Hypnotherapy is a powerful therapeutic technique that harnesses hypnosis to create a state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility. In this transformative state of consciousness, individuals can explore thoughts, memories, and emotions that may be difficult to access in everyday life.
Guided by a trained hypnotherapist, the journey begins with relaxation techniques, allowing one to enter a serene, trance-like state. Here, openness to suggestions flourishes, making it an invaluable tool for tackling issues such as anxiety, stress, self-esteem, depression, and embracing positive behavioural changes like smoking cessation or weight loss.
Dispelling the myths, hypnotherapy is about empowerment, not control. It supports self-discovery and ignites the ability to create positive changes in life.
Sessions often incorporate visualisation, guided imagery, and personalised suggestions that resonate with one’s aspirations.
Consulting with a qualified professional ensures a safe and personalised approach, poised to guide individuals on their path to transformation.
How does hypnotherapy work? What is the subconscious mind?
Our mind has two main parts: the conscious and the subconscious.
Your subconscious stores data, information, memories, beliefs, imagination, values, intuition, and protective reactions. Your subconscious helps you to respond in a way that you have programmed it. You store your data and retrieve it when needed.
Your subconscious does not think or reason; it obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind. Having a positive attitude and thinking is essential because it significantly affects your behaviour, mood, and emotions. Motivational activities, inspirational quotes, and metaphors are beneficial for individuals committed to positive thinking, as they help the subconscious mind establish a positive pattern in their thought process and outlook on life.
Your subconscious mind maintains your physiological balance through your autonomic nervous system most of the time. It also helps keep your mental balance by encouraging you to think and act consistently, based on your past experiences. These habits are stored in your subconscious mind.
Habits are hard to break, and whenever you try it, your subconscious will try to show you that you are acting out of the pattern. At this point, you might feel psychologically and physically uncomfortable.
However, using hypnotherapy, we can access your subconscious and identify the patterns that have been created there. You can then purposefully build new comfort zones to which your subconscious will adapt.
Various techniques in hypnotherapy can help you reprogram your subconscious to boost your confidence, enabling you to achieve your true desires, dreams, and life goals.
Our subconscious makes up nearly 90% of our mind, having been shaped by learned associations. If you suffer from anxiety, fears and phobias, it is your subconscious mind that has been triggered, which the conscious is often unaware of; hence, it is difficult to make the change on a conscious level.
Read more about the subconscious mind here: Parts of the mind and their functions
Hypnotherapy involves accessing your subconscious mind to create new associations that align with your goals and objectives. The hypnotic state, or trance, is a natural state that we enter automatically daily. Hypnosis is a relaxing and enjoyable experience for most people, and I will also teach you how to practice self-hypnosis.
What is a hypnosis session like?
I will use integrative psychotherapy methods combined with hypnotic suggestions (also known as clinical hypnosis) based on your unique needs, problems and personality.
I will help you relax as much as possible during the session and then provide you with some suggestions that may help alleviate your symptoms.
Positive suggestions and self-talk will be used throughout therapy to reinforce the positive outcome. I am an integrative psychotherapist; therefore, I will choose the most appropriate psychotherapeutic styles and tools and pair them with hypnosis to assist you in achieving your goal.
Some people do not feel hypnotised because they think about hypnosis as a magical state. It is a relaxed state that everybody can achieve. While you are in this lovely, calm, relaxed state, you will be asked to visualise that you have achieved your goal, and you will be given strategies to think and act more positively.
Hypno-Analysis
Some deep-rooted emotional problems, anxiety, and depression often respond very well to mixed
This therapy allows you to do most of the talking; in fact, you discover for yourself the underlying cause of your problem, and I will support you all the way.
Learn more about the history of hypnosis
