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Ericksonian Hypnosis utilises naturally occurring trance states to help client’s overcome problems. Born largely out of fear and misrepresentation, there has traditionally been widespread skepticism about hypnosis and how it can help with all kinds of...

Taking the Patient’s History.
Information gathering is an important stage in the therapy session and it is also an ideal time to build rapport and build trust. This Unit will teach you how to approach this.
The presenting problem may not be the real problem....

Hypnotic Inductions
The first step of hypnosis, a hypnotic induction is the process that a hypnotist uses to put the client into a state where they are more open to suggestion (known as trance). There are many types of inductions.
Relaxation technique

An Article about how techniques for inducing hypnosis have changed over the years – from the Independent Newspaper, England by John McCrone.
Hypnosis can be explained as a form of self-induced sensory deprivation…well perhaps.
Hypnotists with swinging fob watches are out. Far more effective ways of putting people into a trance have been discovered which, with their employment of confusion and word twisting, are not too far removed from brainwashing techniques. Yet while the...