NCH Hypnotherapist

Cognitive Hypnotherapy

Cognitive Hypnotherapy considers that the way we build our reality is continuous and malleable and we can alter our responses to the world by accessing problematic internal evaluations and reframing them. The theory has a strong focus on the distinction between a conscious and an unconscious mind system. It suggests that the conscious mind only directs behaviour 10% of the time even though it rationalises behaviour out of its control and considers itself in total control.

In Cognitive Hypnotherapy the unconscious mind is viewed as a mind system that is older having existed for much longer in evolutionary terms, and perhaps could be considered to deal with more basic, fundamental characteristics of existence such as survival and bodily functions and uses basic algorithms such as the principle of moving towards pleasure and away from pain (known as "The Pleasure Principle").

Cognitive hypnotherapy believes that strong emotional responses in us cause the unconscious mind system to control our behaviour, while the conscious mind and the ability to think in logical terms diminishes. This state is considered to be a trance state and in Cognitive Hypnotherapy we can make use of this trance state or break the trance state to alter problematic patterns of being.