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"Nine out of ten 10 people with irritable
bowel syndrome (IBS) benefited from hypnotherapy, and 4 in 10 saw
their symptoms clear up completely, according to new research by
leading UK gastroenterologist Professor Roland Valori." |
Hypnotherapy routinely produces long term positive results in over 80% of the people who use it.
Hypnotherapy is often thought to be therapy that only affects the mind, but as mind and body are inseparably joined, hypnosis can also help physical ailments.
For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, one of hypnotherapy's greatest benefits is its well-established ability to reduce the effects of stress. Your state of mind can have a direct impact on your physical well-being, even when you're in the best of health. If you're struggling with IBS, the tension, anxiety, and depression that comes from living with an incurable illness can actually undermine your immune system and further compromise your health.
Hypnosis can reduce this stress and its resultant negative impact by placing you in a deeply relaxed state, promoting positive thoughts and coping strategies, and clearing your mind of negative attitudes.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome in fact is almost uniquely suited to treatment by hypnosis or self-hypnosis, for several reasons. First, as just noted, stress-related attacks can be significantly reduced. Second, one of the most impressive aspects from hypnotherapy, and of tremendous benefit to IBS sufferers, is its well-documented ability to relieve virtually all types and degrees of pain. Finally, because IBS is not a disease at all but a syndrome, if you can relieve and prevent the symptoms, you have effectively cured yourself of the disorder, and you will be living an IBS-free life. This outcome is a definite possibility from hypnotherapy treatments.
As with other
alternative therapies, though there is solid evidence that hypnotherapy
can provide lasting health benefits for many patients, there is uncertainty
about precisely how and why the treatments work. Most scientists believe
that hypnotherapy acts upon the unconscious, and affects the body's regulation
of involuntary reactions that are normally beyond a person's control.
Hypnosis puts these autonomic responses under the patient's power. Happily,
treatment is suitable for people of all ages, for males and females, and
there are no risks or side effects.
IBS is ideal for treatment with hypnosis, as there is no structural damage to the body, Professor Whorwell explained. During the hypnotherapy, sufferers learn how to influence and gain control of their gut function, and then seem to be able to change the way the brain modulates their gut activity. "The treatment has a success rate of about 70%, and Professor Whorwell believes that hypnotherapy, although it's labour-intensive, could be an extremely effective treatment for the condition; and a less expensive alternative to new, costly drugs coming onto the market." Weve found it to help all the symptoms,
whereas some of the drugs available reduce only a few, he
said. As IBS can be a life-long condition it could clearly
be a very valuable option for patients" |
When you are ready to make the inner changes you need to overcome your IBS, just or phone me on 0161 881 4333 to make an appointment now.
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Common symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) may include:
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What is an Irritable
Bowel?
Medically, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is known by a variety of other
terms: spastic colon, spastic colitis, mucous colitis and nervous or functional
bowel. Usually, it is a disorder of the large intestine (colon), although
other parts of the intestinal tract -- even up to the stomach -- can be
affected.
The colon, the last five feet of the intestine, serves two functions in
the body. First, it dehydrates and stores the stool so that, normally,
a well-formed soft stool occurs. Second, it quietly propels the stool
from the right side over to the rectum, storing it there until it can
be evacuated. This movement occurs by rhythmic contractions of the colon.
When IBS occurs, the colon does not contract normally. instead, it seems
to contract in a disorganized, at times violent, manner. The contractions
may be terribly exaggerated and sustained, lasting for prolonged periods
of time. One area of the colon may contract with no regard to another.
At other times, there may be little bowel activity at all. These abnormal
contractions result in changing bowel patterns with constipation being
most common.
A second major feature of IBS is abdominal discomfort or pain. This may
move around the abdomen rather than remain localized in one area. These
dis-organized, exaggerated and painful contractions lead to certain problems.
The pattern of bowel movements is often altered. Diarrhea may occur, especially
after meals, as the entire colon contracts and moves liquid stool quickly
into the rectum. Or, localized areas of the colon may remain contracted
for a prolonged time. When this occurs, which often happens in the section
of colon just above the rectum, the stool may be retained for a prolonged
period and be squeezed into small pellets. Excessive water is removed
from the stool and it becomes hard.
