Solution-Focused Therapy & Hypnotherapy

Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-Focused Therapy is a relatively modern development in psychotherapy.

In the past, therapy was seen as a very open-ended process, where it was perfectly normal for someone to visit their therapist twice a week for years and years. But in the late 1970s, a group of psychologists in America began to explore how people can make lasting, positive changes in their lives in a much shorter timeframe than this.

One of the insights of solution-focused therapy is that many of our problems are essentially bad habits (either mental or physical habits).

And the key to breaking a bad habit is ultimately to start doing something different – to start thinking in new ways, and to start doing new things.

Solution-focused therapy techniques include goal setting, noticing where you have choice and influence over the situation, viewing the issue from new perspectives, theraeputic tasking and much more.


Ericksonian Hypnotherapy

Ericksonian hypnotherapy is about evoking your natural strengths and resources as a human being, and then connecting these resources to the times in your life when you need them.

In this way of working, the role of the hypnotherapist is not to tell you how to live your life. Ericksonian hypnosis simply helps you to:

  1. Access your innate creativity, confidence and resilience

  2. Connect these positive resources to the situations in your life when you need them most

  3. Deeply integrate new, positive habits so that they feel second nature to you

When used together, solution-focused therapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy offer a powerful, rapid way of making lasting changes in your life.

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