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ARFID Food Phobia

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Eating Disorders

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Weight Loss

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Anxiety & Fears

Online Therapy Services

Hypnotherapy services are available Australia wide and internationally via Zoom

Specialist Hypnotherapy logo 60x60The primary goal of Specialist Hypnotherapy is to help clients break free of their negative behaviors and habits. We specialise in Eating Disorders, Anxiety & Stress, and Weight Loss & Food Addictions.

Our Rapid ARFID Therapy program is a successful and internationally recognised treatment for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

Our Eating Disorder, Anxiety and Weight Loss & Food Addiction therapy programs utilise hypnosis and psychotherapy to deliver life changing outcomes for clients.

Glenn Roberston
Glenn Robertson

glenn@specialisthypnotherapy.com.au

0416 135 180

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Glenn is a Government Accredited Clinical Hypnotherapist specialising in helping clients with ARFID (Selective Eating Disorder), Eating Disorders, Anxiety and Phobias. Glenn is one of the few therapists in Australia using the successful Rapid ARFID Therapy protocol to treat children, adolescents and adults with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

Hanlie van der Walt
Hanlie Robertson

hanlie@specialisthypnotherapy.com.au

0403 015 339

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Hanlie is a Clinical Hypnotherapist with a Masters in Medical Social Work and Counselling. Hanlie has a passion for helping clients with Weight Loss and Food Addiction challenges. Food addiction behaviour consist of the excessive intake of high sugar foods, high fat foods, or an inability to control negative eating behaviours.

Services

Conditions that can be successfully treated with Specialised Hypnosis Programs
ARFID – Food Phobia
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ARFID – Selective Eating Disorder

  • Does the taste, smell or texture of food make you anxious?
  • Do you only have a small amount of ‘safe’ foods?
  • Do you want to eat foods, but your mind and body won’t let you?
  • Have you been called a ‘fussy eater’, but never grown out of it?
  • Our Program will help you regain control and reduce your fear around new foods.
Eating Disorders – Changing Behaviors
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Eating Disorders

  • Anorexia, Bulimia, BED (Binge Eating Disorder)
  • It’s not about the food; it’s all about the emotions driving the behaviour
  •  Find out what this Eating Disorder part of you is trying to achieve
  • Gain understanding and strength, and begin to think and do things differently
  • Our Eating Disorder programs give you a new perspective on your way forward
Weight Loss Without Dieting
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Weight Loss & Food Addiction

  • Do you battle with eating too much, or are addicted to high sugar and high fat foods?
  • We’ll help you be the shape and size you want to be, without dieting
  • You’ll feel fuller for longer, and naturally want to eat less, and have less cravings
  • Virtual Gastric Band hypnosis can turbo charge your weight loss
  • Program has proven 95% effective in clinical trials
Freedom From Fears & Habits
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Changing Unwanted Behaviors

  • Is anxiety and stress impacting on your enjoyment of life?
  • Do you have a fear of animals, insects, public speaking, driving, enclosed spaces, etc?
  • Do you feel in a rut, unable to break free of negative behaviors and habits?
  • Hypnotherapy can help reduce anxiety, alleviate fears and change unwanted behaviors
  • Our Rapid Hypnosis and Therapy Programs are designed to bring you back into balance

Specialist Hypnotherapy logo 60x60Selective Eating Disorder SED/ARFID Australian Support Group

Proudly sponsored by Specialist Hypnotherapy. This Facebook group offers support to those suffering from ARFID, their family and their friends. Become a part of a growing community building awareness and hope around SED/ARFID in Australia.

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Adolescent and adult ARFID sufferers who calmly try non safe foods after one Rapid ARFID Therapy session 90%
ARFID sufferers who display a comorbid anxiety disorder 74%
Paediatricians unfamiliar with the diagnosis of ARFID 63%
ARFID sufferers who are male 57%

Client Testimonials

Read what our clients think.

