
THERAPY FOR MIGRAINE
MINDFUL HEALING DRIVEN BY SCIENCE

The science of mind-body management
What to expect from a hypnotherapy session ?
I have outlined some of the processes used during a hypnotherapy session. The session’s format presented below is a proposed treatment outline, is amenable to changes depending on the client’s needs, capabilities and emotional constitution, and is not a mandatory outline for every client. Some of the contents can be omitted or added. Usually sessions done with one client do not look the same to another. However, the information below can give a “feel” to what to expect when coming for a hypnotherapy session.
First session
Objectives:
• Create rapport
• Gather information regarding the client’s personal history:
Physical history - Migraine, other related issues
Medications used
Emotional history
Assess relevant beliefs about the client’s condition
• Provide information:
What is hypnosis ?
Allying fears and misconceptions regarding hypnotherapy
The theory of the mind
The affective components of pain
The goal of hypnotherapy for migraine
• Formulate a therapeutic outcome/goal
• Evaluate hypnotizability
• Experiencing hypnosis
Techniques :
• Well formed outcome and ecology check - Clean language
• Symbolic modeling process and creating resources
• NLP and changing limiting beliefs
• Hypnotic induction and deepening
• Ideomotor responses - seven psychodynamics of a cause
• Creating a “Safe place” technique
• Autosuggestions
• Teaching self-hypnosis
Following sessions
Objectives:
• Provide information: False memories
Ego states
Sub-modalities
• Discover the cause for the presenting problem
• Desensitize the symptoms
• Evaluate progress
• Establish therapeutic outcomes
Techniques:
• Hypnotic induction and deepening
• Reestablish ideomotor responses
• Regression therapy: Induction and imagery
Discover the cause
Release (using various techniques including gestalt, informed child technique etc.)
Subconscious relearning
Ego strengthening
• Working with ego states:
Ego state therapy or parts therapy:
Bringing the desired ego state to the executive
Ego state negotiation and release
Negotiating and mediating between relevant ego states
Subconscious relearning
Core transformation therapy:
Communicating with the relevant ego state
Discovering the core cause
Behavioral relearning
“Growing up” a part
Parental time-line re-imprinting
• “Coming to Wholeness” techniques
• Working with client’s metaphors using symbolic modeling
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• Autosuggestion for symptom relief
Hypnotherapy sessions - mind map
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