RECLAIMING THE SELF Integrative online hypnotherapy for lasting change
Using modalities from Hypnosis, CBT, Mindfulness, EMDR, Matrix Reimprinting, IFS, EFT Tapping.
What would you like to change?
Most of us have something we've been carrying for longer than we'd like — anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, addiction, weight struggles, sleep problems, or feeling that we're not quite living the life we're capable of. Sometimes willpower and insight isn't enough. The change needs to happen at a deeper level.
The Main Components of Cognizant Hypnotherapy
Evidence-based
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Evidence-based
Hypnotherapy is among the most well-researched interventions in psychological therapy, supported by over 150 years of study including brain imaging data and clinical trials. At Cognizant Hypnotherapy, the approach goes beyond the conventional focus on why — moving into how change happens, and ultimately into the now, where that change is actually lived.
Hypnosis
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Evidence-based
Most of us spend our days in Beta — the brainwave state where our defences live, and where we know what we want to change but somehow never quite manage it. Hypnosis guides the brain into the deeper Theta state, where the subconscious becomes available in a way it simply isn't in ordinary waking life. This is why hypnotherapy can achieve in a handful of sessions what years of talking about a problem sometimes cannot.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT is built on a simple but powerful insight: our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours form a continuous loop, each one shaping the others — largely on autopilot. By bringing these patterns into the light and actively rewriting them, change can enter the loop at any point. Combined with hypnotherapy, it becomes a particularly powerful tool for lasting transformation.
Mindfulness
Visualization Techniques
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Mindfulness quietens the mental noise that keeps us stuck in habitual patterns, building the capacity to be present rather than reactive. Research shows it measurably reduces anxiety and depression, strengthens the hippocampus, and increases thickness in the prefrontal cortex. Like exercise, the results compound — the more consistently it's practised, the more it delivers.
EMDR
Visualization Techniques
Visualization Techniques
Traumatic experiences can become frozen in the nervous system — stored not as memories of something that happened, but as something the body still believes is happening. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to mimic the brain's natural overnight processing system, allowing the nervous system to finally digest these experiences and file them firmly as the past. It does not require you to talk through your experience in detail, which for many people makes it feel both gentler and more profound than they expected.
Visualization Techniques
Visualization Techniques
Visualization Techniques
The brain cannot fully distinguish between a vividly imagined experience and a real one — the same neural pathways activate either way. This makes visualisation a powerful tool for rehearsing new behaviours, reframing past experiences, and building the neural pathways of the person you are working to become, before that change has even happened in the outside world.
Relaxation Techniques
Deep relaxation is not a side effect of therapy — it is a physiological state that actively enables healing and change. When the nervous system shifts into its parasympathetic rest-and-repair mode, the mind becomes significantly more open to new patterns and perspectives. Practised regularly, the relaxation response becomes a trainable skill that transfers naturally into everyday life.
EFT Tapping
EFT works by gently tapping on specific acupressure points while holding a troubling thought or feeling in mind, sending a calming signal directly to the amygdala and interrupting the stress response at its source. Research shows measurable reductions in cortisol levels, alongside significant improvements in anxiety, PTSD, phobias, and chronic pain. Once learned, it becomes a tool you own completely — available anywhere, at any moment.
Matrix Reimprinting
Matrix Reimprinting
When an experience overwhelms our capacity to cope, a part of us freezes in that moment, continuing to hold the original fear or shame — and the beliefs formed there — long after the event has passed.
In a session, rather than simply revisiting a memory, you make contact with that earlier version of yourself. Using tapping and guided imagery, we bring calm to that frozen part, give it the resources it needed at the time, and create a new version of the memory — one in which the experience resolves rather than repeats.
Because the brain stores imagined experience with the same neural weight as real experience, the reimprinted memory is viscerally changed.
