Hypnotherapy
At the centre, we can use formal and informal hypnotherapy to help clients with whatever concerns they bring to us. This is, of course, only ever done by agreement and does not mean magic, swinging watches, surrender of control or any of the clichés of film and media. Rather it involves relaxing consensual procedures that allow you to go into the kind absorbing trances that help you to make positive changes and life choices.
Hypnosis is a tool.
Like any tool, its use depends on the skill, knowledge and understanding of the operator. Therapists using hypnosis need to be skilled in brief psychotherapy and solution-focused counselling methods and have a clear idea of the larger patterns of human needs and resources. This is how we use hypnotherapy at the centre – as an additional tool when it’s appropriate, always with the agreement of clients.
Intelligent use of hypnosis in therapy at the centre
- is adapted to suit the individual client
- is complemented by solution-focused counselling and psychotherapy
- allows the client to be conscious of what is happening
- allows the client to make intelligent life choices
- is used in conjunction with more conscious cognitive strategies.
How does it work?
Many scientific studies have established the existence of intelligent unconscious patterns in the brain. These are ways of governing daily habits of functioning and adapting those habits to context without the need for thought. In a sense, all of us depend on these automatic programmes – we are all a series of co-operating systems that come out of both biology and training. It’s only when these patterns go wrong or need changing that we need to ‘get through’ to the unconscious levels. Trance work allows that kind of effective communication.
Hypnotherapy can be used as part of treating very many of the concerns listed under Concerns we work with.