Hypnotherapy College Blog
Video: The Power of Constructive Thinking: Balancing Positivity with Realism
Adam often champions the virtues of constructive thinking within the clinical hypnotherapy setting and discusses how to avoid toxic positivity (personally and as a hypnotherapist). In this snippet, he briefly explores the benefits of balancing positivity with a...
ABC Socialisation of Cognitive Approaches to Hypnotherapy
While in class last week I recorded a quick video outlining a simple ABC model from cognitive therapy that we often use to socialise clients with the cognitive model - the same ABC model (antecedents, beliefs, consequences) is then applied with hypnosis to help...
Using Self-Awareness and Mindfulness Differently: Break Free from Automaticity of Problems
Adam speaks about incorporating mindfulness into hypnotherapy sessions for clinical benefit and promotes the value of mindfulness, heightened self-awareness and even helping patients to create self-consciousness as a means of dismantling the automacity of clinical...
Can Hypnosis make You Stronger?
Adam seeks to answer this as he considers the existing research for hypnosis and self-hypnosis with some clips from a recent webinar he presented.
Video: The Response Set in Hypnotherapy Sessions
Adam explains that a response set is whereby the upcoming hypnotherapy technique or intervention is explained using psycho-education, universal metaphors or with cultural references such as sharing themes from his favourite sci-fi comedy TV shows! The response set...
Hypnotic Regression as a Means of Advancing Self-Compassion
If you have followed my work in the past decade or so, you'll know I have offered up videos, articles and spoken at events offering a strong critique regarding the use of regression in hypnotherapy. My position has softened slightly in recent times with the emergence...
Video: Negative Reinforcement of Anxiety and Fear
Adam discusses how avoidance and escape from anxiety or irrationally fear-inducing scenarios creates negative reinforcement of the problem. Here in this example, the person who became uncomfortable at the top of a lift of a tall building, then finds comfort and reward...
Instilling Hope
As someone who has suffered with depression and a sense of hopelessness that can be experienced with it, I often discuss my love for helping instil a sense of hope within others, it is a wonderful part of being a clinical hypnotherapist. In this brief clip, I mention...
Adam’s Favourite Joke…
I got asked to share my favourite joke while teaching a class recently. This is it. For me it conjures up hilarious imagery, but I also love the phonological ambiguity in it (though realise saying so can neuter the joke entirely!)....
How to be More Responsive to Hypnosis
Adam briefly describes how to adopt a “positive cognitive set” and hypnotic mindset to respond better to hypnosis and suggestions. Being such an active agent is far superior than simply being a passive recipient when it comes to responsiveness when hypnotised.
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