DLScott CH.t. / CDP / AASD
I was recently working with a client, using my services as a Seattle Hypnotherapist, and counselor, at a conference for recovering addicts and abusers. After one particularly case, I was elated at the  response from the client. He had been dealing with the after effects of sexual abuse he had received from an older teenage boy in the neighbor where he grew up, since he was about 9 years old.

The older boy use to hold bible classes with him, the subject was almost always about the sins of man, and how the SNAKE would always trick and seduce him. The the older boy always used his own snake to embelish the lesson, and the young man put up with it until he was old enough to leave home.  The man had spent much of his adult life trying to drown out the feelings with various drugs, and repeated sexual encounters where he recreated the same situations in which he could continue to prove to himself that he deserved the humilation, abuse, and pain that the older boy had inflicted upon him. The continued drug induced sexual encounters eventually lead to a diagnosis of HIV / AIDS.

As I explained to the man, who was having trouble even sitting in the room alone with another male, this was not intended to be a magic cure, or intended to replace any other therapy that he was encountering. What the process was intending to do was to help him let go of the extreme emotional response that he was experiencing due to the memories he carried with him.

The story was not an uncommon one, the man grew up with a great deal of guilt and shame heaped upon him due to the fact that he was gay, but he also grew up carrying around the guilt and shame of a continuous sexual relationship with this older boy that my client felt he felt was his responsiblity and his fault, because in someway he knew that he was different from other boys, even at the young age of 9, and it was because he was different that the older boy had sought him out and used him for sexual services.

Please be aware that this situation could have just as easily been between a young girl and an older boy, and it would have been just as devestating, (in fact I have worked with clients under those circumstances), but this particular case had the added peice that the young man had already been taught by society that his own feelings for his same gender made him less than, and in someway unclean, and worthy of the abuse.

As a seattle hypnotherapist, and emotionl release therapy specialist, (working a lot in the gay and lesbian community), I have found that by using hypnosis and emotional release therapy to help in the forgiveness process, my clients are able to let go of deeply held feelings of shame, and guilt that have kept them stuck with feelings of low self worth, low self esteem, and often times issues of chemical addiction or abuse.  

Working as clinical coordinator for Project NEON, a Public Health funded program in King County, located in Seattle Wa., for over nine years, I have been able to develop many tools and skills that help gay and lesbian community members break through issues of internalized homophobia, and learn to accept who they are without the shame and guilt. 

At the end of the session with the above client he was smiling and told me that this was the first time in many, many, years that he could actually breath easily while sitting in a room with another male. I explained to him that this was due to the nature of the hypnotic induction, and the fact that he had been able to let go of traumatic emotional baggage through the application of emotional release therapy.

Many people have trouble with the whole idea of forgiveness. They believe that to forgive someone for what they have done, is like letting the person off of the hook for their behavior. In truth the act of forgiving, is not about the other person, but it is about “giving up all hope of having a better past”.  When you are able to really forgive someone, you will find that you are able to lift a big weight off of your own shoulders. You can, as my client said, breath again for the first time in many years. 

Using hynosis, when applied by a qualified Hypnotist / Hypnotherapist, and state cerified counselor, can and does speed up the process, making it easier, and sometimes more long lasting. As an emotional release therapist, I can assure that this is true as I have witnessed this with many of my clients.

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