their worlds, your words how to write hypnotherapy scripts and adapt session content

Their Worlds, Your Words is a unique hypnotherapy book designed to help you interview clients effectively, build rapport, and create personalised hypnotherapy scripts that appeal to your clients’ interests and create real change. Whether you work directly from published hypnotherapy scripts or prefer a more flexible, conversational style, this book provides step-by-step guidance for tailoring session content to meet the individual needs of your clients.

The inspiration came from a class discussion with my hypnotherapy practitioner students. We all agreed that personalising hypnosis scripts was essential, but the practicalities often left them uncertain: Which client details should be included? How do you adapt a script that seems complete? Can you safely reuse customised material?

I looked for resources and discovered there was relatively little on these questions. Lots of debate about the pros and cons of scripts, true. But nothing on the mechanics of breaking them down into their constituent parts and personalising them. ‘If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,’ or so says Toni Morrison, Hence Their Worlds, Your Words.

It’s now a comprehensive guide that takes you from gathering the right information to adapting generic hypnosis scripts and writing your own. Along the way, you’ll find practical exercises, real-world examples, and clear frameworks that make script-writing accessible and effective for both new and experienced hypnotherapists.

Chapter Guide for Their Worlds, Your Words

  • Getting into Your Client’s World – how to build rapport and gather meaningful information.
  • Exploring the Client’s World – asking the right questions and spotting what’s left unsaid.
  • Changing the Client’s World – tailoring solutions and adapting existing hypnotherapy scripts.
  • Working with Words – the art of suggestion, plus a worked example of script adaptation.
  • Words and Stories – how to create personal metaphors and original scripts.
  • When Worlds Collide – the effects on you, boundaries, self-care, and managing therapist impact.

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An Essential Tool

I consider this book to be an essential tool for any training or newly qualified hypnotherapist. Great value for money, as over the years I feel it will be accessed again and again... A little gem.

B Gravil

Well Written and Structured

It's very well written and structured, with clear explanations and examples.

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A Great Resource

A great resource to help the reader to find out “how the client is doing their problem”, personalise therapeutic scripts and develop effective session content.

Lynne Cole

Improve Your Skills

Debbie’s friendly, easy writing style makes this an accessible read and condenses a lot of relevant information into one book. My top tip is to try out the included exercises as you read your way through the chapters – I’m sure you will improve your creative and hypnotherapeutic skills!

Susan Tibbett

Chock Full of Useful Material

Much more than a manual for customising and adapting therapeutic hypnotherapy scripts, this book is thought-provoking, practical and chock-full of useful material. And it’s a pleasure to read

Kathleen Roberts

Easy to Read

So easy to read and understand compared to the plethora of technical books… I’ll be recommending it to all my fellow students

Claire H,

Genuinely Groundbreaking

Debbie Waller has crafted a work that is genuinely ground-breaking… demonstrating how to create powerful, effective and most importantly, personalised therapeutic scripts.

William Broom,

Who The Book Is For

Their Worlds, Your Words is an essential resource for:

  • Student hypnotherapists who want to practise adapting scripts with confidence.
  • New practitioners developing their own hypnotherapy session frameworks.
  • Experienced therapists seeking inspiration to refresh or refine their hypnosis techniques.
  • Hypnotherapy trainers and supervisors who want a practical book for their students’ reading lists.

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Hypnotherapy Trainers, Supervisors, Therapists: If you’d like to gift or resell my books to your students, supervisees, or clients, I offer a discount on orders of 5 copies or more of the same title.

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