Mindcraft Therapy in Retford

Here are my top 10 Tips for choosing a Hypnotheraspist. I hope you find them useful.

1.    Know what you want.  Think about your goal or outcome – what is it that you are going to achieve. If you don’t know what you are looking for how will you know if you get it?

2.    Ask around.  It’s always a good idea to ask your family and friends if they can recommend a hypnotherapist or if they know someone who has been to see one.  Most of my new clients come to me via recommendations from previous or existing clients.  Bad therapists don’t get recommended (at least not by friends).

3.    Look around.  If you can’t get a recommendation then spend time looking around for the right therapist.  Check out their name and/or company name on the Internet to see if anyone has anything to say about them, even if they’ve been recommended.  Look at the quality of their website – does it look professional without being too flashy?

4.    Don’t take too much notice of “Testimonials”.  As client information is confidential how can you know if a testimonial is even genuine let alone accurate?

5.    Don’t take too much notice of long strings of letters before or after a name, they’re easy to collect and are more to do with the therapists ego than their skills as a therapist.

6.    Make sure the hypnotherapist belongs to one of the major governing bodies such as The General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) – there should be a link from the therapist’s website to the governing body’s website. 

7.    Any genuine Hypnotherapist should be listed on the website of the governing body they claim to belong to and there should also be a link to the therapist from the Governing bodies’ website.

8.    Check that they have professional insurance. A hypnotherapist can only get professional insurance if they belong to a genuine governing body.

9.    If you want to, ask to see the Hypnotherapists qualification and insurance certificates when you visit.

10.  If a therapist has a problem with any of the above, walk away and find another one.

Mark Sheppard

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