What is hypnotherapy and how is it used as a form of psychotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis in a therapeutic setting to help the patient change unwanted thoughts, feelings and types of behavior. Cognitive behavioral therapy is often enhanced by the use of hypnosis because many of the negative thought patterns can be more effectively removed using this process. As well new more effective ways of thinking can be reinforced through hypnosis. Rational emotive behavioral therapy which seeks to discover and dispute the underlying beliefs, which are often irrational, behind a persons maladaptive behavior is also quite compatible with EMDR and hypnosis.
