Are There Any Dangers ?
Like all mental health practitoners, I have a duty of care toward clients and need to be properly informed in order to be able to work with your condition.
Anything you tell me will be treated in compete confidence. You can feel entirely safe to tell me if you are using medication, particularly for any psychiatric conditions, or have had any traumatic episodes in your life or if you are presently in vulnerable situation or a physically or mentally precarious state.
Nothing like this will affect how I see or deal with you as a person.
I assess a condition on the basis of how it expresses and not how it is labeled or has been diagnosed or treated previously. My assessment of your case will always be based on what I observe and learn from you in our exchanges. These other factors will affect my judgment about the kind of therapeutic strategies it is wise to use or avoid in the circumstances. I have not yet encountered a condition so intransigent or hedged about with such difficulties that beneficial work could not be done.
The unconscious is very powerfully protective of us.
Useful hypnotic states and lasting beneficial results only develop
when an unconscious assessment has been made of the reliability
and integrity of the therapist.
The unconscious only allows acceptable material to be integrated into the deep level automatic process. Any unnatural suggestions are destined to be rejected or to fail shortly after installation.
The careless, poorly trained or inexpert practitioner may indeed generate uncomfortable experiences - but should this occur the suggestions made will not take effect.
Uncomfortable intuitions about the therapist concerned should be heeded since this is the way the unconscious communicates with our conscious awareness.
Some people worry, quite needlessly, that they might not be able to
be roused from a deep state. At worst, even if a therapist should die
at their post - a very rare occurrence - you might fall into a brief sleep before waking. If you happen to have paid in advance I would definitely recommend you request a refund !
People also ask sometimes whether there could be any danger of their
mind being disturbed or their personality being somehow altered.
Although individuals may change considerably - finding themselves
thinking, experiencing and acting more freely and competently - fundamental identity change is not really feasible with hypnotherapy.
You will definitely still be the same person.
It is claimed that basic personality change can be achieved through
coercive mind-altering and re-programming strategies employed in military or intelligence circles - but these results are unstable and are only possible with the assistance of powerful drugs which hypnotherapists are neither licensed nor competent to use.
Copyright keith bibby august 2007 >> Return
