Hypnotherapy for Trauma: The Science Behind How It Works and Why It Helps

Hypnotherapy is a focused process that uses guided focus to help people access deeper parts of the mind. It’s been used to support trauma recovery by helping clients resolve stored memories, process emotions, and reframe past events. It’s often used alongside other therapies, like OEI therapy. Let’s take a look at how Accelerated Hypnotherapy is a bit different than other types of hypnosis.

What Hypnotherapy Does for Trauma

Hypnotherapy helps people process trauma by working with the subconscious. It’s not about forgetting what happened because, unfortunately, we can’t change the past. But we can change how the memory lives in your mind and body, through intrusive thoughts and feelings like the trauma is being re-experienced in the here and now.

Hypnosis creates a focused state where the brain becomes more open to making helpful changes.

You don’t have to be calm.

You don’t have to be relaxed because If you were, you probably wouldn’t need therapy. Unlike, other hypnosis methods, with Accelerated Hypnotherapy, it’s best just to be authentic about how you’re feeling, whether it’s hopeless or triggered AF.

How Accelerated Hypnotherapy Helps Heal Trauma

In our sessions, you won’t be guided to revisit a painful memory.

Not fun.

Not safe.

Not helpful.

A trauma-informed hypnotherapist understands that the whole problem with trauma is that you’re trying to get it out of your here and now, and taking up all the space out there in your future. You don’t want to think about it anymore or feel like it’s happening over and over in your body.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy can, however, help your brain update the way the memory is stored. You can calm your nervous system, shift reactions, and reframe the trauma, and finally get relief from the anxiety or the low feelings, or both. You can feel calmer, more grounded and less reactive.

What Research Says About Hypnotherapy and Trauma

Research shows that hypnotherapy can reduce trauma symptoms like PTSD, insomnia, anxiety, and depression.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy specializes in resolving infidelity and betrayal trauma, clients find me when they’ve tried everything but nothing seems to be working to put their trauma into the past.

Individuals who haven’t had results with talk therapy sometimes find hypnotherapy more effective because it reaches deeper parts of the mind. Trauma is not processed with logic, narratives and words like other memories. Because the brain is overwhelmed, it drops the ball and the memory shatters into fragments – these are the fragments that you keep re-experiencing through intrusive thoughts, that might even turn into rumination and constantly thinking about the experience. You might even be starting to identify with the trauma as it starts to take over the present moment and all the space in your future so you feel hopeless.

Why It Works for the Subconscious Mind

Trauma doesn’t get filed in the past. It stays stuck in here and now, in the nervous system. Accelerated Hypnotherapy doesn’t rely on talking things through, but it helps the subconscious release the fear, shame, or pain that may still feel “here and now,” even when you know you’re safe. Shift happens.

Is Accelerated Hypnotherapy Right for You?

If you’ve tried other therapies and still feel stuck, hypnotherapy might help. It’s gentle, targeted to your unique experiences, and can be used on its own or alongside other approaches like OEI therapy for trauma.

Some clients feel better in just a few sessions and go on to put the past behind them, into the past where it belongs. Others use it as part of ongoing support to maintain the momentum and start creating a whole new future.

Trauma affects more than your thoughts. It lives in your body, your nervous system, and starts to create patterns of reactivity based on survival, even when the threat has passed.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy works with trauma at a deeper level. If you’ve tried everything and are trauma still hijacks your here and now, and you’re ready to try a different approach, this may be a path toward real relief in the present moment and resolution.

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