MamaCalm(TM) is the branch of BabyCalm(TM) that focusses specifically on the wellbeing of new mums.
MamaCalm(TM) offers two unique special services to the mums of Cambs, Herts, Essex and Suffolk:
New Mums Relaxation Classes and Hypnotherapy for New Mums.
MamaCalm(TM) Hypnotherapy
Perhaps your birth experience wasn't how you planned it? perhaps you would even go so far to describe it as "traumatic"? perhaps you are finding the transition to new motherhood quite hard, people around you are whispering "postnatal depression" or perhaps you are struggling with breastfeeding or indeed "breastfeeding guilt" if you had to give up for whatever reason.
Perhaps you are keen to regain your pre-pregnancy figure? keen to stop smoking for your new baby? or perhaps becoming a new mum had brought up unsettling feelings about your own childhood?
Perhaps you are even thinking about trying to conceive again but you're worried about your fertility?
MamaCalm(TM) offer specialised women's hypnotherapy services - based in Saffron Walden & Royston – serving the whole of Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire & Suffolk. We also offer a range of unique self hypnosis CDs for easier breastfeeding, quicker postnatal recovery and more confident parenting.
You may be worried about the term "Hypnosis", thinking of Paul McKenna and chicken impressions? if so - read on!!!
What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is, very basically, a tool to Help you gain access to the subconscious part of your mind. The subconscious mind is what makes you “you”, it holds your beliefs, dreams, desires, nightmares, habits, long term memories and so on, but it holds them deeply and it likes to hold on to them! Occasionally letting them pop up when they aren't wanted, driving your behaviour and creating tension and anxiety which can have not only a psychological effect – but a physical one too. In order to achieve change we need to access and work with our subconscious mind. Any information that accesses your subconscious mind is accepted literally – and quickly
Hypnosis is perfectly Natural and Safe. We utilise a normal and naturally occurring state that everybody experiences every day. In fact if you have ever daydreamed, read a book and laughed or were scared, got engrossed in a film or drove somewhere on autopilot you have already experienced hypnosis!.
Hypnosis utilises something called “Alpha State”. Alpha state is a natural brainwave pattern – roughly translated into layman's terms that means how fast all the bits and bobs and connections in your brains fire (ever seen those squiggly line print outs from an EEG machine where people are wired up with sticky electrodes on their heads? - well they're measuring brainwaves!). In alpha state, you are very much awake, you're just deeply relaxed (think about the daydreams I mentioned above!) and when you are deeply relaxed you become less critical and analytical, you drop the guard to your subconscious mind (known as “the critical factor” in hypnosis) and together, whilst you are deeply relaxed, we can work to change any thoughts and behaviours that are limiting your life in some way.
Anyway, enough of the “science bit” already! All you really need to know is that in hypnosis:
You Hear everything said to you.
You can Speak if you want to.
You Can move, cough, itch etc without affecting your hypnotic state.
You are in Complete Control. Nobody can do it to you or for you.
You will Remember everything that is said in the session if you want to.
You Cannot get stuck in hypnosis.
You Cannot be made do anything against your will.
There is No such thing as a ‘hypnotised feeling’: some people might feel a tingling in their body, or you might feel heavy, light, warm, or cold but other than that there is no physical feeling in hypnosis.
How Much Does a MamaCalm(TM) Hypnotherapy Session Cost?
Initial 30minute consultation (in person or by telephone) - FREE OF CHARGE
60 minute Appointment £50
Where are Sessions Held?
Sessions are held in our purpose designed & furnished comfortable consulting room in Saffron Walden, Essex (not a couch or pendulum in sight!) and in the comforts of the Royston Centre For Complementary Health (http://www.rchc.co.uk) in Royston, Herts. Both locations are easily accessible from the whole of Cambs, Herts, Essex & Suffolk.
When are Sessions Held?
Sessions are usually held on the following days/times, although it may be possible to arrange alternative sessions if these do not suit:
Wednesday 1pm-10pm (Saffron Walden)
Thursday 1pm – 5pm (Saffron Walden)
Friday 2pm-10pm (Royston)
Saturday 9am – 1pm (Saffron Walden)
About Your Hypnotherapist.
Sarah has been a student of Psychology since 1992, she therefore has over 15 years worth of experience and knowledge of the subtle workings of the human mind and many different approaches to therapy including the use of hypnosis as a tool to aid this healing. She has studied courses in Psychotherapy, HypnoAnalysis and Clinical Hypnotherapy as well as teaching HypnoBirthing(TM). Unlike many other hypnotherapists working in the area, she is special and unique in 3 ways:
1) She has an honors degree in Psychology, taking her training way over and above the standard 18months training most hypnotherapists usually follow.
2) She has a unique interest and insight into women's issues, particularly those of the childbearing years. Sarah has four children herself and as well as being a general hypnotherapist/psychotherapist, she has been a qualified HypnoBirthing practitioner since 2005, since then she has helped over one hundred women to birth their babies easily and smooth the transition into motherhood, alleviating many fears, overcoming many phobias and realigning quite a few babies! she has also had the priviledge of working with many new families as both a birth and postnatal doula and is a survivor of "birth trauma" and postnatal depression herself.
3) Sarah is also a homeopath, specialising in the care of women. She also worked in a medical setting for five years before becoming a homeopath. She therefore has an in depth knowledge of the pathology surrounding many medical issues her clients present with. She has a particular interest in female hormones and their effect on fertility and birth (especially endometriosis, PCOS, infertility, dysmenorrhoea and labour and childbirth).
Sarah is fully insured and qualified for her work and works from purpose designed practice rooms. She also holds a current CRB check and first aid certificate.
MamaCalm(TM) Relaxation Classes
Are you feeling in a muddle?
life's daily grind one big long struggle?
tired, exhausted, a bit of a mess?
new parenthood just too much stress?
Then you might just benefit from a MamaCalm(TM) relaxation class!
One hour of pure, indulgent relaxation (no exercise in sight!) - this session is to relax your mind and your body, far more deeply than you have ever relaxed before and far more deeply than any other postnatal class you have attended before.
Held in Saffron Walden, Royston and Bishops Stortford, Herts on a "pay as you go" basis. MamaCalm relaxation classes cost only £10 per session or £50 (plus FREE GIFT!) for a block of 6 classes if paid in advance.
Afternoon and evening classes available.
Worried about childcare for the afternoon session? don't worry! MamaCalm(TM) have a close working relationship with a trusted and experienced local childminder who can look after your precious bundle for a minimal fee whilst you relax in peace.
BabyCalm(TM) offer baby massage classes, baby homeopathy, postnatal doula services, babysitting services, hypnotherapy and relaxation classes for new mums and baby calming workshops across Cambs, Essex, Herts & Suffolk including Baby Massage, Postnatal Doula services and relaxation classes in Bishops Stortford, Baldock, Bury St. Edmunds, Braintree, Cambridge, Dunmow, Duxford, Haverhill, Halstead, Harlow, Letchworth, Newmarket, Whittlesford, Royston, Trumpington, Sawston, Stansted, Sawbridgeworth, Saffron Walden, Thaxted, Thetford and surrounding villages.