In 2000 Trevor Silvester started the worlds first Cognitive Hypnotherapy School, The Quest Institute. In 2011 a group of Quest Trained Cognitive Hypnotherapists and their clients took part in a unique research project.
Clients with anxiety and depression were assessed using the same outcome measures currently used to assess the effectiveness of talking therapies, such as Counselling and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) within the NHS.
When this pilot study was published in the Mental Health Review Journal in 2015 it recorded that…