Using hypnosis to aid conception

[Cambia]

This is a serious enquiry...So please no innuendo!
Are posters prepared to state their chosen approaches towards a client who presents with "sub-fertility" please?

[Don]

Hi, Cambia.

The difficulty with your question--and I fully believe you are serious--is that it assumes an allopathic interpretation of how to work with client rather than a hypnotherapeutic paradigm.

By that i mean you are focused on the problem and not the client. If problem is X give treatment Y. That's not the model I follow.

First, has the client been to an MD?
Have they been receiving medical treatment?
What is the medical cause of the situation?
Is it a male or female?
Has the client shown signs of "normal fertility" in the past?
What are the client's attitudes--conscious and unconscious--toward pregnancy?
What are the client's attitudes--conscious and unconscious--toward children?
What are the client's attitudes--conscious and unconscious--toward parenting?
Does the client actually want to have a child or is this at the insistence of another?
How old is the client?
What was the client's childhood like?
Did the client enjoy childhood?
What are the client's attitudes--conscious and unconscious--toward the future?
Did the client enjoy going to school?

In order to answer your question I would need to have the answers to these questions, along with others that are follow-ups to these questions, as well as observations of the client's body language when the questions were asked.

This is client-focused work, not ailment-focused work.

[Merlin]

I treat individuals, not labels

[Cambia]

Thank you for your replies.

The reason I chose the word "approach" was for exactly the reason you cited, but you were mistaken that I was focused on the problem, and not the client. Hence the use of "client" who "presents with...", not "infertile person". It is my understanding that in the first instance, "we" are given only the terms which the client expresses, coupled with their body language and UC, NV communications and responses to what "we" ask, say or do. Labels in these circumstances can go some way to explaining behaviours, as once given a diagnosis label, some people have a tendency to adopt those "illness" behaviours in the light of what they have learned about how others with that "condition" behave. So whilst I agree with Merlin's (rather curt IMHO) response, totally disregarding a label which a client brings to the therapist is to disregard the individual of which she speaks.

I was asking for your input, which despite misunderstanding my intentions you provided! Thanks!

[Merlin]

The true meaning of your communication may be found in the responses you get.Are posters prepared to state their chosen approaches towards a client who presents with "sub-fertility" please?
I treat individuals, not labels

I was asking for your input, which despite misunderstanding my intentions you provided!
My answer stands. That's how I treat.
That is my input.
I come without preconceived ideas.
the issue may not be in any way related to the symptom.

[Terry]

Cambia, you must understand that you are conversing with highly skilled and practised communicators, which we must be in order to be successful.
Your post discloses a lack of skill and experience which in no way could be replaced with any reply we might give you.
You surely took a training course did you not? Why then are you asking us a question that might best be answered by your trainer? To do so indicates that you are not capable of dealing with the public, since you display an ignorance of our art to a degree that suggests you have done nothing more than book read, which means that any course you might have taken was of no value whatsoever......
Merlin's terse reply indicates her observations were the same as mine, and she felt you had no right to anything more. I agree with her right to feel that way, I constantly get that same feeling......:eek:
Perhaps, in the interest of others here, you might suggest why you feel insulted since we know nothing of you, or you of us, and certainly we owe you nothing. Your reply should prove illuminating........

[Connie]

Hi, Cambia! I agree with the non-label thing. When I was beginning my hypnotherapy practice I wanted to be "prepared" and have an idea in mind of WHAT TO DO, what specific intervention might be needed on the basis of one or two brief, preliminary phone conversations. The accent is on "might" and the reality is "might." It's so much better (and easier!) to work with the client in front of you. That's a direct quote from our Skip! And it's proven to be massively true.

I had a client come in and say it's a scary movie clip phobia. The real issue was dealing with childhood emotional abuse. I've had a woman come in for pain management, to discover it's an alcohol issue. I don't assume that what the client presents as the problem, necessarily IS the problem.