Max Allchin

Hypno-CBT Therapist & Coach

Calm, evidence-based therapy for the pressures of everyday life.

Hello, I am Max. I offer Hypno-CBT for stress, anxiety, fears and the patterns that keep us stuck. Based in Barnet, North London. Online sessions across the UK.

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What I Offer

Four areas of focused, calm support

Stress & Anxiety

For people who feel  overwhelmed, burnt out, or caught in cycles of worry they cannot seem to escape.

  • Generalised anxiety
  • Work stress & burnout
  • Sleep difficulties

Academic Support

For 18 plus 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

About the Work

A calm space to understand yourself differently

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 are dealing with persistent stress, a specific fear, or simply the feeling that you are not quite living as freely as you would like, this work is built around you.

How It Works

Three steady steps

A relaxed beginning, an honest plan, and consistent progress.

Step 01

Initial Consultation

A relaxed conversation to understand what you are experiencing and what you would like to change. No pressure, no commitment.

Step 02

A Tailored Plan

Together we agree on an approach that suits you, your life, and your goals. Most courses of work are between four and eight sessions.

Step 03

Steady Progress

Each session builds on the last. Between sessions, you will have simple techniques to practise that reinforce what we work on together.

“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

Thinking Out Loud

From the blog

A few recent notes from the practice.

9 The Language of Therapy

Language and social literacy generally are crucial for us all for navigating the modern world. However psychological and emotional literacy

8 Self Reflection

Self-reflection is the antidote to our autopilot, that if unchecked entraps us in the same old thinking and behavior patterns

7 The Alphabet Soup of Therapy

Abbreviations can be confusing and one never knows what to expect from a therapist in terms of their approach, background