Treatment of speech difficulties and body tics secondary to childhood sexual trauma through a combination of hypnotic age regression and therapeutic coaching: a case report
Treatment of speech difficulties and body tics secondary to childhood sexual trauma through a combination of hypnotic age regression and therapeutic coaching: a case report

Summary/Abstract: For years, when describing his therapeutic use of hypnosis to individual clients or in various presentations to professionals, the present author has referred to hypnosis as a “tool through which therapeutic change can be enhanced.” One such presentation was titled “Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy”. In his book on hypnotically enhanced treatment for addictions and various CEU workshops to ASCH and other groups 3‒6 on addictions, and more recently one specifically on treatment for gambling addiction, he stressed that many therapies could be enhanced when presented hypnotically. Examples include cognitive behavioral approaches (CBT);8 Yapko9 described treatment of depression integrating CBT and hypnosis. CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), 12-step programs, healing the wounded child within, and others have been utilized in combination with hypnosis by the present author. One publication combining hypnosis with other therapies is titled “Hypnotic systematic desensitization”. In an article on hypnotic approaches to chronic pain management, Jensen and Patterson referred to a meta-analysis by Kirsch et al., They referred to “the additive effects of hypnosis” when combined with other treatments.

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