Hanlie has been has been very supportive and understanding of PTSD and it’s related anxiety and phobia conditions.

jonesy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

My mother in law had some sessions with Glenn and now on way to full recovery from anxiety. Well done….
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hemmat
…now on way to full recovery from anxiety

Having been a smoker for 10 years. I’d tried many times to quit with patches, tablets & inhalers. You name it I had tried them all!
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…been a smoker for 10 years.

Blogs

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Confused

I’ve got ARFID. Why can’t I eat different foods?

ARFID, Conditions

At some point, every person with ARFID asks themselves these simple questions:

I’d like to eat something different, but when I try I just can’t.
Why does this happen to me? Why can’t I be like everyone else?

What is it that overrides the logical wants of an ARFID person, and prevents them from expanding their safe group of foods? This article will get to the heart of this dilemma. But firstly, what is ARFID?

What is ARFID?
ARFID is the acronym for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Since 2013 ARFID has been listed as a recognised Eating Disorder in the DSM-5 (the Diagnostic….

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What does ARFID and fear of dogs have in common?

ARFID, Conditions

When we say someone has a FEAR of dogs, we’re not talking about someone who just doesn’t LIKE dogs. A FEAR (or phobia) of dogs means the person will cross to the opposite side of the road rather than be close to a dog; they won’t visit their friends if they know there is a dog in the house; their body goes into a state of anxiety and panic if a dog gets close to them (even if it’s on a lead, a happy dog or just trying to play and lick them); the thought of touching or patting a dog turns their stomach and makes them extremely uncomfortable.

Logically they may look at a dog and see that it is non threatening, but there is an inner part of them that dislikes dogs so intensely, that they can’t bring themselves to touch the dog even if they wanted ……

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Addicted to sugar

All, Conditions, Weight loss

As a nation we are killing ourselves with sugar and feeling miserable, guilty and powerless to do anything about it.

Sugar addiction is a combination of learned habits (often from very early childhood), cultural habits (read the labels of almost anything in an Australian supermarket and you will find added sugar), environment (kids that eat a lot of sugar often have parents that do the same) and emotional and life states. Hypnosis is an excellent way to address these ingrown, subconscious habits and modes of behaviour and treat them effectively and permanently.

Sugar is an enormous health problem across the developed world and increasingly in the developing world as well. While sugar does not cause diabetes itself – obesity is …..

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What is fibromyalgia

All, Conditions, fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia mostly affects women, although men can also develop the condition. It tends to develop during middle adulthood and affects about two to eight per cent of the population. The most common symptoms are nerve pain, chronic muscle pain, lowered pain threshold and tenderness but the condition is variable in severity and there are other symptoms that can be manifest. These can include muscle spasms, bowel or bladder problems, numbness and tingling, chronic headaches, vision problems and sensitivity to noise, lights, pressure or temperature. Related problems can include extreme fatigue, sleep disorders, problems with memory and concentration and depression.

Pain can be localised to certain areas of the body in some of those affected but in others it can be quite widespread. The pain can …..

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How hypnosis cures smoking

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Hypnotherapy works directly with your subconscious mind to treat unwanted negative behavioural patterns such as cigarette addiction. It removes the smoker’s belief that smoking provides any sort of genuine pleasure or emotional crutch. It removes the feeling of sacrifice and deprivation and therefore rids the smoker of the fear of stopping. Most smokers mistakenly think that they do not have the will power to quit and if they stop smoking they will be unable to enjoy life or cope with stress without cigarettes. By removing the need and desire to smoke, the need for willpower is also removed. Hypnosis channels the smoker’s will against the cigarette rather than leaving them to struggle with an ongoing conflict of wills between the addictive “need” for a cigarette and the desire to be free from ….

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Please contact us to discuss if our hypnotherapy programs can help your particular issue. You can call us or use the contact form below to arrange for a FREE initial phone consultation. Or just ask us a question.

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    Hanlie: 0403 015 339
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    Rosewood Clinic, 2/624 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, VIC, 3150.