Frequently Asked Questions

Why is an assessment consultation important?

This appointment will allow you to meet me before deciding to proceed into therapy and for me to assess how to best present this programme to help you. This also provides you with the opportunity to answer any questions you may have and to clarify your understanding of what this therapy focuses on.

The 'Power of Change' programme is unique and very powerful for those who commit to it. For many, the changes are quick, intense and very productive. To ensure that you will benefit most from working with this programme, we need to assess the suitability of this programme based your circumstances and discuss the possible outcomes for you.

More importantly, the assessment is when the groundwork is done to ensure the best possible outcome. Through the discussion, the intentions and readiness of change is focused for optimal progress.

You have the options of making an appointment for an assessment only or for an assessment flowing into a full session.

Why do other hypnotherapists not require an assessment consultation?

True Essence works in a way that aims to empower you to discover the essential power of change within you. So, this is not a straighforward case of being hypnotised to change a behaviour, feeling or thought. Most people experience changes across many aspects of their life - including the original issue that brought them to therapy plus improvements in relationships, career choices, emotional balance 'peace' and mental clarity of their life direction.

This programme aims to work with your complete personality ... mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I need to be sure that you understand the changes that you may experience before we embark on any form of therapy.

Because the changes can be very powerful and for many, they have expressed it as 'life changing', it is my responsibility to ensure that the programme is presented at its optimal.

For those who want just a straight hypnosis therapy, I can refer them to my fellow colleagues.

That sounds complicated. Is it?

No. Far from being complicated, it is fairly easy and simple. Simple things often works wonders, however people have been conditioned to believe that things have to be complicated to work or to mean something. That's a misconception.

Some clients even go to the extent of expressing that the process seems "too easy". They have wondered how something so simple can effect change so easily and quickly.

As the saying goes ... KISS = "Keep it Simple Spirit". I have replaced the negative synonym with "Spirit" because when we live in the spirit of things, nature flows gracefully. When we recognise our spiritual essence, we can enjoy the effects of change as a child would.

Is the 'Power of Change - Re-Emergence' programme for everyone?

This programme is best suited for individuals who are absolutely ready to embark on their adventure of life through the journey of change. Those who are ready to be responsible for their personal success in their unique natural way will enjoy and grow in leaps and bounds long after the end of this programme.

For those who want to only give it a try, I'd recommend a different course of process prior to embarking on this programme.

Everyone is different and we all change as we develop throughout life. As we change, our needs change. My recommendation would be to check with your sense of self. I often ask people why they chose to see me instead of the other therapists they enquired about. The most common answer was ... "I can't really give a reason. I just felt like this was just the right thing for me." Some even said that they have tried going to several other therapists but they just knew there was something different when I explained my process to them.

I have even had several people who return 6 months after having the assessment appointment to begin their course of therapy. Throughout this time, they have experienced various changes and one day, they find themselves thinking that they are now ready to embark on this change. So ... you are the best judge of what will suit you best.

There is a time for everything. Very much like a fruit that is ripe and ready for the picking, will naturally drop when it is ready. If one picks the fruit forcefully and tries to ripen it prematurely, the fruit may not be as sweet or succulent. When we are able to enjoy each step of our journey, we are able then to make the best of each experience.

The most important thing to consider before you embark on any therapy is how you feel about the therapist.

I want to be hypnotised, be told what to feel or do, wake up and not have to do anything else. Can't I just be hypnotised?

Of course you can, if that is your choice. It is perfectly a normal desire to just hope for change to happen with the blink of an eye. Hypnosis is more than just being hypnotised and being programmed with a new version of thought or belief systems. In a simplistic way, that is the easiest way to describe this.

However, even when we upgrade a computer or load on a new computer programme, we still need to ensure that whatever we are loading on is compatible with the computer or we may end up corrupting existing files and causing errors.

I am not good at following any processes, so I don't want to do anything. I just want to wake up a different person.

Would you give your car keys to Joe Bloggs and tell him ... "I am all yours and these are my preferences. You take me where ever you think is right for me"? I think not. We all like to achieve our goals and feel the success of the investment of our energies and focus.

You are not a car that you take into your garage to have it serviced at the whim of the mechanic. I imagine that before the mechanic starts on any changes, you want to know what they plan to do, how they hope to do this, what they wish to achieve from this and you'd see if it would really be something you want to have in your car. Otherwise, if you take a manual car in, you may end up with an automatic car with modifications that don't meet your needs.

