Many people go through traumatic experiences, and strong reactions to these events can lead to post-traumatic responses like PTSD. Trauma can come from witnessing terrible incidents, such as war, or from experiencing sexual abuse, violence, or emotional and physical mistreatment in families and other relationships. It’s important to know that trauma isn’t just about what happened to us; it also depends on how we understand and react to these events and the strong negative feelings that follow. These feelings can affect many areas of our lives, causing us to withdraw from relationships, develop unhealthy eating habits, or experience physical signs of distress. They can also lead to issues like depression, trouble sleeping, anxiety, irritability, and low self-esteem.
Dealing with trauma is especially hard because its effects can last for months or even years. For some people, this can cause serious problems that disrupt their daily lives. It’s not always obvious that negative feelings, relationship issues, and low self-esteem are often connected to past trauma. When people face these difficult feelings, they usually try to push away memories or ignore their emotions. Ironically, this avoidance makes their problems worse. The memories and feelings can come up in their daily lives, thoughts, and even nightmares. The more people try to ignore the effects of a traumatic event, the more control those memories have over them, negatively affecting their lives even more.
Trauma & PTSD Hypnotherapy
Treating trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with hypnotherapy is a deep and thorough process, but it is also very effective. The main focus is on helping the subconscious mind reprocess past events that cause those painful and disruptive feelings.
Unlike what you often see in movies and TV, hypnosis isn't used to relive memories. Instead, it uses calming techniques to help clients reduce the anxiety caused by trauma. At the same time, it helps them move forward in their lives.
Hypnotherapy can help you imagine a future full of happiness and well-being, giving you confidence in a healing process that starts in your own mind.
While hypnotherapy can't erase traumatic memories, it can help you deal with your reactions to those events. It allows you to see things from a different angle and frees you from negative beliefs and thoughts hidden in your mind.
You will identify what triggers your anxiety and panic attacks, and you'll get help to slowly reduce your unwanted reactions to these stressors.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
EMDR is a proven therapy for PTSD that also helps with other problems like anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. It works well for symptoms that come from memories that haven’t been processed properly. Because of how these memories are stored, they don’t respond to new and helpful information. After a trauma, these past events can feel like they are happening right now, almost like urgent news. With EMDR, clients learn that these memories can lose their strong influence and stop affecting their current lives so much.
Research shows that facing the memories of a traumatic event in a safe and controlled therapy setting can significantly reduce negative symptoms. This helps people regain their sense of self and take back control of their lives.
PTSD
Happier Mind Hypnotherapy
14 Tennyson Road, Ipswich, IP4 1PG, United Kingdom
Copyright © 2024 Happier Mind Hypnotherapy - All Rights Reserved.