Reconnecting with yourself...
Sometimes the mind holds onto patterns, fears, or beliefs that once protected us but now hold us back. You might find yourself stuck in cycles, procrastination that delays your dreams, anxiety that limits your choices, or old habits that no longer serve who you're becoming. Perhaps you're questioning your direction, seeking clarity on your purpose, or ready to create meaningful goals but unsure where to start. You know you're capable of more, but something invisible seems to keep you circling back to the same place.
Hypnotherapy accesses your subconscious mind in a deeply relaxed state, making it easier to change thoughts, behaviours, and emotional responses. During sessions, the mind becomes more open to positive suggestions, helping shift patterns that may feel difficult to change through willpower alone.
Working With Me
Clients often tell me they feel heard and understood. That understanding creates a strong foundation, and from there we work together to explore what has been influencing your experiences and holding things in place.
From that point, space opens for new awareness, where patterns can be seen more clearly and change begins to feel more possible in everyday life.

What I Do
I work with you towards your goals, using a practical, forward-looking approach that builds on your natural capacity for change.
I look beyond the presenting problem. We don't just work on weight loss or anxiety; we work together to understand what may be contributing to these issues, rather than focusing only on the surface experience. Whether that's unresolved feelings from earlier experiences, childhood patterns, feelings of not being enough, or emotions that may not have been fully recognised before.
Working together online:
All sessions are conducted via secure video consultation from the comfort of your own space. Each session is tailored to your specific needs, combining conversation, deeply relaxing hypnotherapy, and practical strategies that support your progress.
We work together as partners in your progress. My role is to help you access your own capacity for change, supporting you as you move towards what you’re seeking.
How I can help
I work with people who are ready to invest in themselves and create genuine change.
Life Direction & Purpose - when you're questioning your path or ready to align your life with what truly matters
Goal Setting & Achievement - for those who want clarity and accountability to move forward
Weight Management - understanding the emotional and behavioural patterns that influence weight and eating
Anxiety and Stress - that's affecting your quality of life
Fears and Phobias - when reactions feel out of proportion or start to limit everyday choices
Chronic Pain - impacting your daily wellbeing
Low Confidence - when self-doubt lingers, even alongside achievement
Major Life Transitions - separation, divorce, or significant change
Career & Performance - when you're ready to step up but something's holding you back
If what you are experiencing is not listed here, please get in touch [email protected]
Weight Management
You know that feeling, don’t you? When you look in the mirror and think, “this time will be different.” Maybe you’ve tried countless approaches, or perhaps you’ve recently achieved weight loss and there’s that quiet worry in the back of your mind — what if it comes back?
Here’s what I’ve discovered working with people just like you: the relationship with food lives in your mind. When we transform that relationship, everything else often follows naturally. It’s not really about the food, is it? It’s about the thoughts that happen before you eat, the feelings that drive certain choices, the patterns that feel automatic.
What if your mind already knows how to have a healthy relationship with food, it’s just been following old instructions that no longer serve you?
Two Paths, One Destination
If you’re ready to manage your weight
Perhaps you’ve experienced the ups and downs of strict diets, rules, and willpower. Weight management doesn’t have to feel like a struggle. It can become a natural part of life, guided by your mind, your habits, and your body’s ability to find balance.
If you’ve already lost weight
Maybe through lifestyle changes, medication, or determination. Now comes the part no one talks about - how do you make it last? How do you live without the worry that old patterns might return?
If you’re dealing with IBS or digestive issues
The gut-brain connection is powerful. By addressing the stress, anxiety, and emotional patterns that can influence digestion, many people notice relief alongside their weight management journey.
If you have a diagnosed digestive condition, I will need confirmation from your GP that hypnotherapy is suitable alongside your medical care.
Both paths lead to the same destination: a mind that works with you, not against you.
Please note Weight Management is a minimum of 4 sessions commitment
Your Experience
Many clients share experiences like:
“I don’t think about food all the time anymore.”
“I can have treats and just enjoy one or two.”
“Food doesn’t control my emotions anymore.”
“I finally trust myself around any food.”
Sessions are relaxing, and many people describe them as the most peaceful part of their week. Changes often feel natural rather than forced, helping you build genuine confidence in maintaining healthy habits.
The programme usually runs over a few weeks, with the number of sessions tailored to your individual needs. Some people find extra support helpful for emotional eating, motivation, or specific triggers.
