Hypnosis can be used as an alternative to couples therapy especially when one of the partners doesn’t want to go to couples therapy which is often the case. Hypnosis can help get to the root cause of what is really going on with conflict between couples.
Can hypnosis help couples as an alternative to couples therapy?
Often, when it comes to couples therapy, one of the partners doesn’t want to go or one of them is more interested in change than the other. The couples therapist wants a result so they focus on getting the more ‘agreeable’ partner to make the changes.
I was working with a client who came in because because she was arguing with her partner about one specific topic that seemed to be unresolvable.
It is inevitable for couples to have conflicts.
Research about conflict shows that that two-thirds of conflicts are not resolvable. This means only one out of three conflicts that you have with a with your partner will actually be resolvable.
This is why it is common to have persistent arguments, persistent conflicts that you have with your partner and there may not be any resolution at all.
So this client was having this conflict with her partner and they were getting into these arguments that were getting into the realm of being toxic.
She came in for a hypnosis session and was very upset. Her partner wasn’t at the session because hypnosis is something that you can on your own when you’re experiencing a problem in your relationship.
This is not the type of hypnosis where you go down a path, go down a set of stairs, go into a garden and then given suggestions to get along with your partner.
The hypnosis I used is something called Accelerated Conversational Hypnosis.
The client realized that she had this feeling before…
The way this argument made her feel, reminded her of how she felt in childhood. This argument had the same feeling that she had with her parents about a very similar subject matter to what she was arguing with her partner. Both conflict made her feel like she had to defend herself.
Inside of this hypnosis session she realized that that it wasn’t really about the conflict that she was having with their partner. In her case, the conflict was really rooted in the conflict that she had with their parents. She figured out through hypnosis that she was somehow living the feelings out again.
They were experiencing basically the same argument around the same subject matter where she felt like she was defending herself. It felt toxic.
She came out of trance and and spoke to me about this Insight that she received when she connected to her subconscious mind and something happened with this new information that she had.
She had a new insight about what this conflict with their partner was actually about. Something happened when she went back into trance, this was all happening inside of the same session. I started repeating some of the metaphors that her subconscious mind was speaking in. As I repeated the metaphors back, something that the subconscious showed her was a lighter, like a cigarette lighter.
As I repeated “lighter” as in cigarette lighter to the client, the light that she saw the client they actually started feeling lighter. Lighter about the situation. She felt less stress, that the situation wasn’t as serious as she thought it was because it wasn’t even about the conflict that she was having with their partner. It was actually an unresolved conflict that she had with her parents.
That metaphor brought lightness to how she was feeling about the conflict that she was having with her partner. My client actually started laughing and when she came out of hypnosis after connecting with her subconscious mind and having her subconscious mind work out all of these insights and then integrate it into where she was present da.
She came out of hypnosis and when I asked her about the original problem she didn’t see it as a problem anymore. She had a very light and nonchalant way about her and now in the way she was thinking about this problem.
She was convinced that it would not be a problem anymore because she had found a new resource, a new way of thinking about the conflict… All the while realizing that it wasn’t really about the conflict, that it was about something else that had happened in childhood about defending herself.
This client went away feeling like that problem wasn’t a problem anymore. She had new insights and was connected to new resources through hypnosis.
This is what I notice with almost all of my clients, is that the problem that they come in with, the problem that the conscious mind thinks is the problem is not really the problem when they actually connect with the subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is aware that there’s something else going on below the surface that is the root cause of the problem. The actual problem lies somewhere else.
If you think of an iceberg, the conscious mind is dealing with only the tip of the iceberg that’s above water that is in your conscious awareness.
The conscious mind is trying to solve the problem with just that small part of the iceberg that is inside your conscious awareness but the answers to the problem are deep below the surface of the iceberg, below the water line, in the subconscious.
What I have found almost 100% of the time is that the actual problem, just like in this client’s case, was something totally different than what the conscious mind could comprehend or have access to.
So this is why when you’re having problems with a spouse or a partner that hypnosis can help. It’s like this couple’s therapy when only one person wants to go to couples therapy.
Often the problem is more painful to one partner than it is to the other and often, one partner is motivated to change than the other, or the other partner isn’t interested in attending couples therapy.
Hypnosis is great for solving unresolvable conflicts within couples.
Hypnosis can absolutely help if you have a recurring conflict with your partner that seems to be unresolvable.
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