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Does the word hypnosis sound scary? Mysterious? Strange? When someone I'm talking to finds out that I work as a Clinical Hypnotherapist, here are a few questions they ask: “Is hypnosis magic?” “Does ...

Hypnotherapy is the second-oldest professional known to mankind and, yet, myths about it abound galore. Hypnosis is a trance-induced state in which the therapist offers suggestions to the client in ...

Commonly, clinical interactions with the subconscious involve questions posed to patients’ subconscious by either their clinicians or the patients themselves. In my experience, on the infrequent ...