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Hypno-therapy is doing therapy with the client in a deeply relaxed state. Hypnosis is being deeply relaxed. Sometimes this is called being in an altered state of awareness, sometimes it is called being in a trance.

Children are in and out of this state when they are listening to a story, watching television or playing make-believe play. There is nothing mysterious about being in hypnosis. It is natural to everyone. When a person day-dreams a lot, they are in a natural trance state. However, as we grow older and especially when we are studying a great deal or learning new skills, the ability to relax and “switch off” becomes more and more difficult.

Hypnosis itself is not a treatment, not a cure-all for everything. It is the therapy that is carried out with the client in hypnosis that is important. Working with the client who is in a trance enables emotions to surface and the key to change is to change the emotions.

The client is always in control and never loses consciousness or goes into a deep sleep. If a therapist were to suggest doing anything that was against the client’s moral code of behaviour, then the client could snap out of hypnosis and stop the session.

Hypno-therapy, therefore, is doing therapy with a client who is in a deep state of relaxation.

(Many thanks to Rita Greer who has contributed this introduction.)

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