After twelve years of practice, these are the five things people most reliably believe about hypnotherapy, and the boring truth in each case.
Stage hypnosis and clinical hypnotherapy share a name and almost nothing else. In a clinical setting, no one will ever ask you to perform.
Hypnosis is not sleep. It is focused attention. You are awake throughout. If we left the room you would simply open your eyes after a few quiet minutes.
Around 95% of people are, to a useful degree. If you have ever driven home and not remembered the trip, you have already done it.
Not without your explicit agreement. Trauma-informed practitioners work very carefully and within tightly agreed-upon scope.
It is none of these things. Hypnotherapy is a relaxation-based clinical practice with a published evidence base. We have a notebook, not a robe.
Written by Anthony J. LeValle · Founder, Lady Mesmer
