✨ Hypnosis in good company
If it works for them, it can work for you.
Olympians, Oscar winners, prime ministers and scientists have all quietly used hypnotherapy to lose weight, quit smoking, sharpen their focus or finally let go of a fear. You're in remarkable company.
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Athletes
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Musicians
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Actors
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Scientists
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Leaders
In good company
From Einstein to Beckham
A long, quiet tradition
At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the Russian team travelled with eleven hypnotists
For centuries, people from every walk of life have used the power of hypnosis to make real change — to win a title, leave a habit behind, sleep through the night or simply feel calmer in their own skin. The names below are only the ones the public knows about.
By what they came for
The same tool. Many different reasons.
Hypnotherapy adapts to the goal. Here's a snapshot of the public figures who have used it — grouped by what brought them to the chair.
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Weight loss
For a healthier body
From singers to royalty, hypnosis has helped reset eating habits without crash diets or willpower battles.
- Lily Allen
- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
- Geri Halliwell
- Sophie Dahl
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Personal challenges
For fears, habits and healing
Phobias, addictions, insomnia, grief — hypnosis has quietly resolved what years of other approaches could not.
- Bobby Davro
- Fergie (Black Eyed Peas)
- Kevin Costner
- Tara Palmer‑Tomkinson
- Jackie Kennedy Onassis
- Jessica Alba
- Martha Stewart
- Mel Gibson
- Orlando Bloom
- Paul Daniels
- Paula Yates
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Quit smoking
For a smoke‑free life
These names walked away from cigarettes with hypnosis — many in just a handful of sessions.
- Drew Barrymore
- Britney Spears
- Billy Joel
- Anthony LaPaglia
- Matt Damon
- Mark Knopfler
- Charlotte Church
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Ben Affleck
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Winona Ryder
- Ashton Kutcher
- Charlize Theron
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Excellence & creativity
For ideas, focus and flow
Inventors, composers and writers throughout history used hypnotic states to access deeper creativity.
- Albert Einstein
- Sylvester Stallone
- Lord Tennyson
- Antoine‑Laurent de Lavoisier
- Aldous Huxley
- Carl Jung
- Dolly Parton
- Brynne Edelsten
- Dr. Joseph Guillotin
- Goethe
- Henry Ford
- Lilly Tomlin
- Mozart
- Nikola Tesla
- Rachmaninov
- Sigmund Freud
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Thomas Edison
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Sports improvement
For the edge that wins
Olympic medals, world titles and championship rings — many quietly credit their hypnotist.
- David Beckham
- Jack Nicklaus
- Frank Bruno
- Jimmy Connors
- Johnny Davis
- Kate Staples
- Ken Norton
- Kevin McBride
- Lee Haney
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- Mike Tyson
- Nigel Benn
- Robin Smith
- Phil Jackson & Chicago Bulls
- Michael Jordan
- Kobe Bryant
- Shaquille O’Neal
- New York Mets
- Richard Lee
- Rod Carew
- Steve Collins
- Steve Hooker
- Andre Agassi
- Crystal Palace FC
- Billy Finnegan
- Vincent Hancock
- Glen Eller
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“Hypnotherapy is recognised today as a completely natural practice — no different to meditation, reiki or yoga. So why shouldn't you access the same power that's already within you?”
— Sam Javed
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Your turn
The same door is open to you. Walk through it.
Whether it's weight, smoking, focus, fear or something you've never said out loud — Sam will listen, and gently show you what hypnotherapy can do.
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