Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Hypnotherapy is becoming more commonly used as a treatment option for people trying to break a substance abuse cycle of dependence, especially in follow-up care to help prevent relapse. Like drug therapy that is used to treat cravings and modify behaviors, hypnotherapy should be administered qualified therapists. It is considered a piece of a comprehensive…
Research continues to demonstrate how effective Hypnotherapy can be in helping an individual to achieve their goals in life, whether they be health. sports or professional objectives Diamond, Davis, Schaecher and Howe (2006) observed qualitative improvements in motivation as well as strength when hypnosis was used to help treat chronic stroke patients. It has also…
In a paper titled ‘Hypnotically Induced Dissociation (HID) as a strategic intervention for enhancing OCD treatment’*, researchers and authors Joseph Meyerson and Andres Konichezky, describe in detail how the hypnotherapeutic technique HID was used to successfully treat three patients diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD). The paper concluded, “we found HID to be a powerful therapeutic tool…
Here is the abstract of a paper published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis by Assen Alladin of the University of Calgary Medical School, titled ‘Evidence based Hypnotherapy for Depression’* “Cognitive hypnotherapy (CH) is a comprehensive evidencebased hypnotherapy for clinical depression. This article describes the major components of CH, which integrate hypnosis with cognitivebehavior therapy…
In a media release in May 2012, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) had this to say about hypnosis and pain management: 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 will…
We’ve been using hypnosis for rather a long time; longer, it turns out, than medicine as a practice has been around. More than 3000 years ago it was used in India, and in the British Museum there is a bas relief taken from a tomb in Thebes that shows an Egyptian hypnotist and his patient.…
In a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine*, Gary Elkins PhD describes a clinical study where six patients were treated with hypnosis prior to undergoing a colonoscopy procedure. In all cases, anxiety and discomfort levels were considerably reduced. Hypnosis is a mind-body intervention that has been used to manage pain and anxiety…
Hypnosis is becoming widely used in dentistry, especially in cases where side effects make the use of certain drugs problematic. Fear of needles and involuntary gagging, both of which dentists encounter in the patients from time to time, respond extremely well to hypnotherapy. In this a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, and titled,…
It is important to understand that the nicotine addiction is not the main problem in stopping smoking. Nicotine can be out of your system in as little as three to four days. With this in mind, one might ask why it is that people can give up smoking for one, two or maybe three months…
Social Anxiety is a strong fear of being in a situation with other people where we might be judged by them and or become acutely embarrassed.This fear can be so strong that it gets in the way of going to work or school or doing other everyday things. Everyone has felt anxious or embarrassed at one time…