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Hypnotherapy Clinic of the Year Cambridgeshire

by Dan Regan | Jul 18, 2025 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Hypnotherapy Clinic of the Year – Cambridgeshire

I’m delighted to let you know that I have been awarded the presitgious accolade of Hypnotherapy Clinic of the Year for Cambridgeshire. This follows closely on from my recent success at the SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards where I won silver for Ely Business of the Year.

If that wasn’t enough I’ve also recently been announced as having won the award for Best Full-Service Hypnotherapy Treatments 2025 (Cambridgeshire) in the SME UK Enterprise Awards. I think it’s fair to say that these multiple awards, along with the various others I’ve won over the year, continue to cement my place as the leading hypnotherapy service in Ely and Newmarket (along with the the evidence from the hundreds and hundreds of positive reviews that you can find on this website).

Thanks so much for your ongoing support, it means everything!

If you’d like to learn more then you can learn more about my previous award successes over in these articles:

Weight Loss Service

by Dan Regan | Jul 17, 2025 | Weight Loss

Weight Loss Service – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

Are you looking for a weight loss service that helps you to naturally take back control over your eating habits?

In a climate of weight loss drugs and jabs, it is still very possible to naturally and successfully take control over your relationship with food. Most people know what they should be eating, but their habits, cravings, thoughts and behaviours around food consistently get in the way. You have the knowledge over what to do but still find yourself not doing it. And all the while your weight creeps up and up and your self-esteem and well-being suffer.

It may be that you eat emotionally. Whenever you feel sad, bad, low, happy or good, you reach for the unhealthy snacks as part of how you feel. Your emotions and the food hit become inter-twinned and an ongoing, self-maintaining pattern. Once your emotions subside, you feel bad for having eaten too much or the wrong things.

For others, it is all about the habits and behaviours they have learnt about food. You learnt that you can make whatever choices you like. You learnt to eat too much and always clear your plate. You learnt that, even when you’ve had enough, there should be no waste and that sweet things follow meals. The sugar cravings can hit you at any time and you struggle to resist. Or maybe you’ve just been snacking in front of screens for so long that it seems normal now.

I often get a surge of weight loss service clients in the summer. You can no longer get away with the baggy clothes to hide your body. You want to go out socially but you feel like you look awful in your clothes (if they still fit). And you may berate yourself, be critical of your weight or compare yourself negatively with others.

You know you could go for another quick fix diet to try and get a bit of a better beach body you are more comfortable with. Yet maybe you are tired of the short term success, followed by long term even greater weight gain afterwards. You want to change your relationship with food and take back control over your eating habits so it becomes your new, healthier, lifestyle.

Alcohol Reduction Help

by Dan Regan | Jul 17, 2025 | Excessive Drinking and Binge Drinking

Alcohol Reduction Help – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

Are you struggling with successful alcohol reduction? Alcohol can shift from something that helps you to relax and enjoy yourself, into something that creeps into your daily habits. Rather that being able to take it or leave it, or to have the one and stop, you find yourself binge drinking and over drinking. Alcohol can take control over your habits and have negative impacts upon your health, well-being, focus, work, relationships and self-esteem.

Many people enjoy a drink. It may be that you drink mainly socially and perhaps you enjoy a nice glass of wine with a meal. But if you drink too much when you drink, or you find that you secretly drink or drink despite your best intentions not too, then your alcohol consumption can become a problem. Maybe you embarrass yourself and have to suffer the embarrassment and shame after drinking too much. It may be that your drinking steals away your motivation and focus and you become unproductive in your life. And alcohol can lead to arguments, friction, guilt and shame.

You may have found that your alcohol reduction is successful for short periods of time. With focus, motivation and willpower you can cut down or stop for a while. Yet those habitual thoughts, feelings and drinking behaviours start to creep back in. You start to justify it to yourself that it’s okay to have one or two. In no time at all you are back drinking as much as ever and the same old problems come back to the fore.

Cutting down with willpower alone is hard. You are effectively trying to force yourself to reduce how much you drink. After a pain point, like an alcohol related embarrassment or argument, your resolve and motivation are strong. The freshness of what has happened can keep you on track. Over time that pain lessens. Your limited resources of willpower weaken and the call of the booze intensifies. This is where hypnotherapy can help you to change your habitual patterns around alcohol.

Anxious Thoughts and Feelings – My Latest Ely Standard Column

by Dan Regan | Jul 8, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxious Thoughts and Feelings – My Latest Ely Standard Column

I’m delighted to let you know that my latest Ely Standard column, about anxious thoughts and feelings, has now been published.

