16/12/2008 by ALISTAIR RHIND.

Alistair Rhind was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1956. He trained in Psychiatry in Scotland in the late seventies, and went on to specialise in Addiction and Alcoholism therapy Alistair has the ability to engender trust and more importantly, hope, in the many sufferers he has treated during his Thirty years in the business.

Alistair has trained many other  therapists and health professionals in the, ‘how to’ of working successfully in the psychotherapy/hypnotherapy field and has been Treatment Director in several Private Rehabilitation Clinics around the country where he specialised in designing and implementing successful group and individual Treatment Programmes . He has been involved with most of the top clinics in the South including ‘The Priory’ and has worked with the rich and famous as well as the not so rich and famous.

Alistair has trained in the U.S. and the U.K. in Counselling, Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, NLP and Family Therapy. He is also a Reiki Master.

Alistair runs a Private Practice in Hypnotherapy, Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has designed and delivers a serious of talks for schools and industry designed to facilitate prevention as well as treatment of the many addictive problems and to encourage responsible healthy choices.

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05/12/2008 by ALISTAIR RHIND.

How any sessions of Hypnotherapy will I need?

The question of how many sessions comes up time and time again when people telephone. Let’s try to cover this now so that we can save time later. I have from time to time seen a person once and somehow miraculously they have found benefit in the work we did together. I know this only because I have heard from them again some years later or they have referred a friend and they said hey, you really sorted me out you are brilliant. Others who have fairly simple problems such as confidence or smoking or exam nerves or simple phobias they have needed  3 or 4 sessions to make sure that they have learned and taken away the necessary skills required to sustain the changes made and to use them in the future to solve any similar problems they may encounter.

Some people will have more complex difficulties which will most certainly require more work and should look at an initial 6 sessions up to 12 sessions.

There will be others with more difficult problems like drug or alcohol addiction or severe anorexia or self harming who may require continued support after the initial stage of therapy. You will have some idea yourself just how longstanding and complex your problems are. My advice at this stage is be open minded, beware people who suggest that they can cure you in quick time without even having carried out a complete assessment. Desperation makes us do act impulsively at times and with a lot of wishful thinking. Try to slow down, know that you can get well again and that you need to invest some time in that change/healing process. If you are opting for private therapy then you will also be investing good money.

Alistair Rhind

Clinical Hypnotherapy Consultant

http://www.essexhypnotherapy.org.uk

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05/12/2008 by ALISTAIR RHIND.

Take time to chose your therapist. Speak to them on the telephone initially and dont be pushed into an appointment untill you feel comfortable with the person you have talked to. Use the first appointment as a mutual assessment. Ask your self the following questions:

• ·       Do you get the impression that the therapist understands your particular problem?
• ·       Do they seem to understand you?
• ·       Are they able to make a therapeutic plan for your treatment?
• ·       Do you feel comfortable with them?
• ·       Do you trust them?
• ·       Do you feel safe enough to reveal what is troubling you?
• ·       Do they have qualifications and when did they take them?
• ·       Are you satisfied that they have enough experience?
• ·       Are they acredited with any professional body?
• ·       Are they warm and caring or cool, cold and distant?

Please remember that there are many Schools of Hypnotherapy as there are of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Attending a school for however long, passing and exam and joinig a professional body does not make a therapist. It takes time, supervision, personal therapy and development, supervised experience with clients and further ongoing training in different sort of psychotherapy and emotional change work. You may be best to find someone who has a very broad background with several different therapeutic trainings or you may hit it off with someone who is a very natural caring empathic person who is genuine, comfortable, who can empathise and who you naturally are drawn to.

Often the success in therapy comes from the strength of the therapeutic relationship and not the particular therapeutic tricks the therapist uses. Some of the worst therapists I have known have come bristling with shiny qualifications but their people skills were sadly lacking. Dont be fooled by lots of spaghetti after the Therapists name. Its very easy to join several registers or professional organisations and use theirletters to make your name look impressive. Claims of a therapy being more advanced that another is pure fanatasy and usually geared to make you think that the therapist is more qualified than they actually are. A good qualified experienced therapist will naturally give you the feeling of confidence will be at ease and help you to feel confdent that they can help you deal with your problem.

Alistair Rhind

Consultant Clinical Hypnotherapist

http://www.essexhypnotherapy.org.uk

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