Hypnotherapy for PTSD and Trauma Melbourne - Trauma Informed Care To Calm Your Hyper Vigilance & Chronic Stress

Clinical Hypnotherapy works for PTSD by identifying triggers and going to the source of the PTSD i.e. the subconscious mind. By using regression therapy, we are then able to delve into significant past events that are causing your PTSD. This will provide a chance for changes in your subconscious programming for the benefit of healing your trauma.

The subconscious is a very powerful part of your consciousness. It processes 90% of your involuntary actions compared to the conscious mind that is responsible for rationalising and logical thinking. The subconscious stores your beliefs, values, memories and past experiences. It also holds all experiences including those that have been hidden from traumatic experiences and purposely forgotten.

Through these memories and experiences holds and forms the essence of your beliefs and behaviours. Essentially, this is where the biggest fears, limiting beliefs and greatest potential lie.

Trauma-informed care

We adopt a trauma-informed environment that takes into account the importance of “what happened to you?” Therefore, we are mindful of the many triggers, behaviours and influences the environment may have on each individual. We respect each person fully, and want to ensure that your experience serves and benefits you in your healing process.

Triggers

By treating the PTSD at the subconscious level, we are observing the source of the triggers that cause you to act out the symptoms of PTSD consciously. Identifying these triggers for PTSD, will help reduce the severity of the responses. This can include extreme stress, anxiety and depression.

Secondly, hypnotherapy also works for PTSD by providing a safe space for PTSD sufferers. This is important as PTSD sufferers tend to have common behavioural patterns. From avoidance, self-isolation and hyper vigilance.

Avoidance

PTSD sufferers may avoid people or places, as it may trigger a distressing past experience. This results in behaviours like avoiding  emotions, which can lead to emotional numbness. Hypnotherapy provides a safe approach for trauma sufferers by putting them under a hypnotic state. This state will allow the irritable and erratic PTSD brain to be more calm, relaxed and balanced.

Safe Space

For people that develop PTSD, many sufferers will feel uncomfortable talking about the traumatic event. As part of the hypnotherapy treatment, holding and providing a safe space is crucial in understanding and alleviating the traumatic memories.

As a certified hypnotherapist, privacy, confidentiality and respect are important values we abide by. Allowing sufferers to safely express and process their feelings to a neutral professional, rather than friends and family that may be emotionally entangled. Additionally, sufferers always have a choice on what and how they choose to express.

Hyper vigilance

Hyper vigilance is an elevated state that leads to constant assessing of surrounding threats. This can cause difficulty sleep disorders, lack of concentration, muscle tension and irritability. Hypnotherapy can assist by inducing a state of deep relaxation, similar to a guided meditation. This deep state not only, calms your sympathetic nervous system, but also promotes the parasympathetic nervous system to reduce the circulation of trauma-induced stress hormones.

It is known, during meditation, serotonin levels increase in the brain, which will help calm the anxious and hyper aroused brain. Together, this will help them relax but also allow the therapy to begin in a peaceful way.