What is Clinical Hypnotherapy & How is it different from Counselling or Psychotherapy?

Clinical hypnotherapy is a safe and effective therapy method that uses a deep state of relaxation called 'hypnosis.' In this state, your mind is more aware while your body relaxes, leading to a feeling of well-being and peace. Hypnotherapy allows you to access your subconscious mind, which influences your habits and responses. This makes it easier to accept new ideas and make positive changes. A trained hypnotherapist combines hypnosis with counselling and psychology techniques to help you overcome limiting beliefs, eliminate negative habits and anxieties, and build a positive self-image and healthy lifestyle.

  • If you're struggling to solve a problem, make changes, or break a bad habit, it may be due to your usual way of thinking and feeling, shaped by past experiences. Negative experiences from childhood can create beliefs, causing issues in adulthood. These ingrained negative thoughts and behaviors make change difficult, even if you consciously want to improve.

    A Clinical hypnotherapist can help you access, making it easier to understand yourself and change your thoughts, feelings, and actions. This process helps you achieve your goals by leveraging the power of your subconscious for lasting change and positive growth. You'll also learn effective strategies to manage your thoughts and feelings to support new behaviors. Clinical hypnotherapy works well alongside other therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and mindfulness techniques.

  • There are a variety of different techniques & approaches. Many hypnotherapists rely mostly on suggestion therapy which tends to have a lower success rate (30-60% when tackling more deeply ingrained or complex problems & habits. Clinical hypnotherapists who use more advanced techniques achieve much higher & consistent success rates (60 - 100%) with lasting results, especially those who use other evidence-based approaches, such as CBT, together with hypnotherapy.

  • Just about anything! To improve health & well-being generally, manage stress effectively, improve relaxation & sleeping habits, as well as for treating a wide range of physical & emotional conditions, such as: IBS, Crohn's, & other digestive problems, Altzheimer's, dementias & other neuro-cognitive disorders, high blood pressure, immune system disorders, migraine, anger management, relationship problems, psychosexual difficulties, depression & anxiety, weight issues & eating disorders, addictions, substance abuse & negative habits.

In dentistry & medicine, there is a growing body of evidence that hypnotherapy is very effective in enabling patients to reduce, manage, or even eliminate, pain & discomfort, as well as overcoming fears & phobias related to doctors, dentists, needles, dental & other surgical procedures.

Hypnosis also reduces the risk of haemorrhage & promotes and speeds up healing.

And remember, you don't have to be experiencing problems to benefit from hypnotherapy & coaching for performance enhancement & accelerated learning!