Hypnotherapy
Trance, or hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation paired with a great focus on inward attention. Such state can be often achieved in everyday life: there are moments when a person is so immersed in a book or a movie that they forget about everything around them. Most people can also relate to the moments when they walk somewhere familiar while being so deeply submerged in their thoughts that they only “wake up” when they have already arrived at their destination.
Hypnotherapy uses trance to help you easily connect to the deeper layers of your unconscious mind while still maintaining control over your own actions.
Memories, trauma, and old feelings can be hidden away deep inside, but they can only be processed through direct contact during the hypnosis session. You can acquire physical or mental symptoms immediately after experiencing trauma, but it can also happen in a few weeks, months, or even years. If they come unnoticed, they will eventually lead to sleep problems, loneliness, depression, and difficulty with concentration.
FOR WHOM IS IT SUITABLE
Hypnotherapy is suitable for anyone who has a healthy intelligence, who does not suffer from a serious psychiatric problem, and who is motivated to actively work on their problem. Everyone is eligible for hypnotherapy provided that they are able to trust the therapist and do not have extreme fear of hypnosis, because it is impossible to hypnotize someone against their will.
FOR WHOM IS IT NOT SUITABLE
Because hypnotherapy is intended to target a problem in a short time, it is not suitable for people with severe psychiatric problems, such as borderline personality disorder, psychosis, schizophrenia, or major depression. Hypnotherapy is also not suitable for people with severe addiction problems, such as drug addiction, gambling addiction, anorexia, and extreme alcoholism, or for people who take antidepressants.
Therapy Types
REGRESSION THERAPY
Regression therapy uses a mild form of hypnosis. The idea behind this method is to go back to the experiences and situations from the past that now unconsciously influence the present. It includes experiences that took place, for example, when you were still in a kindergarten or even when you were not yet born. The therapy provides insights into what exactly happened at the time and how exactly you reacted to the given situation. By reliving past events you can process them from your current self's point of view and thus let go of the destructive beliefs and feelings that you once acquired.
RATIONAL-EMOTIVE THERAPY
In some cases, irrational, negative thoughts or events cannot be processed. During this therapy, we look at how these thoughts and event interpretations can be replaced by more helpful and positive ones. Then I change the false beliefs in such a way that they start to better (more realistically) match the actual situation. The outcome of this therapy is that the feeling that goes with the given irrational/negative event transforms into the positive one. Feelings of upheaval, fear, anger, shame, inferiority become less frequent and can eventually be removed.
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is used to work with certain mental conditions, such as depression, compulsive disorders, addictions, eating disorders, and stress. Under hypnosis state, a patient can remember a situation that once triggered and fixed negative feelings in their brain. You need to go through the traumatic experience again to clarify the memory associated with it and eventually detect a true reason of your feelings. A new understanding of the traumatic situation must be established at the level of consciousness. As a result, you pass a chain of your psychotraumas that make up the nature of your disorder and gradually replace false ideas and attitudes with more adequate ones, thus forming a new image of the world, free from painful feelings and wrongful perceptions.
EMOTIONAL-IMAGINATIVE THERAPY
Emotion is a manifestation of an individual's psychic energy, aimed at committing certain actions. Unwanted emotions are blocked in the body with the help of muscle clamps. "Stuck" emotions cannot find their way out in the form of an action but instead give rise to many negative consequences, including psychosomatic symptoms. Emotions exist in the psyche and connect it with the body.
By resolving internal conflicts you can change your emotional state and release the "stuck" energy from your body.