Everyone is unique and special, with their own resources and potentials for change. Sometimes past experience and learning can block our progress. Something extra is needed to create change. The solution is how to achieve the desired outcome quickly and effectively. Effective talking therapies use techniques to meet individual needs.
Work with clients may involve different therapeutic approaches - brief, solution focussed, cognitive behavioural, hypnotic, NLP(neuro-linguistic programming), and systemic.
Clinical hypnosis may be used in therapy to help achieve positive outcomes. With traditional hypnosis more direct suggestions are used to promote change. Milton H. Erickson, MD was an innovative therapist who developed many brief strategic therapy techniques. He was extremely skilled with direct and indirect approaches in hypnosis. With indirect hypnosis, there is more of a focus on helping each client to utilize their own resources. Ericksonian psychotherapy encourages the individual to utilize their own resources to create solutions for positive change.
Hypnosis is now studied in research facilities and practised world-wide by professionals in the caring and support services. Hypnotherapy (clinical hypnosis) is used in a wide range of treatments. The primary aim is to help the client make specific changes to manage or overcome difficulties and to improve the quality of their life.
Clinical hypnosis usually involves a person experiencing a sense of relaxation or trance, becoming more absorbed in their inner awareness - enabling them to focus attention on what is relevant; utilise imaginative skills; and respond to appropriate suggestions put by the hypnotherapist. These suggestions help the client to change the way that something is perceived; to change habits; or re-evaluate past events within a safe and secure therapeutic setting. These procedures do not make people act against their will or against their own interests.
Qualified practitioners are bound by their professional codes of practice and ethics to ensure that the client's confidentiality and integrity are respected .
Hypnosis is a powerful tool-kit. You may have heard about its use as an analgesic or about its use in helping people suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, phobias and addictive habits. It is much easier to hypnotize someone than to provide appropriate therapeutic treatment. The importance attached to the therapeutic skills, qualifications, training and experience of the therapist cannot be over-emphasized.
Hypnosis may be used to encourage a sense of relaxation or trance, where the client can focus attention on what is relevant to them and respond suggestions put by the hypnotherapist.
| Anger Management | Pain Management | |
| Anxiety | Panic Attacks | |
| Assertiveness | Performance Anxiety | |
| Bedwetting | Psycho-Somatic Allergies | |
| Blushing | PMT | |
| Bruxism | Post-Traumatic Stress | |
| Concentration | Public Speaking | |
| Eating Disorders | Relaxation | |
| Emotional Problems | Self-Consciousness | |
| Exam nerves | Self-Esteem & Confidence | |
| Fears and Phobias | Sexual Difficulties | |
| Guilt | Smoking Cessation | |
| Habit Control | Social Skills | |
| Inhibitions | Sports Performance | |
| Insomnia | Stage Fright | |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS | Stress Management | |
| Learning Difficulties | Stuttering | |
| Memory Loss | Travel Anxiety | |
| Migraine | Travel Sickness | |
| Nervous Asthma | Visual Imagery | |
| Nightmares | Weight Control |