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Does hypnosis really work?
Hypnosis isn’t done to you – it’s done with you.
The experience of hypnosis provides a context – a trance like atmosphere – in which your mind focuses on and absorbs helpful ideas and perspectives.
So, yes, hypnosis can and does work really well when you
actively use the experience to build the frame of mind you need
to make a mends of your worlds and learnt beliefs, helping your goals take real shape.
Can anyone be hypnotised?
Depends on their level of suggestibility and openness to the experience.
Good to know that clinical hypnosis in and of itself isn’t dangerous. On the contrary, it’s a relaxing and empowering experience when you let your mind guide you thrgouh your strengths and depths.
That’s why it’s important to choose a therapist you can relate with and establish trust; you then discover that any suggestion you don’t find helpful or doesn't feel aligned to your true self - you can reject. You’re in charge!
Will it fix my situation for good?
Does hypnosis mean giving up control?
Most emphatically, the answer is no!
This unfortunate but persistent myth comes from the fact that most people’s exposure to hypnosis takes place in an entertainment context, not a clinical one. Stage hypnotists & movie script writers mistakenly portray it as some “mind control”
Realistically, though, if controlling people could be as easy as trancework, the world would be quite a different place, don't you think?
No, you don’t lose control of yourself in hypnosis. If that were the case it wouldn’t interest clinicians like me very much because no one ever seeks help by saying, “please help me lose control of myself.”
What has attracted me to hypnosis is the way hypnosis consistently gets people to see more, understand and empower themselves more rapidly & effectively than most forms of therapy practiced in main stream support services.
What is hypnotherapy in plain words?
That's like asking how long does a good idea last?
It will offer you solutions and open you to the necessary steps setting you on the right path to awareness, understanding and getting yourself back; hypnotherapy can restore your inner calm and acceptance of who you are now, what you stand for and that you choose to become.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful collaborative process where the hypnotherapist uses hypnosis techniques such as guided trance or dream-like states, metaphors and suggestions in a story telling like atmosphere to guide you into an inner-self exploratory experience.
It is a unique personal journey for each person.
It requires a commitment to treatment and a desire to change towards realistic goals.
Goals can be achieved more quickly when clients are open and receptive to the idea of hypnosis, since no one can be hypnotised against their will.
What is the benefit of trying?
Maybe you tried it before, or maybe you just want to see how it feels.
Experiencing a blend of trance, deep relaxation, connecting life therapies & counseling practice, they all resonate with me in helping people like you regain their power, confidence and control over their own worlds.
I welcome everyone and provide customised therapeutic support to find your alignment in your journey.
The aim is seeing rapid results, inner shifting understanding and benefits from either trancework, hypnosis, body psychotherapy, dream interpretation, and a blend of recognised effective "talking" therapies.
Tailored support & counseling services, including a variety of therapy modalities:
Individual therapy
Couples or Group therapy,
Clinical Hypnosis as therapy,
Body Psychotherapy,
Jungian Dream Interpretation,
Counselling & Psychotherapy,
Freudian free association
Attachment theory
Gestalt therapy methods.
Let's explore which combination you believe may be a good approach for you.
What types of therapy or support can I experience?
No, hypnosis is not generally considered a therapy on its own. Rather, it is a tool of treatment, a rapid way of delivering helpful ideas and perspectives to someone requesting help.
Hypnosis is typically integrated with other psychotherapeutic treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), Parts Therapy, Timeline Therapy, or Gestalt Therapy.
The generic term “hypnotherapy,” therefore, doesn’t really tell you anything about what the therapist is actually doing other than hypnosis is somehow involved.
Eriksonian hypnosis makes rich use of story telling and metaphors that resonate with your inner worlds, 'speaking' directly and tapping into the powers of your unconscious mind, bringing forth the resources you have within to conquer your fears and bring back a confident, aligned you.
Thus, how clinicians apply hypnosis will be entirely consistent with their individual style and method of treatment as well as with your own openness to the experience.
That’s why the way one practitioner uses hypnosis can be so markedly different from the way another one applies hypnosis, yet both can be valid.
The term 'hypnotherapy" suggests hypnosis is the therapy. Is it?
There are many different types or miodalities of hypnotherapy and below are some of them. As a client, it’s not necessary for you to understand the differences or methods for each type before your treatment.
For ease your mind and to make you feel more relaxed about the experience:
Ericksonian hypnotherapy - something I find very effective, revolutionary, developed by Milton Erikson, a psychiatrist who specialised in family therapy and medical hypnosis
Hypno-psychotherapy - This is an integrative approach, where hypnosis is used alongside another branch of psychotherapy (such as psychodynamic, Humanist, Gestalt or mindfulness). My training is in both hypnotherapy (clinical & medical) and psychotherapy.
Suggestion hypnotherapy - Suggestion techniques are employed within most types of hypnotherapy. The premise behind hypnosis is that when we are in a hypnotic state, our subconscious is more open to suggestions. Suggestions are offered by the hypnotherapist during this state to help alter thought patterns. This technique is ideal for changing habits, overcoming anxiety and reducing stress.
Time Line Therapy™ - It is based on the premise that our memories are stored in a linear pattern (a timeline). Timeline therapists use different techniques to help you release limiting beliefs and negative emotions linked to past experiences.While this approach can be used for a variety of concerns, it is thought to be especially useful for those struggling with depression, anxiety and stress.
