Difference between Hypnosis and hypnotherapy

Basically hypnosis is the act of influencing someone to react to your suggestions.

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis in therapy to help people overcome conditions that are related to their subconscious. E.g. smoking, obesity, procrastination, confidence etc…


Short vs. long term results

Hypnosis - this is your short term results.
Hypnosis is used to influence a subject in one sitting to do, or react, to the hypnotists suggestions. You see this with stage hypnosis where you watch a show and the poor volunteer humiliates themselves. This kind of hypnosis requires a lot of practice to learn how to hypnotically induce in a social situation.

If you are looking for more of a one on one persuasion then conversational hypnosis is the art of using no hypnotic induction at all and using analogies, double binds and confusion techniques to influence your subject.


Hypnotherapy - This is your long term.
Most professional therapists these days are studying hypnotherapy because of the results that it brings. If you are suffering from any kind of condition (smoking and obesity are the most common) then hypnotherapy is used to provide many sit down therapy sessions where your hypnotherapist can induce you without you trying to resist. It helps to open your mind and allow your therapist find deep psychological “scars”. Once these “scars” are found then the work starts to heal them and give a permanent cure to your condition.


What should you use?
This boils down to what you want to learn or if you want help.

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  If you are looking to learn hypnosis and potentially become a hypnotist then study hypnosis.
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  If you are a looking for help then use hypnotherapy.
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  If you are looking for cheaper help then consider self hypnosis. (check my other posts for information on this)
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  If you want to become a hypnotherapist then I advise taking a course. If you want a reference then leave a message and I will email you directly.