Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Health anxiety can be a serious issue and we’re seeing a rising number of people wrongly convinced they are seriously ill. The anxiety helpline charity Anxiety UK has said that the disorder is one of the issues for which they receive the most calls. Many patients seek constant reassurance from GP’s and helplines that there…
Our self esteem can be a pivotal factor in many areas of our lives. How we feel about ourselves can be and is assessed by others in many situations, both social and professional. It affects the way we think about and approach these situations. In the case of a job interview, if we are not confident,…
Sadness, a profound sense of loss, fear of the loneliness to come; it’s natural to feel all these things in the wake of a tragedy, or the loss of a loved one, especially a life partner. For a period these emotions can be debilitating, even paralyzing. But, as we know, for most of us, time heals.…
In 2004, a study appeared in The Journal of Norwegian Medical Association about using hypnotherapy to treat patients with chronic nocturnal enuresis. The study consisted of 12 boys ranging in age from 8 to 16. All of the boys had been diagnosed with primary nocturnal enuresis and four were also diagnosed with diurnal enuresis (daytime…
Hair pulling, (Trichotillomania), is the most common cause of hair loss in children. First described in 1889, trichotillomania results in alopecia or hair loss, caused by the repeated pulling of one’s hair from, most often the head, followed by the eyelashes and eye brows. But the hair of any part of the body may be pulled and…
In an age when young people, especially girls and young women, are subjected to pressure from many directions to conform to a stereotypical – usually unnaturally thin – image, it’s not surprising that eating disorders are on the rise. In an article titled, ‘Can Hypnosis End Bulimia?’ published in the Magazine for Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, Bryan M Knight MSW Phd, says,…
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…