Is Hypnotherapy right for you?
Hypnotherapy is an alternative to traditional counseling. Many find that a few quick sessions can take the place of weeks, months if not years of traditional counseling.
If you've been losing the daily battle with
Stress, Fear, Phobias, Addictions, Bad Habits, Allergies or Chronic Pain
then Hypnotherapy may be the answer.
The success rate is extremely high with Hypnotherapy when the patient is truly ready and willing to change.
What is Hypnotherapy?
Although the word "hypnosis" is derived from the Greek hypnos meaning "sleep", you are not asleep when hypnotized, but actually in a trancelike state of extreme openness and receptivity to suggestion. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis for self-improvement and/or healing. The hypnotic state is not nearly as mysterious as it sounds. People go into trancelike states all the time. For example, musicians and artists can become so engrossed in their work that they lose track of time. Readers often become totally immersed in the pages of a good novel. Drivers pass their exits on the freeway while daydreaming. These day-to-day experiences are similar to the hypnotic state.
The use of guided imagery teaches the patient to learn how to relax and release any stress, worries or concerns. A person can be mentally guided back in time, remembering detailed events from the past that may reveal painful memories responsible for emotional or physical problems. A teasing statement delivered by a parent many years ago may actually be the basis of fear holding a person back from suceeding in their current career. Studies document how the emotional pain of physical or sexual abuse during childhood can be suppressed by the mind yet manifest into many chronic medical conditions.
A frequent concern is that the therapist can somehow take control. The hypnotherapist is really just a facilitator; there can be no hypnosis unless someone is completely willing and able to participate. The goal is for you, the client to gain control--over behavior, emotions, or whatever issue is being dealt with. No one can make you quack like a duck or do anything else you wouldn't ordinarily do. YOU have to want to change. Hypnotized, you will probably actually feel more alert than you normally do. At the same time, however, you will be in a state of profound relaxation. Most people who have been hypnotized say it is a much more subtle process than expected and find the experience quite pleasurable.
