What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy involves the use of hypnosis, a trance-like state of focused attention and increased suggestibility. This natural state helps to achieve therapeutic outcomes. You pass through this state every time you fall asleep. During hypnosis, a therapist guides the you into a pleasant, deeply relaxed state. Once fully comfortable and at ease, suggestions are offered that are aimed at improving your health and well-being.

What happens during this form of Hypnotherapy?

Strategic hypnotherapy is a relatively new form of treatment. The process of a typical session involves an interview aimed at discovering the problem and arriving at solutions that your conscious mind can understand. Then the solutions are unpacked for you while you are in a deeply relaxed state. This allows the solutions to “solidify,” in your mind. Nothing is said that you did not agree with during the interview phase.

During the entire process you are safe. You will be able to hear me at all times (unless you fall asleep), you will be able to move and to speak should you need to. The session will be recorded (with your permission) and the audio will be given to you to play back daily at around the same time, until the next session. This is a vital aid towards moving the solution from “unfamiliar to automatic.”

What is Strategic Psychotherapy?

Strategic Psychotherapy is a brief form therapy, and is an ideal companion for hypnotherapy.  Jay Hayley used the term Strategic Psychotherapy to describe a type of therapy in which the therapist is responsible for making well thought out decisions about how to help the client move their lives forward. It promotes action, not just insight.

Together with Dr Milton Erickson, Jay Haley lent towards a more proactive approach to therapy. Therefore, a strategic therapist will actively search for the solutions to the client’s problem, and strategically navigate the client into recognising what the client is doing, or not doing, that is creating and maintain the problem.

Strategic therapy is therapist led and client-cantered.  A strategic therapist will lead the client to the answer and help the client to identify and use their strengths in order to overcome the issue.

Hypnotherapy assists when talking therapy alone does not work.

If you have tried talking therapies in the past, and found that they were only partly successful, then you may benefit from the powerful effect of combining talking therapy and hypnotherapy. We all resonate with different vehicles of transformation, depending on how different we are, because we're all different.

The unconscious mind is not logical, it’s purposeful. Further, it is always trying to protect you from harm. Even when it reaches unhelpful conclusions, it is trying to keep you safe. When the conscious and the unconscious minds disagree, things like self-sabotage can occur. In order to change what both minds are thinking, it is necessary to speak to them both in a way that they each understand. When this is done both on a conscious and unconscious level, synchronicity happens. Both agree, and your mental state shifts. That’s what makes this approach so transformative.

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