Gold Coast Clinical Hypnotherapy
Gold Coast QLD
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Gold Coast QLD
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The concerns I can support you with are anxiety (in all forms), procrastination, trauma and PTSD (including for ADF & 1st Responders), anger, depression, grief, control-based behaviours (perfectionism, obsessive behavioural behaviours etc), and low confidence &
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Loki Jukes
Having Ian as my Therapist has been a big turning point in my life. After seeing Ian I now better understand my ADHD and Depression, and now have the tools and strategies to support me in everyday life. My life has changed in that I don't struggle as much to get out of bed in the morning. I feel empowered, have direction in my life and feel motivated. I am finally able to set myself goals in life that I am able to achieve. Thank you so much for changing my life More...
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What do you love most about your job?
Seeing the realisation within my client of the possibilities they are able to achieve
What inspired you to start your own business?
I wanted to make a genuine change in the mental health community
Why should our clients choose you?
I will respect your dignity on your healing journey and support you through your healing process by bringing openness, integrity, compassion, and sensitivity to our therapeutic alliance. I will respect diversity, and value you for who you are and for the potential within you. I will respect our confidential relationship and the trust you bestow on me. I will honour your potential to change and to continue learning. I will be loyal & faithful to you and our therapeutic relationship and will honour my commitments to you at all times.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
Online hypnotherapy has just as effective outcomes as In-Clinic hypnotherapy. Interestingly, for some clients they may get better outcomes from online therapy. These clients state they feel more relaxed, comfortable, and emotionally safer - and also feel they have more control undertaking therapy in their own private and safe space. They feel physically and emotionally safer in a familiar environment and hence are more permissive to discussion and suggestion. This only contributes to a positive outcome in their sessions.
Typically when you are attend a clinical session you will travel to the session, (and if you drive - try to find a park), wait in the reception area, find yourself in a clinical space which is new to you, sit in an unknown space and then talk to someone you aren’t familiar with - and on top of this there is an inferred expectation for you to feel safe and be emotionally open.
In fact, recent research backs up better outcomes from on-line sessions - with one report concluding that online therapy led to better progress and was more effective compared to face to face therapy. Similarly, a systematic review in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (Vol. 14, No. 4) stated that results "indicate that e-therapy seems to be at least equivalent to face-to-face therapy
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
By working online I mitigate the risk of transferring COVID to my patients
Clinical Hypnotherapy
I use Modern Hypnotherapy within my practice. Modern Hypnotherapy differs from the older, more traditional model of hypnotherapy by being tailored specifically to you ’the client’, and hence tends to have better outcomes.
Modern Hypnotherapy is used in the Therapeutic space and releases control to you (as the client), empowering you to choose to go into a trance, and once in trance to make the changes you choose to make happen. This trance state creates a state of heightened awareness within you.
The cornerstone of our session will be the permissiveness of the session . I will speak your language through my tone, my inflection, my choice of words as well as sitting in our empathetic space. I will utilise your tools and resources that sit within you during the induction so the language I speak will be one you are familiar with. The one guarantee I provide you, is that I will not sound like I am reading from a script.
In contrast to Traditional Hypnotherapy where the practitioner is in control, the Hypnotherapist within Modern Hypnotherapy is just the guide
Strategic Psychotherapy
Strategic therapy is client-centered, but is therapist led. The client is the one who is the expert in having the problem, but the therapist is the one who is more likely to be the expert in resolving the problem. As a strategic therapist I will seek to recognise your problem and strategically manoeuvre you into recognising how you created the problem, as well as identifying any gaps in your experiential knowledge that support the problem. As your strategic therapist I will lead you to the answer and help you to utilize whatever strengths you have to overcome the issue. It is brief therapy and is an ideal adjunct to your hypnosis training. In fact, my hypnotic interventions are informed by strategic psychotherapy.
The addition that is unique to my strategic psychotherapy is the addition of the Gordian Pillars of Psychotherapy. This is a systematic assessment tool that allows me to assess your issue and address it properly quickly. Note that this approach is arguably the most effective combination available in talk therapy today, and you can only get it through strategic psychotherapists trained at the Institute of Applied Psychology
Ultimately, the goal of Strategic Psychotherapy within my practice is to promote a desirable change within you. From a dysfunctional balance (the balance of the problem), you get to identify and construct a new, more appropriate balance of the solution. It all starts with your instinctive reactions to the reality you perceive.
