You can book your first hypnotherapy session as a face-to-face or Zoom session. In-person sessions will be held in the Transition Hypnotherapy clinic at The Vines, Perth or other pre discussed clinic locations.

 

Zoom sessions are just as effective as face-to-face sessions as I will guide the session. You just need to ensure there won’t be any distractions in your surroundings and you’re comfortable. Being in a familiar environment, like your home, is likely to make the relaxation process easier for you.   

 

Your first session will take approximately 40 minutes and start by completing an intake form and confidentiality agreement. We’ll then talk about the issues you’d like to address and your goals for attending hypnotherapy. 

 

We’ll develop a personalised treatment plan that outlines the areas you’d like to target and the holistic therapies I’ll use to help you. I recommend at least 3 sessions to make permanent change, but you may need more depending the severity of your condition. 

 

The hypnotherapy process usually commences on your second session and thereafter will last approximately 60 minutes. I start by bringing your focus to your breath or body, such as starting at your toes and working your way up. This helps to centre the mind, and relax the muscles, allowing you to go into a deeper state of relaxation.

 

I will then ask you to imagine certain imagery to help engage the unconscious mind. We start in a light relaxed state, and may enter a deeper state, depending on your needs.  

 

When you’re in an effective state of relaxation, I start the hypnotherapy process which involves using positive affirmations to remove old beliefs. You will remain awake and aware, and can talk to me through the process.

 

I end the session by helping to bring your awareness back to the room and ask you to open your eyes. This helps you to leave the deep relaxed state and return to your normal state.

 

You will leave the session feeling relaxed and centred. You may experience some tiredness or disrupted dreams for a few days after, which is an indication your mind is processing issues which have been released.

 

In the early stages of treatment, you may be more conscious of your condition because it’s at the front of your mind. You may even see an increase in the condition, which is normally short-term and often part of subconscious anxiety or fear about making a change or letting the habit go. Once the new techniques start to sink in, the symptoms will fade.  

 

Your treatment plan may include tasks to complete between sessions, including journaling, recording your habits and listening to a self-hypnosis recording to ensure you cement your results. 

 

Being relaxed is an essential component of the hypnotherapy treatment process. There are some medical conditions where hypnosis is considered unsuitable including, severe mental health problems (psychosis) or learning disabilities where co-operation is difficult, impaired ability to concentrate and epilepsy uncontrolled by medication and considered inappropriate by the patient’s GP. In these situations, you should consult your doctor for alternative therapies.