Learning to be an effective hypnotherapist does not mean learning the technique to use with everyone.

In this topic, Gil discuses the giving of praise and credit to clients.

Never give the client the impression that you are a ‘detective” searching for clues, instead, give them the impression that they are always sharing in the responsibility for the success of the work

Revivification is the recollection of an event with such clarity, intensity and detail that it becomes an experience of seemingly reliving the original event. This intense reorientation into the past is possible with hypnosis and can be remarkably useful therapeutically.

Therapists should do whatever is necessary to motivate clients. The therapist can serve as a source of comfort, hope, confidence, or inspiration as well as the source of frustration, discomfort anger and fear.