Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
What is Vaginismus? Vaginismus is a fairly common problem in which the muscles at the entrance to the vagina tighten-up and make penetration almost impossible and certainly painful. Medical Research records that is almost invariably (but not in all cases, there are physical causes too) due to psychological issues, often occurring after some sort of…
A paper entitled, “The Additive Benefit of Hypnosis and Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy in Treating Acute Stress Disorder“* describes the first controlled treatment study of hypnosis and cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) of acute stress disorder (ASD). Civilian trauma survivors (N . 87) who met criteria for ASD were randomly allocated to 6 sessions of CBT, CBT combined with hypnosis (CBT–hypnosis), or supportive…
I think everyone will agree that air travel is a great way to get to a distant business meeting, a way to get a vacation off to a fast start, and a way to get families together at holidays and special celebrations. However, it can be a hassle. And, sometimes it can be downright scary for some travelers.…
Opportunities to gamble have increased significantly over the past decade. Along with the rapid expansion of legalized gambling has come an increase in the number of gambling problems. For most people, gambling is a social or recreational activity, something that is fun and entertaining. But for others, gambling causes problems and, for some, it becomes…
Hypnosis can be used for all patients for pain relief including, in some instances, as a form of analgesia for surgery, a Perth conference of anaesthetists and pain specialists was told in 2012. New Zealand psychiatrist and pain medicine specialist, Dr Bob Large, from the Auckland Regional Pain Service said about 10 to 15 per…
Hypnotherapy has a long history of success in the treatment of addictions. In a paper entitled, Intensive Therapy: Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorder*, Greg Potter PhD records explains that hypnosis was widely used around the turn of the Twentieth Century. Howevr, by 1910, due to the increasing appearance of hypnosis as entertainment, it became…
Procrastination can cause anxiety and dissatisfaction in many people. It stems from the unconscious desire to ‘bury the head in the sand’ and hope it goes away. It’s often linked to fear in one of several ways: We may fear some aspect of the process we’re putting off; for example going to the dentist if…
While most clients’ goals and issues may nominally appear the same: Anxiety, Self Confidence, Insomnia, Weight Control, Relationship Issues, Loneliness, Motivation, Addictions, Stress or Stopping Smoking to name but a few, the personal histories of LGBT identifying clients need to be heard in an affirming and safe environment for positive and rapid personal change to happen. In…
A study A study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings had this to say about the use of hypnosis as an adjunct to chemotherapy treatment of cancers: “Chemotherapy often is associated with nausea and vomiting. Hypnosis has been studied for reducing these and other adverse effects. Children receiving chemotherapy who were assigned randomly to hypnosis had less anticipatory nausea and vomiting…
In dermatology, hypnosis may help decrease pain and pruritus in the skin; intervene in psychosomatic aspects of skin diseases; and lead to the resolution of some skin diseases, including verruca vulgaris. Suggestion without formal trance induction may be effective in some cases. Sulzberger and Wolf reported on the use of suggestion to treat verrucae. Hypnosis can…