Hypnotherapy
Unlock Lasting Freedom from Habits, Stress, and Emotional Patterns
Hypnotherapy can help you free yourself from emotional patterns and self-defeating thoughts and behaviors. Whether you wish to find freedom from persistent habits, such as smoking, overeating or other addictions, or to improve your performance by implementing positive new habits, hypnotherapy can help. In addition, this technique can be used to attain freedom from trauma related stress triggers and the patterns of emotional reactivity and poor communication that are so damaging to relationships.
What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is an altered state of concentration, focused attention, and heightened relaxation that is guided by a certified hypnotist. During hypnosis, you become more open to positive suggestions that will create meaningful impacts on memories, perceptions about the world and yourself, and behaviors that will improve your daily life. You don’t actually “go to sleep” during the session but instead feel a deep sense of calm flowing over you. Your sessions are tailored specifically to you and your needs.
How does hypnotherapy work?
Hypnosis is so prevalent in pop culture that people have a variety of misconceptions about what actually it is. Hypnotherapists in capes don’t use a mystical gaze to put people under their control or utilize pocket watches to induce willing or unwilling participants to act in ways they don’t wish or divulge secrets about their lives. Instead, your certified hypnotherapist will guide you through stages of relaxation to calm your conscious analytical mind to make you more open to the suggestions that will improve your life.
The process goes in stages to gradually get you to a more suggestible state.
- Induction (where you start to relax)
- Deepening (deeper relaxation and focus)
- Suggestions (addressing what’s needed)
- Emergence (guidance back to full awake state)
At no point do you ever fall asleep or lose control. Though you are brought into a relaxed suggestible state, you always have complete control of your thoughts and actions. The entire process is a cooperative effort with your hypnotherapist with your improvement at the center of it all.
What techniques are used in hypnotherapy?
A variety of techniques can be used for your personalized hypnotherapy sessions. These are selected based on what the hypnotherapist feels is the best path to bring the most effective results for your life, which is determined during your initial consultation.
· Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) NLP in hypnosis is a linguistic-based approach that used language patterns to reframe what experiences mean to the patient and can even bring a feeling as though the change they want has already happened.
· Guided Imagery Guided Imagery is a technique that brings the patient into a more relaxed state. Your hypnotherapist will walk you through a scenario where you imagine yourself pacing through an imaginary scene that gently brings you to a place of greater suggestibility.
· Direct Suggestion This is an approach that uses clear commands to bring about positive change in the patient. These short commands are given from an authoritarian position that concisely addresses the desired outcome.
· Regression Therapy This approach brings a patient back to an earlier life event to understand the cause of present-day issues. By re-experiencing these events, a patient can resolve past traumas and live a life free from the effects that happened years before.
· Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) CBT is a terrific approach to conscious therapy, but can also be quite effective when combined with hypnosis. CBT helps patients identify and change negative thought patterns. When those patterns are deeply ingrained by life events, the combination with hypnotherapy can better introduce this approach to the subconscious mind to more easily resolve.
What can hypnotherapy do?
Hypnotherapy can safely address several areas of issues that patients might present. This includes anxiety, weight loss, smoking cessation, pain management, addiction, mood disorders, sexual dysfunction, panic attacks, PTSD, phobias, stress, insomnia, panic attacks, lack of confidence, trauma, and more. By eliminating unwanted habits or improving your sense of wellbeing, patients often see improvement in other areas of their lives. The first step is having a conversation with your hypnotherapist in a discreet, caring, non-judgmental session to talk about what hypnotherapy can do for you.
Will hypnosis work on me?
Most people are able to be hypnotized. To maximize your chances of being hypnotized and to experience the greatest efficacy of the process, it’s important to be open to the experience. Rest assured that there are numerous studies showing that hypnotherapy works and is endorsed by both the American Psychological Association and American Medical Association as an effective treatment.
How many sessions will I need?
The number of therapy sessions needed to thoroughly and effectively address an issue varies by person, complexity of issue, and what is being addressed. While some issues can be resolved in as little as one session, it typically takes more, as it is a cumulative process where results are experienced over time.
Book your consultation today.
The best way to experience the positive life changes that hypnotherapy can bring is by starting the process. Why wait another day? Conveniently located in Coralville, I serve the Iowa City/Coralville/Cedar Rapids area and can even hold online hypnotherapy sessions for those who prefer. As a certified hypnotherapist, it brings me great joy to see the amazing impact this approach brings to people’s lives. Schedule your appointment today by calling or texting 319-541-9405 or by emailing vickiosland1111@gmail.com.
