How many sessions?
Cognitive Hypnotherapy considers every client a unique individual and, as such, each person receives a unique, personalised treatment plan. As every one of us is different (even if suffering from the same condition), it is difficult to quantify the number of sessions you might need.
The first session will evolve around assessing your presenting problem, gathering information and determining the best way to help you.
By combining recent understandings of how the brain works, counselling and therapeutic skills from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), NLP and a modern view of trance, Cognitive Hypnotherapy creates a very effective form of “ brief therapy” . Many problems can be helped in as little as 3-4 sessions. |
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Example of PET (positron emission tomography) scan of human brain.
PET scans indicate the degree of metabolic activity in different parts of the brain. Red indicates the most intense activity and blue the least.
Some studies (e.g. Szechtman H., 1998) show that, while subjects were under hypnosis, a hallucinated voice activated the same region of the brain as it was while subjects were actually hearing the stimulus. That area wasn't active while they were imagining that they heard the stimulus. Hypnosis made this area of the brain (right anterior cingulate cortex) to register the hallucinated voice as real. This finding would object that hypnosis is simply a matter of having a vivid imagination.
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