Sequent Repatterning Therapy (SRT) is a specific hypnotherapy treatment developed in the UK to help individuals with Misophonia. It is a structured, multi-step process that uses Clinical Hypnotherapy, Parts Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to change the user’s physical and emotional responses to triggers by creating new, positive associations instead of the old, negative ones.
How Sequent Repatterning Works
- Focus on the physical reflex: SRT targets the involuntary physical reflex that occurs just before the emotional response to a misophonic trigger.
- Reprogramming responses: The therapy aims to create new links, connecting this physical reflex to a calm, positive state rather than the usual negative emotional response.
- Building new associations: Over a series of sessions, the therapy helps establish automatic, calm responses to triggers, while the old, negative links fade away.
- Underlying neuroscience: The process draws on memory reconsolidation, the brain’s natural ability to update and rewrite old emotional learnings, allowing for lasting change.
The Three Stages
Sequent Repatterning is a therapeutic framework. It approaches treatment of Misophonia in three stages: a pre-therapy phase, a foundation phase and an active therapy phase. Usually pre-therapy consists an initial discussion and diagnostics, assessment and an individual’s opportunity to understand the process and its potential. Including the foundation session, the therapy process itself is usually planned over eight sessions, often at weekly intervals, with activities between the sessions.
Sequent Repatterning is not a rigid protocol but a therapeutic framework utiliising aspects of deep relaxation and proven psychotherapeutic techniques. The deep relaxation is usually achieved using clinical hypnotic induction. For this reason the therapy is sometimes referred to as Sequent Repatterning Hypnotherapy.
This therapy is called sequent because it is a contiguous series of steps, each building on the previous interaction between client and therapist and, itself, paving the way for the next. It is called repatterning because it doesn’t simply create a new pattern, a new neural network that is, alongside the old. It doesn’t just remove the unwanted pattern, either. It replaces the established, uncomfortable pattern with one that is better.
Your therapist will always explain at each step in the process what will be done, what it is intended to achieve and how it will happen. Sequent Repatterning is an integrated, effective and proven treatment for Misophonia: developed to work on the symptoms of Misophonia. It is not just about managing better or finding coping mechanisms. Sequent Repatterning can bring about positive, permanent change in a person’s experience.
SRT can be carried out in person or online anywhere in the world, and is usually 8-10 ONE hour sessions. $100 per session.
Contact Ian Blaine on (0272) 731191 for further information or to book a first session.
ianblainenz@gmail.com