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How many sessions will I need?
Smoking is generally a one session treatment. Other treatments may require more than one session, although Amanda does her best to help you to resolve your problem and achieve your aim quickly as possible. She considers it unethical to string people along and people who are helped quickly and effectively make good adverts!
It is unethical to dupe people into having more sessions than necessary, moreover, clients who are helped quickly and effectively make good adverts! It is hard to say, but the average number of sessions a client will need to address a problem (apart from smoking) is about 3.
Each ‘hypnosis’ part of the session is put on CD (or your MP3 player) in order for you to practice at home in between sessions. This cuts down the total number of appointments you will need with Amanda.
Hypnotherapy is probably one of the quickest forms of therapy – much quicker than counselling or psychotherapy. Amanda has seen clients who have had years of counselling or psychotherapy and as a result have an excellent awareness of themselves and their problems, but have still been left with the core problem which hasn’t really changed. This is because the subconscious mind is still holding onto ‘old information’ which hypnotherapy can easily address, thereby helping the ‘gut reaction’ to catch up with the intellectual understanding.
Some people are naturally more responsive to hypnosis than others and for them the process is quicker. Others have to “learn” to be good subjects and it can take time and practice to attain the same results.
Hypnotherapy addresses one situation at a time. If a client has a fear of driving, as well as compulsively biting their nails, each problem would be dealt with at a different time. However, often one problem may spontaneously resolve itself as the other is resolved, but sometimes there is no connection and it needs to be addressed separately.
How long do the effects of hypnotherapy last? Hypnotherapy doesn’t ‘wear off’ over time – quite the opposite. The more you deal with the difficult situation, the stronger you will become. Your new-found success in dealing with difficult things will remind your sub-conscious mind that things have changed.
For example, each time someone with an old phobia of using a lift does so, the new skills they have learnt to overcome an inappropriate panic reaction will become stronger. The person will thus gain confidence that the skills are there to stay, that a new healthy pattern will become established, and that their success will re-enforce the understanding that panicking in a lift is a thing of the past. Being calm is now the way of the future…
Like all things, the more you do it, the better you become at it.
How much does it cost?
Stopping smoking costs £90. All other sessions are £50 (Prices correct as of January 2008). Please check with Amanda at the time of discussion to make sure that the pricing is up to date and correct at the time of call.