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Hypnotherapy by Sonja Clinical Hypnotherapist -Extensively trained and registered with ARCH Canada. Private Office Located In Courtenay BC
- Individual & Group Hypnotherapy Sessions

The behavior that started a long time ago, as a way to protect you, may no longer be protecting you at all.  That part m...
09/06/2025

The behavior that started a long time ago, as a way to protect you, may no longer be protecting you at all. That part may actually be holding you back and stopping you from moving forward in life. See a hypnotherapist to change the part that no longer serves you.

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits🐇🐇🐇 May you all have good luck this month!
01/03/2025

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits🐇🐇🐇 May you all have good luck this month!

05/02/2025

🧠🧠Whether you're considering a career in hypnotherapy or receiving hypnotherapy, the following may be a surprise to you!🧠🧠

Clinical hypnotherapy can be equally rewarding to both the therapist and client alike.👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️

Read on to find out why!

👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️Traditional talk therapies, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy, often require months or even years of sessions to produce significant change. Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, has been shown to achieve profound results in a much shorter timeframe.

😬But far too often, clients seek therapy because they are experiencing extremely intense negative emotions or they are sick and tired of the state of their lives as is. They need and want relief and change as quickly as possible. 😬

🔥Therapist burnout is common, negatively impacting the careers and personal lives of a significant percentage of therapists. A 2023 APA survey found that 36% of psychologists reported feeling burned out, and its a common complaint of the mental health therapist that their practices no longer provide them the rewards that intially drew them to the profession.

⌛️📅Who wants to wait months or years to see improvement with their clients?

🤔But why does hypnotherapy work so quickly?

😴The answer lies in its direct access to the subconscious mind, its ability to bypass resistance, and its focus on immediate change.

🧠Traditional therapy primarily engages the conscious mind—the part of us that rationalizes, analyzes, and overthinks. However, many of our deep-seated patterns, fears, and emotional responses reside in the subconscious mind. Because hypnotherapy works at the subconscious level, it allows clients to address and change these patterns much more efficiently.

🔬📖A study published in the *American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis* (Kirsch et al., 1995) found that hypnotherapy enhances the effectiveness of treatment by facilitating subconscious learning and reconditioning. Unlike conventional therapy, which relies on conscious awareness and gradual behavioral modification, hypnotherapy allows clients to access the root cause of issues quickly, making transformation more immediate.

🧱One of the most significant challenges in therapy is overcoming resistance—the internal barriers that prevent change. Traditional therapies often require extensive cognitive restructuring and weeks of talk-based exploration before clients feel safe enough to address core issues.

☺️Hypnotherapy, however, induces a state of focused relaxation, bypassing the conscious mind allowing for deeper work in fewer sessions.

🔬📖Research from the *International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis* (Yapko, 2011) highlights that hypnosis reduces resistance by creating a state of heightened suggestibility. In this state, clients are more open to positive reframing and behavioral change without the conscious mind's habitual defenses.

🧠Fast-Track Emotional Processing💨

🧠Unlike traditional talk therapy, where clients may take weeks to reach emotional breakthroughs, hypnotherapy accelerates emotional processing. Many clients experience profound insights and emotional relief in just a few sessions.

📖🔬A study by Barabasz & Watkins (2005) in *Hypnotherapeutic Approaches to Trauma* showed that hypnotherapy could resolve trauma-related symptoms in an average of six sessions—far fewer than traditional methods, which can take 12–20 sessions or more.

🧠Lasting Change in Fewer Sessions👌

📖🔬A well-known comparison study by Alfred Barrios (1970) found that hypnotherapy achieved significant improvements in an average of six sessions, while CBT required approximately 22 sessions and psychoanalysis 600 sessions.

📖While newer studies continue to refine these estimates, the trend remains: hypnotherapy produces results more efficiently than traditional approaches.

🧠Hypnotherapy stands out as one of the most effective short-term therapeutic approaches with mutual benefits for both client and therapist alike. By directly engaging the subconscious, bypassing resistance, and accelerating emotional processing, it enables clients to experience meaningful change in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods.

🏆It's a win-win therapy!🏆

If this is true, then imagine what speaking lovingly and kindly to yourself will do. Try it. Be as kind to yourself as y...
13/11/2024

If this is true, then imagine what speaking lovingly and kindly to yourself will do. Try it. Be as kind to yourself as you are to your best friend.

Heading to work
22/09/2024

Heading to work

23/08/2024

He wasn't wrong.

13/08/2024

6 Reasons Why Clinical Hypnotherapy is one of the Most In Demand Careers.

Becoming a Clinical Hypnotherapist is a smart career choice that is becoming increasingly in demand in today's world. It is an extremely rewarding career that helps people overcome many issues, and is successful as both a part-time and full-time job. Apart from the reward of making a huge and positive difference in the world, we've outlined the top 6 reasons Clinical Hypnotherapy is in such high demand.

1. High Demand for Services: More and more people are confronting their mental health and bad habits -- especially with how much has changed in the last few years. Hypnotherapy is becoming increasingly popular as a form of treatment for a wide range of mental and physical health conditions, including anxiety, depression, phobias, and PTSD, chronic pain, and even just for managing stress. This has led to a growing demand for qualified hypnotherapists.

