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The Unintentional Iatrogenic Effect in Therapy

Most people think of therapy as a place to talk about problems, vent frustrations, and gain clarity by going over traumatic experiences and processing things verbally.

Sometimes talking doesn’t just fail to resolve the problem—it actually makes it worse.

There’s a documented outcome called the iatrogenic effect, where therapy can inadvertently create more harm than healing.

When Talking Becomes the Problem

The concept of the iatrogenic effect isn’t unique to mental health. It’s a term borrowed from medicine, where a treatment causes more harm than the initial issue.

In therapy, iatrogenic injuries often happen when clients repeatedly talk about their traumas, issues, or self-perceived limitations without resolution.

I’ve seen the aftermath of this, when clients come to me after talk therapy has not helped them fully resolve their issues. Often it is when there’s deep, traumatic emotions underlying the problem. Now, it’s not just the problem but it seems to have turned into something more complex and there’s something stuck in their thoughts, feelings or body sensations that are now linked with the original problem.

This is the perfect hypnotherapy client for Accelerated Hypnotherapy.

Studies show that neural pathways that are linked to the negative experience become reinforced, by holding the problem in place instead of healing it.

Research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology found that in certain cases, discussing trauma without the proper therapeutic interventions can lead to retraumatization and worsening symptoms.

How do you know it’s the wrong intervention?

You’re doing the same thing, but expecting a different result that is just not happening.

Maybe it’s time to try something different before things get worse.

Maybe your therapy isn’t actually supposed to move you from the discussion phase into true resolution. It might be more about listening and validating where you find yourself stuck.

But the more you rehash a problem, the more it becomes ingrained in your brain – literally imprinted physically in your brain – causing iatrogenic injuries and making it harder to rewire negative thinking patterns.

Here’s how you’ll know…

You keep talking about the same thing in the same ways.

You worry that you will always have this problem because it feels so familiar.

This is where your past gets stuck in your future.

Not good.

Why It’s Not Just “Talking It Out”

Neuroscience research demonstrates that when you repeatedly engage the same emotional circuits in the brain, you’re actually strengthening those neural pathways.

It’s like walking down a path through a field, the more you walk on the path, the deeper and clearer the trail becomes. The next time you walk in that area, it’s easier just to take that same path.

The more you walk along that path, the less other pathways even seem to be an option.

You’re really familiar with this path.

Talking endlessly about pain, trauma, or anxiety can be like walking through that same path, over and over — creating iatrogenic injuries by reinforcing it instead of trying something different.

A study published in Psychological Science found that rumination, or repeatedly thinking and talking about the same distressing thoughts, can actually lead to increased feelings of hopelessness and depression.

If talking about your problems has left you feeling stuck and you leave talk therapy feeling more entrenched in your issues then it might be time to try something different.

A Different Approach

This is where Accelerated Hypnosis might be what you’re looking for…

When you’re stuck in endless hours of talking about your problem with your therapist, friends, family and anyone who will listen – it’s because there is an emotional element that you’re trying to resolve.

This is why even after you understand your problem, you still feel bad.

You need to resolve the emotional element to the problem and knowing why you have the problem doesn’t always help because you can’t solve emotions with logic, understanding or knowing why.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy enables you to connect with your superconscious mind, where the real work to resolve emotions needs to happens.

Hypnotherapy isn’t about endlessly rehashing trauma; it’s about transforming how your subconscious mind holds the trauma, so it no longer triggers the same emotional or physiological responses.

Hypnosis enables you to access deeply rooted beliefs and emotions without getting stuck in the narrative, by getting past the analytical chatter. This shift allows the brain to access and reframe painful memories quickly, disrupting deep grooves of the problem and creating new, healthier neural pathways to feeling better.

Studies from the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis show that hypnotherapy can reduce anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and even chronic pain significantly faster than traditional methods by directly accessing and rewriting the subconscious patterns.

If Talking is Keeping You Stuck

If you’ve been in therapy for years and feel like the problem is staying the same or actually getting more emotionally complex, you may have developed iatrogenic injuries.

Remember, healing doesn’t come from understanding why you’re stuck—it comes from being able to shift out of it.

Your superconscious already knows the answers.

When you’re done talking, Accelerated Hypnosis can provide different pathways to lasting change.✨