Marlborough House 1 Middle Street, Taunton TA1 1SH
Hypnotherapy
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What is hypnotherapy?
Sometimes you may feel you are working against yourself. However hard you try, you are confronted with a problem you simply cannot solve on your own. And you don’t know where to turn for help and support.
Hypnotherapy is a safe, established therapy with a proven track record in helping people to overcome problems they have been struggling with. It can help you regain control of your life, enabling you to change the behavioural habits that are holding you back and empowering you to rethink unhelpful or negative emotions and beliefs. Hypnotherapy enables you to make better choices – it’s rather like getting a software update!
What to expect
First we need to know all about you, so during our consultations we’ll ask you a wide range of questions about your lifestyle, diet, likes and dislikes, and medical history.
Using the proven techniques of hypnosis, the skilled hypnotherapist explores your unconscious, identifying and ‘reprogramming’ the inner parts of your mind that are resisting change and inner growth and holding you back from solving your problems and achieving your goals.
The techniques that Marlborough House hypnotherapists employ include traditional hypnosis, guided imagery, visualization, and cognitive psychology. The trance-like state you may experience should make you feel wonderfully relaxed, with your mind free of distractions. But don’t expect to necessarily experience the deep sleep that most of us associate with hypnosis. Many of the people we successfully treat here at Marlborough House tell us they are not certain whether they were hypnotised or not during their sessions. The trance is simply a state between alertness and sleep.
Who and what we treat
Maybe it’s time you lost some weight, or you may have a phobia, such as fear of flying. Or perhaps you are suffering anxiety and stress, or disabling panic attacks. Maybe you are desperate to rid yourself of a bad habit or addiction such as smoking. You may be lacking self-esteem, wishing you had the confidence to make that after-dinner speech. Possibly you’ve a driving test or an examination coming up and you are feeling nervous and unsure of yourself. Hypnotherapy, with its positive visualisation techniques, can help you overcome these and many other limiting conditions, giving you renewed confidence to attain your full potential.
Contact us
To contact us, please call 01823 272227 or click the link below.
RESEARCH TESTIMONIALS
Hypnosis & Back Pain Moret V; Forster A; Laverriere MC; Lambert H; Gaillard RC; Bourgeois P; Haynal A; Gemperle M; Buchser E . Mechanism of analgesia induced by hypnosis and acupuncture: is there a difference? Pain (NETHERLANDS) May 1991,45 (2) p135-40
Experimental pain was induced by a cold pressor test in eight male volunteers. The analgesic effects of hypnosis and acupuncture were assessed before and after double-blind administration of a placebo or naloxone, in a prospective, crossover study. Both hypnosis and acupuncture can significantly reduce pain induced by cold pressor tests. Hypnotherapy is more effective than acupuncture.
A report in the British Medical Journal as far back as 1963 (1) revealed that hypnosis could prevent hypersensitive skin reactions to allergens and thereby prevent inflammation and irritation.
Nordvall SL; Lindgren L; Johansson SG; Johansson 5; Fetrini B. IgE antibodies to Pityrosporum orbiculare and Staphylococcus aureus in patients with very high serum total IgE. Department of Paediatrics, St Goran’s Children’s Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Clin Exp Allergy (ENGLAND) Aug 1992, 22 (8) p756-61.
A report of the Royal College of Physicians Committee on Clinical Immunology and Allergy in 1992 (2) acknowledged that hypnotherapy has a ‘role to play’ in the treatment of allergy-induced eczema.
Headaches Zitman FG; Van Dyck R; Spinhoven P; Linssen AC. Hypnosis and autogenic training in the treatment of tension headaches: a two-phase constructive design study with follow-up. Department of Psychiatry, Catholic University, Nymegen, The Netherlands. J Psychosom Res (ENGLAND) Apr 1992, 36 (3) p219-28
[These] studies indicate that relatively simple and highly structured relaxation techniques of hypnotherapy and autogenic training may be of considerable help in the treatment of chronic headaches. It also appears that a high level of hypnotic susceptibility is associated with a better therapeutic outcome.
Intractable pain Crasilneck HE. The use of the Crasilneck Bombard-ment Technique in problems of intractable organic pain. Am J Clin Hypn (UNITED STATES) Apr 1995, 37 (4) p255-66
The results showed that ten of twelve patients responded positively to the Bombardment Method (The Crasilneck Bombardment Technique consists of six diversified methods of hypnotic inductions used consecutively within one hour). More interestingly, one year after the treatment, the patients estimates of pain control ranged from a minimum of 80% relief to a maxi-mum of 90%, most of the time. The types of intractable pain treated were six head-aches, three backaches, one arthritic pain, one postherpetic neuralgia pain problem, and one temporomandibular joint pain.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Kunze M; Seidel HJ; Stube G [Comparative studies of the effectiveness of brief psychotherapy, acupuncture and papaverin therapy in patients with irritable bowel syndrome] Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur Effektivitat der kleinen Psychotherapie, der Akupunktur und der Papaverintherapie bei Patienten mit Colon irritabile. Klinik fur Innere Medizin, Bereich Neuropsychiatrie, Bezirkskrankenhauses Suhl.Z Gesamte Inn Med (GERMANY) Oct 15 1990, 45 (20) p625-7
Results of the study revealed that psychotherapies helped to successfully alleviate the symptoms in 74 per cent of the patients - a far higher number than was noted [with drug therapy].
Crohn’s Disease Psychotherapy of Crohn disease Zur Psychotherapie des M. Crohn. Feiereis H Langenbecks Arch Chir 1984, 364 p407-11
A controlled study in Europe involving 266 patients suffering from Crohn's disease revealed that psychotherapy is an important element in the treatment of this disease. The researchers found that psychotherapy can improve the therapeutic possibilities of drugs, diet and surgery.