Special Consideration
If you’ve already lost weight through lifestyle changes, medical programmes, or injections, you’ve done incredible work. Now comes the part that often gets overlooked, helping your mind catch up with your body.
Sometimes the body changes faster than the mind. The weight may come off, but old thinking patterns, the relationship with food, and emotional responses can still follow the old “programme.”
This work supports your mind in aligning with your new reality, helping you enjoy your relationship with food with more confidence, and balance.
Anxiety
That feeling when your mind won’t stop racing, when your chest tightens for no obvious reason. When everyday situations feel overwhelming, and you’re exhausted from constantly being on edge.
If you’re experiencing anxiety or stress, you’re not alone. Whether it’s general anxiety that affects much of your day, social anxiety that limits where you go and who you see, work-related stress that follows you home, or the persistent feeling of not being good enough despite your achievements, these patterns can feel difficult to change.
By working with your subconscious mind through hypnotherapy, we can support changes in these automatic responses, helping you feel calmer, more balanced, and better able to manage life’s challenges.
I Work With People Experiencing...
General Anxiety & Worry
Constant worry, racing thoughts, difficulty relaxing, or that background hum of unease that never quite goes away.
Social Anxiety
Nervousness in social situations, fear of judgement, avoiding gatherings, or feeling self-conscious around others.
Overwhelm
Feeling stretched by everyday tasks, or that sense that everything is too much to handle.
Work Stress & Imposter Syndrome
Job-related stress, feeling like a fraud despite your success, fear of being “found out,” or constant pressure to perform.
Important
Hypnotherapy works best alongside appropriate medical care. If you are taking medication for severe anxiety or depression, or experiencing significant mental health challenges, please continue working with your doctor. Hypnotherapy can complement medical treatment but is not a replacement for it.
How Hypnotherapy Can Help
Anxiety often begins as your brain's attempt to protect you a survival response that's become overactive. Through solution focused hypnotherapy, we work with your subconscious mind to help dial down that heightened alarm system.
When we're anxious, our rational, problem-solving brain struggles to function properly. Hypnotherapy can help restore balance, allowing you to access your natural ability to feel calmer, think clearly, and respond to situations rather than react automatically.
Many people find they begin to
Experience a quieter mind with less constant worry
Feel more grounded and present in their daily life
Notice physical tension beginning to ease
Sleep more restfully without racing thoughts
Handle previously difficult situations with more confidence
Develop practical tools to manage stress when it appears
Recognise anxious patterns earlier and respond differently
This isn't about eliminating all stress, that's not realistic or even desirable. It's about changing your relationship with anxiety so it no longer controls your choices, limits your life, or drains your energy.
Building Lasting Resilience
What makes solution-focused hypnotherapy different from just ‘relaxation techniques’ is that we focus on creating solutions and build new responses, rather than just managing symptoms. We help your brain create new neural pathways, softly rewiring how you respond to stress and perceived threats.
You already have the capacity for calm within you. Sometimes anxiety and stress patterns just need updating, like outdated software running in the background. Through hypnotherapy, we help your mind remember its natural ability to feel safe, grounded, and capable.
Confidence
You know there's more to you than what you're currently showing the world. Perhaps you hold back in meetings, stay quiet when you have something to say, or downplay your achievements. Maybe you procrastinate on things that matter, struggle with self-doubt, or find it difficult to assert your needs in relationships or at work.
Confidence isn't about becoming someone you're not, it's about removing the barriers that stop you being fully yourself. Those internal voices that question your worth, the automatic habits of self-sabotage, the patterns of putting everyone else first whilst your own goals remain on hold.
Through solution-focused hypnotherapy, we work with the subconscious patterns that hold you back, helping you access the confident, capable person you already are underneath the doubt and hesitation.
Working With Your Subconscious Mind
Many confidence issues and limiting patterns were formed years ago, through childhood experiences, past criticism, or situations where you learned to play small or doubt yourself. These patterns often run automatically, without conscious awareness. Hypnotherapy allows us to access and update these old programmes.
We work with your subconscious mind to replace Limiting Beliefs and Build New Responses
Instead of automatically shrinking back or doubting yourself, you can develop new default responses, speaking up, taking action, trusting your decisions.
Release Past Experiences
Old experiences that still shape how you see yourself can be reframed, reducing their emotional hold.
Strengthen Your Inner Voice
That critical inner voice can become kinder, more encouraging, and more realistic about your true capabilities.
