The symptoms of depression and characteristics of a hypnotized subject share some similarities. This causes hypnosis to resonate strongly with depressed patients, and it can be an effective healing tool if used in the right way.
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Is Your Client’s Insomnia Caused by Physical Factors?
It could be your client’s body, not their mind, that’s keeping them awake. Here’s a checklist of nine physical factors to look out for when treating insomnia.
3 More Techniques for Helping Your Clients Sleep
Regular, deep sleep is a necessity for a healthy life, so here are three more tips for treating insomnia.
One Simple Tool for Treating Insomnia
Helping the conscious mind move aside in favour of natural, unconscious processes is key when treating insomnia.
Inside the UK’s Hypnotherapy in Schools Program
Since 2011, Caroline Dyson has been developing and establishing the Hypnotherapy in Schools Program, which uses clinical hypnotherapy to help pupils with any aspect of their emotional health or wellbeing, thereby improving their ability to learn effectively.
Online Therapy: The Practitioner’s Definitive Guide
Online therapy, sometimes referred to as e-therapy, distance therapy/counselling or tele-therapy, has become an increasingly popular choice for individuals seeking care. So we’ve put together the definitive guide to online therapy.
How to Help Your Asperger’s Client in Their Romantic Life
Relationships can be hard to maintain for those on the autistic spectrum. Loneliness and isolation are common, as the seemingly random ‘noise’ of emotionality and human interaction leave them feeling constantly overwhelmed. Here are three ways to help your Asperger’s clients find the intimacy they seek
Why Are We All So Scared?
As the media pedals an increasingly pessimistic world view, generalised anxiety disorder and depression increase.
Asperger’s Hypnotherapist Reveals How the Condition has Affected His Life
In this podcast, I talk to hypnotherapist Dan Jones about his experiences living with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Therapeutic First Aid: Step 1
Why the first step in therapeutic first aid has to be relaxation.
