Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a therapy in which a hypnotherapist guides you into a relaxed, deeply focused state and makes suggestions aimed at a goal you agree together. It often combines hypnosis with approaches such as Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). There is some evidence that it may help IBS symptoms and hot flushes; for most other uses the research is still limited: see “Hypnotherapy: what the research says”.