Sessions last around 50 minutes and consist of a combination of talking therapy and trance. Trance is a powerful tool where we can access the subconscious, in which positive and beneficial suggestions can be embedded and then interpreted to bring about change. Trance, also referred to as couch time, is an incredibly relaxing and enjoyable experience, with most clients saying it is the favourite part of their session.
During the whole session, including trance, you are always in control.
Benefits of Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy
Life is full of change. It’s a process of trying new things, making mistakes, and learning.
It’s an unpredictable journey jam-packed with ups, downs, straight paths, and curves.
Our life isn’t just one single destination to reach. It’s a series of destinations we travel along through positive and negative experiences.
Learning to be okay with change and events that affect us is hard.
Sometimes we need that little extra support.
If you find yourself experiencing mental, emotional, or behavioural health crises and unable to attain the better days you long for, you may benefit from solution-focused hypnotherapy.
This form of therapy, developed from solution-focused brief therapy, has a more positive approach than other therapies, enabling you to recognize and use your inner strength and resilience to do away with unhelpful behaviours and find solutions to your problems.
When Life Feels Like a Series of Problems
When crisis after crisis presents itself, it can feel like all our energy is directed towards staying afloat. Solving problem after problem can be challenging for everyone, especially for individuals with anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions and behavioural issues.
Solution-focused hypnotherapy is available for people who need help identifying healthy paths forward in the face of distress and mental health issues.
What is Solution-Focused hypnotherapy?
Solution-focused hypnotherapy follows a positive psychology-influenced, and strength-based approach. It motivates you to find solutions for your problems from within and look at the areas in life where things are working.
During solution-focused hypnotherapy you will feel respected, encouraged, and hopeful in your sessions and be encouraged to…
Discover the strengths and resources you already have
Transform your strengths into healing power that can move you forward toward your desired future
Discuss what your desired future looks like
Figure out how to redirect obsessive thoughts
Do away with and overcome unhelpful behaviours that keep you from making your desires a reality
Recognize the signs of burnout, anxiety, depression and trauma and learn how to recover
Through solution-focused hypnotherapy, you will be encouraged to use your inner strength to identify practical solutions to mental, behavioural or interpersonal conflicts and to develop a set of skills for looking at the challenges in your life from a new lens.
For this reason, this psychotherapy method is often brief as you learn to harness the strengths and resources you already have.
What Happens in Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy?
Sessions are tailored to address your unique challenges and you are supported to understand the root of your struggles and, with Kevin's help, harness your strength into long-lasting coping strategies that bring you closer to the life you desire.
At the crux of solution-focused hypnotherapy, you are considered the expert of their life. Kevin can help you identify your strengths and challenges.
You will experience therapy as a collaborative process.
Questions often asked in sessions
There are five main types of questions intended to provoke thoughts and conversations about problem-solving and goal-setting:
· Exception questions. Exception questions ask about experiences with and without their problems. Kevin may ask, “Can you tell me about times you felt the happiest?” or “can you think of times when the problem was absent from your life?” These questions help to explore the times you successfully addressed or coped with past challenges. They can help differentiate circumstances when the problems have the most power and those when they have less power or none at all. When you can describe positive moments or improved periods in your life, the talk can move toward identifying what could currently be causing you distress.
· Coping questions. These questions can help you to recognize your resilience. Questions like “how do you manage to fulfil your daily obligations in the face of such difficulties?” or “how’d you manage to keep things from getting worse?” can help identify effective coping mechanisms you may already use.
· Miracle questions. Often worded as “imagine a miracle has happened. The problem you struggle with is suddenly gone. How does your life look without this issue?” This question encourages you to imagine life without the challenges that trouble you. By opening one’s mind up to the possibility of less stressful days, an individual can identify appropriate concrete steps that can make this desirable future attainable.
· Best-hopes questions. In cases where miracle questions aren’t practical, Kevin may ask best hopes questions. Questions like “what are your best hopes for our session today?” or “what needs to happen in our session for you to think it was worthwhile?” can help establish achievable, realistic goals and avoid unrealistic expectations for therapy.
· Scaling questions. You may be asked scaling questions like “how would you rate your progress in finding a solution to your problem on a scale from 0 to 10?” to gauge progress. To get an idea of how you may feel about your current problems. Or how motivated and confident you are in finding solutions. Scaling your experiences can enable you to better identify life stressors and problems, develop plans and hopes, and gain enhanced emotional awareness.
What Are the Benefits of Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy?
Most traditional forms of psychotherapy focus on analysing clients’ problems and past life events.
A Solution-focused approach, as implemented by Kevin, is beneficial because it’s based in optimism and positive psychology and has a focus on the future. It concentrates on finding solutions in the present and exploring hopes for the future.
This therapeutic method can make counselling safer for some clients as it doesn’t require them to dive into their past.
They don’t have to relive embarrassing and distressing thoughts and experiences.
They don’t have to have conversations that can be triggering or re-traumatizing.
They can figure out how to redirect obsessive thoughts and break free from an anxious or negative mind-set.
Who Benefits From Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy
This method is effective in helping treat individuals experiencing mental, emotional, or behavioural challenges related to
· Substance abuse or addiction
· Low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, or trauma
· Behavioural problems
· Grief, loss, relationship, or family conflicts
· Difficult life transitions
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Our mental health fluctuates throughout life. When something feels wrong or causes declines in our mental and emotional states, these experiences can be signs we need help. The right clinician can provide the support and care you need while helping you find and unlock the healing power you have within yourself to solve your problems.
Reach out to Kevin when you’re ready to make changes for the better.
With Kevin you’ll receive therapy that empowers you to identify necessary solutions for improving your emotional well-being. You’ll receive future-oriented, goal-directed care that enhances your quality of life and allows you to look ahead to the future instead of back at the past that’s hurt you.
Kevin provides quality solution-focused therapy for individual adults and teens who are struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship concerns, and life transitions.
Sessions take place remotely.
Research has shown that hypnotherapy is equally effective face to face or remotely.
Virtual sessions save journey time and enables you to remain in the comfort of your own home.
Virtual sessions enable me to support you wherever you live.
