Kerin Webb – author of The Language Pattern Bible
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Igor Ledochowski – author of The Deep Trance Training Manual
Your training is unique, refined and dynamic, making each person feel an active part of the course
Dr Ernest Rossi – author with Milton H Erickson of the Collected Papers of Milton H Erickson
Stephen Brooks and the art of Compassionate Ericksonian Hypnotherapy surely sets the highest standard.
Ivan Tyrrell – author of How To Master Anxiety
You are very creative with words, you talk to different parts of a patient's mind, it’s so powerful!
Dan Jones – author of Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Scripts
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Bill O’Hanlon – author of Taproots, Solution-Oriented Hypnosis and a Guide To Trance-Land.
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Adam Eason – author of The Science of Self Hypnosis
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Communicating with the Unconscious Mind
In Ericksonian hypnotherapy there is pre-supposition that the client has a conscious and an unconscious mind. Of course this is only a model, but nevertheless a useful working model for therapy. This model has evolved from the early Freudian concept of the unconscious being a seething pit of repressed memories and experiences revolving around sexual development, to the more humanistic perception of the unconscious mind being a reservoir of resources and skills to be nurtured and treasured. Ericksonian hypnotherapy sees the unconscious as having several functions. One of the functions being the role of security guard. In this role the unconscious holds back some experiences and memories to protect the client from pain. While these experiences and memories may be negative, they are not necessarily caused by early sexual development as in the Freudian model. Another of the unconscious mind’s functions is to store and sort positive experiences and memories. It is from this “store” that the therapist takes his ideas for therapeutic interventions. A third function of the unconscious is to oversee the body’s autonomous processes and healing mechanisms. Ericksonian therapists prefer talking to the unconscious mind rather than the conscious mind because we believe that it is
How I cured Agoraphobia in less than 30 minutes
Many people have asked me how I cured Agoraphobia in less than 30 minutes. This is how I did it. After many years of being terrified of leaving her house, a client was brought to my hypnotherapy practice. After 30 minutes her agoraphobia had gone and she walked home by herself. Watch the video.
Approaches to Hypnosis and Stuttering
In many cases stuttering may have been caused by some early experience, but has now become a learned strategy. If you disrupt the strategy by inserting a distraction step then you will break the pattern, giving the client the new belief that they won't always stutter as expected. One example of this would be to get the client to project / visualise the sentence they want to say out in front of them, and then get them to read it. This insertion of a visual step in the stuttering strategy then breaks up the previous trigger - response of the client listening to themselves while expecting to stutter. If installed in hypnosis it can be very effective and will help the client 'unlearn' the old pattern. The experience of success lays down new neural pathways by creating new synaptic connections in the brain. If the new strategy is installed in hypnosis and the client is a good hypnotic subject it will continue to work in everyday life, but not because the client is conforming or responding to ongoing hypnotic suggestion, but because the hypnosis has given the client the real life experience of being able to not stutter when they