Many of you will know that I have recently undergone some therapy and I promised to tell Moodscopers about it once it was finished (which it hasn’t quite yet as hoped)

A friend recommended this therapist for helping with my insomnia. She had tried him for a different problem with great success. I had been on a course of a new sleeping tablet called Diadoxerant or Quivivc which I had begged my GP to prescribe for me and had also bought it online when my GP wasn’t too keen and I couldn’t be sure she would allow me to have them. She did in the end but I had side effects so therapy seemed to me to be one of the few options left to me.

The therapy I have been receiving is called Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)

The guy rang me at an agreed time to see if he thought he could help me and if I was happy for him to treat me. That worked very well and we agreed a time the following week to start.

All good.

He works online so the first session started with technical difficulties and I wasn’t sure I was comfortable with him seeing my face not for any safeguarding reason just wasn’t used to video calls

It lasted two hours and at the end he asked me to relax and he practised a sort of hypnotherapy on me for the last 30 minutes which he turned into a recording for me to listen to at night every night for 21 days. He focused on sleep of course. He was and is lovely and I felt and still feel that he totally understands me. I never in a million years thought I would be happy with a male therapist. He’s a one in a million. Actually, quite well known in the world of RTT and he’s been on TV in the UK and the USA as well as writing in various journals and compiling You Tube videos.

I found it very demanding having to listen to the audio every night and sometimes listened to it during the day.  I missed it once.

But one night I slept through the night, unheard of. I was stunned. But it didn’t last. One of his videos described what he called push back which was what happened to me. After the initial success often people feel like giving up when it doesn’t seem to “work” any more. After a number of sleepless nights, I thought oh what the heck why bother. I can go back to how I was before. Less effort and actually was it that bad? I’ve lived with insomnia  for 30 odd years, why can’t I just live with it for a further 30 years?

Anyway he had scheduled a catch up session for two weeks ahead and then after the 21 days. I was in France and I felt like cancelling. I looked tired. How could I hide that on the video call and I didn’t want to disappoint him.  

I was feeing as if it was all too much, catch up calls, listening to an audio each night, focusing on sleep, making me feel I was failing if I hadn’t slept and so on. To be honest it was pretty hideous and all the time this wonderful person genuinely wanted to help me.

To cut a long story short (and I can write more at a later date if anyone is interested), something very unexpected has evolved. He’s made me feel better about myself and somehow made me not worry as much about not sleeping. I’ve had to pay for another half session (Not cheap) in addition to the first course.  Once I had explained how I felt that the emphasis was too much on helping me sleep, he changed tack and focused on me liking myself and that I would still enjoy myself with other people, still be good company, even after a bad night’s sleep. 

I was hoping my last session would be on the 15th but he wants to touch base in the new year. No charge. He’s just being caring and genuinely wants to help me despite me telling him he has. I’ve found the whole process exhausting and annoying and irritating at times and have dreaded the next video call but I do think it’s been worth it and yes he has hypnotised me twice. Or tried to.

Julia

A Moodscope member