Hypnosis by phone?

[Help]

I got two questions.

1. Is hypnosis by phone just as good as hypnosis in real life?
2. Can hypnosis cure my OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)?

thanks

[Merlin]

No
No
Hypnosis can help you overcome your OCD,
but cure is a medical word.

[Help]

okay could hypnosis allow me not to have any obsessive compulsive thoughts?

[Poodle]

You may want to look into NLP. Just a suggestion. No telephone. In person.

[AverageJoe]

No telephone. In person.
Ummm what is the difference between hearing a voice on a telephone and listening in person? Can our voices carry secret messages or commands? Im new to hypnosis and this forum.

[Don]

The difference is that we don't have a pre-set list of suggestions. Rather, we observer your actions, your eyes, your pulse, your demeanor, you posture, your breathing, etc., etc., and adjust the approach, the choice of words and suggestions, to best help you achieve your desired goals.

"Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" is a medical diagnosis. You say you have this, and the implication is that you have been diagnosed by a physician and may be under medical treatment by him or her. In the U.S., a hypnotherapist may not legally help you with this without a referral from your physician. I do not know about NLP.

To a hypnotherapist, OCD is a meaningless expression. OCD can cover an enormous variety of behaviors. To the best of my knowledge, nobody with OCD exhibits all of those behaviors and most only exhibit one or a few of them. Two people may have the same diagnosis, OCD, and have entirely different symptoms. That would be like going to a doctor with a broken leg and saying you have the flu!

Hypnotherapists do not "cure" anything. Without a referral they cannot legally treat OCD. However, what hypnosis is great at is helping someone eliminate unwanted behaviors and adopt wanted ones.

In my experience and training, both hypnotherapy and NLP by experienced, qualified practitioners can help you.

[Terry (existing)]

As one who recognises that imagination has made me competent above any other skills that I have, I assure you if phone therapy was a valid aproach instead of a very hit and miss proposition, I would have been the first to set up a 900 number and sat back waiting for the suckers to call. No worries about success rate, I would never know if it worked or not. No worries about being bad mouthed by those whom I failed. Just nothing but money for nothing. Wish I didn;t have a concience sometimes when I see all the suckers out there waiting to be fleeced, but that thought is only fleeting, and I am glad I had such wonderful parents who brought me up to be a decent person. I have been rewarded many times over, so let others fleece the suckers, I just speak as I find, and if I find out later that it can be done, I will be ready to get on the badwagon:cool:
Any of my good friends want to pass on a secret..:D

[Don]

While I basically agree with Terry, I also have a slight difference.

As with Terry, I would not work with new clients over the phone. Nor would I work with previous clients who wanted to deal with issues not handled previously.

However, I will phone clients to see how they are doing a couple of days after a session and use wordings to complement and enhance the work of the session.

In other words, I will use phone work to enhance work done in person, but I would not work only over the phone for a wide variety of reasons, including, as Terry wrote, having a conscience.