Hypnotherapy Explained

Clinical hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique that uses guided hypnosis to help individuals access a relaxed, focused state of awareness where they can work on issues such as anxiety, stress, pain, or unwanted behaviors. It is typically conducted by trained professionals and can be used as a complementary approach alongside conventional medical or psychological treatments.

This altered state of consciousness that we enter when hypnotised is a state that we naturally go into throughout the day including when we are immersed in a good book or TV programme, just before we go to sleep, immediately after we wake up, and when we drive a familiar route and upon arrival, we have no detailed memory of the journey we have just made.

Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that utilises hypnosis as a tool to help individuals achieve a state of deep relaxation, heightened focus, and increased suggestibility. During hypnotherapy sessions, a trained hypnotherapist guides the individual into a deeply relaxed state, often referred to as a trance or hypnotic state. In this state the individual is more open to suggestions which enables the hypnotherapist to treat unwanted habits, behaviours, emotions and beliefs and replace them with new, positive messages.

Hypnotherapy was recognised as an effective therapeutic treatment by the British Medical Association in 1955. While it is not considered a primary treatment for medical conditions in the UK, it can be advised as an adjunctive therapy as part of a broader treatment plan for conditions including Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and chemotherapy-induced nausea within the UK Healthcare Sector.