be different.

This is a non-intrusive way of working with the thought patterns you don’t want - this therapy allows you to reprogramme yourself into the way you always wanted to be.

On the 1st December 2010 the hypnotherapy profession and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) agreed to allow suitably qualified hypnotherapists to register.

The CNHC are the only Regulatory body recognised for our profession by the Department of Health, who have recently asked GPs and Chief Nursing Officers to recommend to patients who are seeking complementary therapies to consult with practitioners who are registered with the CNHC, as these practitioners have been assessed as meeting national standards of competence and practice. I was the first hypnotherapist in Paignton to be registered.

Further Information

I am a professionally trained specialist in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy and BrainWorking Recursive Therapy working with a variety of problems and difficulties. I offer a no fee, no obligation initial consultation and between us we can decide which is the best way forward for you.
If there’s something you really want to do but can’t quite seem to manage it, or if there’s something you’d like to stop doing but can’t, I can probably help!