Cognitive Hypnotherapy with Nike Lawal

Is Anxiety and Panic, Self-Doubt & Low Confidence, Fears and Phobias holding you back?

The first thing I want you to know is, you don't need fixing. You need space to heal, reconnect and remember who you really are.

Start Your Journey

If anxiety, low confidence, or self-doubt are holding you back, you're not alone. You might be managing on the outside—but inside, you're exhausted. The racing thoughts. That knot in your chest. The relentless voice of self-doubt. Always trying to keep it together, yet never quite feeling at ease.

I get how overwhelming that can feel - and I want you to know: it doesn't have to stay this way.

This isn’t about surface-level fixes.

It’s about lasting change—gently, safely, and with tools that truly work.

Most of my clients come through referral because when people feel genuinely seen and supported, they tell others.

You are not the anxiety.

That's the second thing I want you to know if this is part of your experience.

You are also NOT the self-doubt, the self-criticism, the low self-esteem.

You're carrying patterns that once kept you safe—but no longer serve you.

You might come to me wanting to stop overthinking, over doing things, reacting to other people's urgency, to feel more confident, or wanting to break a habit like emotional eating or people pleasing.

Together, we'll go deeper than the symptoms to deal with this reaction at the source and resolve it

How I Work With the Brain

Anxiety, fear, and stress often feel like a battle between your mind and your body.

The rational part of your brain—the prefrontal cortex—can understand logically that you're safe, but the older, "survival" parts of the brain (the amygdala and brainstem) often react first, triggering fight, flight, or freeze responses.

This is why your body sometimes goes into panic or tension even when there's no real danger.

In my work, I focus on working with that 90% of your brain that drives automatic responses—the part that's trying to protect you but sometimes overreacts.

Through Cognitive Hypnotherapy, Breathwork, Somatic Coaching, and other integrative methods, we reprocess past experiences, update old programs, and help your body-mind learn that it is safe.

This isn't about reasoning with the anxiety—it's about showing your body and brain that it can relax and trust, creating lasting changes so you can feel calm, confident, and in control in situations that once felt overwhelming.

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have been given the tools to actually live life rather than just letting life happen to me. I have set goals for myself and feel confident that I will achieve them.

Denise F, Kent

I'm a pattern hunter, with a deep respect for the wisdom of your brain and body.

Hypnotherapist in Canterbury for Anxiety, Confidence and Unwanted Habits

When clients come to me with anxiety, self-doubt or low confidence, they often think something is "wrong" with them. But nothing about your responses is random. Your brain is doing what it's designed to do—protect you.

Together, we explore the deeper question:

What is your brain trying to protect you from, and why?

Using a neuroscience-informed lens, I help you understand the unconscious programming your brain and body have created to keep you safe, often based on past experiences that are no longer relevant, but still running in the background like old software.

These protective patterns—avoidance, overthinking, people pleasing, emotional shutdown—once made perfect sense. But now they may be holding you back, keeping you anxious or disconnected from your true self.

I help you uncover the why behind your reactions, so we can gently reprocess what's driving them—working with your mind and nervous system to create new, safer patterns that reflect the truth of who you are now.

It's not about fixing you.

It's about freeing you.

Together we'll gently reprocess what's driving your reactions, working with your mind and nervous system to create new, safer patterns that reflect the truth of who you are now.

I often felt like I was drowning and previous support only kept me afloat for a while. You didn’t give me something to hold onto, you taught me to swim. Each time I listened to the recordings I became stronger and able to face what came my way. Most importantly, I am me again.

Ranjit S.

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My approach is integrative and personalised

I'm a Cognitive Hypnotherapist by training, but I don't believe in one-size-fits-all therapy. Over the years, I've built a vibrant, trusted practice by drawing on a wide range of evidence-based and intuitive approaches that support healing on every level—mental, emotional, physical and energetic.

I integrate tools such as: