1st Edition
Dealing with Different Types of Losses Using Hypnotherapy Scripts
Dealing with Different Types of Losses Using Hypnotherapy Scripts is a unique practical resource for hypnotherapists which considers many aspects of loss rather than focusing solely on dying, death and bereavement. It presents new ways of looking at loss and from many different perspectives.
Hypnotherapists will be encouraged to reflect on their own attitudes, values and ways of working on a one-on-one basis and in groups. Loss is inherently important because it can be identified when therapy is already underway and sometimes when it was not the original problem presented to the hypnotherapist. The author is a registered hypnotherapist who has put together a comprehensive range of tried and tested scripts and visualisations for both adults and children (age 5+). The scripts offer a variety of methods to choose from such as: solution-focused, metaphors (Ericksonian), Gestalt therapy, benefits approach and regression. The appendices include an assortment of practical resources and materials, such as: exercises, handouts, questions, forms for the hypnotherapist to use for notetaking during sessions and for developing plans after a hypnotherapy session has taken place.
The book will be of use to students, newly qualified and experienced hypnotherapists and trainers working in hypnotherapy training schools.
Part I: Working with losses
- Introduction: hypnotherapy and losses
- How to use the book
- Different types of losses
- Assessment before working with losses
- Two scripts for the first session
- Journey of grief
- Tour bus
- Lost and found
- Visualisations for emotional pain
- It’s OK to feel...
- Opening tulips
- Feeling alone
- Fire and anger
- Learning to cry
- Wobbling
- Icicles
- Ice skating
- Dig it up
- Trees
- Building and breaking down walls
- Leaving the darkness in the cave
- Deflation, restoration and improvement
- Egg timer
- Planning for death
- Man in the corner
- Animal heaven
- Conversations on the clouds
- The great pyramid
- The storage unit
- The red admiral butterfly
- Acceptance and aspirations
- Preparing for the future
- The jigsaw puzzle
- Kaleidoscope
- Clouds coming together
- Time capsule
- Brightness on the horizon
- Being assertive
- Freedom
- Bank vault
- Calendars of life
- Not always what it seems
- Finding a lost object
- Layla and the spoon
- Wizards
- Positivity
Part II: Dealing with emotions
Part III: Facing and dealing with death
Part IV: Moving forward
Part V: Additional scripts
Biography
Jacki Pritchard, MA, works as a clinical hypnotherapist, independent social worker and trainer in social care. She offers hypnotherapy services to adults and children (age 5+) in two practice locations, schools and colleges.
"Jacki Pritchard has done an excellent job in creating a range of superb scripts and metaphors to help with many types of loss. Any hypnotherapist helping clients to come to terms with loss should have this book in their toolbag."
Steve Burgess, Director, Lionheart Training
"This book is an essential resource for any hypnotherapist working with loss in any form, not just grief. It's packed with practical scripts to use with clients that are accessible and easy to adapt."
Caroline Dyson, Founder and Director of Hypnotherapy in Schools Programme (HISP)