Zoë Clews & Associates Hypnotherapy
Hello and a very warm welcome from Zoë and the team. You may have come to us because you want help for yourself or perhaps you're doing some research into hypnotherapy treatments on behalf of a friend or loved one. Either way, the biggest question you have is whether we can help solve the problem that brought you here. The answer is yes.
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Do you have a child with a deep-rooted fear of sometthing? Finding that no amount of reassurance is having an effect? Worried that #[hobia is on the verge of becoming #obsession?
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Maybe it's time to see what's really behind their #fears. Our #hypnotherapy for children is really effective in unravelling the psychology of fear.
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What to Do About Your Child's Bug or Spider Phobia
Given that, it's completely normal for children, from the toddler to the teen, to be afraid of something. Fears are formed in a somewhat developmental fashion, which means that it's often easy to predict what children will be scared of at what age. Instead, bugs and spiders are frequently unwelcomeMiracles. Magic. Do I believe in miracles? Yes but “hard work miracles”. Extremely deeply held issues especially if the client is suffering with CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) do not just vanish away in one session as some NLP’ers & Hypnotherapists would have you believe, yes I’m back on my soapbox again on the “one session cures all promise” because I don’t see it going away (if certain Facebook posts are to be believed).
Here’s the truth: you cannot resolve an entire childhoods worth of trauma by turning into an effing colour, spinning it around & magically banishing it. And you also cannot resolve CPTSD by working (another bugbear of mine) “content free”. That doesn’t mean you are re-traumatising the client by relentlessly going over what happened, it means you are creating a strong, safe space with appropriate therapeutic knowledge to allow the client to fully process & grieve what they have gone through. Anything less and you are shortchanging someone’s healing process. Anything less and it’s “magical thinking”.
Content free & other light techniques absolutely have their place, but not as the main body of treatment for complex PTSD.
There is a reason this is a grass roots passion of mine & it’s because we end up treating a lot of people who are suffering CPTSD & it hasn’t been fully acknowledged, it’s been treated superficially & their expectations were very poorly managed. It can then further reinforce their negative (yet untrue) beliefs that they are “untreatable”.
The one session fix that promises to resolve everything no matter the scope, depth or length of the trauma is harmful. Miracles can happen, but it often takes hard work, a commitment to healing & being in the right hands. A therapist can only really meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves
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