Hypnosis is a state of focused attention and relaxation that makes the mind more open to suggestions. It has been used for centuries as a remedy to help people with various problems such as pain, anxiety and depression.
Using hypnosis in combination with psychotherapy can help people deal with their problems more effectively.
Using hypnosis in this way allows you to:
1. Relax and focus on your thoughts and feelings
2. Gain insight into their problems
3. Develop new coping mechanisms
4. Create lasting change to thought patterns and behaviours
Hypnosis has proven effective in treating a variety of mental health issues, including fear, depression, pain management, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders and for mood regulation.
Overall, clinical hypnosis is a safe and effective treatment that can help improve people’s lives. If you’re considering hypnosis as a treatment option, it’s important to talk to your doctor or mental health professional to see if it’s right for you.
When combined with psychotherapy, the outcome can be more effective because hypnosis helps people relax and focus on their thoughts and feelings. This makes the problem easier to deal with in a therapy session.
Hypnosis helps people gain insight into their problems. This will help you understand why they are struggling and what they need to do to change.
Hypnosis helps people develop new coping mechanisms. This will help you deal with stress and anxiety in a healthy way.
Hypnosis helps people change their behaviour and is useful in changing mindsets. This will help them overcome their problems and live a more fulfilling life.
Experienced psychotherapists in Singapore such as My Inner Child Clinic, typically weaves in clinical hypnosis to the following psychotherapies:
•Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT): CBT is a type of therapy that focuses on changing the way people think and behave. It can be used to treat a variety of problems, including anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.
•Interpersonal therapy (IPT): IPT is a type of therapy that focuses on relationships. It can be used to help people improve their relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners.
•Family therapy: Family therapy is a type of therapy that focuses on the family unit. It can be used to help families resolve conflicts and improve communication.
•Group therapy: Group therapy is a type of therapy that involves a group of people who meet regularly to discuss their problems and support each other.
By visualising a safe and relaxing environment for a client, the client would feel more open to the psychotherapist’s therapy direction and advice. More importantly, hypnosis helps lead a client to a more stable emotional state before consciously talking about and recalling a traumatic or distressing experience.
Sometimes ignored or missing during typical counselling or psychotherapy sessions is the importance of self-regulation first before starting talk therapy. Clients are triggered emotionally to varying degrees when asked to recall stressful experiences or when asked to distinguish facts from false beliefs in some cognitive behavioural therapy processes.
They forget that in amygdala capture, the brain’s executive function diminishes. In other words we feel flooded and overwhelmed, any more processing takes up our brains’ resources.
If counselling or therapy hasn’t worked for you, chances are this is what happened.
Hence it is important to mood regulate, calm down and then suggest ways to improve the situation.
This is where My Inner Child Clinic combines both a salutogenic style of psychotherapy with clinical hypnotherapy. Through breathing and guided visualisations, clients can both regulate and reframe their thoughts while working with the subconscious mind.
The strong belief that the therapy foundations should be built on focusing on the individuals’ capabilities and resourcefulness and to help develop the ability to self-regulate. This approach has led to the development of more daily use tools to support clients before and between therapy sessions.
My Inner Child Clinic, together with Calm3d created an immersive tool for stress relief and relaxation, and are adopting other tools to build mental resilience and boost general wellbeing.
The mission is to use technology, hypnotherapy and psychotherapy to empower individuals.
About Bernadette Chin, psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist at My Inner Child Clinic
I’m Bernadette Chin, psychotherapist, clinical hypnotherapist, and nutritionist and I practice at My Inner Child Clinic, a psychotherapy and hypnotherapy clinic in Singapore, focused on trauma recovery and inner child healing.
My Inner Child Clinic Location
My therapy sessions are conveniently located at 36 Carpenter Street, Singapore 059915 on weekends and 9 Sin Ming Road, Thomson V One Singapore 575630.
