Take back your calm, your focus and your sleep. In person in central London or online.
You notice it the moment the room goes quiet. The ringing, the hissing, the buzzing that follows you to your desk, into conversations and, worst of all, into bed. Over time, tinnitus can start to feel like it is running your life: you dread silence, you struggle to concentrate, and every night becomes a battle to fall asleep.
It does not have to stay this way. The sound itself is only part of the problem. The bigger part is how your brain and body have learned to react to it, and that reaction can change. Hypnotherapy works directly on that reaction, so the tinnitus loses its grip on your attention, your mood and your nights.
The goal of our work together is not to fight the sound. It is to help you reach a point where:
When tinnitus first appears, the brain often treats it as a warning signal. It keeps checking for the sound, and stress, tiredness and worry turn up that alarm even further. The result is a loop: the more you notice it, the more distressing it feels, and the more distressing it feels, the more you notice it.
Hypnotherapy works on every part of that loop:
You can read more in my articles on tinnitus and stress and why tinnitus feels louder at night.
UK guidance from NICE recommends psychological approaches for people who are distressed by tinnitus, because changing how you respond to the sound can make a real difference to how much it affects you (NICE, 2020). Hypnotherapy works on exactly these areas: stress, attention, sleep and your emotional response. It does not remove the sound itself, and it works best alongside support from your GP or audiologist.
1. A free 15-minute call. We talk about how tinnitus is affecting you and what you would like to change.
2. Your first session. We map out when the tinnitus bothers you most and what makes it worse, and you experience your first hypnosis session, so you leave already knowing how it feels to be calmer.
3. A focused course of sessions. Each session builds on the last, and you receive recordings and self-hypnosis techniques to use at home, so your progress continues between sessions and long after we finish.
Before starting, please make sure you have seen your GP or an audiologist, especially if your tinnitus is in one ear, pulses with your heartbeat or came on suddenly.
I see clients in person at Islington Therapy House, 364 City Road, London EC1V 2PY, about a five-minute walk from Angel station and within easy reach of Old Street, King’s Cross and the City. I also work online via Zoom with clients across London, the rest of the UK and abroad. Online sessions follow exactly the same structure as in-person sessions, and many clients find it easier to relax at home.
I am Antonios Koletsas, a clinical hypnotherapist and psychologist with a First Class Honours BSc in Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London, and training in Ericksonian hypnotherapy with Stephen Brooks at BHRTI. I am registered with the GHSC, GHR and CNHC, and a member of the National Hypnotherapy Society. You can read more about me and how I work.
Hypnotherapy helps with the stress, poor sleep, anxiety and constant focus on the sound that make tinnitus so hard to live with. Many people find that as their reaction calms, the tinnitus becomes far less intrusive.
Hypnotherapy does not remove the sound itself. The aim is for it to matter much less, so it fades into the background and stops taking over your days and nights.
Yes. Better sleep is one of the main things we work on, with a self-hypnosis routine for bedtime and for when you wake in the night.
Yes. Online sessions via Zoom follow the same structure as in person, and practising at home makes it easy to use the techniques at bedtime.
You have lived with the noise long enough. Book a free, no-obligation 15-minute call and let us talk about how to help you feel calm, focused and in control again.
Book your free 15-minute call or call 020 7101 3284. You can see session fees on my fees page.