Seven Benefits of Online Hypnotherapy
The feeling after calming hypnotherapy from the comfort of home
Jane Pendry is an award-winning hypnotherapist at Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy and Coaching. Jane helps people looking to resolve or manage anxiety and depression, break destructive habits and behaviours, overcome traumas and irrational fears, and become their best version of themselves.
There’s no doubt most of Jane’s clients benefit from accessing hypnotherapy online. All that’s needed is a secure Wi-Fi connection and a quiet safe space.
Imagine undertaking gentle, calming, uplifting hypnotherapy tucked up on the sofa, or lying in your own comfortable bed. You might imagine that really is part of the therapy - the psychological safety of home. No stress; no travel; no wasting time.
Dealing with extraordinary stress
During the Covid pandemic, many people felt ‘frozen, like ‘a rabbit in the headlights’. Unable to move forward. People who had never had mental health issues before were feeling anxious, lost, confused and overwhelmed.
All of us feel like that sometimes.
Anxiety and low mood can be caused by the circumstances we find ourselves in - moving house, redundancy, loss of a loved one, sudden changes in our circumstances.
In short, circumstances beyond our control knock us sideways and overwhelm us. For a while we feel we can’t cope. We need support.
But we may feel squeezed for time, and too overwhelmed to be travelling to appointments, finding a place to park, and then sitting in clinical environments.
Hypnotherapy helps you deal with stress, anxiety and overwhelm
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy - or any hypnotherapy with a trained, accredited therapist - aims to work with our body and mind together.
By calming the central nervous system, toning the vagus nerve (the biggest of the cranial nerves that meanders down the back of our spine) and changing our thinking, all at the same time, we find we can recover from situational anxiety, stress, burnout, low mood, obsessive ruminating and over-thinking remarkably quickly.
In fact, hypnotherapy and allied somatic practices, is even helpful for longer term and more deep-rooted issues like trauma and complex phobias.
Normal responses to unprecedented events
It’s reasonable to seek support to help us cope with extraordinary events, whether that’s divorce, a job change, grief, or coping with chronic illness or medical procedures.
These can destabilise us and uncover our vulnerabilities.
Solution-focused Hypnotherapy uses Ericksonian suggestions - no commands so clients stay in control. Solution Focused conversations focus on what’s good or better every week to further strengthen a sense of control and hope and to forge new neural connections and pathways to support positive thinking.
Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis to gently calm the central nervous system, and tone the vagus nerve (in effect strengthening the parasympathetic nervous system).
Hypnosis is a natural alpha-brain wave state that gently allows clients to ‘re-wire’ their minds, helping them break old habits and create new healthier behaviours, without the need to talk about the past or what has gone wrong.
Benefit 1 - Psychological Safety and Calm
Online hypnotherapy can return you to psychological safety in challenging times.
Our economic future seems to be endlessly uncertain these days. Prices are rising, costs are increasing. We don’t really know when it will all end.
We are facing stressful times just like our ancestors did. They faced warring tribes and invasions, endless crop failures, disease and pestilence, and they had to hunt and gather to survive.
But survive they did. We are living proof.
Our ancestors also had a little help from… hypnosis!
Drumming, chanting, shared ritual, storytelling, and singing not only bound them together, but eased them into the same alpha-brain wave state of hypnosis, enabling them to process fear, anxiety, loss and anger, and prepare themselves for the challenges ahead.
Today, hypnotherapy backed by modern neuroscience achieves the same aim.
Anxiety is normal
Anxiety never helps us solve problems. To cope with uncertainty and ambiguity, it’s best if we remain calm and in control. We need to be able to adapt quickly, find new ways to solve problems and stay present in the moment.
That all begins with feeling safe and secure within ourselves. Right now that might feel impossible but hypnotherapy at home helps you find that sense of internal safety, and provides respite from over-thinking and worrying, enabling you to think more clearly and find new solutions to old problems without leaving your house.
Where finances are squeezed, you might try listening to Sense-Ability Guided Meditations on the Sense-Ability website to help you find moments of calm and safety in the turmoil.
Benefit 2 -Small Steady Steps
Online Solution Focused Hypnotherapy weekly or fortnightly, and later, monthly can help keep your routines and healthy habits in place.
The key is to accept the things you can’t control, and take control over those things you can.
Good sleep hygiene, healthy eating, exercise and good routines help normalise your life during periods of dramatic change. Whatever the circumstances, Solution Focused Hypnotherapy online can help you build in and embed helpful rhythms and routines.
By changing your thoughts, actions and reactions, hypnotherapy helps you to take positive actions to help you navigate rough seas.
In particular, the Solution Focused conversations in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy help you access the creative, problem solving part of your mind by embedding a habit of taking small, steady steps forward, regardless of the turmoil and the challenges you are facing.