It’s estimated that, each year, one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem. Back when I used to struggle with anxiety, it was the anxious feelings that used to really trouble me and that used to escalate until they felt overwhelming and uncontrollable. These then fed into the anxious thoughts of dread and worry. Then came the classic anxiety response of avoidance to try and quell all those uncomfortable anxious feelings. This brings short term relief but only maintains the anxiety.

The anxiety cycle of thoughts, feelings and behaviours can just run and run. It’s like a ceaseless torrent of anxious discomfort. However, n matter how bad you feel right now, it is possible to overcome your anxiety. You can start to feel better and better in yourself.

You can read my article about anxious thoughts and feelings over on the Ely Standard website here:

Does Distraction Work For Anxiety?

by Dan Regan | Jun 20, 2025 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Does Distraction Work For Anxiety?

Recently I was talking with a client about this subject; does distraction work for anxiety?

Anxiety thrives when there is time and space for thinking. And because you feel anxious you have probably started avoiding things or feeling too low and exhausted to keep busy. You are less occupied and have more time to think. The more time you have to think, the worse you feel and the less you feel able to do. It becomes a negative cycle that chokes the enjoyment and motivation from your life. You spend more and more time thinking and the anxiety just moves from one thing to the next. All the while your feel worse and worse with tension, agitation, poor appetite and disturbed sleeping.

It’s like a river of thinking with a strong current that pulls you from one catastrophic thought to the next. Very soon your anxiety can quash anything positive and you feel helpless to deal with your own thoughts and feelings.

The human mind has a negativity bias anyway so when you feel anxious this just accelerates. Everything is tinged with worry, doubt, overthinking and dread. Even things you’ve done many, many times before now seem like a massive challenge that you struggle to face.

Now, of course, there are several facets to a successful plan for tackling anxiety. You need to learn how to interrupt, direct, disrupt and move on your own thoughts rather than being at the mercy of whatever happens to come into your thinking and awareness. You need to be able to bring anxiety down when it starts high and be able to cut if off early and quickly if it starts to grow and rise.

I’ve written many times before about the scientific support and research that shows that hypnotherapy is effective for treating anxiety so I’m not going to repeat that here. I’ve also covered the use of exercise, relaxation, gratitude, nature, music and a whole range of other things that have been demonstrated to contribute to reducing anxiety.

Hypnotherapy for Cricket

by Dan Regan | Jun 20, 2025 | Sports Improvement

Hypnotherapy for Cricket

Hypnotherapy for cricket can help you to perform at your best on the field so that you play better and enjoy your game even more.

Cricket season is well and truly upon us. England have just finished a series with the West Indies and are about to face India. The Championship is in full swing and the Vitality Blast is up and running. With summer here, cricket takes over as the main event.

With the season up and running, it’s the time of year where I work with a lot of cricketers on their performance. Sometimes their season hasn’t got started as they would like and for others, it’s about pushing on to the next level that they know they are capable of. As with all sports, your mindset is key when playing. Whether it is your batting performance, your bowling consistency or even both, you need to have focus, concentration, calmness and confidence. You need to be in the zone so that all your training instinctively comes to the fore and where you are making good decisions and handling any challenges.

Perhaps only like golf, during cricket there can be a lot of time for thinking. There is the time when your team is batting and you are just waiting to go in. There will be times between innings for your mind to wander. In the field it can be easy to switch off if you aren’t being called upon to do much. When batting or bowling you need to be making multiple decisions, handling whatever comes up, dealing with pressure and staying focused on the next shot or ball and managing the time between each action. If you make a mistake you need to be able to move on quickly rather than letting it linger. Even when you take a wicket or play a great shot, you need to quickly and effectively refocus and engage for what comes next.

Sometimes players get anxious, nervous and lack belief before and during a match. Those thoughts and feelings lead to tension, negative self talk, a lack of trust in your playing and poor decisions. This can have a knock on effect into your next game as you worry about playing poorly again. That then leads to even more lack of belief and anxiety. Sometimes you know you have more to give yet somehow you keep getting in your own way.

Hypnotherapy for cricket can help you to take control over your thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions when you play. You can feel calm, focused and confident and keep your mind and attention in the game. Hypnotherapy boosts your self belief and a belief in your own capability has been strongly linked with best performance.

