Jeremy Maddison

Hypnotherapy dates back more than 5000 years, our first references being in sandscript. The sleep temples of Egypt are an early example, where people visited and found cures for conditions they had struggled with for a long time. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, practised hypnosis with others at the Nancy school, a French hypnosis focussed psychotherapy school. His idea for psychoanalysis came from witnessing a colleague treat a man successfully with hypnosis. Based on the colleague taking the man back to his childhood, at one point. On that basis Freud felt that all problems stemmed from the past. Not recognising that all solutions stem from the present. Hypnosis was also used in countless operations, as anasthetic and to reduce blood loss. So, there is a lot to be said for hypnosis/ hypnotherapy. However, at it's heart is the recognition that most of our responses to life, both behaviouraly and emotionaly stem from our unconscious beliefs, about who we are and how the world works. The blueprints or schema's as psychology says, that we lay down in our formative years to use as guides for what's right, what's wrong, what things are and what they mean to us. All of that shapes our responses and can be added to with time. All hypnosis does is help us reach a point of relaxation where we can communicate with that unconscious part of ourselves. The part that is driving the bus. And from that place we have the opportunity to make changes. So hypnotherapy is not a therapy itself. It is the tool used to open up a line of communication with our unconscious minds. Then other therapeutic tools like strategic psychotherapy Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Somatic Trauma Thearpy and Poly-vagal theory, help us explore what is really going on and make the changes from there. This method is far more effective than using standard cognitive therapy. As the following research shows: “We find that for Psychoanalysis we can expect a recovery rate of 38% after approximately 600 sessions. For Wolpian therapy, we can expect a recovery rate of 72% after an average of 22 sessions, and for Hypnotherapy we can expect a recovery rate of 93% after an average of 6 sessions.” Alfred A. Barrios Ph.D. (1970)- Hypnotherapy: A reappraisal. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 7(1), 2-7. So hypnotherapy is a very useful way to work together. Common Myths: People often worry that they wont be in control, that I can control them. Well that's a myth. You are always in control. No one can make you do anything you don't want to do. Your unconscious is there to protect you so wouldn't let that happen. Another myth is that you wont be able to hear me. That is also not true. You will always be able to hear me. We are communicating together so that you can make the changes you want to make. What you'll experience is a sense of relaxation, that can become deeper and deeper the more we work together.

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Online Therapy, or Telehealth as it’s called, has been around for a long time, but in the last few years, since Covid-19 became part of our lives, it has proven to be an incredibly useful tool for Therapists and other health professionals. One of the biggest benefits of using a video platform to provide therapy is that you can have your therapy session wherever you choose. I will always conduct sessions from a private space, where we won’t be interrupted or overheard, and of course that is my recommendation to you. However, it does mean that you don’t have to travel and can take part in our session from the comfort of your own home. Having conducted many online therapy sessions, the experience for me, and the feedback from clients, has always been that it’s like being in the room together. Nothing is ever lost and I have the opportunity to share resources with you, by sharing my screen.