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Why do people go to hypnotherapy?

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Helps manifest good: Hypnotherapy helps create positive intentions, ideas and actions occur on a regular basis in a person. People might suffer from negative thinking, minimizing their capability in solving problems, hypnosis brings back a sense of efffectiveness and overcoming problems and setbacks with proactive thoughts, actions and ideas that the person believes and acts on after the session.

Answered 5/15/2016

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May reasons: Hypnosis/hynotherapy may be used for number of different situations or conditions...To stop smoking, manage pain, phobias relaxation/stress relief, ptsd, anorexia, regression therapy, and more. Most patients like it because it is natural and simple (once you've been shown how it works). Therapists like to use it in combination with other treatments because it is easy and effective.

Answered 2/26/2017

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Dr. Kevin Windisch answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Lots of reasons: It is a tool for behavioral change. This change can involve changing perceptionsof our bodies or changing the way our central nervous and immune systems interact as well. Hypnosis can be used to treat depression, insomnia, phobia, warts, irritable bowel, head aches, fibromyalgia, bed wetting, chronic constipation, etc.

Answered 4/25/2013

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Change behavior: Hypnotherapy is a method used to manage and treat many conditions. It is the discipline of using suggestions to the unconscious mind to implement change in behavior or in the way the body reacts to stimuli. Anxiety, pain, insomnia, fibromyalgia, headaches, weight loss, smoking cessation, and irritable bowel syndrome are just a few conditions hypnotherapy is used for.

Answered 9/28/2016

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