What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis by a trained hypnotherapist to help a person to make positive changes in their life. The use of hypnosis allows the hypnotherapist to bypass the critical areas of the conscious mind and access the subconscious mind directly. All our learned behaviours and habits, either good or bad, reside in the subconscious mind. Hypnosis speeds up the process of positive change since the hypnotherapist is working directly with the subconscious mind. Old unwanted negative associations and behaviour can easily be removed and replaced with positive beneficial ones.

What can it be used for

Uses of Hypnotherapy include but are not limited to;

  • Quitting smoking
  • Behavioural issues
  • Pain management/ medical issues
  • Depression and stress reduction
  • Phobia reduction/elimination
  • Performance improvement/ Goal Achievement
  • Eating disorders/Lose weight
  • Fertility Issues
  • Sleep Disorders

How well does hypnotherapy work?

A comparison study found the following results:
  • Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions
  • Behaviour Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions
  • Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions

(American Health Magazine August 2006)

Additionally a German university meta-analysis of 444 studies supported this claim, concluding a 64 percent success rate with hypnotherapy for stress, anxiety and chronic pain.

How many sessions will it take and how much will it cost?

This depends entirely upon the nature of the issue, how long you have had it and how serious you are in working on it. The number of sessions it will take can not be determined until the initial consultation and you are put into hypnosis. It can vary anywhere from 1 session to 6 sessions to change that particular issue. Most clients see substantial change within 3-6 sessions. Sometimes people are so happy with the results they have achieved, that they continue with hypnotherapy and work on other issues. Michael is happy to answer any further questions and to discuss the fees.

How soon will I see the results?

Depending on the issue you are working on and how deeply rooted it is, the results may be immediate after the first session or it may take several sessions for you to start to see the results you desire.

Top 10 Benefits to Hypnotherapy

These are the most common questions asked when people consider going to see a hypnotherapist. Some people are understandably a little apprehensive about considering hypnotherapy as a treatment, usually because of misconceptions by what they have seen on the television or in films. But when you think about the benefits that can come from hypnosis you’ll see it’s really worth it:

  • Hypnosis can treat addictions – It doesn’t matter what you’re addicted to hypnosis can help you kick the addiction of food, alcohol, drugs, smoking and many other addictions. Hypnosis helps to rid your body of physical addictions to whatever you are addicted to.

  • Hypnosis can help you lose weight and keep it off – Hypnotherapy has been proven to be 30% more effective than just dieting when it comes to weight loss. Medical professionals speculate that hypnosis helps people who are hanging onto the extra weight for psychological reasons or people that overeat for psychological reasons.

  • Hypnosis can help manage chronic pain – If you have a disease that leaves you in frequent pain like fibromyalgia, arthritis or migraines then you already know that sometimes it feels like nothing will stop the pain. When drugs and diet don’t help you can manage your pain using self-hypnosis. In many different scientific studies hypnosis has been proven to be an effective pain management technique

  • Hypnosis can help reduce stress – Stress can cause serious illness in people like heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and sleep disorders. If you have a lot of stress in your life and you feel like you can’t get it under control by using diet and exercise, then it’s time to think about hypnosis.

  • Hypnosis can help deal with childhood issues – From serious abuse or other problems in the home to lack of self-esteem or a need to be successful at all costs the issues and problems that you experienced as a child might still be impacting you today and causing you to make bad decisions or to not take very good care of yourself. Hypnosis is a great way to work through childhood issues and replace those negative messages about yourself with positive ones.

  • Hypnosis can cure sleep disorders – Millions of people suffer from sleep disorders that range from full insomnia to night terrors, wakeful sleep, sleepwalking, and the inability to fall into REM sleep which your body needs. Many sleep disorders have an associated psychological condition that makes it necessary for people to get both psychological and physical treatment in order to be able to get some sleep. Hypnosis can help treat the psychological problem that is causing the sleep disturbance while at the same time it puts the body in a deeply relaxed state that helps the body and mind become rejuvenated.

  • Hypnosis can promote deep relaxation – If you have ever tried meditation you know already the great things that relaxation does for the mind and body. You can become more creative, better at problem solving, less irritable, and you can reduce your risk of health problems like heart disease or high blood pressure significantly if you meditate or relax regularly. But if you have trouble relaxing, or if you never seem to be able to relax deeply enough to really feel refreshed, then you should try hypnosis. Hypnosis is a wonderful way to experience truly deep relaxation that will make you feel much healthier.

  • Hypnosis can help you change your behavior – Are you the kind of person that is always snapping at others? Do you get irritated and angry often? Do you have trouble managing your anger? Hypnosis can help you change your behavior patterns so that you can be healthier and happier. Often behavioral patterns are learned in childhood, but a hypnotic suggestion given while you’re in a deep hypnotic state can help you get rid of those old messages telling you to behave in certain ways and replace them with messages to act in new, more appropriate ways.

  • Hypnosis can help recover buried memories – All of the experiences that you’ve had throughout your life are buried in your brain somewhere. Typically, this is used to help people that were abused as children understand their behavioural patterns but there can also be happy memories that you have forgotten as a result of an injury or accident that can be recovered with hypnosis.

  • Hypnosis can help treat anxiety and depression – Many people are reluctant to take medication to treat anxiety and depression because they don’t want to become dependent on medication. Other people just can’t seem to find a medication that works for them. Hypnosis is a drug free and very effective way to calm anxiety and to treat the symptoms of depression. By using hypnotic suggestions to eliminate the triggers of anxiety and depression people that suffer from these issues can sometimes find 100% relief from those conditions by using hypnosis

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