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Melbourne Clinical Hypnotherapy Dr Bruce Alexander

Dr Bruce Alexander

PhD · Clinical Hypnotherapist · 27+ years in practice

I run a private clinical hypnotherapy practice in Kew, Melbourne, and I work with clients across Australia via telehealth. My focus is the patterns underneath a problem (the habits, beliefs and emotional loops that keep something stuck) rather than the surface symptoms alone.

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Dip. Psychotherapy · Dip. Clinical Hypnotherapy · Registered Member, ASCH

My story

How I came to this work

I came to clinical hypnotherapy after years of working in medical research. What drew me in was a simple observation: the people I was seeing often understood their problem perfectly well intellectually, and could explain in detail why they wanted to change, and still felt unable to. The gap between insight and action is where I’ve spent my career.

Hypnotherapy, used carefully and in a clinical context, gives me a way to work with that gap directly. It allows me to help clients quiet the noise long enough to reach the patterns underneath (the automatic responses, the inherited beliefs, the emotional loops) and to gently rework them.

For more than 27 years I’ve worked with private clients across the full range of human concerns: anxiety, insomnia, addictions, grief, confidence, weight, relationship patterns. The conditions change; the work underneath is remarkably consistent. My role is to be calm, structured and attentive, and to help each person find their way back to a sense of choice.

Most problems, whether an addiction, anxiety, insomnia or physical disease, are generated by self-limiting belief systems. Hypnotherapy doesn’t just treat the symptoms. It helps remove or update the faulty beliefs underneath, creating lasting change.

— Dr Bruce Alexander

Areas of focus

What I work with

The conditions I see most often, and the patterns that tend to sit underneath them.

  • Anxiety and persistent worry
  • Sleep and insomnia
  • Smoking, vaping and nicotine
  • Weight, eating and food patterns
  • Alcohol and habitual drinking
  • Gambling and compulsive behaviours
  • Confidence, performance and public speaking
  • Grief, life transitions and trauma-informed work

Publications & media

Writing, research and media

Alongside clinical practice, I’ve contributed to articles, interviews and media commentary on hypnotherapy and the behavioural side of habit change. I also maintain a curated research library that links the evidence base behind the conditions I see most often.

Qualifications & training

Credentials and clinical training

A summary of the formal training and clinical experience I bring to every session.

27+ years in practice

A quarter-century of full-time private clinical work with clients across anxiety, addictions, sleep, weight and performance.

Ongoing training

Continuous study in advanced hypnotherapy methods, keeping my practice current with developments in the field.

  • Professional membership

    Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists

    Full member of the ASCH, a progressive professional association representing hypnotherapists who meet its high clinical and ethical standards. Membership requires ongoing continuing professional development.

  • Clinical training

    Australian Academy of Hypnotic Science

    • Diploma of Psychotherapy
    • Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy

  • Academic qualifications

    University of Melbourne

    • PhD, Faculty of Medicine
    • Bachelor of Science

  • Training & teaching

    Workplace training and teaching positions

    • Lecturer — Australian Academy of Hypnotic Science
    • Tutor — Health Enhancement Program for Medical Students, Monash University
    • Certificate in Workplace Training (Category 1)
    • Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training

Published research

Peer-reviewed publications

Selected peer-reviewed articles from my earlier research career in the biomedical sciences, with collaborators at the University of Melbourne and beyond.

  • Phenotypic effect correlating with loss of a novel tumor suppressor gene: towards cloning by complementation

    Leukemia, 1998 · Co-authored with W.D. Cook

    Investigated tumor suppressor genes and their deletion patterns in myeloid leukemia.

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  • Establishment of multipotential and antigen presenting cell lines derived from myeloid leukemias in GM-CSF transgenic mice

    Leukemia, 1997 · Co-authored with J.E. Rasko et al.

    Focused on the establishment of leukemic cell lines to understand how these cancers grow autonomously.

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  • Gene deletion explains both in vivo and in vitro generated chromosome 2 aberrations associated with murine myeloid leukemia

    Leukemia, 1995 · Co-authored with J.E. Rasko, G. Morahan, W.D. Cook

    Identified crucial chromosomal deletions and gene aberrations driving leukemia development.

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  • Tumor-associated karyotypic lesions coselected with in vitro macrophage differentiation

    Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, 1992 · Co-authored with R. Berger

    Published from the Department of Surgery and Research Centre for Cancer and Transplantation, University of Melbourne.

    No direct link available.

Alongside my clinical work, I hold a personal interest in quantum healing, manifestation, and the capacity for thought, imagery, and emotion to bring about meaningful change. It’s a broader curiosity about the mind’s potential that I bring to my work with an open and enquiring approach.

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Ready to take the first step?

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