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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 — 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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