Your Journey
Initial Sessions
We explore what’s holding you back, identify the patterns and beliefs that need updating, and begin creating new, more supportive responses.
Ongoing Work
Changes tend to happen gradually. You might notice small shifts at first, speaking up when you’d usually stay quiet, taking action on something you’ve been avoiding, or handling a situation with more confidence than expected.
Building Momentum
As sessions progress, these small changes accumulate. You may find yourself:
Recognising how much you were holding back
Feeling more like yourself than in years
Making decisions based on what you truly want
Stopping unnecessary apologies or self-doubt
Showing up more present and confident in interactions
The number of sessions varies depending on your goals. Some people achieve significant progress in 4-6 sessions, while others prefer ongoing support as they continue to develop and grow. We work at your pace, tailoring each session to your current needs.
The Transformation
When confidence and self-belief are no longer obstacles, life opens up.
You might find yourself:
Taking opportunities you’d previously talked yourself out of
Speaking up when you’d normally stay silent
Setting boundaries without guilt or over-explaining
Pursuing goals you’d been postponing “until you’re ready”
Handling criticism or rejection without it crushing you
Trusting your decisions and abilities
Feeling comfortable being authentically yourself
Making choices based on what you truly want, not what others expect
Chronic Pain Management
Pain is more than a physical sensation, it’s your body and brain communicating that something needs attention. Signals travel through the nervous system, and sometimes the brain’s responses can amplify or prolong discomfort, even when medical causes have been addressed. Chronic pain is often as much about how your mind interprets these signals as it is about the physical source itself.
Living with persistent pain can affect your energy, mood, work, and relationships. Hypnotherapy offers a complementary approach, helping you explore how your mind and nervous system respond to pain and supporting you in discovering ways to feel more in control of your experience.
It’s important to note that hypnotherapy does not replace medical care, prescribe treatment, or cure underlying conditions. Before starting, your pain should be fully assessed by a qualified healthcare professional, and hypnotherapy can then be used safely alongside any existing medical treatment.
Common Conditions I Work With
People often explore hypnotherapy after trying a variety of treatments, looking for additional ways to feel more in control and reduce the emotional and physical burden of their pain.
Chronic musculoskeletal pain, such as back, neck, or joint discomfort
Migraine or tension headaches, (once fully assessed by a healthcare professional)
Post-injury or post-surgery pain, to help with recovery
Situations where stress, tension, or emotional patterns amplify the perception of pain
Through tailored sessions, you can develop techniques to reduce the emotional and physical impact of pain, improve relaxation, and strengthen your capacity to manage daily life. Every experience is unique, and progress varies from person to person, but the goal is to help you navigate life with chronic pain in a calmer, more supported way.
Hypnotherapy does not claim to remove the physical cause of pain. Instead, it may help support changes in how pain is processed and experienced, including:
How the brain interprets and responds to pain signals
Reducing stress and anxiety that can heighten pain perception
Encouraging muscle relaxation where tension contributes to discomfort
Supporting improved sleep despite ongoing pain
Developing mental strategies to manage pain episodes
Reducing the emotional strain of living with persistent pain
Creating a greater sense of control and resilience
Many people notice that while pain may still be present, their relationship with it changes. It may feel less overwhelming or less dominant in daily life. Some experience a reduction in intensity, while others find they are able to do more, cope better, and feel less restricted by pain.
Important Medical Requirement
Before working on pain management, I may require written confirmation from your doctor or medical consultant that
Your pain has been fully medically investigated
All appropriate medical treatments have been explored
There are no underlying conditions requiring further medical attention
Your doctor supports you exploring hypnotherapy as a complementary approach
This ensures we're working safely and appropriately with pain that's been medically cleared for hypnotherapy support.
What Hypnotherapy Can and Cannot Do
This work doesn’t replace medical care, but it can provide valuable support when people are looking for new ways to cope, adapt, and improve quality of life alongside ongoing treatment.
Hypnotherapy does not cure chronic pain conditions or remove the physical cause of pain. What it may offer is support with pain perception, stress reduction, emotional resilience, and quality of life. Some people experience a noticeable reduction in discomfort; others find the pain is still present but less distressing and easier to live with. Outcomes are individual and cannot be predicted.
Performance & Business
Hypnotherapy for Actors, Business Leaders, Athletes & High Performers
You’ve worked hard to get where you are. You have the talent, the skills, and the experience. Yet sometimes, when it really matters the audition, the presentation, the big meeting, the competition, something gets in the way. Perhaps confidence dips under pressure. Maybe self-doubt appears at the worst possible moment. Or that familiar inner voice starts questioning whether you’re really good enough, despite everything you’ve already achieved.
