Comments on: Why I am calling for less hypno lingo and more hypnotherapy

By: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Mike Reeves-McMillan — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:09:03 +0000

I try to approach that by also marketing myself as a “health coach”. I think people are familiar enough with life coaches that they get what that means.

By: sophie

sophie — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:57:24 +0000

That’s interesting, Mike. Joking aside, I think this is a real issue: how to help people find the help they need. Sometimes people may not know that they need a therapist who uses hypnosis or what self-hypnosis can help them to achieve.

By: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Mike Reeves-McMillan — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:57:55 +0000

Sophie, if I knew that, I’d be calling it something new already. And a lot of my clients wouldn’t be able to find me, because hypnotherapy is what they go looking for (it’s not all negative image).

Actually I find that immigrants from Britain are quite well-informed about hypnotherapy, on the whole, more so than most New Zealanders. We obviously need to find out what you’re doing over there and do the same!

By: sophie

sophie — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:01:24 +0000

Thanks, Mike. Always good to hear from you.

I am just wondering what we should call it instead of hypnotherapy?
Any ideas? You could be onto something here…

By: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Mike Reeves-McMillan — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:24:16 +0000

There’s a real issue with managing expectations, isn’t there? I sometimes wish I could call it something other than hypnotherapy to jettison all the baggage.

I sometimes tell people, “Nothing dramatic will happen during our session, probably, you’ll just be pleasantly relaxed. The dramatic bit comes afterwards when you start behaving differently.”