Podcast appearances and mentions of Adam Cox

Adam helped a client feel able to start a new school with a sense of focus, confidence, and clarity about what kind of person they wanted to be in the new environment. Ideal for anyone looking for refinement or reinvention. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client break a pattern of oversharing, people-pleasing, and unconscious victimhood to feel more discerning about how and when they'd let people get close. This uses a metaphor of a golden retriever to be discerning while still having joy and love for people. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

In this hypnosis session, Adam helps a client feel confident and enthusiastic about embarking on a new side quest. While this was a learning- and social-related quest for this client, the hypnosis is metaphorical enough to inspire you to take on a new adventure with very little risk and a huge reward. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam recorded this session in Las Vegas to help a client feel worthy of receiving wealth, abundance, and financial success. A useful session if you don't feel worthy of financial success. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client reduce their desire for sugar by using the metaphor of a disgusting sugar-craving parasite that would grow and become stronger the more sugar that was consumed - this is an aversion hypnosis session to reduce sugar. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a successful female client embrace her femininity without holding back her intelligence, competence, or drive, and feel worthy and discerning in choosing a suitable relationship partner. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client integrate conflicted parts that made them feel uneasy about expressing themselves even with people they loved. This allows the parts to work together and uses a recording studio as a metaphor to highlight the complementary nature of parts working together. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to cope with several changes in a short period of time that covered relationships, business, and new income streams. This helps them deal with short-term turbulence by focusing on their positive future. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client feel that they could be confident and articulate without being fake or inauthentic, and that being avoidant and over the top are both undesirable states. This helps them feel that the middle ground is not extreme confidence but calm, authentic masculine confidence. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client with a fear of people wearing tight clothing or exposed skin. Adam uses he feeling the have with loose or baggy clothes to help desensitize the intense feeling around tight clothes. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to change their disempowering beliefs, especially about what other people would or wouldn't do in different situations. Adam uses a museum metaphor to highlight that labels can change when new information becomes available.FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to feel more confident and decisive in their personal relationship by harnessing the resources of when they were leading and then linking them to personal situations that would be useful for feeling that way. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to believe that they could have social confidence and have fun and celebrate without needing to drink alcohol. This uses a metaphor of the placebo effect, using Dumbo's feather to represent the false belief that alcohol is necessary. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client with social anxiety bring back the emotions of confidence and lightness from their past to fill the sensation of anxiety and feel confident either with people or when doing things independently. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client who was struggling to lose weight while life was stressful and hectic. Adam uses a control room of the mind metaphor to give new meanings to low energy and hunger and to envision a future of losing 7 to 21 lbs in three steps. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helps a client prepare for a new phase of life with freedom, impact and connection as guiding values. This uses the Masai Mara park in Africa to expand horizons and gain clarity on a purposeful future. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helps a client to break limiting beliefs about receiving money and growing their wealth. This harnesses disempowering metaphors like trying to keep your head above water, into more empowering metaphors linked to abundance and worthiness. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helps a client to release childhood beliefs that they won't amount to much and also that it's wrong to go further ahead than others. Adam helps them stop thinking about being better than others and instead focus on how to be more valuable. Using various metaphors, this is a useful session for those who have a fear of judgement. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to carefully consider what life would be like with and without alcohol to avoid falling into the trap of habit and familiarity and to create the level of motivational change needed to make an empowered decision when it comes to alcohol. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client feel willing and able to embrace more visibility and share more of their authentic self in order to have a greater impact in their quest to help others. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to process things from the past that felt unresolved and to take wisdom and inspiration from those who had an influence on their life. Adam uses a timeline and metaphors for them to access a beach with magical chairs to meet people from their past, and also their future self to inspire a feeling of worthiness. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a deal with the decision of family members that felt like betrayal and rejection. Adam helps them reach a place of acceptance and meaning, to give a new level of emotional freedom. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client feel that they can be a confident speaker and that holding back and not speaking up is no longer the safer way to live that it once was. This uses regression to cause, and future pacing to invert a protective strategy so that speaking up is now the confident, resourceful thing to do. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client break the positive associations with cocaine and change a self-destructive belief, and instead honour a new promise to make someone they love proud. If cocaine use feels destructive, this session may help. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client feel empowered and confident for an upcoming hearing that could cost them their career. The high stakes and uncertain nature had the client in constant anxiety, so Adam helped them to find a resourceful state and to make it feel low-stakes or manageable to bring down the stress levels. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Movie Metaphors: How Hollywood Can Transform HypnosisWhat if Hollywood has already created some of the most powerful hypnotic metaphors—and we have been absorbing them for years without realising it?In this special conversation with Graeme Wood, host of Beyond the Couch, Adam Cox explores how familiar films, characters and narrative structures can be transformed into powerful therapeutic interventions.Movies are natural memory anchors. Even decades later, people can recall a character's qualities, defining struggles and transformation. For a hypnotherapist, those stored associations offer a vast library of resource states, metaphors and emotional frameworks that can help clients create change.Adam and Graeme discuss:Why stories can bypass the defensiveness triggered by direct adviceHow movie characters can help clients access confidence, courage and resilienceUsing Inception to understand nested loops and deeper levels of dissociationHow Tenet inspired a “temporal pincer” approach to resourcing a traumatic memoryUsing Back to the Future to reframe the past and change its influence on the presentWhy the Hero's Journey can help clients stop identifying with their problemsTurning a client's greatest challenge into the final “face-off” that proves changeWhy Rocky's real victory was not winning the fight, but becoming resilient enough to keep goingUsing The Matrix as a metaphor for changing the personal simulation created by our beliefsHow Inside Out makes parts therapy and inner conflict easier to understandWhy therapists should test rather than guess which films and stories resonate with a clientAdam also reveals the premise of a screenplay he has written: a psychological heist thriller in which a hypnotherapist discovers that a troubled child may have been Satoshi Nakamoto in a past life—and may still hold the keys to a $100 billion Bitcoin fortune.Adam will present Movie Metaphors: How to Harness Hollywood for Your Hypnosis at the UK Hypnosis Convention, taking place from 13–15 November 2026 at the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel.

