How Does Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy differ from other hypnotherapy methods?
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® (HCH) approaches therapy from a deeply caring and dynamically healing perspective. HCH therapists and practitioners embrace the concepts of self-determination and the belief that every client contains deep within their own subconscious mind, the key to their own individual health and healing.
The first task as a Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® clinician is learning how to speak the language of the subconscious mind. In talk therapy or counseling sessions, we have spent years communicating with the conscious mind of our abused, addicted, depressed and anxious clients. In speaking with the conscious mind of our clients, we can offer them behavioral solutions, insight, empathy, and positive affirmations. We can try to help them understand their difficulties, but this method contains limitations and often does not produce long-lasting changes in their emotions or behavior. It does not relieve their anxiety or depression and talking certainly is extremely limited in treating and eliminating addictive behavior.
It is mainly through learning how to access this deeply personal guidance held within each human being that Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® excels. The subconscious mind contains 90 percent of the mind and within that 90 percent is the deeply held key that unlocks the client’s individual inner guidance.
In other words, we have learned over the 35 years of developing this professional hypnotherapy method that it is not the therapist, but the subconscious mind of the client which guides the sessions. We have learned to listen to their own subconscious mind, to sense and to feel exactly where the client needs to go in order to address the blockages which have kept them stuck in unhealthy addictive, victim, rescuer, and persecutor patterns. Our therapists wait, proceed slowly, and allow the client’s subconscious mind to determine where the deepest healing needs to take place. We have learned to proceed slowly and to listen carefully to the revelations of the deeper mind, body, and spirit of our clients.
What Issues Is Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® specified For?
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® has documented and successfully treated a wide variety of presenting problems. The most common presenting problems for therapists are anxiety and depression. The category consists of both substance and behavioral addictions. The third category of people searching for therapy are those people seeking help with marriage, family, and relationship dysfunction.
Zimberoff, D. (2017). https://web.wellness-institute.org/blog/what-is-heart-centered-hypnotherapy