Therapy for stress, anxiety and the patterns that keep you stuck
I’m Max, a Hypno-CBT therapist in Barnet, North London. I work with adults on stress, anxiety, fears, and the habits of thinking that get in the way. Sessions in person or online anywhere in the UK.
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What I work with
Stress & Anxiety
For people who feel overwhelmed, burnt out, or caught in cycles of worry they can’t seem to escape.
- Generalised anxiety
- Work stress & burnout
- Sleep difficulties
Academic Support
For adult learners, students, and anyone facing the pressures of study, exams, or returning to education.
- Exam & performance anxiety
- Imposter syndrome
- Concentration & focus
Fears & Phobias
Specific fears and phobias can shrink your world significantly. Hypno-CBT offers a gentle, effective path through them.
- Fear of flying
- Social anxiety
- Heights & claustrophobia
Relationships
For challenges in relating to others: communication, confidence, people-pleasing, and the stresses that arise within relationships.
- People-pleasing
- Boundaries & confidence
- Self-esteem
What Hypno-CBT actually is
Hypno-CBT, or Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, brings together two well-established approaches: the structured, evidence-based insights of CBT with the deep relaxation and openness that hypnotherapy creates.
Together, they can help you understand the patterns that keep you stuck, and gently begin to shift them. Whether you’re dealing with persistent stress, a specific fear, or simply the feeling that you’re not quite living as freely as you’d like, this work is built around you.
- Hypno-CBT
- CBT Approaches
- Online Sessions
- North London
- Barnet
How we would work together
A free first conversation, then a plan we agree between us.
The first conversation
A relaxed conversation to understand what you’re experiencing and what you’d like to change. No pressure, no commitment.
A plan that fits you
Together we agree on an approach that suits you, your life, and your goals. Most courses of work are between four and eight sessions.
Session by session
Each session builds on the last. Between sessions, you will have simple techniques to practise that reinforce what we work on together.
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“Our thoughts can be trained and retrained, gently and reliably, to discover new relationships to life’s changes and challenges, develop new perspectives, new attitudes, new insights and new directions”
Max Allchin, Hypno-CBT Therapist
From the blog
A few recent notes from the practice.
Language and social literacy generally are crucial for us all for navigating the modern world. However psychological and emotional literacy
Self-reflection is the antidote to our autopilot, that if unchecked entraps us in the same old thinking and behavior patterns
Abbreviations can be confusing and one never knows what to expect from a therapist in terms of their approach, background