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Our son (AS, 17) is going through some withdrawal pain from one of his latest obsessions, which he wanted to drop, because of its all consuming nature. He asked me today if hypnotherapy might help him get over it. Just wondered if anyone out there has had any experience of this? I know it can be used to help with packing in smoking, but also helps with fears, phobias, anxieties etc.

 

What do you think? I dont want to go down this road if there are any particular dangers. We would of course vet any hypnotist to make sure he had the right credentials etc etc.

 

Thanks

Ray

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Advice from a hypnotherapist (via me)

Can be very helpful bu advice is to get hypnotherapist who is also a qualified psychotherapist.

 

speak to a few and decide on who you feel comfortable with if you intend to go ahead

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Totally agree with Ian, I wanted to go down this route too (for my sons anxiety and stress) but its very expensive were i live it would have been ?50 for a session.

 

If you are interested in alternative therapy have you considered reflexology or massage its very relaxing and my son loves it.

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Hi ray -

before jumping right in with hypnotherapy I'd suggest your son try a few relaxation tapes or CD's first... You can pick these up quite cheaply, and on a wide range of 'subjects' i.e. smoking/weightloss/self-esteem. It's not QUIT hypnotherapy, but is similar enough to give you an idea of whether it might be helpful, and as it's DIY at your convenience very stress free (although any relaxation technique should - by definition - be stress free, I guess! :lol: )

The reason i suggest this is because most hypnotherapists focus on 'visualisation' techniques to some degree, and visualisation isn't always the easiest thing for people with ASD to access, though some of course excel at this...

 

Hope thats someway helpful

L&P

BD :D

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I used hypnotherapy to prepare for childbirth and to see me through it without an epidural (no medal here, I was just more afraid of the epi needle!).

 

Don't know if it could help with obsession/addiction but I do still use the relaxation techniques and am trying to teach my son some to help him fall asleep at night.

 

Getting some tapes is a good and economical way to try it out, and then if you do find a good hypnotherapist the tapes can support their work.

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I used hypnotherapy to prepare for childbirth and to see me through it without an epidural (no medal here, I was just more afraid of the epi needle!).

 

Don't know if it could help with obsession/addiction but I do still use the relaxation techniques and am trying to teach my son some to help him fall asleep at night.

 

Getting some tapes is a good and economical way to try it out, and then if you do find a good hypnotherapist the tapes can support their work.

 

 

I appreciate this is an old post. But hey it's still posted so I will respond.

 

Hypnotherapy can be effective with individuals with AS, but many hypnotherapists tend to use metaphorical scripts (and we know individuals with AS can have difficulty with figurative speech) and strategically use eye contact (and we know that some indviduals with AS can find eye contact anxiety generating).

 

Please ensure any hypnotherapist has first hand experience of communicating with individuals with AS and preferably has some academic and/or professional qualification that is autism related.

 

Also please, please read the following advice for choosing a hypnotherapist:

 

 

 

Choosing a therapist

 

 

 

Is the therapist:

 

1. appropriately qualified and experienced?

 

Your therapist should have qualifications and experience that satisfy the criteria of practitioner membership with an appropriate Professional Association. What constitutes an appropriate Professional Association is outlined below in question 4.

 

It is reasonable for you to request to see copies of your therapist’s qualifications. Your therapist should be quite happy to arrange this for you.

 

2. engaging in effective ongoing professional development?

 

It is important that your therapist keeps up to date with new developments in their core therapeutic discipline and continues to expand their toolbox of broader therapeutic techniques. It is quite reasonable for you to ask your therapist what courses, workshops and research they have been involved in during the previous year(s)

 

3. subject to appropriate clinical supervision?

 

Your therapist must be clinically supervised. Clinical supervision is where your therapist has their professional competence and emotional wellbeing monitored, by a suitably experienced clinician, to ensure that you receive effective therapy.

 

4. a member of an appropriate Professional Association?

 

One of the most important factors in choosing a therapist is ensuring that your therapist belongs to a reputable Professional Association. Your therapist should be able to provide you with a currently valid certificate that provides evidence of such membership.

 

There are many Professional Associations and they vary greatly in how rigorously they monitor their members. The best Professional Associations will require that their members have undertaken approved/recognised qualifications; are undertaking a specified amount of ongoing professional development and clinical supervision and abide strictly to a professional ethical code.

 

 

 

 

The list below offers some examples of Professional Associations which have a rigorous membership criteria and ethical code:

 

• The General Hypnotherapy Register

• The British Association of Therapeutical Hypnotherapists

• The Hypnotherapy Society

 

This is just a small sample of reputable associations and you may find www.hypnotherapyregulation.co.uk useful in assisting you to identify others.

 

5. registered with the Information Commissioners Office?

 

Your therapist will be keeping case notes of your sessions. They must keep these notes securely and confidentially. Due to the personal nature of case notes your therapist must be registered with the Information Commissioners Office and adhere to their standards. The Information Commissioner’s Office is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals

 

6. professionally insured?

 

Your therapist should be professionally insured and it is reasonable for you to request to see their certificate of insurance.

 

7. treating you in a venue that is fit for purpose?

 

Different clients prefer different venues. Some can have a preference for the clinical feel of an office in a surgery; some can have a preference for a more informal domestic environment. Whether the venue is a clinic or a private domestic residence it should be fit for purpose. Is the venue clean and welcoming? Is it relatively quiet? Is there safe, easy to use parking on site or nearby? Does it feel right?

 

8. charging a reasonable fee?

 

Nationally you can expect to pay between £50 and £100 per session. This will reflect factors such as the therapist’s experience, the local economic market and the therapist’s business costs.

 

You may find some therapists charge fees outside of this range. If a therapist charges under this range it not necessarily a refection of the quality of service. Some ‘low fee’ therapists can, and do, provide excellent treatment and their low fees may simply reflect low market place pressure, low running costs and/or philanthropic business motives. You should only expect to pay over this range where the therapist has a high degree of competency in a specialist area and/or is a particularly renowned therapist.

 

You may have noted that some therapists charge significantly more for smoking cessation session sessions and often claim justification for these fees with 90%+ success rates. Independent research, however, suggests that a realistic success rate for hypnotherapeutic smoking cessation ranges between 30-40% which makes the justification for ‘marking up’ the smoking cessation fees questionable. The good news is that with a little shopping around you should be able to find an effective therapist who will provide smoking cessation therapy at fees within the range identified above.

 

9. business like?

 

In addition to being treated as a clinical client you should expect to be treated as a valued customer. Do your emails get answered within 48hours? Are staff courteous and helpful? Are any concerns you have about the service dealt with efficiently?

 

10. easy to have a rapport with?

 

Finally, therapy is most effective when there is a good relationship between the therapist and the client. Your therapist should be a good listener, treat you with respect and be approachable. Do they seem like someone who is easy to get on with and whom you feel you can trust? Remember that hypnotherapy tends to be a short term therapy and there will be little time to repair a therapeutic relationship that does not start off well.

 

 

 

Hope this is helpful for any members looking for hypnotherapy for an individual with AS

 

Kind regards

 

 

Stephen

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I saw a hypnotherapist once, someone who supposedly knew about ASDs. It may not have helped that I had visions of turning into a chicken... :whistle: but it really didn't work - I had a separate story running through my head contradicting everything I was told:

You're sat on a beach...

... Erm, no I'm not, I'm sat in a chair in a room opposite you :rolleyes::ph34r:

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