However hypnosis or hypnotherapy feels different for all of us it is a very personal experience and is difficult to explain to others often how it felt. For some it can feel light, as if they are floating, others feel heavy, as if they are sinking into the chair. Some people get tingle’s in their arms or legs, feet or hands, some feel that parts become numb (I found my hands would feel like they have fallen asleep). It is such a personal experience, clients often struggle to tell friends and family how it feels, they often recommend giving it a go.
What happens during the first session?
The first session can be known as the initial consultation or the intake session, I simply call it the first session. It can last up to 2 hours and is lots of talking, I need to gain as much information as I can to help you the client to move forward. I therefore ask you the client to be as open as you can be, often answering questions you feel may have no relevance to why you are here. I need a full picture of your life, clients can come through my door with what they feel is their problem and by digging and questioning we can uncover what is behind the problem. Hypnotherapy and the other therapies I do are great but I need to be sure I am working on the real reason why the problem has occurred. What you the client walks through the door with may turn out to be a symptom of something else, if the ‘something else’ isn’t worked with then the symptom may improve but may not go away fully or may return at a later date. If you visit the doctors with a symptom they do further checks to see what is causing the symptom, I do this through questioning to get to the root of the symptom. This is why is can last up to 2 hours.
Follow up sessions for some may be more talking for others it may be therapy and are about an hour.
I would like to add here that talking is a type of therapy and often clients return after the first session feeling better. Being in an environment where you the client can talk freely with no judgement can be very helpful, being able to talk freely and openly can be very therapeutic for some. The client an leave feeling the weight of the world has been lifted some what.
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