Cognitive Hypnotherapy & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  
Cognitive Hypnotherapy is a synthesis of many different theoretical psychological traditions with the inclusion of NLP, hypnotherapy of course, and ground breaking modern day neuroscience.  The cognitive part simply means our “thinking processes”: how we think, how we acquire information and knowledge, how we store it in our head, how we evaluate it and how we base some of our decisions on it.  The hypnotherapy practised includes the teachings of Milton Erickson, Gil Boyne, and Tad James to bring about rapid change.
The approach is similar in parts to the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model. CBT has revolutionised the world’s mental healthcare and is the most widely available form of talking cure within the NHS today.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy is growing in popularity as an effective treatment for a wide range of problems. It is not limited like CBT to focusing primarily on medical illnesses, but treats a whole range of issues where the mind is involved in creating bad unwanted behaviours. So that’s a pretty long list.
Most people when they think about therapy imagine it to consist of long sessions on couches, tears, brooding silences and painful recollection of childhood traumas and fantasies. This is predominantly due to approach of psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud in the nineteenth century.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy and CBT are much more readily understood and explainable than the complex and sometimes counter intuitive theories of Freud and Jung. They both teach their clients to use their own resources to solve their problems, rather than depending on the expert therapist to do this for them.  The role of the therapist is to facilitate and guide the client.
One of the main selling points of CBT and Cognitive Hypnotherapy is that they both get fast results. Traditional psychotherapy would sometimes rely on years of weekly session. CBT aims to get results in a few months, whereas Cognitive Hypnotherapy can take on average anywhere between 4 and 6 sessions. Both approaches focus on how we make sense of things, and how the mind can make problems for the individual by backfiring and creating unhelpful patterns of behaviour. Most of us will have something to gain from utilising a system that helps us to develop habits of rationality, and healthy mindedness as well as equipping us with the right resources to deal with life’s emotional traumas.
CBT has been around since the 1960’s and has a proven track record of evidence to support its effectiveness as a treatment. The NHS wouldn’t adopt it unless this was the case.  More and more research trials are being carried out proving that hypnotherapy is a powerful technique in treating so many things. Hypnosis has been shown to be the most successful single method in helping people to stop smoking. It’s therefore easy to understand how Cognitive Hypnotherapy gets the amazing results it does because it integrates some aspects of the CBT methodology within its framework.
I (Sarah Jons) specialise in Cognitive Hypnotherapy and help my clients make improvement in their lives, by changing behaviours, dealing with bad habits, or tackling emotional issues.