1-2-1 Hypnotherapy

Clinical Hypnotherapy is a modern psychotherapy, utilizing a completely natural state of mind, commonly known as 'trance'. Its practice and methodology incorporate a wide range of ideas and approaches, as practiced within the more traditional schools of psychology / psychotherapy.

Hypnosis is an accepted and highly effective mode of treatment, and provides rapid assistance with:

Test or Exam nerves	Accelerated Healing	Auditions / Stagefright
Allergic responses	Emotional barriers	Sports performance
Confident public speaking	Figure enhance/weight loss	Eliminate/modify habits
Fears & Phobias	Self confidence / esteem	And much more...

Perhaps the most practical method of defining Hypnosis has come from the influential American psychiatrist, Dr.Milton H Erickson (1901-1980), whose philosophy has had a widespread influence on modern hypnotherapy. Erickson defined hypnosis as a state in which the subject experiences a heightened awareness, with the ability to concentrate his/her attention on thoughts, beliefs, and memories that are beyond 'normal' waking consciousness.

Your mind/body knows how to heal itself from many mental & physical ills, though this ability and knowledge remain largely unconscious. Trance therefore, provides you with a metaphorical 'bridge' to your unconscious resources, which can then be mobilized to assist you in the required ways.

Scroll down for a full description regarding your potential experience with Hypnosis, Fee's, and a fully detailed explanation of your first hypnosis session.

How many sessions?

This is entirely dependent upon the complaint, and the individual concerned. Some complaints respond very quickly, as in the case of limiting behavior's and habits, such as smoking, which can often be eliminated within one two hour session . Other complaints have been known to take five or six sessions plus.

It is unrepresentative of any style of therapy to make bold claims about 'rapid cures', as there is not one single treatment strategy that can possibly apply to everyone. However, when considering the options that other therapies offer, Hypnosis often requires the least amount of clinical time. As a rough guide then, a minimum of two sessions is to be expected.

Your first session.

The majority of the first session is for the non-intrusive gathering of information (symptom background), and for assisting you in learning to develop your individual 'trance' state.

The experience of the actual session typically begins by simply talking through the problem(s). At a suitable moment you will be encouraged to close your eyes and begin to relax, either by recalling a certain time of your life, or by focusing your attention on your muscles as you learn to relax systematically. The trance state is then gently and purposefully induced, serving as the primer for the following sessions.

The level of trance that you enter is unique to every session. Nearly always the desired results can be obtained in a light to medium depth of trance. After the session you would typically notice that you feel pleasantly relaxed, and there is a feeling of general well-being. Most people can recall nearly all of the trance experience, though what you actually remember is usually of little importance regarding the effectiveness of the session.

The second session is usually where any strategic interventions are applied, and trance is gently and purposefully induced (from the outset), and your resources utilized. Where multiple sessions are indicated, a flexible treatment structure may well be in place, whereby each session naturally builds on the previous, with many smaller changes in thought and behavior being encouraged.

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