Can Hypnotherapy Change the Subconscious Mind?

Many of our responses happen automatically rather than through deliberate conscious decisions. For example, someone may automatically become anxious in a particular situation, reach for food when stressed, criticise themselves after making a mistake or become tense when faced with something they fear.
Hypnotherapy can be used to work with these learned patterns by helping a person focus attention, access different perspectives and develop new associations and responses.
The term “subconscious mind” is commonly used in hypnotherapy to describe processes outside our immediate conscious awareness. It should not be thought of as a mysterious separate brain controlling everything we do.
Therapeutic change generally involves learning. When new ways of thinking, feeling and responding are repeatedly experienced, they can become increasingly familiar.
This is why hypnotherapy may be particularly useful when someone understands intellectually what they want to change but continues to react differently automatically.