Case Study: Using Hypnosis In Relationship Counselling

Hypnotherapist Joan Shertzer is a specialist in using hypnosis in relationship counselling.

One particular client, a married lady, had developed strong feelings of resentment towards her husband.  Although he wasn’t a slob, she was obsessing that she felt she always had to pick up after him.  Consciously, she knew her husband was not that bad, so why did she feel so resentful?

Using hypnosis, the client discovered that her feelings towards her husband had somehow become associated with her feelings of resentment towards her father.  She had always felt that her mother was left to do all the running around and picking up after him, and perhaps it was her fear of that happening to her that was causing the obsession.

Shertzer used disassociation to help the client’s unconscious mind to realise that this was not the case with the husband and that it could feel the love in the relationship more than the irritation.

Our unconscious mind is making connections all the time between different memories – it’s like when you hear particular song and cannot help but remember a past memory, your unconscious mind has made the connection a permanent one for you.  Often, this isn’t a problem but when it is, we can use hypnosis to help remove or replace these connections with a more useful one.

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