Using Hypnotherapy for Abuse Recovery

The term child abuse includes any form of sexual abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, excessive punishment, voluntary abandonment or neglect, emotional abuse and some forms of child molestation.

It is an unfortunate fact of life but any form of child abuse will causes trauma at some level that can remain as a self limiting emotion throughout the life of the person causing various problems.

Probably the worst form of child abuse is sexual abuse which generates negative programming such as anorgasmia (not able to achieve  orgasm), lack of sexual pleasure, erectile dysfunction, withdrawing from contact with the opposite sex and  feeling socially inadequate.

Second are the physical and emotional abuse which generates aggressor programming which perpetuates the problem and victim programming in others. This can lead to sexual practices that are dangerous and life threatening as more diverse sexual experimentation is made either as a substitute for or the acceptable risk of being in an abusive relationship  

Hypnosis is a wonderful tool for dealing with the after effects of child abuse. It is non invasive does not re traumatise the client and when performed in a constructive manner can bring about rapid changes

By taking whatever presenting symptom appears seriously, I can find a path to the self back through the symptom to the root and then to the triggering event of the problem. The goal then is to bring the individual back to a sense of an integrated self. I have found the best way to do that is to follow a few basic steps:

   firstly  without question I believe that what you feel see or hear is what you feel see or hear.

   Understand you have survived using your own defences.

   Let your defences speak.

   Dealing with the feelings of guilt shame or blame.

    Understanding that you cant change history but you can dictate the future.

    Re-patterning/transforming relationship to trauma.

   Reintegration of experience with a new sense self

One of the benefits of my method of dealing with trauma Is that it is non invasive I don’t ask a client to re live or re enact their event to me there is no point they have already been there, it is personal to them  I will not confront the individuals dignity to relate  to me what happened to them they have suffered enough. However by gently unravelling the existing thought patterns triggers and  establishing a way forward it is possible to successfully deal with the most intimate and invasive acts of  brutality without actually having to discus the event at all

I am sufficiently comfortable with extreme fear and panic states that I have never been drawn into a clients panic in such a way that it could interfere my ability to bring about new and effective ways of helping the client to effect a resolution to their feelings  

How Effective Is It?

In most cases, hypnotherapy will provide an immediate sense of relief as the client begins to manage their own environment and their responses within it. The individual completely changes their behaviour and attitude to situations that remind him or her of the abusive events. Sometimes, in the primary session a person can get rid of negative programming that would otherwise be disruptive for the rest of their life.