At a Glance
Clinical hypnotherapy dispels myths by offering evidence-based support for stress, phobias, addictions, and confidence issues. Engaging the subconscious mind promotes deep relaxation, emotional regulation, and behavioural change, and can be effectively used alongside other therapies under professional guidance.
Discover the Healing Power of Hypnotherapy
Clinical hypnotherapy has several advantages when conducted under the guidance of a trained professional. As an alternative therapy, it can work alongside other interventions to help you overcome chronic pain and addiction, better manage stress and anxiety, and address phobias and conditions such as IBS.
Many people fear hypnosis because they’re worried about falling into a ‘trance’ or losing awareness, but in reality, you stay conscious and fully in control.
Whether you want to explore hypnotherapy advantages or seek specific treatment for something you’re suffering with, you can connect with me for tailored advice. I offer both in-person and online sessions tailored to your comfort level.
What to Expect During a Hypnotherapy Session
Here’s what you can expect during a hypnotherapy session with me:
- We’ll begin with a consultation session, either in person or via Zoom
- Then, I’ll work with you to understand your goals for hypnotherapy
- I’ll suggest and explain the type of hypnotherapy that I’ll be using, and give you a rough estimate of the number of sessions that you may need
5 Key Benefits of Hypnotherapy
Wondering what hypnotherapy can help with? In the next section, we’ll look at five benefits of hypnotherapy.
1. Get to the Root of Your Triggers
One of the key hypnotherapy advantages is its ability to address the triggers behind your behaviours. Our subconscious mind constantly stores information and never rests, even when the cognitive mind isn’t functional (during sleep). It stores our memories, values, and beliefs, and determines how we make conscious decisions.
Trauma or negative incidents often get stored in the subconscious mind. For instance, if you’ve ever been reprimanded for how you spoke or froze during school presentations, you might now find it hard to speak in public or at work.
During hypnotherapy, we’ll address the root cause behind your behaviour, not just your symptoms, allowing you to achieve a more balanced wellbeing.
2. See More Efficient Results
Another of the biggest clinical hypnotherapy benefits is the efficiency of this treatment method. Clinical hypnotherapy allows you to enter a relaxed state, where you respond to therapeutic suggestions and work through suppressed beliefs, emotions, and negative thoughts in your subconscious.
Hypnotherapy empowers you to take control of your emotions and to feel calmer and more confident when you’re faced with challenging situations. Without hypnotherapy support, these could lead to stress, binge-eating, smoking, or other negative coping mechanisms.
3. Experience Lasting Relaxation
During the induction phase of hypnosis, you’ll focus on your breathing, relaxing your muscles or visualising guided imagery. When you enter this focused yet relaxed state, your brainwaves form an alpha-theta pattern. This de-stresses your mind, allowing you to be more open to suggestions.
As you move your attention from distractions and focus your attention inwards, you start to relax, which helps you let go of anxiety and fears.
4. Support for Emotional Issues
Psychological issues like phobias, stress, and depression are stored across different parts of your brain. The main brain areas involved with your emotional response and storage are the amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex.
The prefrontal cortex is involved in emotional control and decision-making, while the insula is involved with emotions such as disgust and anxiety. Unresolved trauma and past emotional baggage are often associated with overactive amygdala responses and underactive prefrontal regulation.
The amygdala preserves this past trauma, even if the conscious mind knows that the event happened in the past. Hypnotherapy is linked with neuroplasticity, helping people unlearn their old habits, traumas, and emotions. The deep relaxation stage helps reduce the activity in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) stress axis.
5. Improved Confidence and Self-Esteem
The final hypnosis advantage we’re sharing is that it can improve your confidence and self-esteem by strengthening the prefrontal cortex pathways. It works on addressing past trauma, which may be inhibiting your self-confidence and affecting your view of yourself.
Hypnosis also shifts the focus inwards, making you feel relaxed despite external stimuli.
Contact Susannah for Bespoke Hypnosis Sessions
Looking to experience the benefits of hypnotherapy and feel confident, calm and in control of your choices? You’ve come to the right place. I’m a certified hypnotherapist with over two decades of experience in helping my patients take charge of their lives instead of being victims of their trauma.
The hypnotherapy advantages mentioned in this guide are experienced to the fullest when you’re open to the practice and receptive to positive change. The degree of success depends on your conscious willingness.
Hypnotherapy can be used in tandem with other interventions to allow you to reach your goal faster. Connect with me to learn more about my treatments and how I can help!
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