Effectiveness of Online Hypnotherapy

Hello, it’s Dan here. I hope you’re good today. I’ve just come off my laptop doing a Zoom hypnotherapy session with someone for anxiety, and one of the most common questions I get asked around online hypnotherapy is whether it’s as effective as face-to-face hypnotherapy.

And the honest answer is yes, yes it is, both in my personal experience and there’s a whole wealth of research and evidence that supports the effectiveness of online therapy as well. It’s certainly something that’s been looked at recently because of the virus and the pandemic and limitations and restrictions, and for periods this year online hypnotherapy has been the only thing I’ve been able to offer to people.

But now it’s more of a choice at the moment with the restrictions where I am as to whether people come here face-to-face or continue doing things online. And online sessions go really well, whether that’s for anxiety, weight loss, stresses or worries around the pandemic, or just general anxiety, stress and other goals that people want to achieve.

And the research really stresses that probably the most important thing is having a positive attitude towards it, both from me the therapist being confident in what I do and how I do it and being positive about using the technology, but also you want to be comfortable with it. Certainly it has many advantages, like I say, you can work around restrictions and still get help with your mental health needs and achieving your goals. If you’ve got time commitments or you’re really busy or, for a lot of people I work with, it’s because they live well outside reasonable travel distance, all across the country, and even into Europe and beyond, I’ve worked with people there as well because we can make it work.

It’s near enough in terms of the way I work and the way I approach people, it’s very similar to being in the same room. So, if you’re comfortable with that, it will work really well. And the research again shows that having that positive attitude helps in terms of its effectiveness. It’s certainly very possible to get the relationship and to discuss goals and to put therapy in place and that can work nicely as well. And all the research supports that online or video-type therapy is pretty much as effective as face-to-face stuff.

So the research shows it and my own kind of anecdotal, if you like, evidence of working with my clients tends to support that as well. As long as you’re comfortable with it and the environment and you can find a place, whether that’s at the office, whether that’s at home where you will be undisturbed just to engage in it and you’re positive towards it, and all the normal things towards therapy. Like I say, a positive attitude, like being committed, like taking action, like doing the kind of things, strategies, the steps outside it, wanting to make a change and being motivated to do that, then it will work really nicely.

In the field of hypnotherapy specifically, for IBS, there’s evidence that Skype hypnotherapy is pretty much as effective as face-to-face stuff. And like I say, therapy as a whole, of which hypnotherapy is covered by that, there’s that evidence as well. But like I say, my clients who do it seems to enjoy it and get great benefit from it and report great results from doing that. And all the evidence supports it as well so, in answer, and I’ve written more about this in a related article, and all the research and all the findings there if you want to know more, online hypnotherapy is as effective as face-to-face stuff, as long as you are comfortable and positive towards it.

So, if you’re thinking of it, and we can do a free initial consultation and try it out and have that conversation to get things moving, and then if you’re comfortable with it, or come in here face-to-face, or work around restrictions, or dealing with your other commitments and everything else you’ve got going on, or because you live outside the areas of Ely and Newmarket, you can still get a lot of help and also benefit and a lot of positive outcomes from online hypnotherapy.

So, yes, in summary, it is as effective, which is great news. We can use that technology, we can help you feel better, and improve your mental health and deal with those issues like anxiety and stress and worry. I’m about to pack up now ‘cos I’ve finished for the day. Getting ready for Christmas, got a few more clients booked in, but pretty much there. I hope you are too. I wish you a safe and healthy festive period and I will speak to you very soon. You take care until then. Goodbye now.