Hypnotherapy news -Travis frontman writes hit after hypnotherapy

Posted May 2007

Composing memories of hypnotherapy brings about international hit album

Travis frontman Fran Healy underwent a course of hypnotherapy which helped inspire his band’s infamously dark fourth album 12 Memories.

The internationally acclaimed songwriter revealed how he suffered severe depression which he did not wish to address through drugs and medicaion.

Fran Healy

Instead therefore he opted for hypnotherapy and the 2003 hit album - which included “Love Will Come Through” and the anti-war track “Beautiful Occupation.” - was about going into therapy.

Healy, the Staffordshire born Englishman in the Scottish rock band, says the hypnotherapy enabled him to overcome his depression.

"I was feeling really, really bad and didn't want to take drugs to get myself out of it. So I had three months of hypnotherapy instead, where you went back and fixed your memories.

“So that's where the album title came from, and each song on it was a memory I wanted to address."

He admits however his biggest worry about therapy was, ‘What if I fix what’s wrong with me, but I can’t write songs anymore because I fixed the thing that makes me write songs?”