Soul Care Counseling and Consulting offers hypnotherapy (clinical hypnosis) in addition to cognitive behavioral therapy.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is an evidenced-based practice that focuses on coping strategies, challenging and changing unhelpful thinking styles and emotional exploration. Hypnotherapy, as defined by Milton Erikson, is "a procedure wherein changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, emotions, feelings are suggested." This makes cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnotherapy a perfect clinical match.

Research has proved that cognitive behavioral therapy stands above other modes and methods of treatment. This results in shorter duration of treatment and longer lasting results. Research has also shown that using hypnotherapy combined with cognitive behavioral therapy has a 70% more effective rate than using cognitive behavioral therapy alone.

So what exactly is hypnotherapy? Well, let's start with what it is not. It is not a deep sleep where you are under the control of another person. You cannot get stuck in a trance nor can you be made to do anything against your will.

Actually you are not asleep at all, you are in a deep state of relaxation responsive to your environment but able to maintain your own problem solving abilities, values, beliefs and opinions. The focus of hypnotherapy is to focus your attention and increase your own ability to make change and reduce the obstacles on the way to change.

Everyday we naturally go into a state of trance when we go to sleep, when we awake, when we drive, and when we get super absorbed into a book. Some people call this a "flow state". I enter an amazing flow state when I am working on stained glass where I can block out everything and experience acute concentration. This is all similar to the state that you go into when you are in hypnotherapy: a state of inward deep concentration, imagination, and relaxation. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. My job as the hypnotherapist, is to assist you in going into the deep state of relaxation.