Also, air may accumulate behind these localized contractions, causing
the bowel to swell. So bloating and abdominal distress may occur. Some
patients see gobs of mucous in the stool and become concerned. Mucous
is a normal secretion of the bowel, although most of the time it cannot
be seen. IBS patients sometimes produce large amounts of mucous, but this
is not a serious problem.
The cause of most IBS symptoms -- diarrhea, constipation, bloating, and
abdominal pain -- are due to this abnormal physiology.
IBS is not a disease. Although the symptoms of IBS may be severe, the
disorder itself is not a serious one. There is no actual disease present
in the colon. In fact, an operation performed on the abdomen would reveal
a perfectly normal appearing bowel.
Rather, it is a problem of abnormal function. The condition usually begins
in young people, usually below 40 and often in the teens. The symptoms
may wax and wane, being particularly severe at some times and absent at
others. Over the years, the symptoms tend to become less intense.
IBS is extremely common and is present in perhaps half the patients that
see a specialist in gastroenterology. It tends to run in families. The
disorder does not lead to cancer. Prolonged contractions of the colon,
however, may lead to Diverticulosis, a disorder in which balloon-like
pockets push out from the bowel wall because of excessive, prolonged contractions.
Causes
While our knowledge is still incomplete about the function and malfunction
of the large bowel, some facts are well-known. Certain foods, such as
coffee, alcohol, spices, raw fruits, vegetables, and even milk, can cause
the colon to malfunction. In these instances avoidance of these substances
is the simplest treatment.
Infections, illnesses and even changes in the weather somehow can be associated
with a flare-up in symptoms. So can the premenstrual cycle in the female.
By far, the most common factor associated with the symptoms of IBS are
the interactions between the brain and the gut. The bowel has a rich supply
of nerves that are in communication with the brain. Virtually everyone
has had, at one time or another, some alteration in bowel function when
under intense stress, such as before an important athletic event, school
examination, or a family conflict.
People with IBS seem to have an overly sensitive bowel, and perhaps a
super abundance of nerve impulses flowing to the gut, so that the ordinary
stresses and strains of living somehow result in colon malfunction.
These exaggerated contractions can be demonstrated experimentally by placing
pressure- sensing devices in the colon. Even at rest, with no obvious
stress, the pressures tend to be higher than normal. With the routine
interactions of daily living, these pressures tend to rise dramatically.
When an emotionally charged situation is discussed, they can reach extreme
levels not attained in people without IBS. These symptoms are due to real
physiologic changes in the gut -- a gut that tends to be inherently overly
sensitive, and one that overreacts to the stresses and strains of ordinary
living.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of IBS often can be suspected just by a review of the patient's
medical history. In the end it is a diagnosis of exclusion; that is, other
conditions of the bowel need to be ruled out before a firm diagnosis of
IBS can be made. Diagnosis of IBS should be confirmed by a qualified medical
practitioner.
A number of diseases of the gut, such as inflammation, cancer, and infection,
can mimic some or all of the IBS symptoms. Certain medical tests are helpful
in making this diagnosis, including blood, urine and stool exams, x-rays
of the intestinal tract and a lighted tube exam of the lower intestine.
This exam is called endoscopy, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy.
Additional tests often are required depending on the specific circumstances
in each case. If the proper medical history is obtained and if other diseases
are ruled out, a firm diagnosis of IBS then can usually be made.
Treatment
The treatment of IBS is directed to both the gut and the psyche. The diet
requires review, with those foods that aggravate symptoms being avoided.
Current medical thinking about diet has changed a great deal in recent
years. There is good evidence to suggest that, where tolerated, a high
roughage and bran diet is helpful. This diet can result in larger, softer
stools which seem to reduce the pressures generated in the colon.
Large amounts of beneficial fibre can be obtained by taking over-the-counter
bulking agents such as psyllium mucilloid (Metamucil, Konsyl) or methylcellulose
(Citrucel).
As many people have already discovered, the simple act of eating may,
at times, activate the colon. This action is a normal reflex, although
in IBS patients it tends to be exaggerated. It is sometimes helpful to
eat smaller, more frequent meals to block this reflex.
