Clinical Hypnotherapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain with Geordie Thompson, Hypnologic Solutions

Geordie is a Clinical Hypnotherapist with a focus on helping clients resolve persistent symptoms such as overactive bladder and bladder urgency, IBS and chronic pain conditions including bladder and pelvic pain. Geordie helps clients develop an understanding of the mind body connection and how emotions can influence the perception of sensations in their bodies.

Hypnotherapy helps clients move from cognitive processing to more limbic processing, in effect moving from asking “why this is happening?” to “how is my body doing this?” and “how can I change the signals?”

Hypnotherapy has been used for pain management for many years and is a safe and empowering therapy that works well as a complimentary approach to the traditional bio-medical interventions.

In this session, Geordie will expand some of the approaches used in clinical hypnotherapy and present a case study on bladder urgency.

 Learning outcomes:

1. Describe how hypnotherapy interacts with the peripheral, core and autonomic nervous systems

2. Explain the relationship between the Polyvagal Theory and Multiple Brain Models in the pain process

3. Apply pain reprocessing and reframing techniques to support pain reduction and management 

4. Outline how language reframing in hypnotherapy assists in pain reduction and management.