I earn a commission when you buy through the links on this site. It doesn’t change what you pay, and it doesn’t decide what gets recommended. Prices are the publisher’s, in US dollars.

What is actually on this site?

Hypnosis sessions you download and listen to. They’re made by Uncommon Knowledge, a British company that has been producing them since 1998, and each one is a single recording of twenty to thirty minutes that you keep and use as often as you like. Their catalogue runs to 1,309 paid titles — 1,215 of them single sessions, the rest packs, Journeys and ten-step courses — which is where the number at the top of this page comes from. In the first week of September 2026 I opened all 1,215 product pages: 1,191 of them I have checked are still on sale at US$18.95, and the other twenty-four no longer have a page of their own.

A single session is US$18.95 — around A$27 — with ninety days to get your money back if it isn’t what you wanted. Packs and courses cost more, and where this site sends you to one the price is on the card. You buy from the publisher, not from me. Their checkout, their refund, their terms.

Why would a working therapist recommend recordings?

Because most people who need help will never sit in my chair. I see clients one at a time, in one city, at Australian consulting rates. A recording costs less than a takeaway meal, arrives in a minute, and can be used at eleven at night nine days before a flight — which is when the problem actually turns up, and when there is no appointment to go to and nobody to ring.

That’s the honest case for a download. Not that it’s better than sitting with someone. That it’s there, at the hour the trouble happens, for the price of lunch.

What can a hypnosis recording actually do?

A session is guided relaxation plus focused suggestion — imagery and calm rather than argument — delivered while the analytical part of your mind is quiet. It isn’t sleep, it isn’t unconsciousness, and nobody else is at the controls. You stay aware the whole way through and you can switch it off mid-sentence.

Where it tends to help is the anticipation: the fortnight before the flight, the week before the appointment, the running total of checking and rehearsing that costs more than the event does. Where the evidence is thinner, I say so on the page rather than leave you to find out.

• It won’t stop an attack that has already started.
• It doesn’t replace treatment for a diagnosed condition, and it isn’t therapy.
• Nothing changes if nothing else about your week changes. Listening is preparation.
• Response genuinely differs between people, which is why the ninety-day refund matters more than any sentence I could write.

Where do you start?

Nothing joins this list until every session in it has a page of its own, and each of those pages says what the session works on, what it won’t do, who it’s the wrong purchase for, and what you can practise for nothing before you spend anything at all. Where the research is weak, the page says so and gives you the number rather than the impression.

• Fears & PhobiasTen written up in full — flying, needles, driving, enclosed spaces, vomiting, the dentist, heights, spiders, panic attacks and agoraphobia — out of the eighty-nine the publisher files under that word.
• AnxietyFive, for the kind that never attaches itself to one thing: worry that changes subject weekly, dread with a date on it, other people’s company, your own body, and thinking that will not switch off.
• Sleep & InsomniaEight, sorted by which part of the night is yours — the hour of waiting at eleven, the two hours after you surface at two, the evening where nobody ever goes up.
• Confidence & PerformanceEight, sorted by where the fear actually shows up rather than by the word: the stage, the interview, the exam, the meeting.
• Eating HabitsSix, sorted by the behaviour — when you eat, why you started, what stops you — and none of them promises you anything about your weight, for a reason that page gives in full.
• Quitting VapingTwo sessions, and they sit below the free text-message programme that has two trials behind it — hypnosis for vaping has never had one.
• Quit SmokingOne page, one US$175 ten-session course — about A$244, the dearest thing here — and most of that page is spent sending you to Quitline and to a twenty-seven dollar session first.
• Anger & IrritabilitySix sessions that sit underneath one question — is anyone in your house frightened of you? — and the family violence numbers not one of the nine Australian anger providers I checked hands a reader.

What gets built next isn’t decided, and I’d rather say so than publish a roadmap and quietly miss it. What I can tell you is that most of the catalogue will never get a page here at all. Most of those titles have no Australian search demand behind them — nobody here is looking for them — and a thousand near-identical pages is a spam signal however honestly each one is written. The full index of what does have a page, with running times and prices, is on the all sessions page.

• How I choose what goes hereWho I am, what I’m qualified in, what I’m not registered as, and the rule I use to decide whether a session gets a page.
• Common questions about self-hypnosisWhat the state is, whether you stay in control, whether it works if you’re sceptical, and what happens after you buy.

When is a recording the wrong thing to buy?

Often enough that it’s worth saying up here rather than in the small print. If a problem is getting worse month on month, if it has taken territory — you’ve stopped going out, stopped driving, stopped going to appointments you need — or if you’re using alcohol or anything else to hold it off, a download is the wrong purchase. What that needs is somebody who can sit with you week to week and adjust.

In Australia your GP can start a Mental Health Treatment Plan, which subsidises psychologist sessions under Medicare. That conversation is worth more than anything on this site, and buying an audio instead tends to postpone it by months.

Who is choosing these, and what are they qualified in?

Ernest McLeod, a clinical hypnotherapist with fourteen years in practice, trained through the ICHP, a Fellow of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists and an affiliate of the Australian Hypnotherapists Association. I work from an Adelaide practice and see clients across the country by video. The rule I use here is simple: if I could not name the person a session suits and the person it does not, it does not get a page.

Written by Ernest McLeod — clinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Last updated 2026-09-05.

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