Hey there. I guess the thing that most struck me was this:

> Well, she told me last session when I was talking to her about wanting more time for talking.. that the guided imagery would get shorter (only 20 mins that session) and eventually would be hypnosis.

So what concerns me is why she would rather talk to hypnotised you than non-hypnotised you.

Especially... If she is planning on getting you to recount / elaborate on your memory of traumatic experiences. Because every new recounting is a new encoding (a fact about human psychology). Whether a person is hypnotised or not every time we recount the story we alter our memory of the story. Hypnosis magnifies this effect, however.

It is such a shame (IMHO) that oftentimes the debate is set up between:
- All memories (including recovered ones) are 100% accurate to events
- No memories (including recovered ones) are 100% inaccurate to events
Clearly both those claims are false (and hence rather uninteresting). What is interesting is the variety of more moderate positions in the middle...

> I don't think I'll go to your site because I don't think it woud be supportive or applicable, but thank you for sharing it with me.

I'm sorry that you think I would post an unsupportive and inapplicable link. Typically one needs to actually have a look to find out (and typically one extends the benefit of the doubt) but whatever...

I'm not meaning to undermine your therapist...

Hypnosis for relaxation etc is fine...
But hypnosis for memory work????

IMHO not okay.

If you are having trouble telling her in an un-hypnotised state it is because you are still learning to trust her. To try and bypass your fears by hypnotising them out of you and getting you to talk anyway isn't the best strategy.

There is no quick fix...