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Ever wondered what Jung thought about hypnotherapy?

Carl Jung’s work has played a significant role in the development of depth psychology and transformational psychotherapy, including hypnotherapy. Over time, his work, in addition to that of other well-known psychologists from all over the world, forms the basis for the Wellness Institute’s Heart- Centered

Today, we're going to talk about treating trauma by breaking through dissociation that is so common with traumatic events. 

Many traumatized individuals alternate between re-experiencing their trauma and being detached from, or even relatively unaware of the trauma and its effects. It can be very confusing, for the individual and for those who interact

“We don't deal well with death and dying in this culture," says Roland Griffiths, PhD, a professor of behavioral biology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Being diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease often leads to a kind of chronic syndrome of anxiety, depression and emotional distress. 

Those final days/weeks/months

Are you among the many therapists who just expect your practice to decline over the holidays? Many therapists naturally expect cancellations during certain times of the year (Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter, Summer, etc.) and now just begin to plan for that! They try to normalize this with trite phrases such as, “Oh this is just what happens at this

About this series: Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing the work of Carl Jung on this blog and the role his work plays into hypnotherapy. Today's post is about the way that complexes organize themselves into clusters, which become a way for children (and latet, adults) to view the world in a shallow, archetypal, manner.

Complexes are the

About this series: Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing the work of Carl Jung on this blog and the role his work plays into hypnotherapy. Today's post is about the development of complexes during childhood, and the role they play in the subconscious and the Ego.

A child creates a set of behaviors established to defend against psychic and/or

About this series: Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing the work of Carl Jung on this blog and the role his work plays into hypnotherapy. Today's post is about the Third Person Perspective/Hypnotic trance state and how it helps clinical therapists gain easier access to the subonscious mind of their clients.

Freud and Jung both used hypnosis

Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing the work of Carl Jung on this blog and the role his work plays into hypnotherapy. Jung briefly incorporated hypnosis into his clinical practice, which initially drove his client base. He later abandoned hypnotherapy in favor of dream work and his self-developed "active imagination" technique.

While he avoided

This is part 3 of a four-part series on using hypnotherapy to help you reduce your performance anxiety. Want to read more? Part 1, Part 2, Part 4

In the previous blog posts, we learned that being placed in a situation that requires a high performance (think: a huge presentation to your boss) situation creates stress. Stress creates performance

This is part 2 of a four-part series on using hypnotherapy to help you reduce your performance anxiety. Want to read more? Part 1, Part 3, Part 4

In our last blog post, we learned about how most people have some form of performance anxiety. Despite this, we are taught that it is a bad thing that must be avoid...when truthfully it's just a natural