Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy
CBT as the powerful combination of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Hypnotherapy
In Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy, hypnotherapy is added to Coginitive Behaviour Therapy to provide a new powerful dimension.
Hypnotherapy is used to integrate healthy beliefs into your belief system. Hypnotherapy seeks to strengthens healthy beliefs and weaken unhealthy beliefs. Hypnotherapy makes this therapy 70% more effective than Cognitive Behaviour Therapy alone.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy uncovers the subconscious unhealthy beliefs, challenges them and you can then change them to healthier beliefs and this leads to you becoming emotionally healthy.
Cognitive behaviour theory states that healthy negative emotions stem from healthy beliefs. Unhealthy negative emotions stem from unhealthy beliefs.
Emotions can be healthily negative – we can be healthily concerned about a situation. Emotions can be unhealthily negative- we can be anxious about a situation.
For example A person who is going to sit an exam and has the belief that they absolutely must pass the exam, or it would be the end of the world is going to disturb themselves. The resulting emotion would be anxiety.
Whereas a person who has the more rational belief that they strongly desire to pass the exam or it would be bad, but not the end of the world if they didn’t pass, would not psychologically disturb themselves. Their healthy negative emotion would be concern.
The process of Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy is structured and involves tasks between sessions. This will involve practical work, thinking assignments, written assignments, imagery assignments and behavioural assignments.
In Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy, hypnosis is used to install healthy beliefs into your belief system. Hypnosis also strengthens healthy beliefs and weaken unhealthy beliefs.
According to Kirsch , 1995, in a meta analysis on 18 studies comparing cognitive therapy with and without hypnosis, it was found that those people who received cognitive behaviour therapy combined with hypnotherapy showed some improvement over 70% of those receiving cognitive behaviour therapy only.
CBH can help many conditions including
Weight Issues
Anxiety and stress
Beat stage fright/performance nerves
Build confidence/Beat shyness
Fear of flying
Fertility help