Beyond The Identity of Hypno/Therapist

Beyond the Identity of Hypno/therapists

Being a family therapists for me is as much about my own growth as it is about my clients, I personally believe I’m present as an equal although me and my client are different in many ways there exists a sameness about us also.

Unfortunately this sense of equality is not often taught and very rarely comes up in supervision or professionals meetings

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Being a therapist or hypnotist can become an identity, our own sense of self can then get funnelled in to that identity, how we dress, what we say, how we sound what we write, read and talk about almost in my case to obsessional levels, and so on until it becomes automatic and then this self created identity of being/doing therapy/hypnosis which can then mean we put the people we meet in the counter role of client even if that is not the relationship.

I got to thinking that much more of what I do what I bring, my sense of being the essence of who I ‘am comes from my life experiences, my clients and has nothing to do with my formal training be that academic or otherwise.

I believe in good training and the continual pursuit of excellence through personal growth, there is for me though a time where my personality, my experience and my clients allow me to move beyond and identity and begin to innovate and create and educate myself and my practice from the whole of who I’ am, I’ve found that when I let go of how I think I should be as a therapist and just allow myself to be in the moment, relaxed and not trying to have all the answers or sound all knowing I do much better work.

I also do my best and I don’t always succeed of not being a therapist all the time I take time off and I’m just Nath, Dad, Friend, Son, Uncle and I’m discovering just how much fun those identities can be too.

Smiles Nath