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Hypnotherapy Sessions
Hypnotherapy is practiced by a trained professional who is a psychotherapist
as well as a hypnotist.
Dr Janet Hall offers medical hypnotherapy for individuals, couples
and families. Various forms of psychotherapy are available from
this clinic including counseling, cognitive behaviour therapy,
gestalt therapy, rational emotive therapy, bio feedback, relaxation,
stress management, hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming.
Because hypnotherapy is a form of learning, repetition is helpful,
as it was when you learnt your multiplication tables as a child,
until you “knew it off by heart”.
Hypnotherapy speeds up this process. The number of sessions you
need will depend on how mild or serious your problem is and how
long you have had it. Generally speaking, the easier the problem
and the shorter time you have had it, the fewer number of sessions
that you will require. Many conditions require about 6 sessions.
Sessions normally last one hour.
Homework & Attendance
Some people think that hypnosis is a magic wand and that the therapist
will do all of the work. Hypnosis is like other forms of learning
where the teacher needs to be knowledgeable and a good communicator
and the pupil needs to be attentive and do some homework.
In general those who practice the relaxation exercises given by
the therapist once or twice a day achieve the best results.
Some people need medication to help with their condition eg. in
severe depression.
Relaxation and hypnotherapy help with most medical conditions and
people often need smaller quantities of medication. When being treated,
continue to take any medication which you agreed to take and talk
to your doctor before changing any dosage.
Remember to keep all of your appointments. Some people only come
for help when they are in serious trouble and stop attending when
they feel some improvement. You will need to attend until both you
and your therapist agree that the time is right for you to finish
therapy.
Continue your therapy until your improvement becomes second nature
and then you are more likely to make your success a lasting success.
There are two ways that hypnosis can be used to help people change
for the best:
1. Hypnotherapy
This is where a hypnotherapist induces an altered state of attention
or degree of awareness in another person. The process may result
in a variety of phenomena, which occur spontaneously or in response
to verbal suggestions. These phenomena include changes in memory
and an increased openness to, and sometimes even surprising acceptance
of, changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviours due to suggestions
made by the hypnotherapist.
2. Self-hypnosis
This is where a person puts themselves in a state of deep relaxation
and altered state. They can do this by listening to a prerecorded
CD which has suggestions which they chose to make to themselves
and recorded in their own voice. The suggestions help them move
rapidly into hypnosis and further suggestions help them to focus
on positive changes that they have decided that they want to have
happen in their life. If they do not wish to use a CD, they may
simply allow themselves to be suspended in the changed state of
consciousness and trust that positive changes occur in them as a
result.
Dr Janet Hall specializes in making personalized hypnotic audio
recordings to help people overcome their feelings of depression
and panic. You may not even have to attend in person – simply
fill in a personalized questionnaire and Dr Jan will make you an
individualized CD designed to maximize the “Cocktail Party
Effect” (the power of your own name to positively and deeply
condition your unconscious mind).
You can also contact Dr Jan about her prerecorded Self-hypnosis
CDs from the Super-boost Your Success collection and CDs are designed
specifically for help with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, smoking, weight loss and other topics. See the full list of recordings available.
Book a session with Dr Jan: Tel: 03 9419 3010 or email