2. Compliments many existing careers: Many professionals are discovering the effectiveness of adding Clinical Hypnotherapy to compliment their existing practices. These careers include traditional therapists, life coaches, acupuncturists, nurses, massage therapists, and so many more.

3. Effectiveness: Clinical Hypnotherapy has evolved into a study based modality shown to be effective in transforming a variety of conditions. There are continuously more and more success stories and studies done about how Clinical Hypnotherapy is an effective tool for anxieties, support for surgeries, gut directive therapy, working through trauma, pain management, cancer support, transforming habits, and insomnia.

4. Hypnotherapy is a fast and efficient treatment: Unlike traditional therapy, which can take months or even years, clinical hypnotherapy can often produce positive results in just a few sessions. This makes it a great option for individuals who are looking for a quick and effective solution to their problems.

5. Alternative and Natural Therapy Trends: As alternative forms of therapy gain in popularity, Clinical Hypnotherapy is becoming a more mainstream option, with many medical professionals referring their patients to registered Clinical Hypnotherapists.

6. Tailored Treatments: Clinical Hypnotherapy can be tailored to the individual needs of the client, making it an attractive option for those seeking personalized treatment. One of the main reasons why the modality is so successful is that it targets the subconscious mind, the part of our brain that controls our habits, beliefs, and automatic responses. As each of us has our own unique personality, cookie cutter treatment are on the decline in popularity.

We are proud to offer one of the leading programs for professional clinical hypnotherapy training that offers so much more than just the minimum requirements. We prioritize training Clinical Hypnotherapy with the most up to date, professional, compassionate, and knowledgeable foundation.

We want to ensure that not only will our students thoroughly learn the most current science based techniques, but also how to build and run a successful business that offers the freedom to set their own hours, earn a comfortable living, and feel a sense of pride and purpose while helping their clients heal and become the best version of themselves.

Some days I plant wonderful thoughts and ideas and things I want to do.. Some days are quieter and I plant soft musings ...
31/05/2024

Some days I plant wonderful thoughts and ideas and things I want to do.. Some days are quieter and I plant soft musings and dreams. Once in a while I plant angry seeds, the type where every little thing annoys me. Those days are few. The best part though, is the garden is never quite finished and you can plant again tomorrow.

Classes starting in March for Victoria and Vancouver!
20/02/2024

Classes starting in March for Victoria and Vancouver!

6 Reasons Why Clinical Hypnotherapy is one of the Most In Demand Careers.

Becoming a Clinical Hypnotherapist is a smart career choice that is becoming increasingly in demand in today's world. It is an extremely rewarding career that helps people overcome many issues, and is successful as both a part-time and full-time job. Apart from the reward of making a huge and positive difference in the world, we've outlined the top 6 reasons Clinical Hypnotherapy is in such high demand.

1. High Demand for Services: More and more people are confronting their mental health and bad habits -- especially with how much has changed in the last few years. Hypnotherapy is becoming increasingly popular as a form of treatment for a wide range of mental and physical health conditions, including anxiety, depression, phobias, and PTSD, chronic pain, and even just for managing stress. This has led to a growing demand for qualified hypnotherapists.

2. Compliments many existing careers: Many professionals are discovering the effectiveness of adding Clinical Hypnotherapy to compliment their existing practices. These careers include traditional therapists, life coaches, acupuncturists, nurses, massage therapists, and so many more.

3. Effectiveness: Clinical Hypnotherapy has evolved into a study based modality shown to be effective in transforming a variety of conditions. There are continuously more and more success stories and studies done about how Clinical Hypnotherapy is an effective tool for anxieties, support for surgeries, gut directive therapy, working through trauma, pain management, cancer support, transforming habits, and insomnia.

4. Hypnotherapy is a fast and efficient treatment: Unlike traditional therapy, which can take months or even years, clinical hypnotherapy can often produce positive results in just a few sessions. This makes it a great option for individuals who are looking for a quick and effective solution to their problems.

5. Alternative and Natural Therapy Trends: As alternative forms of therapy gain in popularity, Clinical Hypnotherapy is becoming a more mainstream option, with many medical professionals referring their patients to registered Clinical Hypnotherapists.

6. Tailored Treatments: Clinical Hypnotherapy can be tailored to the individual needs of the client, making it an attractive option for those seeking personalized treatment. One of the main reasons why the modality is so successful is that it targets the subconscious mind, the part of our brain that controls our habits, beliefs, and automatic responses. As each of us has our own unique personality, cookie cutter treatment are on the decline in popularity.

We are proud to offer one of the leading programs for professional clinical hypnotherapy training that offers so much more than just the minimum requirements. We prioritize training Clinical Hypnotherapy with the most up to date, professional, compassionate, and knowledgeable foundation.

We want to ensure that not only will our students thoroughly learn the most current science based techniques, but also how to build and run a successful business that offers the freedom to set their own hours, earn a comfortable living, and feel a sense of pride and purpose while helping their clients heal and become the best version of themselves.

Families come in all shapes and sizes. Happy Family Day ❤️
19/02/2024

Families come in all shapes and sizes. Happy Family Day ❤️

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