Are you suffering with severe discomfort?

Pain can be useful; more often than not it's nature's way of highlighting that something related to the body needs attention. But, high levels of on-going discomfort with no specific organic cause tend not to be helpful at all.

Whether acute or chronic, pain is an all-consuming sensation that not only interferes with sleep, it also affects the sufferer's every waking moment. Long term pain often negatively influences the emotions, self-confidence and self esteem, and might also lead to greater reliance on such things as alcohol to 'get through the day'. To further compound discomfort, experiences of pain are often made worse by extreme awareness of the source of the pain, memories of past pain, and anticipation of future pain.

In conjunction with mainstream medical intervention, pain hypnotherapy is becoming increasingly recognised as an invaluable means of relieving people's experiences of severe discomfort. Echelon Associates do not aim to eliminate pain completely, but have found that a holistic approach to effective pain management allows individuals the opportunity to live life in greater comfort. We focus our treatment on employing the mind to transform perceptions of discomfort, allowing individuals rapid relief from the immediate intensity of pain.

Chris takes a goal-directed but compassionate approach to pain reduction, applying pain hypnosis, relaxation hypnosis and hypnotherapy counselling to help the individual to create and maintain the best physical and psychological conditions for optimum recovery.