There are certain medications that help the colon by relaxing the muscles
in the wall of the colon, thereby reducing the bowel pressure. These drugs
are called antispasmodics. Since stress and anxiety may play a role in
these symptoms, it can at times be helpful to use a mild sedative, often
in combination with an antispasmodic.
Physical exercise, too, is helpful. During exercise, the bowel typically
quiets down. If exercise is used regularly and if physical fitness or
conditioning develops, the bowel may tend to relax even during non-exercise
periods. The invigorating effects of conditioning, of course, extend far
beyond the intestine and can be recommended for general health maintenance.
As important as anything else in controlling IBS is learning stress
reduction, or at least how to control the body's response to stress. It
certainly is well-known that the brain can exert controlling effects over
many organs in the body, including the intestine.
Patients with IBS can be assured that nothing serious is wrong with the
bowel. Prevention and treatment may involve a simple change in certain
daily habits, reduction of stressful situations, eating better and exercising
regularly.
Perhaps the most important aspect of treatment is reassurance. For most
patients, just knowing that there is nothing seriously wrong is the best
treatment of all, especially if they can learn to deal with their symptoms
on their own.
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What
happens during the treatment?
I have received specialist training in treating IBS using hypnotherapy and am a member of the UK Register of IBS Therapists. I am also a fully qualified and experienced Solution-Focused Integrative Psychotherapist, Advanced Hypnotherapist, NLP Life Coach and a Licensed NLP Master Practitioner. I have trained with some of the best psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and NLP trainers, including Paul McKenna, and by Dr Richard Bandler - the creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I combine all my skills and experience to produce a treatment that is tailored to your needs. So that I can help you to treat your IBS in the quickest and most effortless ways possible.
I use the OPSIM (Gut-Specific) method of treatment, which will require 5 one hour sessions with daily practice at home between the sessions. The 5 sessions are spread out over a three month period.
Over the course of the treatment:
You will become familiar with the hypnotherapy process, allowing you to learn that it is safe and pleasant, and that you are in complete control at all times. You will begin the process of reducing anxiety and developing calming thoughts, which in turn reduces the negative thought patterns which trigger your IBS.
We will address the thoughts which create and stimulate the symptoms of IBS and teach you ways to control the speed of the peristalsis (movement of your digestive system) allowing a more normal bowel movement. You will also learn ways to reduce or eliminate pain and discomfort caused by the IBS.
You will release old unresourceful thought patterns that have been triggering or maintaining your IBS symptoms and develop new enhancing positive thought patterns.
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Consultation Fees
The following prices are for the complete IBS hypnotherapy treatment which includes 5, one hour hypnotherapy sessions, CD's and hand-outs.
Before booking
it is very important that you get your symptoms diagnosed by a medical
practitioner or doctor, as many of the symptoms of IBS can also
be symptoms of more serious conditions.
Session fees
are paid at the time of booking.
You
may pay by cash, cheque, Debit Card, credit card or online.
Private clients:
Cost when paying per session:
5 sessions are usually required for a complete IBS treatment. See the consultation fees page for prices and discounts.
Cost when paying in advance:
Special
offer Save 20%, when you pay
for all your sessions in advance.
When
paying in advance any unused sessions are refunded if you decide to end
the treatment.
NHS patients:
I am not part of the NHS but I am a registered NHS Independent Provider (Number 8GM17) which means that the NHS may pay for your treatment. You will need to discuss this with your GP or consultant.
I should mention that in the 8 years I've been working in this field, no IBS client from the Manchester area has ever managed to get the NHS to pay for the treatment.
Booking is easy
Before booking it is very important that you get your symptoms diagnosed by a medical practitioner or doctor, as many of the symptoms of IBS can also be symptoms of more serious conditions.
I practice from a consulting room in my home in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in South Manchester, close to junction 7 of the M60 and near the end of the M56.
When you are ready to make the inner changes you need to overcome your IBS, just or phone me on 0161 881 4333 to make an initial appointment now.
Please consider joining the email mailing list to be kept up to date with upcoming events.
Please feel
free to contact me if you have any questions.
You may pay by cash, cheque, Debit Card, credit card or online.
