Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy Explained
What is psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is often known as a "talking therapy". It's the process of exploration into unconscious issues, negative feelings and behaviours experienced by an individual assisted by a trained therapist. These may include feelings of depression, anxiety, sadness, anger, trauma or the general loss of meaning to one’s life. Exploring psychological or emotional issues and helping one look objectively at behaviours, thoughts, feelings and problematic situations stimulates cognitve, conscious understanding for the client and thus the client increases their capacity for choice, bringing autonomy back to their life.
Why use psychotherapy and how does it work?
Sometimes when we experience negative emotions there’s an obvious, logical explanation for them. Sometimes, however, our emotions, behaviours, perceptions or thoughts seem illogical or irrational, causing us pain or disturbance. The less consciously aware we are of the motivations behind such negative feelings, thoughts and behaviours, the more they seem to control us and we feel “stuck”. Psychotherapy, as used by a qualified psychotherapist, helps an individual understand that irrationality, bringing the underlying, unconscious cause of the symptom to the attention of the conscious, rational mind. From this understanding it is possible to change attitudes, thoughts and behaviours. Combined with hypnotherapy it is possible to get to the root cause of emotions and problems and to make lasting changes and shifts in our emotions and behaviours at the unconscious level.
Why use psychotherapy and how does it work?
Sometimes when we experience negative emotions there’s an obvious, logical explanation for them. Sometimes, however, our emotions, behaviours, perceptions or thoughts seem illogical or irrational, causing us pain or disturbance. The less consciously aware we are of the motivations behind such negative feelings, thoughts and behaviours, the more they seem to control us and we feel “stuck”. Psychotherapy, as used by a qualified psychotherapist, helps an individual understand that irrationality, bringing the underlying, unconscious cause of the symptom to the attention of the conscious, rational mind. From this understanding it is possible to change attitudes, thoughts and behaviours. Combined with hypnotherapy it is possible to get to the root cause of emotions and problems and to make lasting changes and shifts in our emotions and behaviours at the unconscious level.
What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of altered awareness and happens to varying degrees throughout your day - for example, reading a book, daydreaming, listening to music. It happens when you don't have to make an effort, you don't have to concentrate the conscious mind or be proactive. You have two minds – the conscious (which is the logical, rational mind) and the unconscious (the creative mind that runs our behaviours and is home to your emotions and memories). During hypnosis the conscious you becomes either relaxed or heightened in focus. Hypnosis, used within a therapeutic framework, is a clinically efficient avenue for focusing the conscious mind. During that relaxed or heightened state, the unconscious is receptive to positive therapeutic suggestions and gives you ready access to unconscious resources in order for you to create the desired behavioural and emotional changes.
An effective and popular branch of psychotherapy, hypnotherapy has been approved for use by the British Medical Association and the American Medical Association for over 60 years. Hypnosis is now widely recognised internationally as the key to rapid behavioural change and is now used in many fields including dentistry, medical, professional sports and education.
An effective and popular branch of psychotherapy, hypnotherapy has been approved for use by the British Medical Association and the American Medical Association for over 60 years. Hypnosis is now widely recognised internationally as the key to rapid behavioural change and is now used in many fields including dentistry, medical, professional sports and education.
How does hypnotherapy work?Our behaviours, habits and emotions are triggered and run unconsciously. For example, you walk without any conscious awareness of how to, digest food without conscious know-how and have many unconscious movements totally out of your awareness. As your unconscious mind is the domain of all your behaviours, emotions and memories, it is therefore the unconscious part of you that can create lasting changes in those areas.
Sometimes our past holds us back from our potential, from being happy or from living our lives to the full. Our unconscious mind hosts our memories as well as any negative emotions and hypnotherapy can be very useful in revisiting memories in order to reassess them and change our perception of them, healing distressing emotions and freeing us to the change in behaviour we wish for. |
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During the hypnotic state when used in hypnotherapy, resourcefulness and creativity is encouraged and stimulated within the unconscious mind. When in trance the unconscious mind is encouraged to make changes in patterns of thinking and behaviour. During the hypnotherapy session Angela will utilise this natural state to accomplish beneficial, lasting change.
What will I experienced during hypnosis?
Hypnosis can be experienced as the fixation of your attention such as being wrapped up in a good book, a film at the cinema or a soothing piece of music. If you've experienced these activities then you’ve experienced a light hypnotic trance. Perhaps you’ve driven from A to B and have no conscious recollection of the journey. That’s trance. These experiences happen throughout the day, you’re familiar with them and probably enjoy them.
During the hypnotherapy session, clients may experience a deep form of relaxation. It is during this state of altered awareness that clients can access their unconscious resources to create change for themselves and alter their perception to enhance their well-being.
During the hypnotherapy session, clients may experience a deep form of relaxation. It is during this state of altered awareness that clients can access their unconscious resources to create change for themselves and alter their perception to enhance their well-being.
What are the benefits of hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis, used within a psychotherapeutic framework, is clinically proven to be a beneficial and lasting therapy for change. If you have a behaviour, habit, negative feeling or state of mind you wish to change, then hypnotherapy may be the answer for you.
What is the difference between psychotherapy and hypnotherapy?
Psychotherapy in and of itself is a useful tool to self-discovery and raising self-awareness around unresolved issues or underlying causes for negative behaviours and emotions. Realisation of such causes can sometimes be enough to generate behavioural change and exploring cognitve avenues of alternative behaviours and perceptions accelerates such change. Psychotherapy, therefore, is a conscious process.
Hypnotherapy is the process of communicating unconsciously with oneself and gives speedy access to underlying causes and insights stimulating alternative behaviours using unconscious resources of the client. Angela’s wide experience has shown that hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is a powerful combination in the field of personal change, bringing together one’s conscious, cognitive realisation with unconscious, creative resources.
It is not always necessary to induce the hypnotic state for a client to achieve the desired change in their life. Equally it is not always necessary to explore underlying issues using cognitive psychotherapeutic skills with clients but rather the hypnotic state to achieve quick and lasting change.
Hypnotherapy is the process of communicating unconsciously with oneself and gives speedy access to underlying causes and insights stimulating alternative behaviours using unconscious resources of the client. Angela’s wide experience has shown that hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is a powerful combination in the field of personal change, bringing together one’s conscious, cognitive realisation with unconscious, creative resources.
It is not always necessary to induce the hypnotic state for a client to achieve the desired change in their life. Equally it is not always necessary to explore underlying issues using cognitive psychotherapeutic skills with clients but rather the hypnotic state to achieve quick and lasting change.