Kevan Owen Hypnotherapy

Solution-focused ...because this helps you to formulate goals and be future oriented.

Brief ... because I will work with you for no longer than is necessary or beneficial.

Therapy... that does not dwell unduly on the past, but helps you to build on your own resources.

Whenever we give our attention to something we enter into a kind of trance state. If we constantly ruminate about some problem, we are in effect instructing our brain to perpetuate that very problem or difficulty. This is a powerful principle in psychology, that when attention is focused on an idea or pattern it tends to actualize itself. If we focus on the bad stuff, can we really be surprised when more bad stuff happens? If however we turn our attention to those areas and times in our life when a problem is absent, it allows for an opening, a way forward to new possibilities.

So in Solution Focused Therapy we do not dwell unduly on past problems. Understanding why a problem came about doesn't in itself solve the problem.

Instead of raking over the past we look at exceptions to the problem. We look at what's going right and we build upon that. Instead of digging for problems, we unearth resources and solutions, and collaborate in finding useful strategies for positive change.