Healing Trauma

We can all encounter traumatic experiences in our lives. Sometimes we are able to process the psychological effect of traumatic events naturally and move on with our lives successfully. But as anyone suffering from post-traumatic symptoms will know, this is not always the case.

People can find themselves trapped by what has happened, reliving the memory and the emotions that came with it, unable to move on, sometimes referred to as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. In extreme cases, a traumatic event can shake the foundations of what we understand our world to be about, leaving us spinning out of control.

For some people, it can be feelings about themselves that haunt them, believing they should have acted differently in the event in some way, leading to feelings of guilt or regret, amongst others. For others, they may not understand fully what has traumatised them if their mind has supressed certain details as a means of short-term self-defence. Whatever the individual impact of trauma, the more time we spend thinking about it, the more oxygen we give it. And the more we live in the past, the less able we are to enjoy the present.   

How hypnotherapy helps with overcoming trauma.

Our ability to process and heal from trauma is part of what makes us human. Hypnotherapy works to this principle, naturally connecting people with their subconscious mind to help them understand, release and reprogramme how they think and feel about what happened, so that they can finally move on with life.