TREATMENTS
Shed & Grow is a multi-modality therapeutic service dedicated to providing mind health care for families and individuals. Our mission is to create a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your thoughts and emotions and develop strategies to overcome life's challenges, big and small.
Experience the transformative power of psychotherapy & counselling with our certified therapist, guiding you to access your inner resources, break free from limiting beliefs, and make healthier changes in your life.
"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."
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Yoko Ono
At Shed & Grow, our experienced psychotherapist offers a range of combined or separate therapy treatment options (such as but not limited to):
🧡 Individual Counselling 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 CBT 🧡 Hypnotherapy 🧡 Couples or Group Counselling 🧡
Creative Art Therapy 🧡 Psychology 🧡 Hypno-fertility 🧡 Families - Parents, Youth & Children
🧡 Hypno-birthing 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy 🧡 Postpartum & Beyond
Addressing various mental and emotional health concerns, helping you gain insight, cope with difficulties, and improve your overall well-being. The therapy models and tools Shed & Grow uses for your therapy treatment depends on your presenting symptomology, personal preferences, individual assessment of your beliefs, objectives, desired outcomes and reason for attending therapy.
INDIVIDUAL
COUNSELLING
Counselling is talking about and working through your personal problems through verbal sharing and active and empathetic listening.
Individual counselling (also called dyadic therapy or individual psychotherapy) is the treatment of psychological difficulties conducted by one therapist and one client on a one-to-one basis. The sessions are tailored to the client's unique needs, exploring contributory factors and alleviating their symptoms (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
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Aristotle
Our Psychotherapist is a trained, objective professional with whom you can build a professional therapeutic and trusting relationship. As a therapist, she provides:
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A warm and safe space to address your problems or concerns.
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Assisting you in clarifying issues.
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Exploring treatment options.
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Developing coping strategies and increasing your self-awareness.
For some people, simply telling their story to a therapist and being listened to is helpful. The ultimate aim of counselling is to help you experience a better quality of life. Counselling can guide you in managing unwanted or unpleasant feelings, thoughts, and behaviours and aid in identifying your life goals and desired outcomes.
"When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible."
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Tina Lifford
Reasons for undergoing counselling can include (but are not limited to) seeking self-identity and purpose, gaining and sustaining more fulfilling relationships, postpartum challenges, and a better work and home environment.
"Counselling is a structured conversation aimed at facilitating a client's quality of life in the face of adversity."
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Johnson, (2000)
Counselling involves professional assistance in coping with personal problems, including emotional, behavioural, vocational, relationship, educational, rehabilitation, and life-stage (e.g., retirement) problems. The counsellor uses varied techniques such as active listening, guidance, advice, discussion, clarification, and the administration of tests. (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy focuses on the unconscious and conscious motivations for behaviour; it supports clients in building increased self-awareness. It facilitates the development of clients' overall growth, capabilities and well-being through the process of change.
Psychotherapy is an effective psychological intervention for a multitude of psychological, behavioural, and somatic problems, symptoms, and disorders and thus rightfully considered as a main approach in mental and somatic health care management (Prince et al., (2007); Goldfried, 2013).
Psychotherapy is holistic; it encompasses the client's mental, emotional, behavioural, relational, existential, past, present, future and spiritual health.
"We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too."
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Kristin Martz
Shed & Grow engages with each client in a co-created process of deep listening and empathic exploration of experience.
Together, you and our psychotherapist may explore social factors that shape your life, experiences, behaviours, and values, forming your understanding of who you are in your relationship with yourself and others and how you create meaning.
Aspects of problem-solving are integrated; this involves a deep structural adjustment of the psyche, which encompasses the context of you as a whole person.
"Don't spend all of your time trying to find yourself. Spend your time creating yourself into a person that you'll be proud of."
