About Integrative Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is the core discipline around which I assimilate a growing number of other therapeutic approaches. This helps me to work sensitively, flexibly and responsively with a variety of different issues, clients and contexts. “Integrative” means that I employ common aspects that unite these disciplines, in addition to stand-out aspects that are unique to individual approaches. The approaches I integrate are as complementary online as offline.

Contents

1. What Is Integrative Hypnotherapy?
2. What Can You Expect From An Integrative Hypnotherapy Session?
2.1. What can I Expect From the Beginning of Therapy?
2.2. How Many Sessions can you Expect?
2.3. What can you Expect From Hypnosis?
2.4. What can you Expect From Working Online?
2.5. What can you Expect In-Between Sessions?
What does it mean?

Integrative Hypnotherapy

I am an integrative Hypnotherapist, which means that I integrate a number of different approaches with Hypnotherapy. I have the experience and flexibility to tailor my approach and interventions to meet your needs, helping you to fulfil your goals for therapy.

Person-centred

This approach addresses the fundamental foundation of therapy – a therapeutic relationship that is safe, genuine, empathic, unconditionally positive and client-led. It cannot be underestimated how important this is to the success of all other approaches and interventions

Exposure therapy and cognitive restructuring

These are subsets of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Safe and managed exposure to troubling emotions restructures clients’ limiting beliefs. This can bring about a state of long-awaited equilibrium

Existential therapy

Similarly to mindfulness and exposure therapy, fear, or angst (about existence) is leant into. In transpersonal therapy, fear is not something to be overcome, but to respond to as a motivation for living purposefully and significantly, instead of being reacted to with desperation

Mindfulness

Mindfulness can promote a simple awareness of and presence with an emotional experience, without judgement, or previous meaning-making. This helps to bring about relief through acceptance, making space for emotions to regulate themselves

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a therapeutic tool that can be applied to diverse clinical profiles of clients in helping them overcome obsessive fears of death. Hypnotherapy grants clients access to deeply underlying subconscious fears that may otherwise remain hidden.

Transpersonal therapy

Transpersonal therapy focuses on the importance of transcending the self and exploring personal and spiritual meaning in order to change your relationship with life. In terms of meaningfulness, transpersonal therapy overlaps with existential therapy. In terms of self-transcendence it overlaps with mindfulness.

To Learn A Bit More About Your Therapist…

What Can You Expect From An Online Integrative Hypnotherapy Session?

During a typical integrative hypnotherapy session my attention is yours. I attend to your relationship with yourself and the world, and your goals for therapy. Although I use many different techniques and approaches, I am not typically thinking about selecting a technique, or approach to use. These elements have already been integrated into my way of working and are generally called upon as second nature.
Expect a conversation that is, perhaps, deeper than everyday conversations
During these conversations, expect to encounter discoveries about yourself and life, that reveal new possibilities and ways forward
Expect these discoveries to reshape your identity, your beliefs, your capabilities and your behaviours in line with your goals for therapy
Expect to get that these were not changes that were made to you, but changes that you made for yourself. I am only here to facilitate these changes

What can I Expect at the Beginning of Therapy?

Towards the beginning of therapy, such as during the first session:
  • I give you important information about what is involved
  • I help you answer any remaining, or new questions you may have that were not answered in the initial inquiry
  • We work to get an overview of background information relevant to your issue/s and goals. This is something we may come back to, where important, at any point during therapy
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How Many Sessions can you Expect?

I understand how important this question is, especially if you have a limited budget.

During the first one, or two sessions, you and I will have a better idea of issues to resolve and mental, emotional and financial resources available to resolve them. At this point it may be possible to better estimate the recommended length of therapy.

Ultimately, of course, you have the final choice about how many sessions you have. Where this is on your mind, please let me know and I will tailor my way of working for you to get the most out of and wrap everything up within the number of sessions on the table.

Anecdotally, I can tell you that most clients begin to experience results within 1 session. Beyond that my clients have gained everything they require from therapy in ranging from 2 to 50 sessions (but rarely more than 15).
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What can you Expect From Hypnosis?

  • Expect to be relaxed during therapy in general and deeply relaxed during hypnosis12
  • Expect to be completely aware during hypnosis and every other stage in therapy12
  • Expect to be in full control of yourself and your participation12
Hypnosis is a natural and familiar state of mind to every human being, which you go in and out of several times a day. If you should ever want, or need to exit hypnosis for any reason you can, by simply making the choice to.

Expect hypnosis to be used, where it is beneficial. This may not necessarily be in every session. If you would like to work without using hypnosis during any session that is perfectly fine. There are so many ways of working that there are always alternative options.

Expect hypnosis to take a variety of different possible forms. There are many different hypnotic processes and inductions. Some rapid, some gradual. Some are more conversational, some are more non-verbal.
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What can you Expect From Working Online?

Expect online integrative hypnotherapy to be just as effective as in-person integrative hypnotherapy78.

Expect to have so much relaxed awareness and control, that if the internet happens to become disconnected during hypnosis, you simply and comfortably return to your usual state of awareness, reconnect, or otherwise communicate with me until the issue is resolved and we are back online.

To engage in online therapy it is important that you:
  • Have an internet connection and WiFi signal, or ethernet connection that is sufficient to stream video calls
  • Have a webcam and microphone (internal, or external) to use
  • Have access to a private, well lit space for the duration of sessions
  • Reduce, or eliminate distractions while in sessions. You may wish to silence device notifications and inform others nearby to not distract you, unless there is an emergency, of course
I recommend that you use a desktop, laptop, or tablet computer for sessions. Sessions can be conducted to a surprisingly effective standard, when using only a mobile phone, if necessary.

Use of headphones helps to protect confidentiality and improve sound quality. Be mindful that sound can carry through walls and open windows etc.
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What can you Expect In-Between Sessions?

In between sessions I may set you tasks, or you may set yourself tasks and ask me to help you to be accountable.

Writing, or recording a reflective journal is a helpful therapeutic practice to engage in and I would encourage you to do so, whether we work together, or not.

While there are swathes of emotional nuance that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, such as Chat GPT, are not capable of picking up on, or communicating, AI tools can be very helpful for text-based therapy, giving research-based, strategic and personalised support. You may wish to use such tools and I would encourage you to safely use any tool that you find helpful.
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