Corporate Work
My services can also be combined and tailored to your group or corporate needs, and range from EAP (Employee Assistance Programme - one to one therapy, counselling or coaching sessions) through to bespoke group training, workshops, and outdoor activities and retreats.
Nigel
Magowan
BSc(Hons)
UKCP(CIT) DABCH MCAHyp GHR SQHP MHA AMPM
Solution-Focused Integrative Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Licensed NLP
Master Practitioner, Ecotherapist, Accredited Supervisor and Advanced
Hypnotherapist
About Nigel Magowan
Nigel Magowan is a professional and experienced Solution-Focused Integrative Psychotherapist, Life Coach, a Licensed NLP Master Practitioner, an Advanced Hypnotherapist and Ecotherapist. Nigel has trained with some of the best trainers. He combines all his training, skills and experience to produce a treatment that is tailored to your exact needs. He uses an integrative solution focused approach to his work which can bring about results in a much shorter time. He is an Approved Anxiety UK Therapist. He has also received additional specialist training in working with addictions, anger management, treating IBS, controlling pain, stress management techniques, and ecotherapy. Nigel is also a fully trained and accredited supervisor and offers supervision to complementary therapists.
Nigel holds a recent enhanced CRB certificate.
Since 2002 he has had his own busy full-time Psychotherapy, Counselling, Life Coaching, NLP and Hypnotherapy practice in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, South Manchester, and Harley Street, London. Within easy traveling distance of Altrincham, Ashton, Bolton, Buxton, Didsbury, Fallowfield, Gatley, Glossop, Hyde, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Manchester City Centre, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Sale, Stretford, Wilmslow, Withington and other towns in Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and the Greater Manchester and the North West area.
He specialises in helping people with anxiety, panic attacks, stress management, addictions, IBS, anger, depression, pain control, confidence and self esteem, insomnia, public speaking and performance anxiety, fears, phobias, smoking cessation, weight loss, and study and sport performance enhancement.
He is a a UKCP Candidate in Training; a full member of the Community for Contemporary Psychotherapy; a senior member of the General Hypnotherapy Register, a full member of the Hypnotherapy Association; an Approved Anxiety UK Therapist; a Professional Member of the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (ANLP); the NHS Directory of Complementary & Alternative Practitioners; the UK Register of IBS Therapists; the National Register of Practitioners in Smoking Cessation
He practices according to the Community for Contemporary Psychotherapy, General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, ANLP and Hypnotherapy Associations code of ethics, and has full Professional Indemnity Insurance.
Diploma
in Contemporary Psychotherapy
Beeleaf
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy,
London
Comparative
Psychotherapy and Clinical Practice
Beeleaf
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy,
London
Intermediate
Certificate in Contemporary Psychotherapy
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London
Master
Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London
Licensed
Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Paul McKenna Training, London
Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna, Michael Breen
Diploma
in Advanced Hypnotherapy and HypnoHealing
Atkinson-Ball College of Hypnotherapy and Hypnohealing, Liverpool
Clinical
Practice: Psychopathology in Pychotherapeutic Practice
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London
Human
Development and Sexuality
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London
Wider
Mind: Ericksonian Psychotherapy in Practice
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London
Certificate in Working Successfully with Addictions
