The Psychological Outpatient Clinic of the National Spine Centre offers hypnotherapy-style psychotherapy for people with chronic pain
Long-standing or regularly recurring spinal pain can have a significant impact on quality of life. Pain can be a major distraction, negatively affecting daily activity, social relationships and mental health. It can reinforce and perpetuate the intensity of pain and the suffering experienced as a vicious circle. Thus, the existence of chronic pain is often not only due to organ dysfunction; our lifestyle, the stressors that affect us and our emotional well-being also influence our symptoms and experience of pain.
The 11 suitable individual psychological treatments use hypnotherapy to explore the lifestyle, thinking, emotional and relational factors that influence pain symptoms and to identify the interrelationships between them. The programme provides skills that can be used to improve coping with pain and achieve a better quality of life.
What can you gain from therapy?
- by practising relaxation techniques and self-hypnosis, you can enhance your psychological well-being in everyday life;
- learn to relate to pain differently so that it has less impact on your life by practising pain reduction techniques and adapting your thinking patterns
- improve the management of these feelings by exploring emotional attitudes to pain
- make plans for a more active lifestyle to help you feel stronger
Our programme is based on the activity of the participants, as an important part of the process is the experience of hypnosis in the sessions and the regular practice of the skills learned at home.
The sessions are led by Orsolya Font, clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist
Registration
The Psychological Outpatient Clinic programme is free of charge on a social security basis if you have a spinal problem or chronic pain diagnosed by a specialist.
To apply for the treatment, please write a brief description of your problem, your motivation to participate and your telephone contact details in your letter. Applicants will be scheduled for a personal consultation session, after which they will receive a phone call to confirm their acceptance into the program.
Application deadline: 1 December 2023.
To apply, please send an e-mail to: orsolya.font@bhc.hu
Address: 1126. Budapest Királyhágó u. 1-3., 1st floor, Psychological Clinic.