WHAT HAPPENS DURING A SESSSION?

What Do Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy Sessions Look Like?

Introduction

Solution-focused hypnotherapy (SFH) combines therapeutic techniques with hypnosis to help clients achieve their goals. This approach emphasizes solutions and positive outcomes, utilizing a structured and personalized process. The sessions can be undertaken both online and face-to-face, with no noticeable difference in effectiveness.

Initial Consultation

Your SFH journey begins with an initial consultation. During this session, the hypnotherapist gathers information about your reasons for seeking therapy, current symptoms, and any sleep issues. The therapist will also explain how the brain works from a neuroscience perspective and how SFH can help you get back on track.

Regular Sessions

Subsequent sessions, ideally held weekly, follow a consistent structure:

• Reviewing Progress - "What's been good?": The session starts with discussing positive experiences since the last meeting.

• Understanding the Brain: The therapist revisits how the brain functions and its impact on your feelings. Many clients find this extremely useful, because it explains why they are feeling the way they are.

• Scaling Current State: You’ll assess your current levels of happiness. Other scaling may be used, for example confidence.

• Miracle Question: A strategic question to help you envision and plan your next steps towards progress. This is where the therapist does most of the work. It takes a lot of practice to do this effectively!

• Guided Relaxation: Each session concludes with approximately 25-30 minutes of guided relaxation or hypnosis. Although it could be said that the whole session uses trance, this is the section that most people would recognise as the 'hypnosis' bit.

Benefits of SFH

• Goal-Oriented Approach: Focuses on achieving specific positive outcomes.

• Neuroscience-Based: Utilizes an understanding of brain function to facilitate change.

• Customized Sessions: Tailored to your unique needs and progress.

• Promotes Relaxation: Each session includes a period of deep relaxation.

• Fast results Clients typically feel positive, lasting change within 8-12 sessions, depending on the issue.

Conclusion

Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy provides a structured yet flexible approach to personal development. By emphasizing solutions and using hypnosis, it supports meaningful, lasting changes.

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