Sexual Abuse and Hypnotherapy In this short video I discuss a very controversial topic – or it should be controversial – because it’s about the use of hypnotherapy with clients who have been sexually abused. One of my graduates is working with two young women in her London clinic. Both have been referred to her by their Mum. Her mum is keen to help the girls to ‘move on’. The girls want to feel more confident in life and to be less anxious about things they feel challenging. Do Not Use Direct Regression With Victims of Trauma This therapist is making great progress. However, as a well trained hypnotherapist, she already knows that you cannot use direct regression to bring abused clients back into an abuse ‘scene’ or experience. I’m not even going to mention false memory syndrome or confabulation in this short post, instead I want to speak about how unethical it is to run the risk of your client saying ‘it feels as if it is happening all over again’. What Mum needs to know is this: Getting long term lasting results takes time. There are no quick fixes or magical wands. Hypnotherapy isn’t wishy, washy magical thinking – done right it uses a set specific processes to build confidence, trust rapport and social engagement while working with poly vagal nerve to reduce arousal of the survival response. Develop Social Engagement and Give Your Clients a Trauma Grounding Kit Before You Attempt To Do Any Kind of Deep Work The very first thing that this therapist has done, was helped her clients to develop their own trauma grounding kit. You can watch the short fifteen minute Master Class on the importance of developing a trauma grounding kit on my website www.hypnosisacademy.ie Free 15 Minute Working With Trauma Master Class As part of my Healing Trauma With Hypnosis Training I’ve produced a free Master Class. It’s short and to the point. Here’s What You Will Learn: Here’s what you will learn… Three critical pre-therapy tools to help your clients develop a personal grounding kit Two ways trauma presents itself in therapy Why it’s important to give your clients a coping skill straight away How to switch from the verbal narrative and move to the soma narrative effortlessly What to do if you have limited therapy experience and have to refer Ways this approach will benefit you and your clients even if you have lots of experience Understand why it can be difficult to make progress with clients who have experienced trauma ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUd3Ns_hzB0

Why do some people go deeper into hypnosis than others? What I forgot to mention is that even if you are only capable of hypnoidal and not a somnambulist now you can become on with the guidance of a good hypnotherapist who can teach you how to drop into the hypnotic state and zone out of that internal bothersome dialogue that often gets in the way. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyMKCoNqPQ