Hypnotherapy
Why consider using hypnosis?
As a trained Hypnotherapist and Clinical Supervisor in Hypnotherapy, this is a question I am asked a lot.
In short, hypnotherapy can be a stand-alone treatment itself and can facilitate other forms of therapy.
There are many myths and misconceptions around the therapeutic use of hypnosis - for example, it is nothing like the media or entertainment industry portrays.
- I don't swing a pocket watch and ask you to focus your eyes on it.
- Someone cannot be hypnotised against their will, or surreptitiously.
- A person cannot be made to act or feel in a certain way - for example walking like a duck or singing like Elvis in response to a "trigger word".
- Hypnotic trance isn't sleep, it's more like a kind of relaxing inner focus, similar to some practices of meditation or mindfulness.
- At no point is the client under the hypnotherapist's "power" or made to act in a way that contravenes their beliefs and values. If anything is said in trance that would contravene this, the client would awake from trance instantly.
- The hypnotherapist doesn't "do" anything to the client beyond talking to them - guiding them into trance and offering suggestions of what to think of.
