Balance Therapie
Balance Therapy
Kolya Schweppe, HPP, Sprachen/Languages: Deutsch, English, 中文
Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie und Hypnosetherapeut
Naturopath for Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapist
Why come to a Hypnotherapist? Why use hypnosis as part of your psychotherapy?
As a naturopathic practitioner for psychotherapy and hypnotherapy, I am at your disposal with my experience and expertise. In addition to regular psychotherapy, i can also offer you high-quality clinical hypnosis based on the Holistic Orientated Hypnosis (HOH, or GOH in German) approach, because the well-being of my clients is my top priority. My aim is to promote your health and enable you to enjoy life more and clinical hypnosis is an excellent "means of helping clients develop valuable personal resources that can be purposefully directed toward achieving their therapeutic goals. The evidence for the effectiveness of hypnosis is already substantial and ever growing" (M. Yapko, Trancework, p. 9).
"If hypnosis were a drug, it would be a standard of care."
-- The American Journal of Medicine
Hypnosis is the most effective treatment that most medical practitioners have yet to prescribe! Fortunately, you don't need to wait for a prescription -- you can access therapeutic hypnosis at BALANCE Therapy!
What is Holistic Orientated Hypnosis (HOH)?
Hypnotherapy (according to Erickson), part of Holistic Oriented Hypnosis, utilises the transformative power of trance to bring about positive change. But what exactly is hypnosis? Hypnosis is a "focused experience of attentional absorption that invites people to respond experientially on multiple levels in order to amplify and utilize their personal resources in a goal directed fashion" (M. Yapko, Trancework, p. 8 ). It is characterised by intense concentration on inner or outer sensory perceptions. Our subconscious, the key to deep human mechanisms, controls our emotions, behaviors, beliefs, habits, reactions and even decisions, and can be specifically addressed through hypnosis.
The overriding aim of every hypnosis session is to induce a trance state of consciousness, which is then used as a communication tool for the subconscious. Clinical hypnosis is basically also assisted self-hypnosis, because the client always remains aware and in control. Using the latest treatment methods, I always strive for efficient and solution-orientated therapy in order to achieve your personal goals.
Finding a suitable therapist is often not easy. Just give me a try! After a free initial consultation, including a short taster hypnosis session, further sessions at Balance Therapy are available for just €100/hr. See also my costs page.
Coaching for Weight-Loss
Coaching with me is an excellent way to sustainably correct behavioral patterns. Especially when it comes to weight loss, deep inner structures can often be purposefully adjusted and positively changed. What is it, that usually stops you on the way to your goal? Usually your own motivation, which costs so much energy that you give up. In this treatment, I use hypnosis to help you develop unbridled motivation. Guided by your subconscious, you will find it easy to achieve your goal. The reason for the comprehensive therapeutic support lies in the complexity of weight reduction.
Treating Fears and Phobias
People often choose to live with irrational fears and phobias and sacrificially accept them out of a sense of shame. But the more you avoid the thing you fear, the worse it gets. However, most fears are self-generated and cannot be explained by reason. Both have similar structures and can usually be treated quickly and successfully in practice.
For example: Social Phobias
People who suffer from social phobia are often prisoners of their own evaluation system. They fear being seen as strange, embarrassing, or even ridiculous by others. They are embarrassed by their behavior, e.g. when eating, speaking, going for a walk and visible signs of their anxiety such as trembling, sweating or blushing are all the more so embarrassing for them. This means that they are constantly evaluating everyday situations in which they believe they are being observed or judged by other people. The idea of what other people think about them is therefore always at the forefront of their minds. The severity of the anxiety can vary greatly. Coming into contact with strangers can also trigger extreme feelings of anxiety in those affected, so that they avoid them by withdrawing and engaging in avoidance behavior. People with a social phobia are afraid of being the center of attention. With clinical hypnosis, pronounced social phobias can usually be resolved quickly and effectively. The aim is to uncover the problematic processes in the brain, make them conscious and optimize them accordingly. The approach is always solution-oriented.