I understand performance anxiety from the inside. Having worked in media, casting, and production, I’ve seen first-hand how highly capable, talented people can be tripped up by their own thinking at critical moments. It’s rarely a lack of ability, it’s the pressure, the expectations, and the mental noise. Whether you’re an actor preparing for an audition, a business leader stepping into greater responsibility, an athlete competing under scrutiny, or someone whose success depends on performing when it counts, hypnotherapy can help your mind work with you, not against you.
My role is to support, motivate, and help you access the confidence that’s already there so you can show up focused, grounded, and ready to perform at your best.
I Work With...
Actors & Performers
Stage confidence, audition nerves, learning lines, character preparation, managing rejection, and maintaining confidence in a competitive industry.
Athletes & Sports Performance
Mental preparation, focus under pressure, recovering confidence after injury or setback, visualisation, competition nerves, and performance consistency.
Business Leaders & Executives
Leadership presence, stepping into senior roles, board presentations, decision-making under pressure, and managing imposter feelings at leadership level.
Public Speaking & Presentations
Conference speaking, client presentations, pitches, media interviews, webinars, and building confidence when speaking in front of others.
Students & Academics
Exam anxiety, academic pressure, presentations, managing perfectionism, improving focus, and maintaining motivation.
Newly Qualified Therapists & Practitioners
Confidence after qualification, managing self-doubt, trusting your training, finding your professional voice, and feeling more at ease as you step into your new role. Many capable people struggle most at the beginning, not because they lack ability, but because they care deeply about doing a good job. This support focuses on confidence and mindset, not assessing competence or providing professional supervision. It works alongside appropriate training, as you continue to develop in your field.
How I can help
Working With Your Mind’s Peak State
Performance anxiety often comes from your mind trying to protect you from failure or judgement. Hypnotherapy works with your subconscious to reframe these responses, helping you access calm, focused confidence.
Building Unshakeable Confidence
Develop genuine self-belief that stays strong even in the face of rejection, criticism, or setbacks.
Managing Pressure & Nerves
Transform nervous energy into focused performance energy. Recognise anxiety as readiness, not threat, and stay calm when stakes are high.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Align your self-perception with your actual skills and achievements, particularly after promotion or success.
Enhancing Focus & Concentration
Quiet mental noise, maintain concentration, and access flow state more easily under pressure.
Visualisation & Mental Rehearsal
Mentally rehearse performances, presentations, or competitions. The brain treats vivid rehearsal like actual practice, helping you perform at your best.
Each session focuses on strengthening confidence, presence, and mental clarity, helping you perform at your best while staying grounded and in control.
Testimonials
Margareta is an inspiration. She is original and a natural leader in what she does.
I have taken part in group and one to one hypnosis sessions. I feel I’ve moved through many personal blocks especially with my confidence. Her guidance has made a significant impact on my life.
L.H
United Kingdom
I was going through a divorce. Margareta was recommended to me as a life coach. We connected straight away. She understood my world where I was and she helped me rediscover my true self and create a new life, which I was so afraid of stepping into. Now, I am happy and enjoy every single day.
K.H
Hungary
I had a session with Margareta after an operation to help healing and in giving me a positive outlook. It was the most relaxing session; her voice is gentle and calm and I felt safe at all times going into the hypnosis and I felt so deeply relaxed. The day after I felt positive and less upset about my situation.
L.A
United Kingdom
A Collaborative Approach
It’s important to note that the effectiveness of hypnotherapy can vary from person to person. Some individuals may experience immediate results, while others may need multiple sessions to achieve their desired outcomes. The work is a collaborative process, and its success depends on factors such as the client’s willingness to engage.
Additionally, hypnotherapy is often used alongside other therapeutic methods to enhance its effectiveness. While it can offer support in many areas, it is a complementary therapy and is not intended to replace traditional healthcare.
If you’re unsure whether hypnotherapy is suitable for you, it’s advisable to consult with your general practitioner. In some cases, a GP’s consent may be required before treatment can proceed.
Disclaimer: The services offered by Margareta Howson are for personal development and wellbeing support. Hypnotherapy is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment. Always consult with a Medical Practitioner or Therapist for health or mental health concerns. Results from hypnotherapy vary between individuals and cannot be guaranteed.
