Hypnotherapy is a heightened state of concentration, meditiation, and focused attention. Guided by a trained, certified hypnotist or hypnotherapist, hypnosis allows people to be more open within one's perceptions, sensations, emotions, memories, thoughts or behaviours, in order to access deeply stored emotions and behaviours.

Hypnotherapy is a type of psychological therapy that uses hypnosis to help treat certain mental and physical health conditions. Placing the body under an altered state of consciousness, a hypnotherapist can guide their client through inner experiences such as feelings, cognition and imagery. By doing so, a client is able to recall memories, thoughts, feeling, emotions, and stored senses within the subconscious mind.

One may seek out a hypnotherapist to change habits and behaviours, reduce stress and anxiety, to process emotional blocks, to improve self-confidence and worth, for spiritual expansion, and many more reasons.

In Ancient Greece, Temples of Asclepius carried out 'enkoimesis' (ritual sleep) where patients entered trance states to receive symbolic healing dreams.

In Ancient India & Tibet, Yogic and meditative trance practices were used to access deeper mental states for healing and insight.

In the late 18th century, Franz Mesmer, a German physician, developed 'mesmerism' , the idea that an invisible force flowed through the body. James Braid, a follower of Mesmer who followed his work then coined the word ‘hypnosis', originating from the Greek word for ‘sleep’.

Later, in the mid-19th century, Josef Breuer, an Austrian physician and colleague of Sigmund Freud, treated a patient named Anna for 'hysteria' using hypnosis, which became a significant case within the historical practice of hypnotherapy. Freud also explored the unconscious process of hypnosis as a form of alleviation for his clients.

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