Certified Hypnotherapy
What to Expect with our Certified Hypnotherapist
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Meet & Greet
This is an opportunity to meet one another, share the reason you’ve reached out for therapy, and discuss what working together would be like. Your psychotherapist will answer any questions that you have. You may have a preference for counselling or hypnotherapy or questions about efficacy of each for your specific issue or goals. Your choices will always be honoured as we determine a plan for you. If it feels like a good fit and you decide that you’d like to work together, we’ll book your first appointment.
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Initial Hypnotherapy Consultation
Your first session will be 75-90 minutes and this will involve a thorough assessment of the issue you want to address, setting your goal, and determining how we will measure change. Your psychotherapist will discuss the nature of change and different ways you can anticipate change to take place. She’ll teach you the process of going into hypnosis in a gentle and effective way.
If you’ve experienced therapy before, you may notice that this process has some differences. While we will gather important information about what it is that you want to change, we’ll be orienting our work towards your goal and desired outcomes. This information will serve as the foundation of subsequent sessions.
After your first appointment, your psychotherapist will develop a treatment plan. Your hypnotherapy program will be unique to you, according to your needs.
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Follow Up Hypnotherapy Consultation
Subsequent sessions will be between 60-75 minutes. These sessions will involve an initial pre-talk and check-in, followed by hypnotherapy. Sometimes, when it is appropriate and helpful, you may receive a hypnosis audio recording or exercise to do between sessions - these are an important element of the process that reinforces shifts made during the sessions.
Often, your psychotherapist will suggest a certain number of sessions to address the issue you’re bringing to hypnotherapy. Sometimes clients choose to continue hypnotherapy to address other concerns, beliefs, or patterns in their life after their initial problem has been addressed. Other times, clients may continue with counselling after a series of hypnotherapy sessions. The choice is yours to end therapy at the completion of a series, or continue in whatever way feels best for you.
Certified Hypnotherapists at Natural Route Health
Christine practices from the understanding that every person makes sense. Reactions, responses, patterns, habits, beliefs and values are a response to the life you’ve lived, often shaped by the experiences you’ve had and the beliefs and experiences of those around you. She approaches people with the idea that we can understand why and also choose where we go next.
She employs a trauma-informed and person-centred lens, drawing from attachment, cognitive, polyvagal and narrative approaches. Christine provides all services virtually, and offers clients two ways to work together: individual counselling and hypnotherapy.