How does Hypnotherapy treat anxiety and depression?

1. It helps you enter the subconscious:
Hypnosis helps to push the conscious control of our mind to one side so the sub-conscious mind comes forth and is then receptive to any positive suggestions that we give it..eg I can do _______. We are then treating the person holistically, as a whole, mind, body and soul, rather than just treating the symptoms.

2. It helps you identify the “unfinished business”.
We sometimes have “unfinished business” with whatever has been lost, be it a job, a loved one, or a home. These unresolved feelings, such as resentments, regrets, blame, anger, guilt, jealousy, and fear are stored in the body and must be released. Otherwise they become deeply buried beneath the numbness created by the anti-depressant drugs, the addictive behaviour, and the concurrent repression that occurs when trauma and grief go untreated. 

Hypnotherapy helps with depression by removing the underlying basis of depression and completing the unfinished business that otherwise continues to recycle as self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviours.

3. It helps you “finish” the “unfinished business” and release the stored emotions/experiences.
Hypnotherapy can help access the deepest level of these traumatic experiences, stored emotions and memories to release them from the mind and body. When this hypnotherapy process is completed, clients report that their depression has lifted, that they have stopped the compulsive thoughts or behaviour, and that they are ready to resume living their lives again.

4. It helps you replace the trauma with positivity.
With each healing session of hypnotherapy, we can replace the fearful repetitive thoughts that often haunt people following a traumatic experience. Positive affirmations are now effective because the underlying emotional release has been accomplished.

5. It helps you use the power of hypnotic suggestion to create long-term improvement.
Hypnotherapy provides an effective way to access the individual’s ability to affect the physical body. Once self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviours have been resolved, the individual can begin to use hypnotic suggestibility to improve the body’s functioning. Hypnotherapy can be very helpful in correcting patterns of restless sleep, low energy or libido, headaches or chronic pain. Hypnotherapy can also help to increase motivation to exercise and eat properly, lose weight, quit smoking, study more effectively, achieve higher levels of success within sports performance, address feelings of frustration and anger, addictions, fears and phobias, panic attacks, habits and disorders and so much more.