Adam helped a client feel empowered to focus more of their time on building a personal brand rather than enriching the brand of others. This uses various metaphors to gain clarity and a feeling of excitement for the future. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client with a fear of people wearing tight clothing or exposed skin. Adam uses humour and absurdity to help them break a pattern and to embrace personal choice and expression linked to the idea of empowerment rather than shame or guilt. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client resolve feelings of doubt, anxiety, and inner conflict when presenting financial-related reports and presentations. Adam identified that it was linked to a domineering maths teacher in childhood, so he uses timeline and future pacing to help give a new meaning to an old pattern and feel empowered for the future. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client make the unfamiliar feeling of vulnerability and connection feel safe. Adam uses sports metaphors to help them feel that they already know how to learn something new and unfamiliar and that vulnerability is needed for connection. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client trust themselves again when it came to food choices, to feel a sense of control without using excessive control and to allow permission to eat naturally without overthinking. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client manage the worries and anxiety of possible food poisoning, since the anxiety was often the cause of the nausea rather than any actual illness or bacteria. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client who felt a constant state of dread and uneasiness to work with the protective part, elicit the positive intention, and give a more useful way of protecting that would feel less like self-sabotage and more like genuine protection. Useful if your anxiety is getting in the way of your goals and life. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to rekindle the passion and motivation for business success, using Paris and Dubai as a backdrop to harness inspiring emotional and resourceful states, and then considering a future that gives more than it takes in terms of income, impact, and influence. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client prepare for a transitional period, following a decision to end a relationship. This is to help let go of any emotional baggage, resentment, and pain from the past and feel empowered for a positive future filled with possibilities. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

SUBSCRIBER VERSION: HYPNOSIS ONLYAdam helped a client feel mentally unstoppable in the quest to build and grow his business. Adam uses nested loops and metaphors with embedded suggestions to help them find new levels of focus to feel undeterred and relentless when they need to. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

SUBSCRIBER VERSION: HYPNOSIS ONLYAdam helped a client to feel more accepting and trusting when their partner was going out without them. Adam uses various metaphors and resource states to help them feel willing and able to trust. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

