Behavioral Counseling with Hypnotherapy
Behavioral
Therapy
Coupled
with
Hypnosis
and
Hypnotherapy
–
We
enjoy
The
opportunity
to
work
together
with
our
clients
to
achieve
their
goals.
Cognitive
Behavioral
Therapy
(CBT)
stresses
the
role
of
thinking
in
how
we
feel
and
what
we
do.
It
is
based
on
the
belief
that
thoughts,
rather
than
people
or
events,
cause
our
negative
feelings.
Our
hypnotherapist
assists
the
patient
in
identifying,
testing
the
reality
of,
and
correcting
dysfunctional
beliefs
underlying
his
or
her
thinking.
The
hypnotherapist
then
helps
the
client
modify
those
thoughts
and
the
behaviors
that
flow
from
them
through
hypnotherapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy (CBH) has been found to be profoundly beneficial for the following:
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Tendencies
- General Anxiety
- Depression
- Insomnia
- Social Anxiety
- Agoraphobia
- and more…
Our hypnotherapist combines cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with hypnotherapy, which in many cases can help to accelerate the desired change. CBH is very much a therapy aimed at both the conscious and subconscious mind. The hypnotherapy involves dialogue and interaction with the subconscious and the cognitive behavioral techniques help create an understanding in how thinking, and the beliefs a client holds about events or situations play a large part in the emotional and/or behavioral upset. By combining these two approaches we bring about a degree of conscious and subconscious cooperative alignment, to better address the client’s presenting issues.
The subconscious, (that level of consciousness below our normal waking, objective consciousness), is non-judgmental and highly suggestible. Utilizing this factor, we can effect changes to harmful beliefs and habits at the subconscious level. The subconscious does not have the conscious filter that considers things based on prior experience and learning, it simply accepts suggestions with a willingness to experiment and an openness to new ideas. The subconscious also drives the autonomic nervous system which is responsible for all our involuntary body actions i.e.: breathing, heart rate, lymph functions, growth, repair and replacement of dead and dying cells etc. So additionally, it can add great value in addressing physical trauma issues and physical health and well being generally.
CBT
is
concerned
with
giving
the
client
a
new
range
of
skills
consciously;
hypnotherapy
brings
benefit
by
providing
a
very
useful
vehicle
to
integrate
these
skills
by
bringing
the
subconscious
into
a
closer
supporting
alignment.
Experimentation
and
rehearsal
(visualization)
of
applying
these
new
skills
can
be
carried
out
in
the
subconscious
during
hypnotherapy.
hypnotherapy
adds
a
dimension
of
flexibility
in
perception
and
behavior;
the
homework
and
experimental
aspects
crucial
in
CBT
are
likely
to
be
enhanced
when
reinforced
and
seeded
in
the
subconscious
mind
within
hypnosis.
Having
identified
the
thinking
patterns,
our
hypnotherapist
applies
hypnotic
interventions
to
challenge
any
faulty
thinking.
In
hypnosis
he
can
lead
the
client
to
re-evaluate
the
way
they
may
look
at
and
feel
about
things
in
his
life,
and
so
help
them
to
rethink
things
in
a
much
healthier
manner.
Another benefit of hypnotic intervention is that by bypassing the conscious and more rigid part of the mind, it is much easier to build these new cognitive associations and dissociations. In hypnosis, our hypnotherapist has the client recognize their pattern of thinking for what it really is, and begin to see how it is adding to the problem. It is easier in hypnosis to begin to embrace the new patterns of healthful thinking. Hypnosis allows a degree of detachment from thoughts and feelings; one can stand as if an observer and begin to see their negative beliefs and feelings as well as their origination. Hypnotherapy allows our clients to more readily challenge this and other unhelpful beliefs leading to positive and continual change in just as few as 2-4 sessions.