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What you can expect
What is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy combines the use of psychotherapy with hypnosis. Hypnosis is natural, relaxing state, and in therapy is encouraged by using guided relaxation, where the mind can relax and focus on thoughts and suggestions that might be useful.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in based on modern, well-researched strategies to help people make significant, positive changes in their lives in a relatively short period of time.
In Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, the therapists works towards what the client wants to achieve (the solution) rather than at whatever prompted them to seek help (the problem).
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Hypnosis is not sleep it is a trance like state that you may be surprised to learn we experience several times a day. Perhaps you have driven along a familiar road and not remembered parts of the journey, or maybe you have been engrossed in a book or a film and haven't noticed when someone has called your name. If so you were in a trance like state at the time!
During hypnosis you will feel relaxed and calm and aware of everything around you. It is an extremely pleasant and enjoyable state which is very similar to daydreaming.
A Hypnotherapist cannot make a person do anything they do not want to or that they morally object to . You cannot get stuck in hypnosis and you can leave the state whenever you wish. You are in complete control at all times.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Einstein
What should I expect?
The initial consultation lasts up to an hour and is free of charge. It provides an opportunity for us to meet to discuss your issue. I will gather information about you and explain how the brain works in relation to your problem and symptoms which most people find enlightening.
I will explain the Hypnotherapy process and how it can help you and we will agree your proposed treatment plan. I will also give you a complementary CD to listen to in between sessions.
All subsequent lessons last up to an hour and begin with Solution Focused techniques followed by Hypnotherapy. Although treatment plans will be discussed and agreed on an individual basis during the initial consultation I have given an outline of average durations below: