DLScott CH.t. / CDP / AASD

What if you could stop the use of addictive substances swiftly, easily, and with minimal effort? What if you could learn how to gain the same good feelings, and stress relieving benefits that you get when you indulge in your favorite substance or compulsive behavior?

This Saturday, June 26 I, and a fellow hypnotherapist, Kathie Brodie, are leading the first of a class called Emotional Release Therapy, and although the title suggests that it is just about a hypnotic technique designed to help clients detach from negative and fear based emotions that keep them stuck in old patterns and behaviors, it is much more than that. It is in fact a class that teaches a technique I refined during my work in outpatient chemical dependency treatment centers, helping clients have amazing success with their recovery issues while working within the context of chemical dependency counseling, and adding the power of clinical hypnotherapy.

You see I have worked in outpatient chemical dependency  for a little over twenty years, and while I have had the opportunity to use and practice the skills of the various concepts of chemical dependency counseling, helping people to create and live a life of sobriety, in both the outpatient chemical dependency arena, and the inpatient chemical dependency treatment arena, better known to those in the field as residential treatment centers, I have also had the opportunity to learn and use hypnosis and chemical dependency counseling in tandem.

As an example, a recent client had come to me with a complaint of addiction to alcohol. Oxiconten and nicotine.  I  spent the first session performing the ASAM, (American Society of Addiction Medication), evaluation coupled with an evaluation geared more specifically toward nicotine and Mental Health issues, and came up with a program that included clinical hypnotherapy techniques, chemical dependency counseling,  daily self hypnosis exercises,  off site support, (not specifically 12 step support, but if the client so chooses,  that type of support is encouraged and honored),  and specifically Emotional Release Therapy to enhance outpatient chemical dependency counseling.  I am happy to report that the client has not used in over three weeks, and is actively pursuing their goals in a number of arenas such as increased employment, and healthier relationships.

I worked for years in treatment centers that demanded strict adherence to traditional concepts of chemical dependency counseling.  Treatment centers that produced cookie cutter treatment plans that did not take into account the personality, the strengths, and the weaknesses of the clients that they were serving. Instead of immediately sending a person off to residential treatment, or simply assuming long held beliefs regarding all of the various issues that the client brings into the treatment center I wanted to work in a place where the client is given solid chemical dependency counseling, and shown how to enhance their own strengths and how to manage or eliminate old negative beliefs and behaviors through the use of clinical hypnotherapy, and the power of hypnosis, and self hypnosis.

While working in the field I was introduced to the power of Mindfulness as taught to clients in an outpatient chemical dependency treatment program that started and continue at the University of Washington.  Adding to these powerful Mindfulness treatment concepts I teach and utilize clinical hypnotherapy that accelerates a client’s progress so that they do not get stuck in months and months of traditional outpatient or inpatient treatment programs.

Many clients are leery about traditional chemical dependency treatment, whether it is residential treatment or outpatient treatment.  They have expressed fears and concerns re: getting stuck in months and months of focus upon the issues, instead of swift and powerful techniques that focus on the solutions. 

Hypnosis and Chemical Dependency Part Two

If you are wanting to know more about this powerful life altering experience, if you are dealing with emotional stress, and behavioral issues that have you kept stuck, then don’t delay, call Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Everett at (206) 417-4900 today. Everett counseling therapist and North Seattle Hypnotherapy

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