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Sonya Parker
The psychotherapist is an individual who has been professionally trained and licensed to treat mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders by psychological means. Psychotherapy (also called therapy; talk therapy) primarily uses forms of communication and interaction to assess, diagnose, and treat dysfunctional emotional reactions, ways of thinking, and behaviour patterns. Psychotherapy can be provided to individuals, couples, families, or members of a group. There are many types of psychotherapy, although generally, psychotherapy falls into four major categories: psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive therapy or behaviour therapy, humanistic therapy, and integrative psychotherapy. (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
CBT
CBT (cognitive behaviour modification or cognitive behaviour therapy) is a form of psychotherapy that integrates theories of cognition and learning with treatment techniques derived from cognitive and behavioural therapy. It assumes that cognitive, emotional, and behavioural variables are functionally interrelated. Treatment aims to identify and modify the client's maladaptive (self-sabotaging) thought processes and problematic (unhelpful) behaviours through cognitive restructuring and behavioural techniques to achieve change (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
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Gandhi
CBT is a goal-oriented, evidence-based psychotherapy treatment that has been scientifically proven effective in thousands research studies.
CBT is a time-sensitive, structured, present-oriented treatment that helps you identify your most important goals and overcome obstacles that get in your way.
“Often, automatic thoughts overestimate threats and underestimate our ability to deal with problems. Sometimes they become distorted, but we continue to accept them as true. These thoughts are the result of dysfunctional beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world, and they can be exaggerated by depression or anxiety. These thoughts can be identified, challenged, and replaced with more reasonable thoughts" (Lawrence Wallace, 2016).
CBT is based on Dr. Aaron T. Beck's (1960) cognitive model, which is the theory that how individuals perceive a situation is more closely connected to their reaction than the situation itself.
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
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Norman Vincent Peale
The model takes a hands-on, practical and conscious approach to problem-solving.
HYPNOTHERAPY
Experience the transformative power of hypnotherapy with our certified hypnotherapist, guiding you to access your inner resources, break free from limiting beliefs, and make positive changes in your life.
Hypnosis involves understanding your own mind and learning how to use your imagination and unconscious mind to transform a harmful mindset and thoughts into a more healthy function to manage and relieve you from emotional and psychological distress.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
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Albert Einstein
Hypnosis is a guided, blissful, relaxed, voluntary state of concentration.
Many of us unconsciously accept what our mind imagines and concocts as reality; however, our internal mind critics can be flawed and unreliable. A hypnotherapist guides, assists, and creates space for you to transform your limiting thought patterns and alter harmful thoughts, conflicting beliefs and behaviours that do not serve you well.
Through hypnosis, destructive thought patterns and our inner critical dialogue can be transformed and eradicated. Hypnotherapy instils new beliefs and helpful ways of thinking, embedding healthy thought pathways in your brain as you desire.
"Hypnosis is conceptualised and treated as a means of helping clients develop powerful personal resources that can be purposefully directed towards achieving their therapeutic goals."
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Yapko (2012)
Hypnotherapy (Also called clinical hypnosis) refers to the use of hypnosis in psychological treatment, either in brief psychotherapy directed toward alleviating symptoms and modifying behaviour patterns or in long-term reconstructive psychotherapy aimed at personality adaptation or change. Hypnotherapy may use one or a combination of techniques involving the administration by a trained professional of therapeutic suggestions to patients or clients who have been previously exposed to hypnotic induction. Discussions of hypnotherapies' clinical applications continue to stimulate controversy and scepticism; however, there is scientific evidence that hypnotherapy can be applied with success to a wide range of health problems such as; unpleasant physical symptoms(e.g., hypertension, asthma, insomnia, bruxism, chronic and acute pain management, chronic pain, IBS, migraines and nausea) habit modification (e.g., skin picking, addiction, overeating, smoking), mood, personality psychological injuries and anxiety disorders (e.g., phobias, anxiety, depression, trauma. PTSD and stress) and ease the birthing process and pregnancy symptoms. There is also some positive evidence demonstrating its effectiveness as an adjunctive therapy. See also automatic writing, direct suggestion, dream suggestion, Ericksonian psychotherapy, hypnoanalysis, and hypnotic regression) (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
See also: Hypno-fertility 🧡 Hypno-birthing 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy 🧡 Postpartum & Beyond
COUPLES OR
GROUP THERAPY & COUNSELLING
Our couples or group counselling sessions are tailored to meet your relational-specific needs, providing a confidential space for you to express your feelings and work towards relationship growth, harmony and healing.
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
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Bell Hooks
Couples therapy is therapy in which partners in a committed relationship are treated simultaneously by Shed & Grow's trained therapist. Couples therapy involves conflict resolution and working through problems and challenges within and between the individuals that affect the relationship. For example, one partner may have terminal illness, untreated or undiagnosed depression, trauma, or be dealing with loss or grief that is affecting the relationship, or both partners may have difficulty communicating effectively with one another. Individual sessions may be provided separately to each partner, particularly at the beginning of therapy; however, most of the therapy course is provided to both partners together (APA Dictionary of Psychology).
"People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialisation, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human contact."
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Irvin D. Yalom (1967)
Group Therapy (also called group psychotherapy) involves the treatment of psychological problems where two or more participants interact with one another on both an emotional and a cognitive level in the presence of Shed & Grow's trained psychotherapist who serves as a mediator, catalyst, facilitator, and interpreter. Using varied psychotherapy approaches, Shed & Grow aims to provide an environment where problems and concerns can be shared in an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding. Group therapy seeks to enhance self-respect, deepen self-understanding, and improve interpersonal relationships (APA Dictionary of Psychology).
“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”
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Bell Hooks
Group therapy can be helpful for blended families, families before, during and after separation, families experiencing loss, grief or facing terminal illness, friendship reparation, and adult children (siblings, parents, in-laws).
See also: 🧡 Individual Counselling 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 Families - Parents, Youth & Children
🧡 Hypno-birthing 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy 🧡 Postpartum & Beyond
CREATIVE ART THERAPY
Creative Art Therapy uses artistic activities in psychotherapy and rehabilitation, such as painting and clay modelling. Making art is seen as healing, an experience that allows one to express oneself imaginatively, authentically, and spontaneously; over time, this process can lead to personal fulfilment, emotional reparation, and transformation. The products made in art therapy are seen as a means of symbolic communication and a stepping stone for developing new insights and understandings, resolving conflicts, solving problems, and formulating new perceptions to achieve positive changes, growth, and rehabilitation (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
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Pablo Picasso
"An integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psycho-therapeutic relationship."(American Art Therapy Association, (2018)).
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
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Kurt Vonnegut
Creative Art Therapy is a non-verbal self-expression outlet for emotions and thoughts, allowing you to freely communicate and process your experiences through art-making, nature exploration, painting, drawing, or modelling.
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
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Edward Hopper
"A form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of expression and communication. Clients referred to art therapists are not required to have experience or skills in the arts. The art therapist's primary concern is not to make an esthetic or diagnostic assessment of the client's image. The overall goal of its practitioners is to enable clients to change and grow on a personal level through the use of artistic materials in a safe and convenient environment." (British Association of Art Therapists, 2015).
See also: 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 CBT 🧡 Hypnotherapy
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychological science is the empirical systematic scientific study of the human mind, behaviour and its functions in various contexts to improve all humans' quality of life and well-being in all their diversity.
Shed & Grow's therapy models and tools are backed by current clinical and counselling psychological science and are regularly re-evaluated for their credibility and altered or enriched with scientific advancements and knowledge.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.”“All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.”
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Albert Einstein
Counselling psychology specialises in facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan, emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns—such as improving well-being, alleviating distress and maladjustment, and resolving crises—and addresses issues from individual, family, group, systems, and organizational perspectives. The counselling psychologist has received professional education and training in one or more counselling areas, such as educational, vocational, employee, ageing, personal, marriage, or rehabilitation counselling, in order to emphasise the client's adaptation, adjustment, and more efficient use of the client's individual’s available resources. (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
Whereas clinical psychology specialises in the research, assessment, diagnosis, evaluation, prevention, and treatment of emotional and behavioural disorders. Clinical psychologists are doctorate-level professionals who have received training in research methods and techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of various psychological disorders. They work primarily in health and mental health clinics, in research, in academic settings, or group and independent practices. They also serve as consultants to other professionals in the medical, legal, social work, and community relations fields. Clinical psychologists are governed by the code of practice of the American Psychological Association and by Australian state licensing requirements (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2018).
Psychology is the scientific study of brain and behaviour, and the interactions between them. Those training in the field of psychological science (such as our therapist) are developing the skills to notice patterns, develop hypotheses, systematically test those hypotheses through measurement, draw conclusions, and use those conclusions to create or refine hypotheses in an ongoing process that continually gives us a more accurate and precise understanding of brain and behaviour. Psychology is not using gut intuition to understand people, making unfounded assumptions or mind-reading. Instead, psychology is doing careful background research. Psychology is the quest to carefully collect observations in a systematic and ethical way. Psychology is having a strong understanding of research methods, data analytics and the tools to carefully evaluate quality of scientific evidence. Psychology is having an awareness of validity, reliability, and generalisability of research findings to appropriately apply research in practice and future research while ensuring that ethical responsibilities are met (Machin & Gasson, 2022).
See also: 🧡 Individual Counselling 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 CBT 🧡 Hypnotherapy 🧡 Couples or Group Counselling
HYPNO-FERTILITY
Hypno-fertility is an effective, holistically alternative therapeutic model that can resolve subconscious blockages that may prevent a couple from achieving a successful (full-term) natural or assisted pregnancy.
Hypno-fertility supports, heals and empowers women and men to transition into and maintain the most ideal physical, mental and emotional state possible for a fruitful conception.
“In the garden of humanity, every baby is a fresh new flower.”
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Debasish Mridha
Hypnosis for fertility has been scientifically proven to significantly boost the chances of an infertile couple achieving conception naturally through an IVF cycle and/or other assisted reproductive procedures.
Hypnotherapy significantly improved the IVF/ET cycle outcome in terms of increased implantation and clinical pregnancy rates. Hypnosis doubled the conception success rate of IVF/ET treatments from 14% to 28% when the subjects underwent hypnosis during implantation.
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Levitas et al. (2006)
Hypnosis can effectively support you in your conception journey (natural or assisted) from the beginning to the end. Emerging with deep unconscious work on individual personal issues and fear clearing, moving into strengthening relationships, fruitful love-making and intimacy, continuing further into preconception, ovulation, fertilisation and implantation.
Hypnosis can continue to nurture and support a healthy pregnancy to full-term, aid in easing birthing and labour, support the carrying mother, partner or co-parent, and baby post-birth and beyond.
See also: 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 Hypnotherapy 🧡 Couples or Group Counselling 🧡 Families - Parents, Youth & Children
🧡 Hypno-birthing 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy 🧡 Postpartum & Beyond
THERAPY for FAMILIES -
PARENTS, YOUTH & CHILDREN
Shed & Grow understands the importance of family dynamics in mind health. Our family counselling sessions aim to strengthen relationships, enhance communication, and foster understanding within your family unit.
“I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.”
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Bell Hooks
Our psychotherapist has extensive prior knowledge in childhood development, (Dip. Children's Services), attachment theory and parenting with more than a decade of experience working closely with children and their families in home and professional childhood settings across NSW.
“Like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.”
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Suzy Kassem
Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the improvement of interfamilial relationships and behavioural patterns of the family unit as a whole, as well as among individual members and groupings, or subsystems, within the family. Family therapy includes many treatment forms with diverse conceptual principles, processes and structures, and clinical applications. Some family therapy approaches (e.g., object relations theory) reflect extensions of models of psychotherapy with individuals in the interpersonal realm, whereas others (e.g., structural family therapy) evolved in less traditional contexts. Most approaches emphasize contexts in which clinical problems arise. This accompanying systemic view potentially allows clinical attention to all levels of the organization of behavior, from the individual, to the family, and to the community. Family therapy models vary enormously in length, past versus present orientation, techniques used, and treatment goals. See also conjoint therapy; couples therapy; family group psychotherapy; family systems theory (APA Dictionary of Psychology).
“Living simply makes loving simple.”
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Bell Hooks
why? repairing speciffic relationsip, adult children siblings and parents or in laws, in laws , - Terminal illness, blended families, separation, trauma, loss or grief
More specifically Shed & Grow offers
Therapy for families, children, teens & parents to promote, guide and support: Secure and happy infants (0-2 yrs), Autonomous and vibrant toddlers (18 mths - 3 yrs)
Embodied and magically minded children
(3-9 yrs), Magnetic and mindful youngsters (9-12 years), Grounded and consciously thriving teens (12-19 years and onwards).
Group therapy can be helpful for blended families, families before, during and after separation, families experiencing loss, grief or facing terminal illness, friendship reparation, and adult children (siblings, parents, in-laws).
“Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence.”
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Bell Hooks
See also: 🧡 Individual Counselling 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 CBT 🧡 Hypnotherapy 🧡 Couples or Group Counselling 🧡 Creative Art Therapy 🧡 Psychology 🧡 Hypno-fertility 🧡 Hypno-birthing 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy 🧡 Postpartum & Beyond
Secure and happy infants
(0-2 yrs)
Autonomous and vibrant toddlers
(18 mths - 3 yrs)
Embodied and magically minded children
(3-9 yrs)
Magnetic and mindful youngsters
(9-12 years)
Grounded and consciously thriving teens (12-19 years and onwards)
Shed&Grow offers
Therapy for Families, Children, Teens & Parents...
HYPNO-BIRTHING
Experience the transformative power of hypnotherapy, guiding you (the birthing mother) to access your inner resources, break free from limiting beliefs, and access your desired birthing outcomes.
Self-hypnosis for birthing and labour teaches the expectant mother how to enter self-hypnosis instantly and create natural anaesthesia, ease and relaxation whenever and wherever she requires it.
“Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.”
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Kahlil Gibran
Through self-hypnosis, the expectant mother has full control over her body and becomes an active participant in the birthing process.
As labour progresses, she can relax even further, travelling deeper into herself, trusting in her own body’s natural ability to deliver her baby with ease and comfort.
See also: 🧡 Hypnotherapy 🧡Couples or Group Counselling 🧡 Hypno-fertility 🧡Families - Parents, Youth & Children 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy 🧡 Postpartum & Beyond
HYPNOSIS & THERAPY FOR PREGNANCY
Hypnosis used throughout the pregnancy, labour and birthing process is a process where expectant mothers and birthing partners are taught hypnosis and self-hypnosis techniques to relieve common pregnancy symptoms and complaints such as discomfort, pain, aches and stressors.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.”
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Albert Einstien
In addition, through the hypno-birthing process, expectant mothers can experience an easy, positive, more comfortable birth.
“Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.”
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Judy Ford
Pregnancy care encompasses (not just hypnosis) but all the multimodality therapeutic approaches of therapy offered by Shed & Grow (briefly described above) to treat expectant mothers with their psychological mind health and physiological symptoms throughout pregnancy, postpartum & beyond.
See also: ♥ Individual Counselling ♥ Psychotherapy ♥ Hypnotherapy ♥ Couples or Group Counselling ♥ Families - Parents, Youth & Children
♥ Hypno-birthing ♥ Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy ♥ Postpartum & Beyond
POSTPARTUM & BEYOND
Postpartum & beyond encompasses all the multimodality therapeutic approaches of therapy offered by Shed & Grow (briefly described above) to treat new (and old) parents with their psychological mind health (such as; post partum depressive disorders and psychosis) and physiological symptoms (such as; physical pain, fatigue, low milk supply, postpartum & beyond).
Studies indicate hypnotherapy for post-birth, pregnancy, and birthing couples improves overall pregnancy well-being and obstetric and post-birth outcomes for both mother and baby.
““A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.”
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Mary Mason
Research Studies show that the use of hypnosis for childbirth, pregnancy and post-birth results in:
🧡 More satisfying obstetric outcomes for mother and baby.
🧡 Increases opportunity for a healthy/strong attachment for mother and baby.
🧡 Prevents and reduces postpartum depression.
🧡 Higher Apgar scores (measurement of the baby’s well-being at birth)
🧡 Stimulation and reduction of lactation.
🧡 Reduces labour, pregnancy and post-birth fears, stress, stress symptoms, and anxiety disorders, including PTSD and anticipatory anxiety.
🧡 Better sleep.
🧡 Shorter hospital stays; post-birth.
