What is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy?
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is a modern, positive and forward-looking approach that combines Solution Focused conversation with hypnosis.
Rather than spending lots of time analysing what has gone wrong or searching through the past for the reasons you feel the way you do, we focus much more on where you are now, where you would like to be, and the small changes that can help you move in that direction.
A big part of the approach is recognising that you already have strengths, skills and resources that can help you make change. Sometimes, when we’re stressed, anxious or simply stuck in an unhelpful pattern of thinking, those resources can be difficult to see or access.
That’s where our work together comes in.
During our sessions, we’ll talk about how things have been going, notice what’s already working and explore what you would like to be different. I’ll also help you understand a little more about how your brain works and why we can sometimes find ourselves thinking, feeling or behaving in ways that aren’t particularly helpful.
We then use hypnosis — or trance — to support that process.
Trance is simply a natural state of focused attention and relaxation. It’s something we all experience at different times, perhaps when we’re absorbed in a book, a film, some music or even just lost in thought. You remain in control throughout.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy isn’t about somebody changing you. It’s about helping you create the conditions in which change becomes easier.
We don’t need to endlessly revisit what’s gone before.
Instead, we begin with a much more useful question:
What would you like to be different?
And then we work from there.