Hello, and welcome to the lecture on sexual abuse. When I started out as a hypnotherapist, I was quite naive. Back then, my hypnotherapy clients were mostly women. As they work more and more with women, I was shocked to discover how many had been sexually abused. they've experienced everything from inappropriate comments and touch to non consensual sex to flat out rape. After about three years, I guess most of the women that I'd worked with had experienced some kind of sexual abuse.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised if 70% of all women have experienced some type of sexual misconduct. Healing emotions regarding sexual abuse is a very delicate matter. First off, Many clients may not know they've been sexually abused denial and the inability to remember our necessary survival mechanisms to protect them from the horror that goes along with sexual abuse. Some clients may have a vague notion or a suspicion that maybe they have been sexually abused, but they're not quite sure. So there's always a timing component when working with emotions associated with sexual abuse. Your clients won't be able to face the issue until they are ready.
If you push your client into confronting the trauma too soon, you may do more harm than good. So be patient. let them decide when they're ready. When your client decides, start off with a symbolic technique, such as the flower This is a great starter technique because you won't need to visit your clients past the future. After the session, check back in with your clients to check the results. If the session was effective, it may be the only technique you will need to use.
If your client desires to go deeper and visit past trauma directly use age regression and the self forgiveness rebirthing techniques. Make sure to reframe the past. So the experience turns out the way your client desires. These sessions can be very intense, so be ready to be supportive. And at the end of each session, added with a strong positive feeling energy with a future progression to establish those new positive feelings into their future. Also, if it's appropriate, use a guide to add further reassurance.
These two additional techniques at the end of your session can add substantial inner strength to your client and they're going to need that When they go out and face the outer world so that's it for the strategies on sexual abuse. Please refer back to clinical hypnotherapy certification course part two, for directions on how to implement the suggested techniques. So now let's go to the next lecture and I'll see you there