Why an Assessment?
Understanding What Lies Beneath How You Feel.
Most of us can name what we're struggling with.
You may feel anxious, low, exhausted or overwhelmed. Perhaps concentration is harder than it used to be, relationships feel strained, or you simply feel stuck – even when you have a sense of what you'd like to change.
Making sense of why these difficulties develop, what keeps them going and why change can feel so hard is often far less straightforward.
A Mind Works assessment looks beyond individual symptoms, exploring how your thoughts, emotions, body, behaviour and circumstances interact.
Seeing these connections can help you recognise patterns, build self-awareness and identify the support most likely to help.
Three Areas That Shape Our Experience
How we feel and respond to life can be influenced by many interconnected factors. Three important areas offer a useful starting point for understanding our experience.
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Connection
Feeling loved, supported and connected to the people who matter.
Explore how relationships, belonging, attachment and emotional safety may influence your experience.
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Resources
Having enough time, energy, money and support to meet life's demands.
Explore how health, recovery, practical circumstances and available capacity may influence what feels possible.
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Identity
Knowing who you are, feeling valued and having a sense of purpose.
Explore how beliefs, expectations, self-worth and personal direction may influence the way you experience yourself and the world.
Where Would You Like to Begin?
Different experiences can have different starting points. Choose the area that feels most relevant to you, or begin with the general personal insight assessment.
Anxious, Overwhelmed & Tired
Explore how pressure, worry, available energy and everyday circumstances may be contributing to feeling anxious, overwhelmed or exhausted.
Burnout & Fatigue
Understand how ongoing demands, limited recovery and personal expectations may contribute to exhaustion and burnout.
Weight & Relationship to Food
Explore the psychological, physical and everyday factors that may influence eating habits, weight management and your relationship with food.
ADHD, Focus & Motivation
Explore attention, organisation, motivation and the wider influences that may make everyday tasks and maintaining focus more difficult.
Menopause Anxiety
Explore how hormonal changes, sleep, energy, emotional wellbeing and life circumstances may interact during the menopause transition.
Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain
Explore the interaction between persistent pain, fatigue, sleep, emotional wellbeing and everyday life, without suggesting symptoms are purely psychological.
Trauma & Nervous System Regulation
Explore how significant life experiences, learned expectations and nervous-system responses may influence how you feel and respond today.
Relationships & Attachment
Explore connection, relationship safety, attachment patterns and the experiences that may influence how you relate to others.
Direction, Motivation & Purpose
Explore what matters to you, what may be getting in the way and how your available resources and circumstances influence your direction.
Alcohol, Stress & Wellbeing
Explore your relationship with alcohol, including the role it may play in managing stress, emotions, routines and everyday life.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Explore the General Personal Insight Assessment.
A Different Way to Understand Yourself
The Mind Works assessments are designed to help you explore your experience progressively, beginning with a few simple questions and offering more detailed insights as you continue.
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Start Exploring
Begin with a short introductory assessment focused on the experiences that matter to you.
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Discover Your Free Insights
Continue to a more detailed free assessment exploring different aspects of your psychological and physical wellbeing, circumstances and patterns.
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Go Deeper, If You Choose
An optional Comprehensive Personal Insight Report (£19.95) brings together a more extensive assessment of the factors that may be shaping your experience. The comprehensive report is entirely optional.
The Mind Works with Craig
The Mind Works has been developed by Craig Fookes, a UK-based clinical hypnotherapist and health coach.
Drawing on clinical experience, psychological understanding, mindfulness and health coaching, the approach explores how different aspects of human functioning interact to shape our experiences.
The Mind Works website provides educational content and personal insight assessments.
One-to-one clinical hypnotherapy and coaching services are available separately through therapywithcraig.co.uk.
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The Mind Works with Craig
The Mind Works has been developed by Craig Fookes, a UK-based clinical hypnotherapist and health coach.
Drawing on clinical experience, psychological understanding, mindfulness and health coaching, the approach explores how different aspects of human functioning interact to shape our experiences.
The Mind Works website provides educational content and personal insight assessments.
One-to-one clinical hypnotherapy and coaching services are available separately through therapywithcraig.co.uk.