🧡 Faster and smoother post-birth recovery.
🧡 Rapid post-birth weight loss.
See also: 🧡 Individual Counselling 🧡 Psychotherapy 🧡 CBT 🧡 Hypnotherapy 🧡 Couples or Group Counselling 🧡 Creative Art Therapy 🧡 Psychology 🧡 Hypno-fertility 🧡 Families - Parents, Youth & Children 🧡 Hypno-birthing 🧡 Hypnotherapy for Pregnancy
Consult your GP or healthcare professional if you are concerned about your health and well-being. Shed & Grow's treatments work alongside your medical healthcare as an adjunct, which can holistically enhance your overall healthcare and quality of life. Mind health is fundamental. Emotional, psychosocial, psychosomatic and psychological health is complementary to physical health and healing. Mind health restores the body, reducing problematic physical, emotional and psychological symptoms. Mind health improves sleep quality and prepares the body for better absorption of vitamins, minerals, medicines and medical treatment which promotes physical and psychological healing.
Physiological health benefits can be achieved through Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy mind and body health practices. However, Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy are not a replacement for medication, physical medical assessment or attention, especially for physical medical conditions and illness, severe psychological illness and conditions and/ or disabilities.
In an article from the Harvard University Gazette, Cromie (2003) reported on a study conducted by Carol Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professors of radiology at Harvard Medical School, which investigated the use of hypnosis to accelerate bone healing. The study found that individuals who underwent hypnosis healed more quickly than those who did not. Six weeks after a fracture, participants in the hypnosis group exhibited healing equivalent to 8.5 weeks of recovery.
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Reference: Cromie, W. J. (2003, May 8). Hypnosis helps healing. Harvard University Gazette. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/05/hypnosis-helps-healing-2/
Research shows that hypnosis effectively reduces anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. Although hypnosis has been more frequently studied and proven successful for pain management, some studies indicate additional benefits, such as reduced anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances (Accardi & Milling, 2009; Bernardy et al., 2011; Grondahl & Rosvold, 2008; Jensen & Patterson, 2014).
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References:
Accardi, M. C., & Milling, L. S. (2009). The effectiveness of hypnosis for reducing procedure-related pain in children and adolescents: a comprehensive methodological review. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 32(4), 328–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-009-9207-6
Bernardy, K., Füber, N., Klose, P., & Häuser, W. (2011). Efficacy of hypnosis/guided imagery in fibromyalgia syndrome - a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-12-133
Grøndahl, J. R., & Rosvold, E. O. (2008). Hypnosis as a treatment of chronic widespread pain in general practice: A randomized controlled pilot trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-9-124
Jensen, M. P., & Patterson, D. R. (2014). Hypnotic approaches for chronic pain management: Clinical implications of recent research findings. American Psychologist, 69(2), 167–177. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035644
Hammond (2010) reviewed extensive literature on the efficacy of hypnosis as a treatment and found strong evidence supporting hypnosis for treating state anxiety related to medical procedures, such as surgery and dental work; those undergoing hypnotherapy reported reduced anxiety, depression, and improved quality of life compared to standard care; additionally self-hypnosis training was found to be rapid, cost-effective, nonadditive and a safe alternative to medication for the treatment of anxiety-related conditions.
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References: Hammond, D. C. (2010). Hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety- and stress-related disorders. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 10(2), 263–273. https://doi.org/10.1586/ern.09.140
A substantial body of research demonstrates the efficacy of hypnosis as part of the integrative treatment of many conditions that traditional medicine has found difficult to treat. For some disorders (such as irritable bowel syndrome), the evidence for the efficacy of hypnosis is so robust that it could be argued that it is unethical not to inform patients about this treatment modality --
better evidence exists now supporting the use of hypnosis to relieve discomfort associated with many diagnostic and invasive procedures (Weisberg, 2008).
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Reference: Weisberg, M. B. (2008). 50 Years of Hypnosis in Medicine and Clinical Health Psychology: A Synthesis of Cultural Crosscurrents. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 51(1), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2008.10401639
See also: Scientific Literature for more of the latest research on mind health and the efficacy of therapy models provided by Shed & Grow.