Social phobia treatment works through finding the underlying cause. Only when we are aware of what is causing the problem can it be changed accordingly. Therapists use hypnotic trance to make this deep structure transparent. In the induced trance, the experienced hypnotherapist works with the affected client to uncover and change unconscious processes in a targeted manner and thus work on them. Possible changes in self-perception can stabilize and expand self-confidence and help to neutralize negative emotions.
"As soon as we begin to trust ourselves, we begin to live" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Addiction Therapy through Trance
The consumption-driven compulsive behavior manifests itself in different forms. The "addictions" range from sweets to nicotine and far beyond. Get to know ways and means of how hypnotherapy can help you with your addictions.
Cease smoking: Your path to becoming a happy non-smoker: Would you like to stop smoking? Hypnosis offers you the opportunity to end your craving for nicotine in a simple and pleasant way.
Don't wait for your inner voice to tell you that you can stop smoking now. The moment when your motivation is so great that you simply stop smoking. It is a characteristic of addiction that this moment does not happen. But don't be discouraged: Where there is a way in, there is a way out.
"Only those who know their destination will find the way" (Laozi)
Sustainable change: The will is certainly a help in achieving the goal of "becoming a non-smoker", but it is rarely a consistent supporter. If motivation wanes, the craving becomes stronger. The slightest fluctuations such as stress, anger or the lack of a cigarette after a meal suddenly get to you. The cigarette habit quickly gains the upper hand again and quitting becomes a struggle.
With hypnosis we set other levers in motion, willpower is only a small part of this systematic change. Use your subconscious as a useful helper and reach your goal safely. Quitting smoking doesn't have to be a struggle!
Remember, nobody else is going to make it easier for you to stop smoking. Use the power of hypnosis and change yourself now! Make the decision to become a non-smoker! Take advantage of the free preliminary consultation, where you will be informed in detail and receive answers to any questions you may have.
Background to this treatment model: Not everyone can be hypnotized equally well or quickly, some people need a little more time, others a little less. But everyone has the same goal, namely to be and remain a non-smoker after the treatment. The following procedure awaits you in a session:
The preliminary talk -- The hypnotic smoking cessation self-programming -- The follow-up talk.
Stress Management und Burnout Prevention
Environmental influences and constant pressure to perform have an impact on our psychosomatic systems. Highly effective hypnosis techniques can bring disturbed systems back into balance. Regenerative approaches are used for preventive as well as acute treatment.
Successfully Treating Migraines and Psychosomatic pain
The pain in your head! The more you pay attention to pain, the more it hurts! It's not a metaphor. It's science! Pain is a complex experience that involves sensing what's happening in some part of your body, and also evaluating its meaning and how you feel about it. The more frustrated, angry, or despairing you are with the pain, the more pain you'll experience. So the brain has signal networks that will either intensify or can relieve pain. Pain relief through self-hypnosis is what I teach you to do. Hypnosis can have both a symptomatic and a causal effect on migraines. We perceive pain. It originates in the brain and is often associated with emotions. Uncovering emotional causes plays a key role in the holistically oriented hypnosis treatment at BALANCE.
Lastingly Change Behavior Patterns and Remove Blockages
Clinical hypnosis offers a wide range of highly effective techniques and procedures to permanently change long-standing disorders and integrate them into new structures. Various manifestations such as sleeping and eating disorders as well as the entire psychosomatic range of effects can usually be successfully treated in a short time. What are blockages?
Internal blockages are inner and emotional barriers. They ensure that we keep finding reasons not to do something. They influence our thoughts, our feelings and our behavior. Our thoughts are often strongly influenced by our feelings, which is why most blockages are both mental and emotional in nature. Once we have overcome or resolved them, we usually feel freer, braver, more self-determined and happier. How to release blockages.
Recognizing inner blockages is the prerequisite for being able to release them. This is why becoming aware is a very important first step. You need to become aware of what is blocking you in order to be able to change it in the second step. Modern hypnotherapy takes precisely this approach, accompanying the unconscious path to change. Looking at life situations and reflecting on them yourself helps. Questioning negative beliefs and forming new positive beliefs is also an integral part of hypnosis. Essentially, a new pattern of behavior is developed that can help to achieve mental strength and beneficial change.
