Hypnotherapy Specialist in Beverly Hills, CA

Patients may seek out hypnotherapy for several reasons, but the most common reason is because they wish for an improvement in their concentration and focus, and to change a specific behavior. As it can alter states of mind, many physicians will use hypnotherapy on their patients as a means to calm their nerves or relieve stress before a medical exam or biopsy. It is also frequently used as a means to help patients manage their pain levels for different injuries or conditions such as burns, cancer, childbirth, or headaches. Other uses include changes in behavior such as smoking, overeating, or trouble sleeping, reducing mental health concerns such as anxiety around phobias, chronic pain management, symptoms of dementia, and some skin conditions, and to even help those going through menopause to ease hot flashes. Hypnotherapy has even been proven to successfully help many patients diagnosed with cancer alleviate several of the symptoms that are associated with the disease.

Hypnotherapy is a method done by health care professionals to alter the state of awareness in patients typically to encourage them to become more open-minded to making behavioral changes. It is done through the use of mental imagery and verbal repetition and is often reported as making patients feel very calm and relaxed. Hypnotherapy works by being lead into a mental state that allows you to focus and become more relaxed to focus more deeply on a particular thought or suggestions. The four common techniques of hypnotherapy follow:

– Relaxation: The hypnotherapist leads you to visualize a state of relaxation and peace to confront specific emotions or behaviors that need changing, even if they are about something that induces a sense of fear or stress.

– Suggestion: This technique is used to make changes in behavior often by changing how you view yourself in the scenario.

– Coping mechanisms: Hypnotherapy is used very frequently as a means to learn coping skills that are useful during situations that may cause fear or anxiety.

– Exploration of past experiences: This technique is commonly used for cognitive therapy as it can help the patient to address a specific traumatic event or situation that has caused long-lasting effects.

Hypnotherapy does not work exactly the same with each patient, and around one third of the population will likely not find much help in hypnotherapy due to their lack of suggestibility. Many physicians will test their patients on suggestibility before continuing treating them with hypnotherapy for this reason.

The success rate of hypnotherapy can vary wildly from person to person. Some people do not respond to it at all and get nothing out of the treatments, whereas some people respond very well to it to the point where instead of being put under in the operating room, they only require a local anesthetic and someone in the room to guide them through hypnosis while they are completely awake. Studies show that just under half of the population rests somewhere in one of those two extremes, with 20% of people exhibiting no response to it and 20% of people exhibiting a large response to treatments. The rest of the population shows some response to hypnotherapy to the point that it could very well benefit their lives, even if only minimally. There are a few different tests that physicians can use to see where their patient lies on that scale to determine how successful hypnotherapy will be for them.

Dr. Rahi in Beverly Hills, CA provides easy and cost-effective therapy. Call us for more information. We serve patients from Beverly Hills CA, Culver City CA, Santa Monica CA, West Hollywood CA, Marina Del Rey CA, Inglewood CA, and surrounding areas.