How does therapy help?

Depending on your present situation and your reasons for seeking change, there are many benefits to hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can also offer you improved coping skills while opening your eyes to new ways of dealing with situations that you may not have been aware of before. Hypnotherapy can offer problem-solving skills, while helping you work through life changes, allowing you to see your circumstances as a personal growth opportunity instead of a burden or obstacle.

Some specific skills therapy can provide are:

  • Emotional management, including, but not limited to anger, jealousy, and grief.
  • Coping mechanisms to allow you to work through situations which typically cause you anxiousness, fear, or avoidance.
  • Stress-management techniques to use in response to stress in everyday life, such as with your job and family.
  • Skills and techniques to help you better navigate relationships, or to work through relationship troubles.
  • Problem solving skills for you to enact when you encounter issues which may typically have caused you to shy away or back down, such as social situations or public speaking.
  • Improving self-love, self-confidence, and body image.
  • Improving communication, listening, and the ability to speak up for yourself.
  • Understanding your own skills, strengths, and positive attributes and learning to quiet your inner negative critique.
  • Finding a resolution to the issues that originally led you to hypnotherapy.

While the decision to begin hypnotherapy is an individual choice, in many regards it has the potential to be helpful for everyone. There are a wide variety of reasons to begin hypnotherapy including but not limited to: managing daily stress; enhancing sports performance, increasing confidence and motivation, addressing a fear of public speaking, and more.

What to Expect

  • You can expect to be treated with compassion, empathy, respect, and understanding.
  • You can expect me to be someone who actively listens to you without being judgmental.
  • You can expect me to actively listen to your interpretation of what you are currently experiencing.
  • You can expect my counseling office to to be a safe, supportive, and confidential space.
  • You can expect to learn how to  apply strategies and techniques to make positive changes in your life.
  • You can expect measurable accomplishments related to your goals and objectives.

Your First Session Content

As a new client you will be provided with a Client Folder containing an introductory letter and various educational documents about hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

Also provided will be an extensive Life History Questionnaire.  When completed and returned, this questionnaire enables me to understand you as the unique person you are.  Considering that no two individuals are alike, your completed Life History Questionnaire enables me to custom tailor a program of hypnotherapy to best match your individual needs.

Additionally, your completed Life History Questionnaire helps me to learn about the personal growth and development experiences you have explored to date, including your goals, aspirations, and expectations.

Education, Hypnosis, Deepening, and Conditioning to Re-Hypnosis

At the start of your initial session, I will discuss the use of your client folder.  I will also educate you in detail about hypnosis, self-hypnosis, and hypnotherapy; test your suggestibility; conduct an in-depth hypnotic induction; and take you through several hypnotic deepening exercises to increase your physical and emotional relaxation.  We will work together to increase your responsiveness to re-hypnosis during subsequent sessions.

This and future sessions conclude with a summary of the session’s content and an opportunity for questions and answers.

Between Sessions 1 and 2

Between your first and second sessions, I review your completed Life History Questionnaire.  I also develop a case-specific second session agenda, including specific post hypnotic suggestions as well as a guided imagery visualization exercise to be used during our second session.

Your Second Session Content

At the beginning of each session, there is a review to assess and document your progress toward meeting your specific goals and objectives in a timely manner.  This review provides an opportunity for you to subjectively report your progress in achieving each of your goals on a 0-10 scale.  At the same time, your review helps me to maintain focus on your goals, expectations, achievements. This is in keeping with my purpose to assist you in achieving your goals and objectives in as few sessions as is professionally responsible.

During each session, you are eased into a hypnotic state.  Thereafter, I communicate case-specific post hypnotic suggestions and conduct one or more guided imagery exercises.  Following this you are awakened from hypnosis.

Each session ends with a review of the session’s content including questions and answers. My approach to hypnotherapy is for the experience to result in benefits that translate to lifelong learnings.

Your Third and Subsequent Sessions Content

At the beginning of each session, there is a review to assess and document your progress toward meeting your specific goals and objectives in a timely manner.  This review provides an opportunity for you to subjectively report your progress in achieving each of your goals on a 1-10 scale.  At the same time, your review helps me to maintain focus on your goals, expectations, achievements. This is in keeping with my purpose to assist you in achieving your goals and objectives in as few sessions as is professionally responsible.

During each session, you are eased into a hypnotic state.  Thereafter, I communicate case-specific post hypnotic suggestions and conduct one or more guided imagery exercises.  Following this you are awakened from hypnosis.

Each session ends with a review of the session’s content including questions and answers. My approach to hypnotherapy is for the experience to result in benefits that translate to lifelong learnings.

Your Final Session Content

At the time of your final session, we have a progress review as to your accomplished goals and objectives.

During this session clients are taught self-hypnosis in the form of two different approaches.  The first approach involves eye fascination, whereas the second approach involves a use of keywords.  After being hypnotized, using each approach, a client is observed demonstrating their ability to initiate self-hypnosis and thereafter to awaken himself or herself from the hypnotic state.

Two self-hypnosis handouts are given to the client.  These function as easy to read lesson plans for future use.

This session ends with a review of the session’s content, including questions and answers.  In this way, I am able to make sure that my client both understands and is comfortable with the self-hypnosis process.

 

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I look forward to getting to know you and helping you reach your therapy goals.

Please complete the following forms prior to your first therapy session.

Is therapy confidential?

As a general rule, all therapy sessions are confidential and anything you discuss with me will remain between the two of us, unless you request otherwise. This is as per protection rules by law, which all therapists legally need to follow, and no information from the session can be disclosed without prior written consent from the client.

There are exceptions to this law however, and the therapist can disclose information from the session to legal authorities or appointed persons if any of the following are true:

  • The therapist suspects abuse to a child, dependent adult, or an elder, or are made aware of domestic abuse. These situations all require the therapist to notify law authorities immediately.
  • If the therapist suspects an individual has caused, or is threatening to cause severe bodily harm to another person, therapists are required to report it to the police.
  • If an individual intends to harm himself or herself, expressing to the therapist for example, plans for suicide. While the therapist will attempt to work through this in the therapy session, if it appears to be unresolved or the client does not cooperate, additional action may need to be taken to ensure the safety of the client.