Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, Special Mega Annual Issue 15 June 2019 | Page 8

child in the experience so that he may respond or act with the adult wisdom
for a more favourable outcome.
For clients who have achieved some success in their lives, whether through
marriage and family or career, I often guide the client to share with the child
that those childhood experiences were a catalysts for success. This often
pleases the inner child, bringing a sensation that the painful experience
was somehow purposeful.
Once the inner child achieves adult understanding, it may be appropriate
for the client to address the offending parties from the inner child’s
perspective. Communicating how the client felt at the time of the event or
experience gives voice to the voiceless. For those experiencing
depression, this can be quite powerful indeed. Forgiveness can be
achieved if the client is ready and willing.
It is this experience alone that helped a highly anxious and depressed
client request that his psychiatrist reduce his pharmaceutical medications in
half. It is only in our fourth and final session that I learned that this client no
longer had ruminating fears that enveloped his daily life prior to hypnosis.
He had not disclosed these fears to me in prior sessions.