SUBSCRIBER VERSION: HYPNOSIS ONLYAdam helped a client feel mentally prepared for life after recovering from a hospital stay. This will be ideal if you're ready for a new challenge or a new chapter in life, and it uses a crystal metaphor to show that everything you've already done may be exactly what you needed to unlock everything else. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client feel mentally unstoppable in the quest to build and grow his business. Adam uses nested loops and metaphors with embedded suggestions to help them find new levels of focus to feel undeterred and relentless when they need to. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

Adam helped a client to feel more accepting and trusting when their partner was going out without them. Adam uses various metaphors and resource states to help them feel willing and able to trust. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In this episode of The Hypnotist, Adam Cox is joined by hypnotherapist Matt Dickson for a fascinating exploration of the hidden relationship between music, storytelling, metaphor and hypnosis.Matt raises an intriguing question: could listening deeply to great songs — particularly story-driven music — actually help hypnotists become better storytellers?The conversation begins with Marty Robbins' classic El Paso, a song capable of creating an entire cinematic world in just a few minutes. Matt and Adam explore how lyrics can rapidly shift perspective, create vivid internal imagery and communicate complex emotional experiences without needing to explain every detail.This leads to a wider discussion about why music may be inherently hypnotic. Adam describes hypnosis as emotion plus suggestion — and songs frequently combine intense emotion with repeated words, ideas, rhythm and imagery.They explore songs including:El Paso – Marty Robbins: obsession, consequences and cinematic storytelling.Kaw-Liga – Hank Williams: missed opportunities, pride and the pain of never taking your chance.The Gambler – Kenny Rogers: knowing when to persist, when to change strategy and when to walk away.Fast Car – Tracy Chapman: hope, possibility and the idea that one decision can change the direction of a life.Bad Life – Sigrid & Bring Me The Horizon: the powerful distinction between experiencing a bad period and believing you have a bad life.Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen: how the meaning received by an audience can be very different from the apparent or intended meaning.Adam and Matt discuss several ways hypnotists could practically use music:Song lyrics as suggestions. A powerful lyric can contain the essence of an entire therapeutic reframe.Songs as metaphors. The storyline can become a structure for communicating ideas about relationships, addiction, opportunity, resilience or change.Music as an anchor. A song already carrying emotional significance could be connected to a new empowering meaning so that hearing it again triggers hope, possibility or resourcefulness.Songs as hypnotic training. Studying phrasing, rhythm, pacing, imagery, inflection and cadence could help therapists become more compelling communicators.They also explore an important warning: if music influences emotional states, that influence isn't automatically positive. Repeatedly listening to music that reinforces hopelessness, anger or disempowering beliefs may potentially strengthen the very state someone is experiencing.Ultimately, the episode challenges the idea that useful metaphors have to come from books, mythology or traditional therapeutic stories. A three-minute song can contain characters, conflict, emotion, transformation and meaning — essentially a miniature movie for the mind.And perhaps the biggest lesson is that there doesn't have to be one “correct” interpretation. Just as a therapeutic metaphor can mean something different to every client, the value of a song may come from the meaning the listener discovers within it.Matt leaves the conversation considering turning these ideas into training on using music and lyrical metaphors within hypnosis.Find Matt Dickson:

Adam helped a client feel mentally prepared for life after recovering from a hospital stay. This will be ideal if you're ready for a new challenge or a new chapter in life, and it uses a crystal metaphor to show that everything you've already done may be exactly what you needed to unlock everything else. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

SUBSCRIBER VERSION: HYPNOSIS ONLYAdam helped a client awaken their natural, playful, and exuberant nature and to rekindle a passion for life that had slowly been lost. This session will be ideal if you want to reconnect with yourself again and to awaken a desire to live life to the full. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Adam helped a client awaken their natural, playful, and exuberant nature and to rekindle a passion for life that had slowly been lost. This session will be ideal if you want to reconnect with yourself again and to awaken a desire to live life to the full. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

