Useful Information About My Practice

I hope you find the information below useful, especially because there is so much more to see and do in Kampong Glam!

I Opened my first independent office here in Singapore in 2009, at KeyPoint (now City Gate) in Kampong Glam. I moved to Sultan Plaza in 2015. I chose this area because it has good transport links (get directions here) and the area is one of the most exciting in Singapore (more info here). In the links below you can find lots of information about my practice and the location.

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Ennquiry Stage

At the enquiry stage, a potential client often reaches out to a few different therapists or to a specific one. The latter depends on whether they are referred by someone they know or if there's something about the therapist's website that strikes a chord! In either case, I start by providing a Free Consultation because each client responds to therapy, especially hypnotherapy, differently, (you can read about the Free Consultation here).

There is no obligation to the free consultation but should you choose to continue, the only obligation is to the first session. At the end of the first session, you can choose to go no further but equally, you can continue further into your therapeutic journey. The next choice, is how you want to proceed, i.e. session by session or by taking one of my very discounted packages (view my fees here).

To discover what happens next, please continue to the next section.

First Steps Towards Therapy

Going Deeper Into Therapy

If you choose to go beyond the first session, historically, it has been established that the average number of sessions lies somewhere between 5 and 7 sessions. The objective of multiple sessions is to get you to a point where you can start to better manage your emotions. However, some very severe/traumatic emotional, mental and psychological conditions will require more attention.

When it comes to the efficacy across the many therapy types, the most effective therapy to bring about a workable resolution of challenging life issues, hypnotherapy stands out above most. It was during the developing stages of my practice that I put together my own unique way of delivering hypnotherapeutic interventions, a style I call Trans4mational Therapy! Generally speaking, hypnotherapy would be better described as Hypnosis - Therapy because it is a two-part process. One part is hypnosis and the other is psychotherapy, i.e. the introduction of a psychotherapeutic intervention through the medium of hypnosis.

Both empirically and scientifically, I believe the phenomena we call hypnosis occurs when the brain is in specific states of neural oscillation (brainwaves), i.e. theta and delta states. It is noteworthy to mention, that while hypnosis is similar to sleep states, there are subtle differences (and you can read more about that here). Because theta waves emanate from the hippocampus (the brain's memory processor) sleep states play a crucial role in consolidating (making memories) and reconsolidating memory systems (updating memories). Because human difficulty or trauma is a consequence of some form of memory activation, emotional or otherwise, it would appear that we are somewhat powerless to intervene! To be clear, memory isn't the cause of a problem, merely the place where the instructions for it are stored. In that sense, brain regions (inner/intracellular processing) and the various communications (neurotransmission) within and across them, are the cause of problems. Memory or the expression of a specific response to novel stimuli is usually based on a subconscious evaluation of past memories. While we seemingly learn to be more adaptable, through exposure and experience, I believe this often creates the illusion of a novel response to an external novel stimulus. The reality seems to suggest that somehow our memory database, still plays some role, even if it's only a small one.

A number of people, including some hypnotherapists, seem to believe that if you merely close your eyes and think or visualise something, you are in hypnosis. I disagree with that view and if you are interested, I go into that in much more detail in the above link.

So, to recap, therapy can be seen as any method of therapeutic intervention that brings about a change in brain function. This can be something observed personally through introspection, externally or experientially by observation, be it through self-awareness or a third party. Because of its ability to communicate with the subconscious brain (thru auditory systems), hypnotherapy is quicker and as effective, if not more so, than more widely used disciplines, e.g. CBT! Thus hypnotherapy creates a change in feeling, thought and behaviour. Ultimately this leads to the awareness of feelings that life is now infinitely more peaceful, pleasant and purposeful!

So, if you wish to discuss any issue you, a friend or a loved one has, please take advantage of my free consultation. After all, the only thing you have to lose is the problem!

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Trans4mational Therapy On Line World Wide

While I am no longer located in Kampong Glam, it remains a place where I spent over 12 years and have lasting and pleasant memories of this unique part of Singapore. Despite not being in this amazing cultural centre of Singapore, I am still very much in business and now provide all of my therapy services online via Zoom. I also intend to expand my range of hypnotic recordings and will at some point start a Podcast for people who are interested in the magic of this old and mystical art, the Art of Managing Life to its fullest!

Kampong Glam was land set aside for Sultan Hussein Mohamed Shah and 600 family members in 1824 after he signed the treaty that ceded Singapore to the East India Company.⁵ He instructed the Temenggong Abdul Rahman to build his palace here – a large attap-roof Istana (palace).⁶ Aside from the sultan’s family, residents of the area included the Bugis, Arabs, Javanese and Boyanese. By 1824, at least one-third of the residents were Chinese.⁷ Muslim immigrants were allocated to reside at Kampong Glam. These migrants settled amongst their own ethnic groups, which gave rise to different “mini-kampongs” such as Kampong Bugis, Kampong Java and Kampong Malacca. Stamford Raffles himself donated $3,000 for a “respectable mosque”, which served the community until 1924 when the current landmark, Sultan Mosque, was built. The location of Kampong Glam caused a rift between Raffles and William Farquhar – the latter believed that the land would be better used as the island’s business centre.⁸ Kampong Glam was developed in 1831 by 200 convict workers in eight months, at a total cost of $500. Article source

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Useful Information About My Practice

I hope you find the information below useful, especially because there is so much more to see and do in Kampong Glam!

Practical Information

Location and Appointments

— Address

— Contact

— Legal