There are an increasing number of people these days that are becoming disillusioned with conventional medicine and looking for alternative solutions to help improve their quality of life.

As a hypnotherapist in the UK, I am receiving an escalating number of referrals from GP’s (Doctors in General Practice) when they have exhausted all of the “medical” reasons for a condition but the patient simply isn’t getting better.

The problem when considering complimentary or alternative therapies is that, these days there are so many to choose. For example there are fringe therapies such as Urine Therapy (Urine therapy refers to one of several uses of urine to prevent or cure sickness, to enhance beauty, or to cleanse one's bowels. Most devotees drink the midstream of their morning urine.) at one end of the scale and Osteopathy (A branch of Western medicine that focuses primarily on the manipulation of the musculoskeletal system while taking a holistic approach to health.) now approved by the British Medical Association (BMA) at the other.

To give you an idea of just some of the complimentary therapies there are available, I took a quick trawl of the Internet and came up with the following:

cognitive behavioural therapy, cbt,
psychotherapy
hypnotherapy
hypnoanalysis
brief solution therapy
movie therapy
reality therapy
emdr,eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
buteyko
counselling
regression
nlp, neuro linguistic programming
osteopathy
chiropratic
reiki
acupuncture
homeopathy
eft, emotional freedom technique
aromatherapy
acupressure
ayurveda
reflexology
nutrition
yoga
naturopathy
meditation
guided imagery
biofeedback
orthomolecular medicine
herbal medicine
massage therapy
rolfing
postural reeducation
alexander technique
kinesiology
chelation
colour therapy
flower essences
guided imagery
hydrotherapy
iridology
magnetic therapy
polarity therapy
prolotherapy
shiatsu
urine therapy

And this is just an example of the huge selection there is to choose from.

The purpose of this blog is to explain the individual therapies and what conditions they can help with. To further clarify the situation I will endeavour to group the therapies into various classifications e.g. mind therapies (cbt, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy etc.) and also the conditions they say that they treat. At this point I feel it is important to stress that this blog is not an advertisement for complimentary therapy but a source of information to enable people to make an informed decision. I would welcome your experiences of all types of therapy good and bad so that I can try and put together a complete picture of individual therapies that actually work and those that just say that they do.

As my experience is in hypnotherapy and hypno-analysis these will be the first therapies examined. If anyone wishes to comment on their experiences I would be very pleased to hear from you.

Expect my next blog in two weeks.


Kind Regards


Colin (Beale) dHP LHS

www.hypno-health.org.uk