Clinical Specialism
Habits & Tics
Habit Reversal Training (HRT) and clinical hypnotherapy for nail biting, hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking, thumb sucking, and tics.
Seans Süresi50-60 Dk
Protokol4 - 6 Seans
FormatOnline Video
Clinical Assessment & Treatment ProtocolMindtherapia Protocol
Habits & Tics
Unwanted habits, Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs), and tics often emerge automatically as attempts to regulate stress, boredom, frustration, or internal tension.
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Common Areas We Address
- Nail Biting (Onychophagia): As highlighted by American Psychological Association (APA, 2016) research, nail biting is closely linked not only to nervousness but also to perfectionism, impatience, and tension regulation.
- Hair & Eyelash Pulling (Trichotillomania): Pulling hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes during moments of tension or automatic absorption.
- Skin Picking (Excoriation) & Lip Biting
- Thumb Sucking
- Simple & Complex Motor/Vocal Tics: Involuntary movements or sounds such as eye blinking, shoulder shrugging, or throat clearing.
- Stuttering-Related Anxiety & Tension Management
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Habit Reversal Training (HRT) & Hypnotherapy
Within Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, we combine hypnosis with Habit Reversal Training (HRT) across 5 structured steps:
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Awareness Training: Bringing unconscious triggers, early warning sensations, and automatic movements into conscious awareness.
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Competing Response Training: Replacing the habit urge with an inconspicuous, physically incompatible healthy action.
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Relaxation Training: Soothing the underlying nervous tension through hypnosis and controlled breathing.
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Motivation & Hypnotic Reinforcement: Mentally rehearsing freedom from the habit to break the automatic loop.
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Generalisation: Extending mastery across everyday environments and high-stress situations.
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Why Mindtherapia CBH?
- •More than talk therapy—somatosensory training and self-hypnosis mastery.
- •Lifelong autonomous self-regulation and anxiety control anchors.
- •Brief, structured, and clinically validated methodology.