Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
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…
A panic attack is an episode of extreme anxiety, with high levels of fear or discomfort, which can come upon you quite suddenly and usually has its peak within 10 minutes. During the attack, several of the following symptoms will be present. • Palpitations, pounding heart, or rapid heart rate • Sweating • Trembling and…
Many studies have shown that hypnotherapy is highly effective in the treatment of vaginismus and in the control of the extremely painful spasms associated with it. In a study published in ScienceDirect’*, Reza Pourhosein and Zeynab Bahrami Ehsan of the Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, and the Department of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney,…
‘Hypnotherapy was used as the method of treatment in seventy-six cases of frigidity with seventy-two of them showing rather dramatic improvement, Direct hypnotic suggestion as well as hypnoanalysis were both used in securing these results. The effects of this treatment are presented in tabulation form, are discussed in detail and show hypnotherapy to be a very effective method of treatment.’ So begins a report…