Will I be out of control?

No. You're aware the whole time, you can open your eyes and stop whenever you like, and you only take on suggestions you choose to.

What is cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy?

Hypnosis is a practical way of working with thoughts, habits and automatic responses. We look at what's underneath a pattern, then use hypnosis to rehearse a calmer version so it's there when you need it.

How many sessions will I need?

Some people get what they came for in the Reset Session and I don't see them again, which is how it should be. Others want to carry on.

Both. In person in Acomb, York, or online from wherever you're comfortable. Alfie has been known to appear on video calls.

Do you work with IBS?

Yes, with gut-directed hypnotherapy, and it has a site of its own so that it can be done properly.

The Relaxation Room

Membership terms

Last updated 26 September 2026.

Who this is between

The Relaxation Room is run by Kathryn Dunn, trading as HypnoGirl, of 44 Tennent Road, York YO24 3HF. You can reach me at [email protected].

When you join, this is the agreement between you and me. Please read it before you pay rather than afterwards.

1. What you're getting

Two live relaxation sessions a month, on Zoom.

The Sit Down is on the first Tuesday of the month at 8.30pm and lasts about an hour. Afterwards I send you an audio recording of the relaxation and a video of the ten minute teaching section, by email.

The Lie Down Live is on the third Tuesday at 8.30pm and lasts about twenty-five minutes. There's no recording of that one.

There's also The Drop-In on the last Tuesday. It's free and open to anybody, so it isn't part of what you're paying for.

You don't have to come to anything. Nobody checks, and missing a month doesn't affect your membership.

2. Who can join

The membership is for adults. You need to be 18 or over to join and to pay for it, and the membership stays in your name.

The relaxation itself would suit a younger person perfectly well. What I can't promise is that the rest of it will. In The Sit Down people type about how their month has gone and I talk about what's in it, and that's grown-ups talking about grown-up lives.

So if you'd like somebody under 18 to join you, they're welcome in The Lie Down Live, which is twenty-five minutes of relaxation and nothing else in it. Stay with them for the whole of it. I'd keep them out of The Sit Down and The Drop-In, where the talking happens.

3. What it costs and when you pay

Membership is £25 a month, taken on the same date each month from the card you join with.

If you took the founding rate, it's £95 a year, taken on the same date each year. That price stays at £95 for as long as your membership runs without a break. If you cancel and rejoin later, you rejoin at whatever the price is then.

Payments are taken automatically until you cancel. Card details are handled by my payment provider and I never see or hold your card number.

4. Changing the price

I can change the price of the monthly membership, and I'll email you at least one month before it happens. If you don't want to pay the new price, cancel before it takes effect and you won't be charged it.

The founding annual rate is fixed at £95 and I won't raise it while your membership runs.

5. Cancelling

You can cancel whenever you like, from the link in your receipt or by emailing me. You don't have to give a reason and you don't have to talk me out of it.

Cancelling stops the next payment. It doesn't refund the period you've already paid for, and you keep your access until that period ends.

If you cancel an annual membership partway through the year, it runs to the end of the year you've paid for.

6. If I have to change or cancel a session

I'll do my best not to. If I have to move a session I'll email you as far ahead as I can.

If I have to cancel a Sit Down and can't put it somewhere else in the month, I'll send the relaxation audio and the teaching video anyway, so you still get the thing the month was built around.

If I ever have to stop running The Relaxation Room altogether, I'll refund whatever you've paid for and not used.

7. Your right to change your mind

By law you normally have fourteen days to cancel something you've bought at a distance and get your money back.

Because the membership starts straight away, you'll be asked to tick a box at the checkout saying you want it to start now and that you understand you lose that fourteen day right once you've been to a session or that month's recording has been made available to you.

If you change your mind inside fourteen days and you haven't been to a session and haven't had the recording, email me and I'll refund you in full.

8. The recordings

The audio and the video are for you. Please don't pass them on, post them anywhere, or use them with clients or groups of your own.

Each month's recording and tip go up on the members' page after The Sit Down and stay there until the next Sit Down, when the next pair take their place. Download them while they're up if you'd like to keep them. There's no library on purpose. I'd rather you used one month's properly than collected a folder of them.

9. What happens on Zoom

Nobody has to speak and nobody has to have their camera on.

In The Sit Down, the first twenty minutes are group contributions and they all happen in the chat. That part is not recorded. The recording starts when I start teaching, and what's recorded is me: the teaching and the relaxation. Other people aren't in it.

Please don't record the sessions yourself.

10. What this isn't

These are general relaxation sessions. They aren't hypnotherapy treatment, they aren't therapy, and they aren't medical care. I'm not treating anything and I don't make any claim about what they'll do for you.

They sit alongside whatever care you get from your GP, not instead of it. If something changes with your health, please see your GP about it.

If you want one to one work, that's separate and it starts with a free call.

11. Staying safe during a session

Never listen while you're driving, operating machinery, or doing anything else that needs your full attention. The sessions and the recordings are meant to make you drowsy. Only use them somewhere you can safely relax or fall asleep.

If you have epilepsy, a diagnosed mental health condition, or you're under the care of a specialist, please have a word with them before you join, and with me if you'd like to.

12. Behaviour

This is a quiet room and almost nothing ever happens in it. But if somebody makes it unpleasant for other people, I can remove them and refund whatever they've paid for and not used.