SUBSCRIBER VERSION: HYPNOSIS ONLYAdam helped a client to think about their cocaine habit differently to lay the foundation for a new belief and decision- that although they could use it, they wouldn't want to. Adam uses nested loops and a metaphor of Sirens from the Odyssey to help give a new meaning to what cocaine really is. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Adam helped a client to think about their cocaine habit differently to lay the foundation for a new belief and decision- that although they could use it, they wouldn't want to. Adam uses nested loops and a metaphor of Sirens from the Odyssey to help give a new meaning to what cocaine really is. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Adam helped a client regain their confidence and self-belief in competing at the highest level in Jiu Jitsu and be willing to risk losing if it increased their ability to improve by competing with the very best. Adam uses metaphors for samurai and open loops to create an experience with a purpose that was more important than just winning or losing. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

What does the future of hypnotherapy look like in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence?In this episode of The Hypnotist, Adam Cox is joined by Scott Sandland, pioneering hypnotherapist, AI innovator and founder of HypnoThoughts and HypnoThoughts LIVE — recognised as the world's largest hypnosis conference.Scott shares how a serious car accident left him in significant physical pain. Faced with relying on large amounts of opiate medication, he reluctantly tried hypnosis despite not believing it was real. One transformative session changed his view completely and led him to become a certified hypnotherapist at just 18.He describes the challenges of working with therapeutic clients while still a teenager, including being underestimated because of his age. Scott explains how preparation, specialist knowledge and quiet certainty enabled him to overcome that credibility deficit — and why being underestimated can sometimes become an advantage.The conversation then explores the accidental creation of HypnoThoughts.com. Originally described as “MySpace for hypnotists”, the dormant website became a place for Scott and others to remember a mentor who had died. It then grew organically into a thriving international community, attracting hundreds of new members each month without paid advertising.When that community was prevented from gathering at an established hypnosis conference, Scott and his colleagues decided to create their own. That decision eventually became HypnoThoughts LIVE.Adam and Scott discuss:How HypnoThoughts grew to tens of thousands of membersWhy opposition from established figures accelerated its successWhat Scott learned from attending more than 40 hypnosis conferencesWhy HypnoThoughts LIVE focused on learning and community rather than certificationThe professional isolation experienced by many hypnotherapistsWhy becoming a great practitioner requires more than collecting techniquesWhy the most valuable conference conversations often happen outside the presentationsThe move from Las Vegas to Atlanta in November 2027How the physical design of a venue can strengthen or weaken connectionThe second half examines the relationship between hypnosis and artificial intelligence.Scott describes AI as an “exoskeleton”: something that can extend a practitioner's abilities when used intelligently, but which can also produce dependency, professional atrophy and intellectual laziness.The discussion includes:Why AI may replace generic hypnosis recordings before capable practitionersHow AI could rapidly raise the minimum acceptable professional standardThe difference between using AI to support judgement and allowing it to make decisionsWhy presence, authorship, listening and creating safety remain human responsibilitiesHow AI could provide research support and elements of clinical supervisionThe danger of outsourcing the thinking that creates genuine competenceScott also introduces SAGE, a specialist AI system developed using the extensive HypnoThoughts archive and years of HypnoThoughts LIVE material.Unlike general-purpose AI trained on inconsistent information, SAGE is designed around a deep, structured body of hypnosis knowledge. Scott explains how it can connect lectures, debates, teachers and therapeutic ideas while preserving authorship, sources and intellectual property.SAGE is intended to function less like a search engine and more like an informed professional colleague — helping practitioners examine cases, connect ideas and deepen their understanding.A two-week free trial of SAGE is due to become available from 1 September 2026.This is essential listening for hypnotherapists, coaches and change-work professionals who want to understand how their profession is evolving. AI may not replace excellent practitioners, but practitioners who use it intelligently could outperform those who refuse to adapt.Discover SAGE, HypnoThoughts and future HypnoThoughts LIVE:HypnoThoughts.com

Adam helped a client who wanted to break free of being silent and keeping out of trouble, to let their voice be heard. They wanted to have an impact and help people who needed them to be more visible, so Adam created a session to help them feel confident, courageous, and authentic. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Adam helped a client who was feeling a lack of enthusiasm for life, like they had lost their mojo. Adam uses timeline approaches to help them access the resources they had in the past that led them to a life of big decisions and prioritising passion over boring but sensible decisions. Home runs are metaphorical here to represent big payoffs that aren't guaranteed. Get 50% off a consultation call with Adam using the code PODCAST. Click here to schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://courses.adamcox.co.uk/workwithadam ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