Sleep hypnotherapy online across the UK or face-to-face near Stoke-on-Trent


You lie in bed watching the hours tick by, calculating how little sleep you'll get. Your mind races with bright images and endless internal chatter. You toss and turn. You try everything, but sleep eludes you. The next day, you're exhausted, irritable, and unable to function at your best. When this pattern has been going on for a while, bedtime itself can start to become associated with effort, frustration and being awake.
Imagine getting into bed and feeling genuinely sleepy. Your thoughts slow down, your muscles soften, and before you know it, you're asleep. Just like it should be. Then imagine waking up actually refreshed — not groggy, not exhausted, but ready for your day.
The Sleep Restoration Programme is designed to help change the patterns that can keep sleep feeling like something you have to make happen. Using hypnotherapy alongside practical mind-calming techniques, we'll work with the thoughts, feelings and learned responses associated with being awake at night, helping sleep begin to feel more natural again.

"My dreams had been off the scale, and I was seeking help to quieten them. The sessions proved to be effective and also gave me some useful tools to help me. I found the whole process to be calming and meditative. I would thoroughly recommend Inner Insight Hypnotherapy to anyone seeking to improve their life."
— Sleep Restoration client, East Sussex

Unlike generic sleep advice or one-size-fits-all approaches, this programme:
Combines hypnotherapy with practical techniques tailored to your sleep patterns
Explores the particular thoughts, feelings and habits that may be keeping the pattern going
Works with both conscious habits and more automatic responses around sleep
Helps you develop a calmer, less effortful response to bedtime
Gives you practical techniques you can continue using between and after sessions
Have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep
Wake up exhausted despite hours in bed
Experience racing thoughts or anxiety at bedtime
Have tried other approaches without lasting success
Would prefer a non-medication approach to improving your sleep
Want practical techniques you can continue using yourself
Have untreated sleep apnoea or other medical sleep disorders
Are looking for a single-session quick fix
Aren't willing to practice simple techniques at home
Have a serious or complex mental health condition where hypnotherapy would need to be discussed with your healthcare professional first
A: This programme combines hypnotherapy with practical mind-calming techniques to create change at multiple levels. The programme isn't simply about relaxation. We'll explore the particular patterns associated with your sleep and use hypnotherapy alongside practical techniques to help you respond differently at bedtime.
A: We'll identify patterns such as racing thoughts, anticipating another bad night or trying too hard to sleep, and work on developing a calmer automatic response to bedtime.
A: The approach is tailored to the way your particular sleep difficulty operates rather than assuming everyone struggles with sleep for the same reason.
A: Hypnotherapy may also be useful where distressing dreams or nightmares are contributing to disrupted sleep. We can discuss whether this is appropriate for you during the assessment consultation.
A: You'll be given simple techniques to practise between sessions, helping you reinforce the work we do together and develop skills you can continue using afterwards.
The programme is structured around three sessions because this gives us time to understand your sleep patterns, work with them and reinforce the changes. For many people this provides a useful framework for improvement, although everyone is different. If it looks as though further support would be helpful, we'll discuss that together rather than automatically adding more sessions.
The programme includes three individual sessions, with each stage building on the previous one.
Session 1: Understanding your sleep patterns and beginning the change process. We'll identify your stuck ‘sleep patterns’ and begin changing the responses that may be keeping them going. You'll learn the Jin Shin Jyutsu sleep sequence and install a relaxing 'sleep anchor'.
Session 2: Working more deeply with the thoughts, responses and habits relevant to your sleep. We'll continue changing those stuck 'sleep patterns'. You'll also learn self-hypnosis for bedtime relaxation, and practical techniques to calm racing thoughts and prepare you for sleep.
Session 3: Strengthening new responses and giving you techniques to continue supporting better sleep. This final session focuses on reinforcing the changes you've made and helping your new sleep responses become more familiar and automatic. Through hypnosis, we'll consolidate the techniques you've learned so they're easier to draw on when you need them.

Phillip trained at the Academy of renowned Harley Street hypnotherapist Andrew Parr, holds diplomas in Advanced Hypnotherapy and Advanced Hypnotherapy and Counselling, and is registered with the IHA and ICBCH. He holds enhanced DBS certification. Phillip brings a structured, evidence-based approach to hypnotherapy, informed by the latest therapeutic techniques.
Approximately 90-minute first session where we identify the stuck 'sleep patterns' keeping you awake
2 individually tailored follow-up sessions (approximately 60 minutes each) to build on work from the first session
Self-hypnosis, relaxation and mind-calming techniques for ongoing self-support
Phone, text or email support between sessions


Living with poor sleep can be exhausting, particularly when you've spent a long time trying different things or trying harder and harder to make yourself sleep.
If you're ready to explore a different approach, we can start with a free assessment consultation. It's an opportunity to talk about what's been happening, ask questions and decide whether working together feels right for you.
Full payment is taken on booking.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before your session. After that, an £80 cancellation fee applies and the remaining balance will be refunded.
Occasionally a little more support may be helpful beyond the programme; if that's the case, additional sessions are £80 each.
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