Coaching? Counselling? Hypnotherapy? Psychotherapy?
Confused by all the titles of people offering therapy?
You might be wondering what’s the difference in approach, training and most importantly what suits you and your unique issues.
This is something I get asked a lot, and it is confusing!
I go by at least three myself!
The main thing to understand is that all these ways of working in therapy are here to support you, stand with you, understand how you experience life, cheer you on and ultimately, help you have a different relationship with yourself.
It’s all about providing a safe space for change.
Counselling, Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy:
Let’s look at these different titles and what it means for you.
Counselling:
My first piece of post-graduate training was to become a Registered Counsellor. Here you are trained to support people through all the issues you would expect from depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, unhealthy relationships and to work through how this manifests in your life and offer support.
Counselling generally refers to short-term consultation. You might visit a counsellor to work with a strong emotion such as grief or anger. A Counsellor will help you deal with immediate causes and help provide techniques to better control them.
Psychotherapy:
Typically refers to longer-term treatment. In general, counselling is more concerned with practical or immediate issues and outcomes and while psychotherapy delves deeper to help you understand your life in a profound and reflective manner.
The crucial difference in these talk therapies is that psychotherapy delves deeper to heal psychic pain and requires looking at aspects of your past. Engaging in psychotherapy ultimately is a longer process that evolves over time and aims to support you to look at long standing thoughts, attitudes, behaviours that have been negatively affecting you and your relationships.
It can go much deeper to uncover the root causes of problems, which can often result in a more dramatic change in how you perceive yourself and aspects of your personality.
In terms of training required My association PACFA requires members to undergo a minimum of 350 hours of training and 50 hours of supervision over a minimum of 3 years.
It’s definitely a commitment but oh so worthwhile.
Clinical Hypnotherapy:
When you think of hypnosis, you may imagine what you’ve seen on TV during stage hypnosis or in a movie. Clinical hypnosis is very different and it doesn't make you fall asleep, or it cannot make you lose control or do anything that you don’t want to do.
When you’re in hypnosis, this deep state is called a "trance".
The deeply relaxed state of a trance is very similar to deep meditation.
In a trance your whole body feels relaxed yet your mind is focused. In this relaxed state we are working with your unconscious mind and unconscious processes - those deeper parts of yourself that are sometimes not immediately apparent to your conscious mind.
Over 90% of your mind is subconscious and this is where our most deep-seated beliefs and values are stored. By accessing this part of ourselves, we create pathways toward significant changes.
Sometimes this is to help to release emotions and past traumas so that you can heal and move forward and sometimes it is about shifting old habits and behaviours that are not helpful.
This is why I call myself a Clinical Hypnotherapist - I have studied to be a therapist and also trained in using hypnosis.
Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy is so powerful because I can effectively tap into what is going on for you - both on a conscious and unconscious level. This means, together, we fast-track positive change that works well both for the short and long term.
It also allows for the deeper therapeutic relationship where over a period of time we unpack the myriad and marvellous aspects of you. From your childhood, your relationships with your family, your difficult times and your times of great courage.
My training and my commitment to self-development continually fuels my passion for helping people unhook from past patterns and co-creating new exciting chapters in their lives.
Every-time I confront an issue or an ingrained pattern and embody a new way of seeing myself in the world, I can then teach you from my own experience and wisdom. My extensive training allows me to be qualified to deliver this guidance safely and ethically.
I operate in private practice from Queensland, Australia seeing clients face to face and virtually all over the world. I'm currently also crafting self-paced online courses online to complement my one on one work.
If you would like the opportunity to see if I am the right therapist for your needs you can book a complimentary 15 minute discovery call to answer any questions you may have about Clinical Hypnotherapy, what success I may have had in the past and how I might work with your unique situation.
These calls provide an opportunity to see if we are aligned.
As it is a discovery call with the opportunity to ask questions, and not an actual session I won’t be offering actual therapeutic interventions.
But I would LOVE to talk to you...
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