Paul McKenna's TV series "I Can Change Your Life" had a lady who was house bound for a few years. In the short period of and hour and a half, she was out walking around the block. She had her freedom back and could go places with ease after just one session. This lasted for about 3 weeks after which her symptoms slowly crept back in. So ... Yes, with hypnosis change can be effected but for long lasting change, your minds (conscious and subconscious) has to be working in alignment.

Hypnosis can help you clear out an untidy and outdated wardrobe instantaneously and of course once it is tidied up, you will feel fantastic for a few weeks while it remains tidy. However, if you continue to fill the wardrobe with thoughts, feelings and behaviours you had before, it is only a matter of time that you will feel the wardrobe is bursting out for attention again.

As Henry Ford said, "If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got."

Why is True Essence hypnotherapy different to classical hypnotherapy?

True Essence hypnotherapy works with the fundamentals of hypnotherapy techniques however, we focus on an outcome that is true for your essence.

This programme works with your complete personality ... mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. The changes occur because it aims to help you connect to your true desires, strengths and reasons for change. Therefore the changes happen from within instead of being induced from suggestions introduced externally. That way, the effects of the change are long term.

An Effective goal is not driven by urgency or reaction. It is something we feel deep inside that we need to do. And it is in harmony with our mission and true inner principles. (Author unknown)

At the end of the therapy, the programme aims to help you realise, feel and believe that the changes have happened because of you and your own strengths, confidence and sense of self. Changes do not happen because of hypnosis or me (Pauline). It works to help you discover how powerful you are. Most individuals who complete the programme find themselves able to recreate the success in different aspects of their life throughout the future. That is what I call empowerment.

How often to I need to come back for top-up sessions?

Top-up sessions are not required once change happens from within.

Once you have learnt your mathematics (addition, subtraction, multiplication tables etc), it is with you for the rest of your life. We don't ever need to relearn that. Sometimes, if it has not been used for a little while, it may take a little longer to do a maths question, however the more we practice, the ability returns to your consciousness very quickly.

Some clients call or email me months or years later to express how life has changed and how much they still use the techniques we shared. Of course they have also gained new skills along the way and that's fantastic. I am only one step along their full and wonderful experience of life.

For those who choose to make a follow up appointment about 6 months or a year later, they do so because they recognise that there is something that needs clarifying in their future and they wish to move further into the next stage of clarity. There is no need to re-address the same issue they originally came for.

I do my job best based on the knowledge and skills that I have. Your responsibility is in carrying on the wonderful work beyond your achievements gained throughout the time we work together.

True Essence does not have the answers to your questions and process of life. All we do is help you access the answers within you much easier. So instead of telling you how you are going to feel from now on, you begin to learn how to create a space where your complete personality can discover its powerful wonders in life.

Do I need to have rapport with the therapist? I have been to many different types of therapy before and they found it difficult to build rapport with me.

This can be a common difficulty that some people experience. Mainstream therapy including counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy etc. has a basis of rapport building prior to the beginning of a successful therapy. Sometimes this happens instantaneously while others may take a little while to achieve. For some, if the difficulty to build rapport, is the main issue for seeking therapy, the therapist has to be able to look beyond this and work with what is truly presented by the client.

While I recognise that rapport building is important, I work to build connections to the whole personality (conscious and unconscious) included. Rapport is not essential in the process of change. A successful therapy is determined through the ability for awareness and change that is affected in the best interest of the client, by the client him or herself.

Through building a connection with the true essence of your personality, we can easily get straight to the core instead of having to beat around the bush with life conditioned reservations. The true essence of a person knows intuitively whom to trust and open up to and to what extent.

What if I have difficulty opening up to talk about my problem?

Because we will be working with the deeper aspects of your personality and consciousness, we will be communicating in the sub-conscious mind's natural language. Sometimes we may know that we are sad and if we were to talk about our feelings consciously, we may express that we are 'sad'. However, when we look further into it, we realise that within that feelings of being sad also contains the feelings of 'frustration, disappointment, anger, hope and other emotions that really have to one word to express it.' Therefore in True Essence hypnotherapy, the client may not need to talk about the problem.

Further to that, many clients return to their second session sharing that they have come to a realisation that the problem that brought them to therapy in the first place was not the real problem they wanted to work with. The subconscious knows the best order in which issues need to be addressed.

There have been people who have sought therapy to end drug addictions who realise that they have carried guilt in their life or that they have been trying to manage ADHD through the use of drugs. Stopping smoking may have embedded within it a desire to build respectful relationships in their life. Weight loss may have behind it a holding back of pain experienced arising from a loss of a loved one. There are so many possibilities and each person is completely different. No matter what it is ... when the person realises their truth and reasons for the addictions, depression, anxieties etc, the need for them diminishes.

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