aim2 provides hypnotherapy in Calne, Wiltshire and also from Equilibrium Natural Health near Chippenham.

Hypnotherapy is often reported to have been used for thousands of years as a treatment for many different physical ailments and mental states.  Throughout the centuries the causes and mechanisms attributed to its effectiveness have also varied, and still  do today with many organisations, belief systems and complementary therapies, each utilising hypnotherapy techniques under a different name and with a different explanation for how it works.  What can definitely be stated is that we can clearly trace therapy conducted on patients who are in hypnotic trances back to the end of the 18th Century (read Hidden Depths by Robin Waterfield for an excellent and thrilling history of hypnotherapy).  This origin of modern hypnotherapy is also understood to be the source of psychotherapy.  My understanding is explained within the following pages, however, in line with my training and qualification it is the mainstream interpetation.  Hypnotherapy utilises the state known as hypnosis in the client such that the therapist can access the client's subconscious and either make suggestions or conduct an analysis. Hypnotherapy has proved to be extremely effective for many symptoms and issues, from pain relief to overcoming fears, from improving sleep to conquering presentation nerves.  Typically, successful hypnotherapy is associated with defeating unwanted habits such as smoking, nail biting and hair pulling.  Hypnotherapy is available now through some NHS PCTs and hypnotherapy is frequently used as an alternative to anaesthetics for operations and dental treatments (enter "hypnotherapy" into the NHS search option at www.nhs.uk).