Hypnotherapy College Blog
Video clip – Healing from Post-Traumatic Stress: Breaking Free from Painful Memories
During a recent class, while explaining some of the wide range of mental imagery techniques we use in the clinical setting as hypnotherapists, I discussed one way to break free from the grip of painful memories and heal from post-traumatic stress. We learn from Judith...
Video: How to Shift Your Emotional Responses: The Power of Reappraisal
I was recently discussing with a friend at the gym (that's you Coach Meg) the impact of ventilationism in different cultures and the profound effect it has upon that wider society (Japan vs the US, for example). However, when it comes to emotions like anger, venting...
Video: You Don’t Have to Be Relaxed to Be Hypnotised!
A great many people associate hypnosis and hypnotherapy with being relaxed. Many therefore assume that in order to be hypnotised, they must be relaxed, and if you struggle to relax, you might therefore assume you'll struggle with hypnosis. However, evidence shows us...
Hypnosis Academics Who Influenced My Own Work the Most
The top five academics and researchers who influenced my own research, clinical work, teachings and were cited most in my own published papers are Prof Zoltan Dienes (Uni of W Sussesx, UK), Prof Alamnda Barnier (Macquarie Uni, Australia), Prof Steven J Lynn (formerly...
Video: Sigmund Freud – A Cheap Shot
Last weekend, I was discussing the topic of anger and what the latest science had to say about the best and most effective ways to deal with it, and naturally I contrasted it to some rather dated notions and approaches from the past that still tend to pop up in...
Video: When Prescribing Exact Hypnotic Experiences Goes Wrong
In this clip, I had been explaining that one of the first times I was hypnotised by a hypnotherapist, I objected to being told to imagine lying on a beach... And explain my sensitivity in NSFW style. In the clinical environment, we are like to derive better responses...
Video clip – The Quirkiest Scientific Research Ever?
The Fascinating Connection Between Country Music and Suicide Rates Revealed... Further to the clip I shared last week during my 2019 lecture about the quirkiest hypnosis research studies, I framed the presentation by citing some winners of the Ig Nobel Science Prize...
Understanding Psychosomatic Disorders: Creating a Path to Healing
Often as hypnotherapists, it can be important to de-pathologise our clients' mental health challenges in order for that individual to develop self-efficacy, feel capable, feel more in control of themselves and establish a sense of hope about their mental well-being. I...
Video: Hypnosis As a Tool to Model Delusion
Back in 2019 (in London's finest 'Bunker' lecture theatre - if you know, you know) I gave a lecture entitled 'Hypnosis Quirkology' whereby I explained and discussed some of the quirkiest hypnosis research. In one section, I spoke of a number of studies that had...
One Important Reason to Deactivate the Amygdala During Hypnotherapy
The amygdala area of the brain is designed to detect danger. It evaluates and processes information long before the information is going to be consciously processed. When the amygdala matches the environment, we have mental health. When it does not, that is when we...
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