Hypnotherapy
can help with relaxation, weight reduction, addiction therapy, stress management and burnout prevention, successfully treating pain and migraines, treating anxiety, changing behavioral patterns sustainably, releasing blockages, and increasing self-esteem.
BALANCE offers hypnotherapy on the following topics (among others):
The Secret of How Hypnosis Really Works
Mandy Oaklander, Updated Mon, August 1, 2016
When Dr. David Spiegel emerged from a three-hour shoulder surgery in 1972, he didn’t use any pain meds to recover. Instead, he hypnotized himself. It worked—to the surprise of everyone but Dr. Spiegel, who has studied hypnosis, a state of highly focused attention and intense concentration, for 45 years. Patient using very little pain medication, he remembers reading from his chart when he snuck a peek. We mustn’t have cut many nerves.
“There’s an incision from the top to the bottom of my shoulder, so they cut plenty of nerves,” Spiegel says now. “I was just handling the pain myself.”
Being hypnotized feels like what happens when you become so absorbed in a movie that you forget you’re watching one at all, like you have entered an imagined world, Spiegel says. This trance-like state, in which you’re more open and suggestible than usual, can be an effective tool to control pain, ease anxiety, quit smoking and deal with stress, trauma and even hot flashes, research shows. How it does that is what Spiegel, professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and his colleagues wanted to find out in their new study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex.
“This isn’t just some weird parlor trick,” he says. “It’s a way we use our brains that’s different.”
In the study, Spiegel and his colleagues screened about 500 people in search of the most hypnotizable. The ability to be hypnotized is a highly stable trait—like IQ, Spiegel says—that can be tested by a hypnosis practitioner in a five-minute mini-hypnosis session. Not everyone can be hypnotized, but two thirds of adults can, and people who are easily hypnotized tend to be more trusting of others, more intuitive and more likely to get so caught up in a good movie or play that they forget they’re watching one, Spiegel explains. “They tend to be less insistent on logic and order and more experiential—they like using their imaginations. They find it fun.”
The team chose 36 people who were highly hypnotizable, and 21 people with low hypnotizability served as the controls. Everyone was then given a series of fMRI scans during several different conditions: at rest, while recalling a memory and during two bouts of hypnotism.
Three interesting things happened in the brain—but only in the highly hypnotizable group, while they were being hypnotized. The researchers saw a drop in activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate, part of the salience network of the brain. “It’s a context decoder: a part that alerts you to what you should attend to and what you can ignore,” Spiegel says. This part of the brain, which fires up when there’s something to worry about, actually simmers down during hypnosis.
The second change was that certain parts of the brain began syncing up in their connectivity. “They fire together, basically,” Spigel says. This was true of the part of the brain where you plan things and carry out routines—the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—and the insula, a part of the brain that helps regulate body functions, like increasing blood pressure and heart rate. This suggests that “your brain in hypnosis is intensifying its connection to your body,” Spiegel says.
Meanwhile, other brain areas became less connected. The researchers saw more of a disconnect between that same region of planning and routines, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and a part of the brain characterized by self-reflection.
Taken together, these changes help explain how hypnosis can have powerful effects, including tamping down stress, anxiety, pain and self-consciousness. Spiegel believes that the practice can—and should—be used instead of painkillers in many cases. His own previous research has shown that when people in pain are taught self-hypnosis, they use half the pain medication and had half the pain than those who were just given access to opioids. “Now that we realize the addiction potential of opiates is very high, it’s potentially a very valuable alternative, and it’s a shame that we’re not making better use of it,” he says.
More needs to be learned about hypnosis in order to harness its potential effects—and for that, researchers need to take it seriously, Spiegel says. “If opiates affect certain regions of the brain like the dorsal anterior cingulate and some other brain regions, there’s no reason why we can’t use a different approach to produce similar effects in the brain that are real effects that reduce pain and anxiety and help people stop smoking,” he says.
Clinical Hypnosis is “a real-deal treatment that should be given the same respect that a lot of other treatments we use are given, even though [traditional treatments without hypnosis are] sometimes less effective and more dangerous.”
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