Hypnotherapy for Vaginismus in Sydney
Sydney Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor Samantha Jones can help you overcome vaginismus with hypnosis via our proprietary Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™.
What is Vaginismus?
Vaginismus is a painful involuntary spasm of the vaginal muscles and pelvic floor muscles.
It makes sexual intercourse difficult and stressful, gynecological examinations and thus physical treatment options impractical, and even tampon insertion near impossible and extremely uncomfortable.
Unsuccessful attempts with making love can lead to high anxiety, shame and embarrassment, which further perpetuate the negative experience intimacy leads to.
Even the mere thought, possibility or suggestion of sexual encounters can make the muscles surrounding the opening of the vagina sensitive and prone to seizing up.
Types of Vaginismus
There are two types of vaginismus.
Primary vaginismus:
Vaginal penetration has never been achieved in sexually active women
Secondary vaginismus:
Sex was possible in the past, but now is not (due to trauma, stress, surgery, radiation, menopause or some other factors).
Women with this kind of sexual dysfunction will often be struggling in silence and judging themselves against what they perceive others are experiencing, and what they see represented in the movies.
Regardless of type, this condition can really challenge relationships in destructive ways and send self-esteem plummeting.
Causes of Vaginismus
Underlying causes may include psychological factors such as sexual trauma from the past, anxiety, phobias, a history of sexual abuse, self-esteem issues among others.
Often clients see their issue as a physical condition; however, they come to realise that successful treatment of vaginismus involves resolving psychological aspects via our proprietary Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™, their own homework (if desired) with physical aids such as dilators, etc.
The good news is that we can help you!
Like many women seeking help to overcome vaginismus, you have arrived here looking for answers for yourself or someone you care deeply about.
The great news is that North Shore & City Hypnotherapy Sydney can provide you with relief from this condition.
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist & Counsellor Samantha Jones is female and has more than 25 years’ experience in this field.
Samantha has successfully helped many clients just like you, to have active healthy sex lives and feel relaxed, comfortable and at ease with medical procedures requiring vaginal examination.
Whether your vaginismus is primary or secondary, no matter what the cause, we can help you achieve the satisfying sexual intimacy and sexual confidence you desire by helping you with arousal and lubrication, relaxation and that zen-like chill factor so you can just be in flow and let things unfold effortlessly.
We can also help you to relax with gynecological procedures and medical exams, as well as being able to use feminine hygiene products with absolute ease like a pro!
Optimal Evolution™: Hypnotherapy Tailored to YOU
Every client is different and every Session will be unique, depending on the goal, therapies and techniques used within our Optimal Evolution Hypnotherapy System™.
No two women with vaginismus are the same.
Even if the symptoms appear identical, what is driving the behaviours, sensations and feelings is going to be somewhat different, because your life experience is unique.
Samantha will help you achieve lasting change quickly, effectively and comfortably with Optimal Evolution™, by customizing therapies and techniques best suited to you
So how do we resolve your issue?
Easily and effectively!
Through hypnotherapeutic counselling, we take a comprehensive history and identify key areas that need to be resolved in hypnosis for you to be symptom free, vaginismus free.
These encompass old beliefs that no longer serve you, as well as thought patterns, feelings and self-talk.
In addition, we focus on healing and energizing the mind-body connection, optimizing the functioning of all body systems, so that the body and mind establish healthier ways of being, naturally.
We take you into hypnosis and use various therapies and techniques to:
ASK YOURSELF:
Does the benefit of investing in several Sessions with us to be free of your vaginismus outweigh the ongoing costs of maintaining it?
You are just one click away from getting the help you need!
REVIEWS
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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Vaginismus treatment. Hypnotherapy versus behavior therapy (2005)
[Findings]
Although both behavior therapy and hypnotherapy were successful in treating vaginismus, hypnotherapy performed better than behavior therapy in reducing the level of the wifes sex-related anxiety and in improving the husbands sexual satisfaction score. Success tended to occur faster in women treated with hypnotherapy as they received fewer treatment sessions. Women with vaginismus can be successfully treated by hypnotherapy without simultaneous treatment of their husbands.
Using Hypnosis in a case of Vaginismus: A Case Report (2011)
[Abstract]
Vaginismus has been considered by therapists not only as medical disorder, but as a psychological symptom. Accordingly, the present case study intends to treat vaginismus by psychological approach through the hypnotherapy in a 35-year-old female Vaginismus patient. The result has been demonstrated that applying hypnosis as an intervention in vaginismus could be mentioned by therapists as profitable treatment technique.
Therapy of vaginismus by hypnotic desensitization (1980)
[Abstract]
Fear and anxiety are of tremendous importance in the production and maintenance of a symptom. Vaginismus, as a reaction of avoidance of an anxiety-producing situation, is readily amenable to treatment by systematic desensitization. This may proceed mainly in two ways: “in vitro” or “in vivo.” In order to strengthen and speed up the densensitization process, we used hypnotic techniques in a dynamic approach.
The “in vitro” treatment proceeds with imagery, under hypnosis, of an “anxiety hierarchy” of increasingly erotic and sexually intimate situations which will be reproduced at home with the partner, until sexual intercourse is achieved. In the “in vivo” method the patient learns self-hypnosis and then inserts in the vagina first a finger, and then Hegar dilators of gradually increasing sizes. The partner, the patient, and the physician will then successively proceed to insertion, forming a team-referred work situation.
This continues until the “female superior position,” practiced first with the largest dilator, is reproduced at home by intercourse. Between 1965 and 1974 we treated 71 women with this method. Good results were obtained in 16 of 18 by the “in vitro” technique and in 53 of 54 by the “in vivo” technique. One patient was referred from the “in vitro” group to the “in vivo” group. In follow-up of 2 to 5 years there was no relapse or symptom substitution.