NLP
Internal Family Systems
Matrix Reimprinting
We don't respond to reality directly — we respond to our internal representation of it, shaped by experience, language, and patterns formed long before we had any say in the matter. NLP offers precise tools for restructuring those representations: shifting how a memory is held, rehearsing a feared situation differently, or replacing a belief that has quietly run the show for years. The results are often surprisingly rapid, and feel less like hard work and more like a shift in perspective that suddenly makes everything else easier.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems
IFS understands the mind not as a single unified voice but as a community of parts — each with its own feelings, its own history, and its own reasons for behaving the way it does. The work is not to silence or overpower any part, but to build a genuine relationship with them, so that the parts working hardest to protect you can finally soften and step back. Within hypnotherapy, IFS becomes particularly powerful — the relaxed inward state of hypnosis creates ideal conditions for parts to emerge and be met with curiosity rather than judgement.
Cognizant Hypnotherapy is founded by Kathryn McCamphill
Kathryn is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist with a deeply integrative approach to lasting change. Drawing on a rich blend of modalities — including Hypnotherapy, CBT, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, EFT Tapping, NLP, Visualisation, Mindfulness, and Relaxation Techniques — she works with the whole person, not just the presenting problem.
Her clients come to her with a wide range of challenges: anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, phobias, sleep difficulties, chronic pain, addictions, weight struggles, and habits that have resisted every previous attempt to shift them. What they share is a sense that something needs to change at a deeper level than willpower or understanding alone can reach — and that is precisely where Kathryn's work begins.
Her approach is warm, collaborative, and tailored entirely to the individual. No two people arrive at the same place by the same path, and no two therapeutic journeys look alike. What remains constant is a commitment to working with the mind, body, and nervous system together — creating the conditions for change that is not just felt in the therapy room, but lived in everyday life.
Background Information
My path to therapeutic practice has been anything but linear — and that, in many ways, is my greatest asset. With a BSc Honours in Psychology from the University of Ulster and decades of life lived across Northern Ireland, Melbourne, London, Los Angeles, and Portugal, I bring both rigorous academic grounding and a genuine breadth of human experience to my work.
My commitment to helping others began long before I entered formal practice. Volunteering as a Samaritan counsellor while holding down a full-time career, I developed the kind of deep, patient listening that no qualification alone can teach — an ability to sit with people in their most difficult moments.
I hold a Diploma from the UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, one of the most respected evidence-based hypnotherapy training institutions in the world, where the cognitive behavioural approach has been shown to produce longer-lasting outcomes than either hypnotherapy or CBT delivered alone. I am additionally qualified in EMDR and fully registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register — the UK's leading hypnotherapy professional body.
Among my most formative professional experiences was two years working with Sustainable Change, a clinician-led weight management programme supporting women through evidence-based, multidisciplinary care. Seeing upwards of twenty clients per week, I worked across the full psychological and nervous system dimensions of each person's journey — sessions spanning emotional eating and food-related shame, sleep difficulties, stress and anxiety, low confidence and self-worth, grief, trauma, and deeply held beliefs about the body and what it deserves. Weight and body change is rarely just about food or movement. For most people, it sits at the intersection of identity, self-worth, emotional regulation, and survival strategies that have often been in place for decades — and that is exactly the territory I work in.
A little bit about me
I know personally what it is like to carry patterns and beliefs that feel stuck — and to discover that change at a deeper level is not only possible, but transformative. That personal experience sits underneath everything I do professionally, and I think it makes me a better practitioner for it. I always knew I wanted to do something in the Psychology field, it just took some time to understand what. After having had experience in counselling, this field did not appeal to me as I wanted something that was more proactive and allows for long lasting changes to be made on a deeper level. Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy is working on the conscious and subconscious levels that typical talk therapy never reaches. Your life can do a complete shift when you dismantle underlying negative beliefs which change how you think and change your interactions with yourself, others and the world around you. The pic above is me with the famous Paul McKenna whom I met briefly at one of his talks some years ago.
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The Next Step
Taking the first step towards change can feel daunting, which is why I offer a free 20-minute phone consultation — no pressure, no commitment, just a relaxed conversation about where you are and where you'd like to be. It's a chance for you to ask questions, get a feel for my approach, and discover whether we're the right fit for working together. I'd love to hear from you. Please contact via email on kathryn@cognizanthypnotherapy.com or via whatsapp message on +447877279531