models of strategic therapy

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  Clinical Hypnotherapy uses a combination of hypnosis and strategic psychotherapy. It connects your subconscious mind to your conscious mind and can often incorporate other tools and modalities such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).  In conjunction, with a variety of strategic practices, clinical hypnotherapy assists the client to achieve their desired outcomes.

The hypnotherapy model used in this practice, is called Neo Ericksonian hypnosis.   Unlike traditional hypnotherapy, Ericksonian hypnotherapy uses indirect suggestion, metaphor and storytelling to alter behaviour, rather than direct suggestion such as what Stage Hypnotists or Traditional Hypnotherapists often use. 

Strategic Psychotherapy means that the therapy is client focused and holds the belief that the individual is the expert and has the resources within themselves to create change with professional support and guidance.

 It is called "strategic therapy" because the therapist initiates the therapy using a tailored and specific approach that's unique to the person's presenting problem. 

In Clinical Hypnotherapy, the therapist uses "strategic" questioning to help the client uncover any processes and patterns that are keeping them breaking free from their presenting issues.

What does NLP mean? 

Let's break it down....  

Neuro – (Our first assessment) Internal representations, sounds, images and feelings.

Linguistic – (Our Linguistic Mapping) How we interpret reality and the stories that we tell ourselves; our interpretations.

Programming – (Our behavioural responses) The neuro-logical processes we go through before responding to our experiences each day  

 So in short, NLP is the discipline of learning how people regulate their thinking, sensing, language, and behaviour, to create the results and outcomes they do. NLP is not a psychotherapy but it is a supplementary approach used to compliment other therapies.

Conversational Hypnotherapy differs in the sense that you can be guided into trance with your eyes open and your unconscious knots unravel through the use of a different language style. The strategic questioning to help you unlock what is holding you back is  particularly beneficial for clients who may struggle with letting go as this process is guided more by the client then the therapist. 

Conversational Hypnotherapy and Clinical Hypnotherapy are often used together and compliment each other well.

EST is a great little technique for pain relief, reducing anxiety and is versatile and effective for most issues a client may have. It includes visualisations that impact on the electrical signals in your brain that tell your brain to change the patterns it is running. This technique once learnt is a handy tool you can have for life and use throughout your day anytime, anywhere and it only takes  10 minutes!

60% of all information entering the brain comes via the eyes. Our eyes are the fastest muscle in the whole body. Through MEMI techniques the client is guided to look in certain directions whilst the therapist guides the client through a strategic verbal approach. This process alters neuron excitability and activates dorsal frontoparietal network and deactivates the amygdala which is the survival brain.