Therapies

This page descibes the way suggestion hypnotherapy, hypnoanalysis NLP and EFT are used in Bristol and Bath to assist people to quickly and effectively free themselves from the limitations or restrictions they currently experience.

SuggestionTherapy
This form of therapy is the best known use of hypnosis. It makes use of the heightened susceptibility to beneficial suggestions in order to change bad habits for good ones, and to build confidence. It is known especially for its high success rate in helping people to change eating habits and so lose weight, and in assisting people with pre-test or business presentation nervousness and so on.

Suggestion therapy has been criticised for dealing only with the symptoms and not with the cause. For this reason it is recommended only for the problems mentioned above.

This type of therapy usually only requires one session with me, and reinforcing sessions with a back-up tape for use at your own convenience over the first four weeks. If, however, a booster session is needed, then it would be charged at half-fee rate, if taken within three months

Analytical Therapy(regression)
Without doubt this is the Rolls Royce of therapies, Many therapies offer coping strategies or elaborate suggestion work, this process addresses and removes the cause. With others the symptoms can return, in the same or a different form, if analysis is completed successfully you can be sure those problems are gone, permanently.

Hypno-analysis as it is sometimes known, can be summarised briefly as the doctrine of cause and effect - every symptom must have a cause. Hypno-analysis reveals and thus removes the cause and consequently relieves the symptom.

This process uses the state of hypnosis to aid the recall of past events, in their entirety. The use of such a process for the relief of nervous conditions was started some three quarters of a century ago, and has helped countless people since that time. A past emotionally important event may be hidden from the conscious mind, but is linked with a 'protective' pattern of behaviour, such as a phobia. By enabling past events to be re-examined and the emotion released, those patterns of behaviour which are no longer appropriate, the symptoms, cease.

It can also be said that people undergoing the analytical process find it enjoyable and quite fascinating as a route to greater self-knowledge and a true insight into the dynamics that have shaped their lives..

Certain problems respond particularly well to Hypno-analysis, recent successful cases include Phobias (Agoraphobia, claustrophobia etc.), Migraine, Anxiety and Panic Attacks, Sexual Problems, Bulimia, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Another interesting case was one where a woman wanted to gain a full memory of her mother who hd died when she was ten years old. Her mind had blocked out all memory of her mother, but through this process we reached a memory of her coming home from school and seeing her mother in the garden ... from then on a range of memories of conversations, and shared events came to the fore.

This therapy usually takes up to ten weekly sessions of 50 minutes each. This is totally individual and confidential. Whilst benefits are felt during therapy, problems tend to be resolved in one or a series of experiences towards the end.

Other Therapeutic Methods
NLPand Visualisation techniques may well be employed as and when it is advisable in order to gain a successful outcome conclusion for the client. This can be especially useful in preparing someone for a one off event, such as an interview, a sporting competition, speaking in public, decision making and even getting married!

However, such techniques will always be discussed and agreed fully with the client, prior to their use.