WHAT TO EXPECT WITH SOLUTION FOCUSED HYPNOTHERAPY
It is psychotherapy and hypnosis combined.
In the first meeting I find out what it is you would like to achieve.
We look at how our brains work in relation to our conditions, how we can suffer in the way we do and thankfully, what we can do about it.
Solution fociused therapy is not talking about problems or the past, research shows very clearly that this does not help us move forwards. Instead we think about possible ideas of what it might look like if you were moving towards your preferred outcome. Finding out what skills and strengths we have that that could help us in this is pretty useful too.
Then I will gently guide you through relaxation and into hypnosis.
Hypnosis is something very normal. Have you driven a familiar route and zoned out? Been so focussed on something you have been unaware of time passing? Not been thinking of anything in particular and then had a Eureka! moment? If so, then you can recognise the hypnotic state. In this state we have access to both sub conscious and conscious activity and it enables us to make the changes we want quickly and at a fundamental level.
Clinical hypnosis is simply a state of focussed attention and when in it our minds are more responsive to suggestion. In the therapy room suggestions are designed to be beneficial to help you change old unhelpful thought patterns.
