Stammering/Stuttering

Also called dysphemia, about 450,000 adults in the UK suffer from this inability to speak fluently. The cause of stammering remains unknown but hypnotherapy can help sufferers to cope more easily with it by reducing the anxiety that often accompanies this condition. And when combined with speech therapy, hypnosis can also help you to speak more fluently. Direct suggestions to increase relaxation and boost self-esteem are also used, as well as hypno-desensitisation techniques, which can help you to stop avoiding anxiety-provoking situations. In addition, you're helped to focus on what you say, not how you say it.

THE EVIDENCE?
While it can't cure stammering, hypnotherapy is one of the therapies recommended by The British Stammering Association as 'being helpful for making long-term changes'.

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