There are certain questions that come up a lot – in hypnotherapy supervision, on social media groups, and in training. For the troubleshooting chapter of the Hypnotherapist’s Companion, I’ve gathered together the most frequently asked questions I’ve come across to offer help and support for hypnotherapists in practice. I’ve given you my answers here, with plenty of research to back up the answers.
This is the perfect chapter to have handy in hypnotherapy Supervision sessions, whether you’re a supervisor who offers support to hypnotherapists or a therapist looking for that support.
This section includes:
Contraindications and medical referrals: when do you need a medical referral? what are the contraindications for hypnotherapy? With no universally accepted answers to these questions, we look at how they can be approached. The law, the ethics and the training standards all help to provide the ultimate guide.
Paradoxical anxiety: what to do when relaxation seems to make your client’s anxiety worse.
Learned helplessness: how does it develop and what impact can it have on therapy?
What to do when therapy isn’t going well. There can be a number of reasons why therapy doesn’t go the way you planned. We look at those reasons, and what to do about them.
Clients who don’t turn up: how to reduce the chances of ‘no-shows’ and deal with them if they happen.
Problems with payments: although you became a therapist to help people, you are also running a business. Your problems with payments may be about your reluctance to charge what you’re worth. Or your clients’ reluctance to pay what they owe. Either way, we look at ways to keep payments running smoothly.
‘Difficult’ clients. Before you worry about my choice of words, I appreciate that I am being a bit contentious in using this phrase. Hence the quotation marks. But difficult situations can arise when working with clients, and they can have an impact on our ability to work successfully with the clients involved. We look at timekeeping, not completing tasks at home, referring on, complaints and bad reviews, etc.
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