What kind of hypnotherapy can I experience?
How does psychotherapy look like?
In psychotherapy we focus on recurrent problems, behavioural patterns, thought processes and emotion as interconnected ways of how we do life.
We explore and build awareness around a person’s psyche (the conscious and unconscious mind and their forces, fears, needs, desires) and inner beliefs, which may have felt a harmful effect in challenging moments.
We explore past events and encounters in order to comprehend the social development, and cognitive and behavioural tendencies, encouraging you to discover yourself, and free yourself of adverse notions, self-beliefs, and environmental stimuli or triggers.
Essentially, in psychotherapy, client and therapist work together to improve problems with a new perspective on the client’s fundamental thoughts, beliefs, or feelings.
Openess to perspectives and delivering true intimate, vulnerable, authentic answers are key to psychotherapy being fruitful as much as the pact and the trust that forms between person and their therapist.
As a method, psychotherapy, since concentrating on adaptation and psychological matters, is in its elements effective when exploring deep-seated issues that affect the way one relates to themselves and others.
How long does a session last?
Sessions generally will last 1(one) hour approximately.
Your first session will take close to 2(two) hours.
Some goals will need more sessions to be achieved, like for example getting over anxiety, stopping smoking or the recovery way from grief or loss.
How many sessions will I need?
We can discuss optimal support in or after our first session; realistically, it all depends on you, on how comfortable you feel about being totally truthful & open to yourself about you and your ways in my presence as your therapist.
The majority of my clients report a significant improvement after their 1st therapy session.
On average, 4-6 sessions bring about lasting change and unlearn maladaptive habits.
What is the Jungian Method for Dreams Interpretation?
It all starts with recalling or writing down all the dream details even if they appear unimportant: setting, people, objects, dialogue, smells, sounds, color, and your “internal talk” and emotions while dreaming the dream. The next steps rely on:
Making Associations, all symbols have meanings, unique to you, forget the books
Connect Dream Images to What’s Happening Internally
Interpret the Dream in context of here and now, in your unexplained feelings or relationships experienced with the world, self and others.
Dreams are about you and not others. All the characters in your dream symbolise aspects of yourself, even if they look like somebody you know.
After interpreting the dream, honor it by doing something physical (and not just thinking about it). By doing something physical, you integrate the dream, which was unconscious, into your conscious waking life. Acknowledge it. The physical act should not be loud or expensive. The smaller and the more intimate, the better.
How can body psychotherapy help?
This holistic approach to treatment works to address concerns of the mind and body as one. I use a blend of hypnosis and psychoanalisys to perform body psychotherapy.
I am a believer that many issues impacting emotional well-being result from continuous repression of traumatic or harmful memories, which are held in the body. These effects may then be experienced through as physical concerns—headaches, insomnia, fatigue, chronic pain—through what is known as somatization. They might also have an impact on daily function, affecting a person's relationships, intimacy, or mood.
Unconsciously, somatization could be a defense mechanism, protecting the person from emotional overwhelm. Some psychological symptoms may be so overwhelming that a person cannot face them consciously. A person’s distress may then find an outlet through the body, converting to a physical symptom.
People who have experienced trauma or abuse may find that body psychotherapy helps them find an alternative approach to working through the negative impact and lingering effects of these occurrences.
This therapy may also be beneficial to people who are attempting to recover from substance abuse or addiction or who have experienced a significant loss.
Recent research has also found body psychotherapy to be one potential method of treating anxiety.
I don't really know what I need...
how do I start?
I hear you...let's talk; book a first session and let's get to work.
As people, when our needs are unfulfilled we tend to go for the stright line to them and that may push us into creating psychological problems for ourselves.
That then can get us into overthinking and sometimes remain blindsided to finding another, good and personally fitting path to having our needs met.
We all have Primal Human Needs in common, despite the different colour, texture and shape of our individual lives.
We all need to:
• feel safe and secure day to day
• give and receive attention
• have a sense of some control and influence over events in life
• feel stretched and stimulated by life to avoid boredom
• have fun sometimes and feel life is enjoyable
• feel intimate with at least one other human being
• feel connected to and part of a wider community
• be able to have privacy and time to privately reflect
• have a sense of status, a recognizable and appreciated role in life
• have a sense of competence and achievement
• a sense of meaning about life and what we do.
When these needs are adequately met in a balanced way, life feels meaningful.
And when not, we feel threatened and fight for them. That fight looks differnt for us all.
A famous couples psychotherapist describes that all we ever fight for (and about) are: respect & recognition, care & closeness, power & control.
Therapy can help you find your way to your resources, those qualities that exist within you that can help with the discovery or recovery journey
and you starting to have your needs met.
This includes personality traits such as optimism and stamina, persistence, creativity and abstract resources, such as comforting memories and the feelings of being loved by those around you.
Assisting you identify your personal resources involves:
• helping you identifying needs through discussion and observation
• helping you identifying how you can meet those needs
This process will allow discussion around which resources are available to you to meet those needs be it towards staying in-touch (contact) with strengths or avoiding maladapting traits. For example, if you express that you feel overwhelmed with no time to yourself \ to reflect, a quiet place within the home or a block of free time within the your schedule could be identified as a resource.
...And from here, a journey of self-discovery and understanding you better begins.
What else can I experience?
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”Before you heal someone,
ask him if he is willing to give up the things that made him sick.”
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~ Hippocrates
