Primarily hypnotherapy offers treatment that is drugs free; meaning no side effects and treatment is concluded within a short period of time.
What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a state of profound relaxation that you allow yourself to enter. You remain completely in control and you can choose to come out of hypnotherapy at any time. Hypnosis can be amazingly effective and often is directly responsible for the major changes in our life patterns.
How would you feel if you realised you had been in hypnosis many times? That each of us is in the hypnotic state at least twice a day? Hypnosis is that natural day-dreaming-like state between waking and sleep. In this special state, you can learn very quickly; which is why you can experience such benefits from hypnotherapy.
The benefits of the state of hypnosis itself are increased levels of relaxation and decreased levels of anxiety and stress. Freud used hypnosis a great deal in his early studies and work, before he developed his own method of Free Association.
Hypnosis is a technique well developed and commonly used by psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists within a clinical environment. Hypnosis can often help to promote change in clients where other methods have been unsuccessful or very slow. Many decades of formal clinical research exist about hypnosis for many types of disorders and anxieties.
Hypnotherapy is conducted by trained therapists who have a professional duty to provide support and help our clients in the best possible way we can. During hypnotherapy you are not letting go of anything, not disclosing anything, or doing anything against your will. Rather, you are being guided to relaxation where new learning, new insights and positive changes can quickly and effectively take place.
Once you learn how hypnosis feels, I can train you to achieve the state yourself, so that you will be able to take yourself in and out of this state of relaxation whenever you wish. This is called self-hypnosis.
Hypnosis is similar to meditation, except that you have an experienced therapist to guide you. For many of you, this relaxation is completely refreshing, and some people find it is the first time in years that they have experienced such levels of calm.
