What is "therapeutic hypnosis"?

What is "therapeutic hypnosis"?

John McGrail, C.Ht. (Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist) gives expert video advice on: What are the most common types of hypnosis? and more...

“Therapeutic hypnosis” is very simple to explain. It is using the state of hypnosis to effect some therapeutic change. Now that change can be anything from an unwanted or unhealthy habit--like smoking cigarettes, being overweight, biting your nails, pulling your hair or grinding you teeth--to a medical condition like chronic pain, irritable bowel, fibromyalgia and a variety of others. Also there's a whole spectrum of things in between: fears and phobias. If you can basically consider the spectrum of human behavior, therapeutic hypnosis probably can be used and is used at some level to treat unwanted or unhealthy behaviors, habits and emotions and help a person adapt, take on and start expressing new ones. And that can be anything from psychiatric problems to something as simple as biting one's nails.