Hypnotherapy Managing Stress in the Workplace

The Mental Health Foundation (2016) report that people with mental health issues find there is a social stigma associated with mental ill-health and that the discrimination they experience can actually have a negative influence on their lives, worsen their difficulties and make it harder to recover. Furthermore, despite the Equality Act 2010 making it illegal to discriminate against people with mental health problems in many aspects, including work and education, people can still experience this stigma in numerous ways. Yet, most people who experience mental health problems never fully recover or develop satisfactory coping and management strategies.

Hypnotherapy for stress management

Workplace stress can refer to experiences where the demands placed upon an individual exceed their ability to cope. This will vary from individual to individual and addressing workplace stress can require a holistic and flexible approach. Despite an ever-increasing understanding of the health effects of workplace stress, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE 2016) reported that the number of cases of stress in the workplace has remained broadly constant for the past decade. Stress and anxiety are areas where hypnotherapy can be highly effective in generating positive and beneficial change.

Cognitive hypnotherapy?

Cognitive hypnotherapy is the application of hypnotherapy to address unhelpful and unwanted beliefs and thoughts. The main goal of cognitive hypnotherapy is to create more helpful, healthy beliefs as well as challenge and remove unwanted ones.

Cognitive hypnotherapy relies on the teachings of cognitive psychology and the study of mental processes – the things that happen in the brain when we act and react to situations in our daily lives. Our cognitions (or thoughts) are what can help us to make sense of what we perceive, as well as influence our language, memory, creativity, reasoning and problem-solving skills, and our learning abilities.