Your forward-thinking
path to lasting
positive change
Blending modern neuroscience with deep relaxation, Jo at Serenity Practice will help you reduce anxiety and reclaim your focus; shaping your tomorrow, today.
Joann Epps - Solution Focused Hypnotherapist (DSFH)
AfSFH registered practitioner
Fully insured and DBS checked
So, what is solution focused hypnotherapy?
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) is a modern, evidence-based approach that encourages you to look forward rather than focusing on past problems or trauma. Helping you to identifying your goals, building on your strengths, and developing practical strategies to move towards the future you want.
This approach combines positive psychotherapy with gentle, guided hypnosis to help you make meaningful and lasting changes in your life. We now understand so much more about the working of the brain through the developments in neuroscience, coupled with the benefits of future-focused talk therapy and visualisation becoming ever clearer, this approach has the power to do so much good.
Hypnosis helps quiet the mind, reduce anxiety, and reinforce new, helpful thought patterns at a deeper, subconscious level. This is a collaborative, uplifting process — empowering you to unlock your potential and find solutions, one positive step at a time.
What can SFH help with?
You will be surprised at the number of issues Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help with, below are just a few of the areas.
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Sleep issues
Confidence
Self-esteem/self worth
Fears and phobia
Stress
Chronic pain
Weight and food habits
Stopping smoking/vaping
PTSD
Performance e.g. public speaking, stage performance, sports performance
And so much more!
…”My issue doesn’t appear on the list!”
Fear not, book a free discovery call to explore how SFH can help you!
All it takes is four steps for you to embark on your journey - moving to the new and improved you and your bright future.
What are you waiting for…
Step 1: Book your free discovery call
Step 2: Your free initial consultation
Step 3: Attend weekly sessions
Step 4: Achieving your goals
Simple, transparent pricing for your tailored service
Serenity Practice pricing policy is clear and transparent, with no hard sale or hidden fees. Your individual package will include a tailored relaxation recording that will be yours of life.
Appointments available during the day Monday, Friday and Saturday as well as weekday evenings, either face-to-face and online.
Initial consultations free of charge.
Pay for sessions as you go, by booking a single session. A great way to give SFH a try before committing to a block of sessions.
A single 60 minute session
Tailored relaxation audio
Best value
6 sessions for the price of 5
Booking a block of 6 sessions gives us real traction to rewrite those patterns and embeds the lasting change that you will notice daily.
Six 60 minute sessions
Tailored relaxation audio
One extended session is all it takes to confidently break free from the habit of smoking or vaping.
90 to 120 minutes session
Tailored hypnosis to stop smoking or vaping
Across 3 tailored sessions, we will gently rewrite the fear response so that your phobia is no longer triggering your fear response.
3 sessions
Specific phobia desensitising protocol
Meet your therapist
Joann Epps
Founder and lead therapistHi, Jo here, the founder of Serenity Practice. I originally trained as a PE teacher and then became a SENCO working with young people with special educational needs. There has always been one constant throughout my 25-year teaching career and that is I have naturally found myself helping others. So, becoming a Reiki practitioner was a natural path for me to follow and was something that I could use in my everyday practice at school – bringing a sense of calm, balance and positivity into the educational environment and to those around me.
During a quest to help find avenues of support for pupils who were suffering with anxiety, school-based anxiety and other mental health issue, I stumbled across Solution Focused Hypnotherapy. I was drawn to this because it was described as an alternative therapy to CBT and other talking therapies, focusing on a positive future. Reading testimonials and speaking with others who had received this therapy I was in no doubt that this would be helpful to some of my pupils. Referring them on, I could see the results quickly, my pupils seemed calmer, more confident and able to manage situations that would normally throw them so much better.
Seeing these results, speaking to my pupils and their parents I was hooked and wanted to become a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist. So, stepping away from education and school full time; I became a freelance tutor, allowing me to devote time to re-training as a hypnotherapist. I can certainly say that this was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
Don’t just listen to me, see what my clients have said…
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The simple answer is yes! You will be in full control when you are hypnotised. You will be conscious, but your conscious mind will be completely relaxed. No one can take control unless you allow it.
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You cannot be hypnotised without your consent. Because hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation, if you don’t want to be hypnotised your mind and body will not be able to relax; so, you will not be able to enter a hypnotic state.
You can stop your hypnosis session at any point during that process if you are not comfortable or if you don’t want to be hypnotised.
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The key here is the term ‘solution-focused’. Unlike other therapeutic approaches where you are taken back to traumatic events or root out the underlying causes of problems, we focus on the solutions and the future. SFH is brief and goal orientated, helping you to achieve specific results quickly; using hypnosis to enhance the process of positive change, tapping into your subconscious mind to do so.
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Absolutely, hypnotherapy is often used to treat children, working well with children with anxiety, school phobia, general phobias, night terrors, sleep disturbances and many other issues.
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Yes, hypnotherapy sessions online are just as effective as face-to-face sessions. You may prefer working online because you may feel more relaxed and comfortable in your own space.
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If you are looking for a future-focused approach, want to achieve specific personal goals and motivated to make lasting change – Solution Focused Hypnotherapy could be a good fit for yo
You are human and it is totally natural to have questions. To be honest I am glad you do!
Here are some of the questions I am asked the most.
Frequently Asked Questions
Let’s have a chat!
Get in touch to book a free discovery call, find out if Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is for you.
If not, not a problem you have discovered that without laying out a penny!