What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnotic techniques to bring about therapeutic changes.

The Therapist - assists in activating the inner resources of a person - the Client - in order to achieve realistic goals.

The problems that Hypnotherapy is best placed to help fall into the following broad classes:

Thoughts and ideas: People can suffer from thoughts of low self-esteem, or obsessive thoughts about someone or something. They may not be able, for example, to get out of their minds the idea that they are suffering from an illness, despite medical reassurance, or that a partner is unfaithful. Hypnotherapy can help the client to change such ideas.
Phobias: People often experience an irrational fear of a variety of insects, animals, objects or situations and Hypnotherapy is particularly renowned for its effectiveness in assisting sufferers to overcome these distressing and inhibiting conditions.
Feelings: People can suffer from a wide variety of distressing feelings such as panic attacks, anxiety, jealousy, guilt, anger or inadequacy. Whatever the problem feeling, Hypnotherapy can deal with it more specifically than can a drug - and without harmful side effects.
Habits: People can find themselves in the grip of many habits that they seem unable to control, from something like nail-biting or smoking to more deep-seated compulsions. Hypnotherapy, using hypnotic techniques, can help to remove habits with precision and again, a total freedom from side effects.
Issues: Hypnotherapy can help you with a huge range of issues. For some more examples of the things which Hypnotherapy can help with please see an extensive list.

The above information is with kind permission of the National Council for Hypnotherapy.

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