Hypnotherapy leaves you deeply relaxed
Benefit 3 - Low Stress Process
It might surprise you to know how stress free and easy online sessions are. The aim is to make the process as stress free as possible.
You don’t need technological know how to access online hypnotherapy. All you need is a phone, tablet or laptop that allows video calls.
Jane works with her clients in the way that’s easiest and best for them, typically using Zoom band sometimes Skype, WhatsApp, FaceTime and Duo; or just over the phone.
Booking with Jane’s easy, intuitive online Booking system enables clients to find availability, book the day and time that suits them, pay in their own local currency and receive automatic acknowledgements and reminders. The system creates the Zoom link automatically and enables clients to change their bookings themselves.
Usually, clients choose to book a free half hour exploratory consultation which enables them to find out whether Jane and her approach is the right fit for them.
A full assessment with neuroscience presentation follows. Jane explores the clients’ best hopes for the future, and discusses how she can help them get back to calm.
After that, its calming, relaxing, soothing and healing hypnotherapy in every session, constructive future-focused solution focused conversations and simple somatic exercises to bring clients back to calm - breathing, mindfulness, self hypnosis and NLP techniques.
Stay warm, safe and cosy at home with online hypnotherapy
Benefit 4 -Cosy and warm
Just imagine. A tea to hand, feeling safe and warm at home, clicking a link and knowing in an hour you’ll feel calm, in control and centred.
Jane’s home therapy space in Wheatley, Oxford, England is cosy; but there’s nothing more comfortable than your own bedroom or living room.
The downside is you probably really would like to escape from the confines of your four walls… but not to worry. The guided meditations ease you in to that comfortable and safe light-to-medium alpha brain wave state - a state of deep relaxation. You can be transported to fabulous and exotic places!
After an hour, you will feel like you’ve been on holiday.
There’s a lot to be said for having hypnotherapy at home.
You can lie on your bed or sofa, lie on soft cushions and wrap yourself in soft blankets. You can use a fragrance diffuser and create the right mood You can even play your favourite meditation music in the background. You can wear your most comfortable clothes. You can curl up and listen in your most comfortable position.
And this control over your environment makes online Hypnotherapy ideal for clients who are terribly stressed, fearful of travelling, time limited, or who are living with conditions where change is hard to manage.
Benefit 5 -Time Saving; Stress Free
The trouble with therapy or coaching is the time it takes to get there and back. That’s your whole evening gone.
With online therapy the only travel you have to worry about is moving from the living room to the bedroom and back again! No getting stuck in traffic. No rushing out the office. No bracing yourself for the cold; or struggling in unbearable heat.
All you need is the spare scheduled hour. No more nor less. What a difference that makes!
“You are a normal person who has endured, or is enduring, extraordinary stress. Hypnotherapy aims to get your back to your best version of yourself: calmer, more in control, more resilient and more hopeful.”
As many of you work at home these days, the thought of leaving the house, is not appealing. If transport options are limited, or you have to de-ice the car before coming, well, frankly, you’re not going to do it! The stress of getting to therapy is potentially counter productive!
Benefit 6 - Cost Saving
The cost of hiring spaces in shared clinics is considerable and therapists have to pass on that cost, as well as the cost of travelling to and from the venue on to the client.
By working from home, Jane can reduce her fees and offer scaled charges to those on benefits, or on low incomes, and those needing ongoing therapy and support.
So online therapy with Jane at Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy & Coaching is affordable and, if we have to work together for longer periods, sustainable.
Online hypnotherapy can be accessed from anywhere in the world Photo (c) Unsplash Andrew Neel
Benefit 7 - Accessing Therapy from Anywhere in the World
Where hypnotherapy is not easily available in your country, you can choose to work with Jane in Oxford, England;
Jane works with clients across the U.K., Europe and the USA and Canada. She has even worked with clients in Australia, the Canary Islands and Vietnam. In fact she can work with you anywhere in the world. From Alaska to Arkansas, from Brighton to Bali. As long as you have a secure wi-fi connection and a quiet space to relax and unwind, you can access Jane’s services online.
Jane is trained, accredited and insured in the UK, and governed by U.K. laws and ethical standards and for all practical purposes you consent to work with her in the U.K.
If you are curious about hypnotherapy and other Sense-Ability modalities like NLP, EFT Tapping, hypno-coaching or Rewind Trauma Therapy then do book your free half hour exploratory session today.
If you would like an informal chat to discuss therapy or coaching options, text or email me to arrange a time to chat.
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Jane Pendry
BA Hons (London), PGCE (Cantab), DSFH, HPD, AfSFH, ABNLP, ABH, CNCH, IARTT
Sense-Ability Hypnotherapy & Coaching
jane@sense-ability.co.uk
07843 813883
www.sense-ability.co.uk
Wheatley, Oxford, United Kingdom
Online across the U.K. and Europe