When life isn’t going to plan,  seeking some outside help is a great idea. The challenge though is finding out what  service to use.  There are big differences between traditional counseling and hypnotherapy. You most likely have a good understanding of what counseling involves, and probably have  a lot less knowledge about hypnotherapy. There are situations in which you could expect hypnotherapy to achieve faster and more effective results and should be consider as a good option.

Understanding the Differences.

Traditional Talk therapies involve sitting down one on one with a therapist  explaining where you are and the problems you may have, what you want to achieve or change in your life. Hypnotherapy begins the same way usually for the first 20-30 minutes, but at this point, it is where Hypnotherapy diverges from talking about the problem and hypnosis is used to actively change how you feel and respond to it.

In counseling you might discuss stratergies to help you cope in anxious situations. To take some time out, deep breaths.  While in hypnosis we seek to eliminate the feeling altogether. In counceling you may learn techniuqes to control your anger, depression, loneliness. In hypnosis we want to work on changing the emotional reaction itself. Because logical process are difficult to implement when you are already anxious, or anger or sad, or feeling down. And so it can be a lot easier if you didn’t become so emotional in the first place.

In what situations would you consider using hypnotherapy.

Where you experience strong emotional feelings in regards to situations. It could be in the form of anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, lonilness.

Where you experience behaviors which distract from strong emotions over -eating, drinking gambling,  or any situation that resembles a strong urge or craving to do something.

Where many people see councilors for years hypnosis usually brings about change fast with 4-6 sessions.

In what situation would traditional councelling be approriate.

Where it comes to learning and applying skill based strategies, where advice is needed in dealing with particular situations, where you just  need some to talk for support.