Go to 7 different therapists for anxiety & depression and you will get 7 different protocols for relief. Everyone responds differently to different types of therapy, different techniques and even different therapeutic personalities. While there are differing beliefs about how & why anxiety and depression come about in someone's personal experience, the mental health community can assure you that you can be helped!
The question is not whether or not relief will occur in therapy, the question is how will relief come about and when? Some therapists will use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and some may take a more existential approach. Some will allow a beautifully winding road of client-driven therapy from a more person-centered approach. Some therapists may facilitate an eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) protocol, while others may look at the whole person from a holistic approach and work from a more spiritual perspective while referring a client out to a fitness instructor, nutritionist and functional or integrative doctor. The good news? All of these approaches are efficacious and will bring great relief to clients. The bad news? Sometimes what works for one person does not work for another and it may take a few tries to find out what works best. There truly is a time for everything.
Hypnotherapy is one modality that people seem to love. I heard it once described as, "the easiest hard work I've ever done." You see, anxiety and depression are both altered states of consciousness. They are states of mind that are already far out from the ego center. The difference from these two emotional states and any other altered state is that they are altered states that have been practiced, rehearsed and memorized by the body, nervous system and subconscious/unconscious mind.
Hypnotherapy is one of the less invasive therapies that can provide the client a restorative time of rest and, essentially, a break from themselves and their thoughts. It is a therapy that can be more client-led and solution-focused at the same time! It is a therapy that can bring instant relief, but also give the client some time to grow, process and evolve away from the anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are essentially trance states. Hypnotherapy can help break you out of one trance and help you enter into a new trance and a new pattern of thinking. A trance chosen by you that will be filled with life, hope and empowerment.
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