Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a condition of profound relaxation which you allow yourself to enter, during which time there is an altered state of conscious awareness.

For over two hundred years the technique of hypnosis has been used in medicine to treat a wide range of physical, psychological and emotional disorders. It has also long been recognised that hypnosis may successfully be combined with other approaches and techniques in counselling and psychotherapy. In 1977, the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) formally endorsed the new term hypno-psychotherapy, as ‘the branch of psychotherapy which uses hypnosis’.

Whatever theory of the mind is applied, hypnosis can be integrated with appropriate psychotherapeutic approaches to help bring positive changes.

Hypnosis customarily creates a deeply relaxed state in which mental stress and bodily tension are reduced. In this relaxed state, the mind is usually more open to the process of change. As such, client and therapist can safely work together, using an agreed approach, to enhance mental, physical and emotional well-being.