Techniques

I'm going to talk about  different approaches used by hypnotists and hypnotherapists,I will not be teaching them here but I find myself faced with a form of internal conflict and I just need to get it out.

Before I start I want to first say that all techniques and approaches if they help people then there good so here goes and do feel free to leave a comment thank you.

I get questions at time about different things  like, is such a technique better then this one, what kind of approach do you use and so forth then there are questions about should I trust some one with 14 hours of training or 48 or 114. Well let me start with have you met the hypnotist yet?, is he certified ?, does his approach or his way of explaning  what he can do to help you sound and feel right to you if so then  go for it if not find some one else. As for thecniques well some will use specific techniques like Ericksonian,Elman or have specific names for there type of practice  like sofrology hypnosis, waken hypnosis, spiritual hypnosis, positive hypnosis and at times they will say hypnotherapy in stead of hypnosis and there all fine and great, then you have Kappasinian hypnosis or hypnotherapy  as well  so lets look at some of these  more closely.

ericksonian, created by Dr Milton Erickson and is considered by many as the godfather of hypnotherapy where his induction to the treatment is done through stories(imagery) and what we now call NLP(neuro linguistic programming), Elman a combination of stage inductions reconfigured for theraputic uses and a more direct approach to therapy. Then there is Sofrology which is like I mentioned in an earlier post NLP exercises and hypnosis using NLP techniques (something we already do in hypnosis) Waken hypnosis(NLP EXERCISES used in a hypnotic state with the client eyes remaining open, Spiritual hypnosis which is very close to medical hypnosis where we use imagery to help the mind body and soul heal or visualize the body healing to help with some  discomfort issues and the using regression  as a tool for therapy and positive hypnosis using a positive approach to therapy knowing that all hypnotherapy should always be a positive approach and experience. Then there is Kappasinian, well only a few people here in Quebec realy know what that means  it is a positive approach to a non direct form of therapy using personalized approches to  every client with  every thing  and every technique you know but the first induction is done in a way that  they garenty  that anyone who steps into your office will go into the hypnotic state. I can say this because that was what I studied and found fit what I was looking for.

Yes there are doctors and psychologists even psychiatrists that specialize in certain fields of there work but before they specialized they did do the regular stuff to so even if they specialized it does not mean they can not treat other things but that is not always true in hypnothrapy because a person can specialize in one technique or approach  like  some one specialized in NLP will use that more then anything else and will advertise as such and some one in  medical hypnosis will do just that not knowing how to help some one quit smoking  and then there are those who learn as much as possible even if they seem to specialize or not.
Take me for exemple, I have done a lot of work with children and ADD or ADHD also a lot of work with rape or insest clients. Do I want to me known for just that well I will take it if that is the case but I would rather be known for my work in hypnosis and hypnotherapy in general that is why I refuse to become narow minded  and learn as many techniques approachs ways of helping as possible and yes I will studie them until I master them before I use them.

Why limite yourself to helping a few people when you can learn to help every one. know as for training times, for any or all basic training classes being 14 hours to 48 hours they are what they are basic training I remember a certain issue in the news last summer that went nuts over a young hypnotist with 14 hours of training, well he got a basic hypnosis class that teaches how hypnosis works and how to hypnotise it was not a class on how to do hypnosis shows but what they still do not mention is that this class was take a year before the event and that this young hypnotist had stage experiance in his family as well. it does not take years to learn how to hypnotise some people pick it up from youtube. As for hypnotherapy well that is up to the client to decide a person can have 48 hours of training  and no experiance or they can have years of experiance helping people and listening to people  Take me for example, people would open up and talk to me about there problem through out  my schooling then magic became a pation and eventually hypnosis as I got older people started asking about helping them with issues so I decided to get certified and as I did my training(2 years worth) I quickly realized I knew less about hypnosis then I though and I would read anything I could get my hands on from books by Erickson and Elman to books by Freud and other psychology books that had chapters on hypnosis and even today I am still learning not just about the state of hypnosis but  human behavior and that is something I am glad to say will never stop and if ever you think you are the best and that you have the one true approch or technique then you can always talk to Johnathan Chase who is a well known hypnotist and hypnotherapist that is also known for not holding back and speaking his mind.

I do not know if this will help people  chose there hypnotherapists or not but  it did help me fix my internal conflict so  just keep in mind that the more your therapist knows the better your treatment will be.
Oh one more thing  there is no such thing as stander hypnosis or hypnotherapy or special hypnotherapy or hypnosis because there is only the state of hypnosis(the same thing for every one) and then there are the tools the hypnotist or hypnotherapist decide to use