The trouble with hypnotherapy is that it can help anything and everything. At least this is the impression one finds when on a hunt for the answer to a problem. Many people believe a hypnotherapist can use hypnosis to take control of the client’s mind to make changes. For those who hold this belief, hypnotherapy can go one of two ways. Fantastically, because the client’s belief in the experience is so strong that his or her brain will make the changes for sure. Horrendously, because the client takes no responsibility for the changes they desire. When they realise the therapist hasn’t taken control, they feel let down and unchanged. Hypnosis is brilliant, but it is not the therapy. A hypnotherapist must be an experienced facilitator of hypnosis and a therapist. Combining hypnosis and therapy is what helps the client make changes in their life, and is why hypnotherapy is used for almost anything. Providing the hypnotherapist is knowledgeable in that area of work and applies a therapy that works with the specified problem
