Virtual Hypnotherapy
Mindworks offers new and returning clients from Los Angeles, the United States and around the world, Virtual Hypnosis Sessions. Whether you choose hypnotherapy by phone, Zoom, Skype, or FaceTime, rest assured that effective treatment is available to handle your problems and issues. In-office sessions will be offered again when it is safe.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, sheltering at home became the norm for so many workers, teachers, students, parents, grandparents, athletes, etc.
Yet the needs of the public for products, services, training, and therapy continued, and even dramatically increased in a variety of industries, such as healthcare, technology, online communications, food delivery.
As reports on the number of those critically ill, hospitalized, and dying dramatically increased, filling the broadcast airwaves around the world, panic, fear, anxiety, depression, and various other forms of emotional disturbance and mental illness rose to epic proportion. Not unexpectedly, the need for therapy to treat those conditions did as well.
How to provide effective forms of therapy that had typically been administered in a clinical setting challenged the accepted protocols, norms, and practices of hypnotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and psychologists.
What emerged was a new delivery system for mental healthcare: Telehealth therapy is the use of telecommunication technologies over a network to provide mental health care services to clients remotely.
In the comfort and privacy of your own home, office or other private location, you can receive various forms of hypnotherapy that circumvent the restrictions that many jurisdictions put in place (and may be restoring) because of the spread of Covid-19 and its variants.
Personal protection measures such as mask wearing and distancing from others are unnecessary when “seeing” your hypnotherapist on Zoom, FaceTime, or Skype.
Not having to travel to and from a therapist’s office, and not having to pay for parking and gas are additional benefits of online therapy. These are also benefits for the practitioner.
Another advantage of online hypnotherapy is that it gives you exposure to a broader range of therapists than those who were geographically out of range for physical sessions with you. Your decision about whom you want to work with is not limited by how far you are willing to travel to see them.
In theory, online therapy might seem appealing for the reasons mentioned, but you might wonder how it works and whether it is just as effective as in-office therapy. If opening up to a therapist you just met in their office seems daunting, interacting through online technology may seem even more so.
Can adequate rapport, so crucial for successfully working with a therapist, be established over the internet with a video chat platform? The answer is, “Yes, it can.”
As long as an internet connection, be it wireless or wired, is established by both the hypnotherapist and the client, and both access the designated channel at the pre-determined time, a teletherapy session can be successfully initiated.
To what extent rapport is established between you depends upon how open, honest, and responsive each of you is starting with the initial contact when you phone, text, or email the hypnotherapist you want to work with.
In addition to providing your contact information and the days and times you are typically available, you should briefly describe the issues you are struggling with, what you’ve tried to resolve them, and what your goals for therapy are.
The two of you will set up a time for the first session and mutually agree on a medium of communication that will work well for you both.
If a video-based model is selected, a video chat platform, like Zoom, is made available for you and your therapist to see and speak to each other privately. Both you and the therapist must have an internet-enabled smartphone or computer that is equipped with a web camera to facilitate the video capture.
Because information security and personal privacy are of the utmost importance, the hypnotherapist will make sure that there is a secure communication channel established so that whatever is said stays between the two of you.
Some clients prefer audio-only sessions over the phone. If, for example, a session is scheduled very early, when the client first gets up in the morning, they may not want to be on camera. I suggest that audio-only sessions be restricted to returning clients with whom rapport and communication flow has already been established.
For new clients, it is best to use video conferencing technologies, which allow both the hypnotherapist and the client to pick up visual clues (such as facial expressions and body language) as well as information communicated by voice.
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MINDWORKS
HYPNOTHERAPY
(310) 422-9913
Los Angeles CA
Certification #AL011753
Member of
American Hypnosis Association
