Sexual problems, both male and female, are becoming more and more common for me, as a hypnotherapist, to treat. Therefore, I felt it was time to post up one of my case studies. I tend to keep my case studies fairly brief for a couple of reasons, one is that I don’t want to go into great detail about techniques used in case someone with a limited knowledge of hypnotherapy tries to use the information to treat clients in an area they are neither qualified, nor experienced in. Secondly, they make easier reading!
The erectile dysfunction case that I’m going to describe here is a fairly typical one. The client had three sessions, which is about average for me. He also had no physical reasons for the dysfunction.
This particular client found that he could gain an erection during foreplay but would be unable to maintain it long enough for intercourse. The problem started in his early 20’s, he was 30 years old when I treated him.
As with most people in this situation (including women with vaginismus), the problem had become progressively worse with time. As well as the embarrassment that most non-sufferers would imagine, he also felt that he let his partners down, wasted their time, worried they might think he didn’t find them attractive, worried about living up to their expectations.
He had some success using Viagra and often found that once he had intercourse successfully in a relationship, the problem would lessen but the anxiety and worries of it happening again would always be there. When he booked in at my Manchester hypnotherapy clinic, he had recently started a new relationship and was concerned this would become physical soon.
The first hypnotherapy session was aimed at combatting the problem from two angles. First of all, leaving the client with a post-hypnotic anchor that could be triggered consciously to reduce the anxiety. Secondly, to start work on the subconscious part of the problem, again predominantly regarding the anxiety.
At the second session, the client reported improvements in the anxiety and that he had oral sex with his partner but then the old nagging feeling kicked in but by then it was so late at night they were both tired anyway so she was not aware of the problem. The client also opened up more about the earliest instances of the problem. The hypnotherapy techniques used in this session were a combination of self-esteem techniques, along with age regression back to the earliest negative sexual experiences. His girlfriend was due to stay with him the following weekend and we agreed that he would contact me on the Monday.
This time the client reported that the old anxiety had disappeared completely. Without Viagra, he had intercourse twice per night over the weekend and said that it felt “completely natural” and that it no longer felt like a hurdle that he had to overcome in the realationship.
My client, did however, decide to have a third session “just to make sure the changes remain permanent”. This hypnosis session was designed not only to do this but also to boost his confidence that the change had been made and was permanent.
As with most of my case studies, I don’t post them up until at least twelve months after the client was treated. I don’t class the treatment of any problem or condition as having been successful until the client has been free of the problem for at least a year.
If you are reading this and have the same, or a similar, sexual problem then please be aware that drugs are not always necessary to solve it. Any suitably qualified, experienced and reputable hypnotherapist should be capable of achieving these results. There are also other complementary therapies that can help and of course, the information doesn’t end up on your medical record.
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