Hypnosis For Running

by Dan Regan | Jun 19, 2025 | Sports Improvement

Hypnosis For Running: Marathon Running Mindset

The sun is shining and there are many, many running races taking place every week, which makes this a great time for talking about hypnosis for running.

If you’ve been reading my articles for a while, you’ll know that running is my passion. I love getting out and getting some miles in, especially when the sun is shining and I can get down along the river and into the areas of nature around Ely. Running and exercise are key parts of how I manage my physical and mental health and well-being. I’ve been pretty inspired by some of the stories that I’ve been hearing recently from people who have come for hypnosis for running sessions. It’s got me online and eagerly checking out what Autumn marathons may be happening nearby.

Every runner knows that you have to get out and get the training done. Whether on your own or with others, you want a mix of shorter and longer runs and at faster and slower paces. Yet one area of training that is so often overlooked, and that can be the difference between running well or crashing out, is the mental side of your performance.

Sometimes it can be about the negative thoughts and excuses that stop you even lacing up your trainers to get out and run. It could be elements of self sabotage or a lack of belief in your own capability to do more or go faster. You may struggle with anxiety and self-doubt about running and racing. And when you do run and you start to get tired, you definitely need to know how you can counter that nagging little voice in your head that is telling you to slow down or stop.

Your mindset is important for your training and racing. You need to have the focus, confidence, motivation and self belief to get in the zone and consistently do what you are capable of doing.

For inspiration, here is what one of my clients, Steve, had to say after his hypnosis for running sessions that helped him absolutely smash his marathon:

How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Jun 18, 2025 | Weight Loss

How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Hypnotherapy

Do you struggle with knowing how to lose weight and keep it off?

You’ve probably followed diet after diet and diet you lose some weight. But slowly and surely all those pounds creep back on again. Every time you go back on another diet it seems harder and harder to shift the weight and to stick with it. You’re probably tired of the yo-yo dieting and constantly draining your willpower to try and lose weight and keep it off.

You want to lose weight so that you feel healthier, happier and more comfortable in yourself. You want to feel good when you look in the mirror, feel more confident and enjoy life more.

Yet those eating habits keep holding you back. It all seems like hard work, effort and a struggle. Maybe it’s the eating habits, maybe you are emotional eating and maybe you’ve done the same things with food year after year and now you don’t seem to be able to take back control over food and eating. You eat when you aren’t hungry, make unhealthy choices, snack too often and use food to manage your feelings.

You probably know what you need to do to lose weight but your mind sabotages you. Weight loss hypnotherapy can help you to take back control over your own thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions around food. You can take control over your eating habits, feel motivated and enjoy eating the right amount for you.

If you need some help to successfully lose weight then hypnotherapy can help you to move forward towards a slimmer, healthier, happier you. Getting your mind in the right place is how to lose weight and then keep it off.

Ely Hero Awards Most Amazing Professional

by Dan Regan | Jun 16, 2025 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Ely Hero Awards Most Amazing Professional Nomination

I’m delighted to find out that I’ve been nominated in the Most Amazing Professional category in the 2025 Ely Hero Awards.

The Ely Hero awards were created to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and impact of individuals and organisations within Ely and the surrounding villages. It really is a great honour to be nominated regardless of what happens next in the judging process.

And, of course, massive thanks to whoever of my clients nominated me in the Most Amazing Professional category. Thanks so much!

There are ten categories and this one is designed to recognise community professionals who make a difference and who have gone above and beyond.

I always do whatever I can to help my clients to overcome issues such as anxiety, low self-esteem, unhealthy habits, confidence issues, fears and phobias. You can find just some of the positive results my clients have achieved over in the reviews on this website (go and have a look here: Hypnotherapy Reviews).

Ely Business of the Year Silver Winner!

by Dan Regan | Jun 8, 2025 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Ely Business of the Year Silver Winner!

This week the SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards took place. And I’m delighted to share that I brought home the Silver award for Ely Business of the Year.

There are so many awesome businesses in Ely so I’m thrilled to have won this award. A huge thanks to Kings School for sponsoring the awards and to the SME award organisers.

And massive thanks to everyone who has worked with me over the last year, And thanks to all of you awesome people who continue to support and encourage me in helping as many people as I can to take back control over their own thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions.

I feel so blessed to have achieved another award for doing what I love. And, of course, whilst awards are wonderful, it is successfully helping people that gives me a real buzz. Just check out all of the awesome reviews over here: Hypnotherapy Reviews

I’ll now add this latest award to my roll of honour!

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