HazelGale

Great question. We have intentionally kept the game itself free of mentions of specific diagnoses because we want it to apply to people who struggle with all the usual human stickiness, regardless of whether they've been given a name for it by a doctor or therapist. The most common problems people tackle are anxiety-related issues (social anxiety, etc), low-level depression, low self-esteem, bad habits, etc.

Ha ha! Yeah, I think I accidentally made an enemy or two here. The joys of Reddit?

I hope you enjoy the game!

Lily, I saw your tweet the other day about having OCD and still being messy. I love that you’re busting that stereotype. Are there any other OCD cliches that you like to rumble?

Yes, I’m sorry. That was very sloppy texting. I shouldn’t have used the word “proven”.

But I absolutely do believe in my style of therapy, yes. I think most critics of hypnotherapy just think we’re claiming to do something we’re not. I don’t believe people can be brainwashed or forced to do anything by a therapist, and I wouldn’t want to be in the field if that was our aim. We help people to recognise their emotions and thought processes, and build better patterns of behaviour (often through repeated visualisation of the desired behaviour, which has been shows to be effective in lots of studies, but I don’t have the time to dig them out, I’m afraid!)

This is a big, big question! I don't think neuroscience has the answer yet (although countless studies have suggested that hypnotic suggestion does have an effect).

I see hypnotherapy as effective communication. Nothing more than that. Just a conversation. Most clients come to the therapy room feeling split -- they know one thing to be true, but feel something else. What we aim to do is to connect conscious understanding with unconscious reactions by discussing the issue, raising self-awareness and finding ways to communicate something new at the unconscious level. This can be done in many ways, but the most powerful, in my mind, involve creative imagery imagined by the client themselves. Ultimately, they have the answers already, it's just about training themselves to remember and use that information.

Note: I should add that this game is not a Hypnotherapy game.