The Power of Building a Therapeutic Alliance for Regulating the Amygdala

Research tends to support the notion of the working alliance between patient and therapist being one of the best predictors of successful therapeutic outcomes, so we discuss it and how to advance it often within my hypnotherapy training classes. However, there is a neuroscientific benefit of the working alliance too, as Adam discusses briefly here – the way it helps soothe over activation of the subcortical regions of the brain.