Welcome to
Illuminated Minds
Clinic
by Jo Vandekelf
BACP Registered Counsellor
CNHC Registered Hypnotherapist
Integrative Therapy
Empowering you to live in harmony with your mind
Professional support
Counselling
Counselling offers a peaceful space where you don’t have to pretend everything is fine. Whether you’re living with anxiety, carrying the heavy fog of low mood, struggling with self-doubt, or navigating painful life changes or past experiences, I’m here to listen and help you make sense of things, at your own pace.
Hypnotherapy
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy combines talking therapy with a calm, deeply relaxed state of focus. Rather than dwelling on the past, we look at where you’d like to be and the small steps that can help you get there. Many people find it helpful for anxiety, sleep, fears and changing habits such as smoking or vaping.
Things I can support you with
Anxiety & stress
When worry won’t settle, it can leave you feeling tense, tired and on edge. Together, we can make sense of what’s driving it and help your mind and body find some calm again.
Depression & low mood
When life feels heavy, flat or hard to get through, it can be difficult to see a way forward. Therapy offers a steady space to be heard and to begin finding your footing again.
OCD
Living with intrusive thoughts and the urge to check, repeat or seek reassurance can be exhausting. Together, we can gently make sense of what’s happening and find ways to ease its hold.
Trauma & difficult experiences
Difficult experiences can stay with us long after they’ve passed. In a safe, unhurried space, you can begin to make sense of what you’ve been carrying, at a pace that feels right for you.
Confidence & low self esteem
When the inner critic is loud, it can hold you back from the life you want. Together, we can explore where it comes from and find kinder ways of seeing yourself.
Neurodivergent-affirming therapy
Therapy that respects how your mind works. Whether you’re autistic, ADHD or exploring your neurodivergence, our work is led by you and your lived experience.
Addiction
Recovery looks different for everyone. Whether you’re hoping to stop, cut down or simply understand more, we can work at your pace, without judgement, to explore what sits beneath it.
Menopause Support
The menopause transition can bring changes in mind and body that are hard to put into words. Therapy offers a calm space to make sense of what’s happening and feel more like yourself again.
I support people with a wide range of difficulties. If what you’re going through isn’t listed here, you’re still very welcome to get in touch.
Online, Telephone or Face-to-Face
Sessions can be either face-to-face at my cosy therapy room in Hyde, Cheshire, or online or by telephone to suit your needs and lifestyle.
What clients have said...
I recently completed block sessions of hypnotherapy with
Illuminated Minds Clinic.
Jo is a compassionate, caring human being, and her knowledge shines through during sessions.
She has created such a safe, welcoming space where I felt comfortable opening up about my anxiety and how it had prevented me in life.
For those thinking of trying hypnotherapy, but feeling a bit nervous or unsure, can assure you, it is such a gentle, pleasant approach, so much so I will be continuing my sessions with Jo sporadically.
Jo has enabled me to have a more rational, clear mindset in life, helping me to accomplish many goals I would never dreamed of, as my anxiety had always held me back.
I can't thank her enough!
My sleep pattern is definitely better and more restful, from doing the hypnotherapy with Jo.
I also find I can find a sense of calm easier when feeling out of control instead of being crippled with anxiety. Also, I feel I have a much stronger belief in my self worth and it has helped hugely in reminding myself to find joy in the small things in life again to which I will be for ever grateful.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me through such a difficult time in my life and helping me believe in myself again.
I would most definitely recommend Jo to others, the whole experience has been life changing for me.
I went into this not expecting much as I had been suffering with my problems for soooooo long and I had no hope of this helping me with them. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. I went into my first session crying and had my last session crying but for different reasons. My first session was tears of desperation and despair and my last session was tears of happiness for all that had changed.
I can’t believe that I got my life back!
I got myself back! I genuinely never thought that would happen, I was so far into the rabbit hole and I couldn't pull myself out of it. But Jo was amazing. She's changed my outlook. I don't suffer like I did before.
I can do things I haven't done for months. I can go out on my own. I feel confident. I feel happy. I feel like me! I cannot recommend Jo enough, she is so amazing and positive and happy and she will absolutely bring out the best in you!
She is awesome and I can't thank her enough!
I Could not recommend Jo more! I've had hypnotherapy in the past and felt it wasn't explained or worked for me properly so hearing about Jo through a friend I was apprehensive but felt defeated with my anxiety and OCD and thought there was no coming back.
My experience has been absolutely incredible! I feel listened to and really feel Jo wants me to have an easier way of thinking she really cares about making an impact on my life. Since I started hypnotherapy I can not explain the positive turn around it has on me, I feel brand new! I am able to do things so simple that I never thought possible and all my friends and family have seen such a positive change in my behaviour not just in my actions but my way of thinking and understanding of myself which is incredible as nobody expected there to be a turn around especially one as Jo has been able to help me reach.
I can not recommend Jo enough and cannot and will not stop telling everybody I know. She is such a calm kind open spirit with no judgement. Hypnotherapy should be for everybody not just people who feel there's an issue that needs fixing. Thank you Jo you've quite literally turned my life around!
Contact
Our location
Valli Opticians, First Floor, 88 Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 1ES
Online via Zoom
Phone
07958 711622
jo@illuminatedmindsclinic.co.uk
