During the first session we complete a questionnaire gathering background
information. Once completed we then discuss what you are looking to
achieve from the hypnotherapy sessions. This can be very different between
two people who are on the surface presenting the same issues.
I then introduce you to hypnosis. We discuss what happens during a
typical session, what you can expect to feel and an overview of how hypnosis and
hypnotherapy work.
The number of sessions is very much determined by the presenting
problems and differs from person to person. The following will give
you a useful guide as to what you can expect:-
Phobias
The heading of Phobias includes over 500 individual phobic responses.
The more common phobias include a fear of:-
spiders, injections, dental visits, heights, flying
Typically these phobias can be dramatically reduced and often eradicated
with 3 sessions.
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
This is an area in which I have developed additional specialist
knowledge. Please refer to the IBS
page where you can find more detailed information about the treatment
protocols.
In order to gain maximum long term benefit it is important to complete a
full course of 12 treatments. The treatments are held at weekly
intervals and in between times you will be given a hypnotherapy cd to listen
to on a daily basis.
Smoking
Based upon many years of successfully helping other clients to give up
smoking you will be taken through the following three stages:-
Session 1:- I work with you to ensure
that you really want to give up smoking and that you are not simply going
through the motions through guilt or to please someone else. We very
quickly get into the hypnosis/trance work so that you become totally
familiar and comfortable with the way hypnosis works for you.
Session 2:- Having already experienced
the effects of an intensive hypnosis session and consciously ready to give
up smoking we then take you back into a deep comfortable trance state.
This is where the work really starts - confronting your subconscious mind so
that it has total belief that you
are no longer a smoker.
Eating Issues
This a very wide area and needs to be discussed on a one to one
basis.
In most cases eating issues respond extremely well
to hypnosis. Some extreme eating disorders need to be dealt with under
the direction of your GP or Consultant.
With regards to most eating issues you will need a 6 session
commitment.
Physco-Sexual Issues
Where the condition is borne out of mental stress and sometimes panic,
hypnosis can make a very significant change.
Typically 6 sessions are recommended to allow you to achieve the maximum
benefit.
Stress
Stress can cause any number of problems within the body.
In order to control and to a large extent combat the negative feelings that
stress causes you will be taken into quite a deep trance state so that you
experience the feelings mentally and physically.
You will then be shown how to do this for yourself using self-hypnosis
which you will be encouraged to practice on a regular basis.
