Free your mind and access your full potential with hypnosis.
A gentle yet powerful approach to overcoming stress and blockages, and regaining deep balance and serenity.
Hypnotherapy at Clinique Naturelle with Florence Suter (no accreditation). Sessions are conducted in French.
Why turn to therapeutic hypnosis?
In our increasingly demanding daily lives, people sometimes tend to neglect their own existence in favor of professional, social or financial demands. This can lead to a growing number of obstacles.
These obstacles and torments can give rise to signs such as exhaustion, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, overweight, persistent pain or addiction, and can affect our mental and physical balance.
Therapeutic hypnosis offers a profound approach to treating the origins of these symptoms and imbalances, providing tools that empower us. It teaches us to understand ourselves better, to set limits, to take care of ourselves and to make time for our own renewal.
What is Ericksonian hypnosis?
Ericksonian hypnosis is a form of therapeutic hypnosis developed by Milton H. Erickson, an American psychiatrist, in the 1950s.
Regardless of its form or application, hypnosis is based on the essential principle of bringing an individual into an altered state of consciousness. This state of mind resembles a trance, where attention, suggestibility and a higher level of concentration can be perceived.
So it's not, as you might think, a state of sleep. Individuals in a state of hypnosis may appear to be asleep, but they are in fact in a condition of hyperconsciousness. In this condition, the hypnotherapist (or hypnotist in the context of performance hypnosis) can access the individual's subconscious.
Hypnosis requires a voluntary commitment on the part of the patient. A therapist cannot force you to act against your wishes. A hypnotherapist may offer you visualizations and suggestions, but ultimately, the alleviation of your disorders and your well-being will depend exclusively on you and your internal resources.
What problems can hypnotherapy be used for?
Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated that hypnosis can overcome blockages and greatly alleviate unhappiness. Among other things, medical hypnosis or hypnotherapy helps to :
- Improve emotional management
- Managing anxiety and stress
- Manage chronic pain
- Improve sleep
- Improve learning and concentration
- Treat phobias
- Increase self-esteem
- Supporting depression, grief and separation
- Stop smoking
- lose weight
Hypnosis, sophrology, which therapy for my needs?
Hypnosis is a therapeutic method for accessing the unconscious mind and mobilizing often unsuspected internal resources.
It is particularly indicated when faced with intense or intrusive problems that have a strong impact on daily life: phobias (airplanes, animals, enclosed spaces...), addictions (tobacco, sugar, alcohol...), compulsive behaviors, or acute anxiety.
These situations can sometimes seem uncontrollable or irrational, and this is precisely where hypnosis can work in depth, bypassing conscious resistance to initiate lasting change.
Hypnosis differs from sophrology in its ability to work on powerful blockages or long-entrenched mechanisms. Whereas sophrology offers gradual, repetitive support for chronic disorders (such as stress, widespread anxiety, sleep disorders or persistent pain), hypnosis aims for more rapid transformations, on different issues, often from the very first session. It's ideal when you feel the need to "click" or find relief from a situation that has become too burdensome.
Hypnosis and addictions
Hypnosis is a powerful therapeutic tool for helping people with addictions, whether related to a substance (tobacco, alcohol, sugar) or a behavior (compulsive shopping, screens, emotional eating, toxic relationships...).
Addiction is not simply a bad habit, but often a deeply rooted mechanism put in place by the unconscious to soothe a malaise, fill a void or deal with a difficult emotion.
In hypnosis, the aim is not to force the addiction to stop, but to modify what's going on in the unconscious.
By going to the emotional or symbolic root of the addiction, it becomes possible to transform the way the unconscious perceives this behavior, to release the associated automatic mechanisms, and to strengthen the inner resources necessary for change.
Hypnosis can also help relieve withdrawal-related tension, reduce compulsive cravings and restore a sense of freedom from addictive behavior.
Note: This work is carried out at each individual's own pace. It can be particularly useful as a complement to medical treatment or psychotherapeutic support, depending on the nature of the addiction.
Hypnosis and phobias
Phobias can be profoundly disabling in everyday life. Fear of flying, elevators, spiders, public speaking, driving, vomiting, or panic in certain places or situations: even if the person knows their fear is irrational, they often feel powerless in the face of the intensity of their reaction.
This disproportionate fear is not controlled by reason, but programmed at an unconscious level, like a survival reflex.
Hypnosis can help to trace the unconscious source of the phobia. This could be an emotionally charged past experience, or a traumatic event that has become imprinted on the emotional or physical memory without the person being fully aware of it.
During the hypnotic state, the mind is more receptive, more connected to its deepest feelings. This can help to :
- Identify the initial event that triggered the fear (even if it has been forgotten or downplayed),
- Revisit this experience in a new light, in a safe environment,
- Release the emotions that have stuck (fear, panic, guilt...),
- And above all, to rewrite the emotional response associated with this situation in order to transform it.
In this way, hypnosis not only calms the symptoms of the phobia, but works at a structural level, where the fear pattern has taken root.
By recreating a calmed connection with the phobic object or situation, hypnosis helps to reprogram the automatic fear response, deactivate the inner alert, and regain a sense of security.
This approach is gentle, respectful of the person's rhythm, and never seeks to brutally expose fear.
On the contrary, it uses the resources of the imagination to create new, more accurate and serene emotional responses. In just a few sessions, we can often observe concrete, lasting relief, enabling us to regain freedom in our everyday gestures and choices.
Self-hypnosis, a method accessible to all
Self-hypnosis is a simple and powerful method for voluntarily entering an altered state of consciousness, similar to that of guided hypnosis, but with complete autonomy.
Through breathing, visualization and focusing techniques, you can detach yourself from your mind, soothe your body and access your unconscious resources.
In the case of phobias, self-hypnosis can help to calm stress reactions, reinforce a sense of inner security and reactivate states of confidence. Self-hypnosis does not replace therapeutic support in cases of intense fear, but is an excellent complementary tool for maintaining the benefits of sessions, gaining autonomy and gradually regaining the power to act in the face of one's fears.
