Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis can be used in two ways, as suggestion therapy or for patient analysis.

• Suggestion therapy: The hypnotic state makes the person better able to respond to suggestions. Therefore, hypnotherapy can help some people change certain behaviours such as stopping smoking or nail-biting.
• Analysis: This approach uses the relaxed state to explore a possible psychological root cause of a disorder or symptom, such as a traumatic past event that a person has hidden in his or her unconscious memory. Once the trauma is revealed, it can be addressed in therapy.
• Mental Health and Hypnosis: Hypnosis, or hypnotherapy – uses guided relaxation, intense concentration and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance. The person’s attention is so focused while in this state, that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored. In this naturally occurring state, a person may focus his or her attention – with help of a trained therapist – on specific thoughts or tasks.