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London
NLP Coaching Diploma
Frank Daniels Associates, Nottingham
Diploma in the Art and Science of NLP Coaching
Frank Daniels Associates, Nottingham
Certified Practitioner of NLP
The Washington School of Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis, Manchester
Shaun Brookhouse
Certificate
in Ethical Practice
Beeleaf Institute for
Contemporary Psychotherapy, London London
Certificate in Stress Management Techniques
Certificate in Hypnoesitherapy
Diploma in Hypnotherapy
Continuing
Professional Development
Current and
on-going training and supervision, keeping my skills fresh and at the
cutting edge
Advanced
Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy
Beeleaf
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, London, London
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clinical supervision sessions (2 hours per month)
with a UKCP registered NLP psychotherapist and supervisor
Professional
Bodies
Full Member of the Community for Contemporary Psychotherapy (MCCP)
Accredited Master Practitioner Member of ANLP International
UKCP Candidate in Training
Member of Counselling and Psychotherapy Outdoors (CAPO)
Senior Member of the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR)
Full Member of the Hypnotherapy Association
Member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
(CNHC)
Member of the Corporation of Advanced Hypnotherapy
Member of the NHS Directory of Complementary & Alternative Practitioners
Accredited Therapist Member of Anxiety UK
Member of the UK Register of IBS Therapists
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Clients come to me from all over the North West of England, see below for a list of areas covered:
Greater Manchester: Chorlton ~ Didsbury ~ Fallowfield ~ Flixton ~ Eccles ~ Irlam ~ Salford ~ Swinton ~ Pendlebury ~ Worsley ~ Walkden ~ Cadishead ~ Bury ~ Bolton ~ Farnworth ~ Little Lever ~ Kearsley ~ Wardley ~ Monton ~ Orrel ~ Barton ~ Boothstown ~ Dumplington ~ Baguley ~ Benchill ~ Burnage ~ Blackley ~ Beswick ~ Clayton ~ Crumpsall ~ Levenshulme ~ Longsight ~ Northenden ~ Rusholme ~ Sharston ~ Withington ~ Woodhouse Park ~ Wythenshawe ~ Westhoughton ~ Blackrod ~ Kearsley ~ Horwich ~ Prestwich ~ Ramsbottom ~ Radcliffe ~ Tottington ~ Whitefield ~ Whalley Range ~ Carrington ~ Victoria Park ~ Old Trafford ~ Cheetham Hill ~ Tamesdie ~ Ashton under Lyme ~ Denton ~ Reddish ~ Stalybridge ~ Hyde ~ Oldham ~ Royton ~ Saddleworth ~ Rochdale ~ Heywood ~ Littleborough ~ Castleton ~ Milnrow ~ Middleton ~ Wardle ~ Wigan ~ Ashton-in-Makerfield ~ Golborne ~ Billinge ~ Winstanley ~ Leigh ~ Standish.
North Trafford: Davyhulme ~ Firswood ~ Flixton ~ Gorse Hill ~ Lostock ~ Old Trafford ~ Stretford ~ Trafford Park ~ Urmston.
South Trafford: Altrincham ~ Ashton-on-Mersey ~ Bowdon ~ Broadheath ~ Brooklands ~ Carrington ~ Dunham Massey ~ Hale ~ Hale Barns ~ Oldfield Brow ~ Partington ~ Sale ~ Sale Moor ~ Timperley ~ Warburton ~ West Timperley.
Stockport: Adswood ~ Bramhall ~ Bredbury ~ Brinnington ~ Cheadle ~ Cheadle Hulme ~ Compstall ~ Davenport ~ Edgeley ~ Gatley ~ Heaton Moor ~ Heaton Norris ~ Heaton Chapel ~ Heaton Mersey ~ Hazel Grove ~ Heald Green ~ Heavily ~ High Lane ~ Marple ~ Offerton ~ Poynton ~ Reddish ~ Romiley.
Cheshire: Alderley Edge ~ Adlington ~ Ashley ~ Bucklow Hill ~ Handforth Dean ~ High Legh ~ Knutsford ~ Mere ~ Mobberley ~ Ollerton ~ Plumley ~ Tatton ~ Pickmere ~ Wilmslow ~ Warburton ~ Woodford ~ Lymm ~ Dunham ~ Massey ~ Chester ~ Crewe ~ Northwich ~ Daresbury ~ Warington ~ Winsford ~ Widnes ~ Wirral ~ Nantwich ~ Sandbach ~ Middlewich ~ Congleton ~ Alsager ~ Macclesfield ~ Prestbury ~ Goostrey ~ Pickmere ~ Mottram St.Andrew ~ Mobberley ~ Chelford ~ Tytherington ~ Bollington ~ Alsager ~ Tarporley ~ Davenham ~ Great Appleton Thorn ~ Budworth ~ Little Budworth ~ Frodsham ~ Holmes Chape ~ High Legh ~ Disley ~ Grappenhall ~ Appleton ~ Croft ~ Thelwall ~ Penketh ~ Glazebury ~ Winwick ~ Culcheth ~ Saint Helens ~ Over Peover ~ Lower Peover ~ Church Lawton ~ Cranage ~ Stockton Heath.
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