hypnotherapy
noun
hyp·no·ther·a·py
ˌhip-nō-ˈther-ə-pē 
1
: treatment by hypnotism
2
: psychotherapy that facilitates suggestion, reeducation, or analysis by hypnosis
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In addition to breathwork and contrast therapy, the hotel also offers daily yoga or Pilates classes in a spacious Shala, weekly hypnotherapy, meditation and emotional freedom technique sessions, and boasts an infrared and chromolight thermal room with Himalayan salt tiles.
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Livia Hengel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
The new doctor suggested that Zack try one last treatment before surgery: hypnotherapy, in which a clinical professional helps a patient become deeply focused and relaxed in order to change their patterns of thinking.
—Kate Wheeling, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023
Dolores Cannon, who refined a method of regressive hypnotherapy by which subjects felt able to encounter their own past lives, has been an enormous consolation and inspiration to me during times of anxiety and 21st-century world-fear.
—New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
In the evening after his first hypnotherapy session, Zack felt nauseated but kept his dinner down.
—Kate Wheeling, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023
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Livia Hengel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
The new doctor suggested that Zack try one last treatment before surgery: hypnotherapy, in which a clinical professional helps a patient become deeply focused and relaxed in order to change their patterns of thinking.
—Kate Wheeling, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023
Dolores Cannon, who refined a method of regressive hypnotherapy by which subjects felt able to encounter their own past lives, has been an enormous consolation and inspiration to me during times of anxiety and 21st-century world-fear.
—New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
In the evening after his first hypnotherapy session, Zack felt nauseated but kept his dinner down.
—Kate Wheeling, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023
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hypnotherapy
noun
hyp·no·ther·a·py
-ˈther-ə-pē
plural hypnotherapies
1
: treatment by hypnotism
2
: psychotherapy that facilitates suggestion, reeducation, or analysis by means of hypnosis
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