Hypnotherapy

you begin to relax, focus your attention and ignore distractions. Your hypnotherapist will guide you through this stage with specific techniques such as controlled breathing, progressive muscle relaxation or focusing on a visual image.

Taking your relaxation and focus to a deeper level. This stage often involves counting down or using similar descending imagery such as walking down stairs or slowly sinking deeper and deeper into a comfortable bed. These first two stages are aimed at easing your openness to suggestions.

This is the stage for actual change in experience, behavior or perception. Imagery and carefully chosen language will be used. The suggestions are usually symptom focused or exploratory (to explore experiences associated with the start of symptoms). Suggested changes may be in perception, sensation, emotion, memory, thought or behavior.​

Slowly coming out of hypnosis. Your hypnotherapist may use reverse deepeners, such as giving you the suggestions that you’re climbing up stairs or counting up.