Hypnosis is first and foremost used naturally. In fact, many of us practice hypnosis without realizing it: while driving, washing dishes, watching TV, etc. In the same way, the therapist can practice hypnosis without knowing it, or knowing it but not explicitly telling you. Likewise, therapists can practice hypnosis without knowing it, or knowing it but not explicitly telling you, by practicing conversational hypnosis, for example, or hypnosis without hypnosis...

Of course, there is hypnosis and hypnosis, and the depth of the hypnotic state will vary according to the trance exercise involved. In all cases, the therapist will adopt an irreproachable ethic, being totally at the patient's service. But don't worry, in modern hypnosis you can't go where the patient doesn't want to go!

Every session begins with an exercise to relax the body... Letting go of control and muscular tension naturally leads to an altered state of consciousness, where the ego (the controlling, filtering, even censoring part of our consciousness) can step aside and leave the reins to the "other within". In the Ericksonian sense, the (higher) unconscious is a kind of sage within us (but doesn't impose itself unless we invite it to): the one who already knows both the problem and its solution. All we have to do is "let it in", so that we can listen to its advice and, through active visualization, enable an experiential experience that will bring about a lasting change in our representations, as well as in our ways of being and acting...

Personally, I've found that anyone can go into hypnosis... the only people who shy away from the exercise are those who are afraid of letting themselves go and letting go of control of the mind... That's why I often introduce meditation (or mindfulness, a technique that to some extent parallels sophrology and relaxation) as a means of learning to let go and allow the right brain to wake up. The meditating subject will be accompanied by the therapist, also in meditative posture, who will make hypnotic suggestions, notably in the form of metaphor, so that the person can live in the present:
1) their past, but differently, by releasing its emotional charge and overcoming the erroneous and limiting beliefs of the world linked to it;
2) their future, by already feeling and "energetically" nurturing what they would like to see accomplished in their lives, overcoming superfluous and often unconscious self-sabotaging brakes and techniques to finally reach their resources and exercise their power of resilience.

EMDR is also used at the patient's request, or when appropriate. EMDR enables us to develop the second level of attention common to all effective therapies, in which we voluntarily confront (expose) our still-painful past experiences, while anchoring ourselves in the here-and-now, in order to create therapeutic distance from the emotions and thought patterns associated with them. This desensitization (here by bilateral stimulation) to these troubling episodes, by reducing their negative repercussions, enables them to be disentangled so that they can be "psycho-metabolized" and become part of the subject's new history, without any further chapter of unconscious, alienating retraumatization...

Both hypnosis and meditation enable this "contemplative dissociation" between the experiencer (suffering) and the witness (suffering).
Thus, through practice, we can realize that mindfulness (or witnessing Self) is fundamentally unaffected by the emotion it observes, and can therefore free itself from it automatically and even without conscious effort.

Hypnosis is particularly recommended for traumas, as we generally have little or no access to the excessively painful scene, and its verbal-mental representation is insufficient or defective (the mind protects itself from the excessively anxiety-provoking memory by repressing it). If trauma provokes disintegrative dissociation, hypnosis can, in a paradoxical logic, neutralize it by opposing it with integrative dissociation.

Hypnosis is in fact a technique, or rather a state of mind, which dates back to the dawn of time... and the "shaman", for example, also entered (and had certain patients enter) "trances" in order to perceive the world in a different light... and release the patient's still dormant self-healing forces. In this respect, my initiations with traditional practitioners have been highly formative... but rest assured, I won't lead you into a world populated by spirits unless you first understand that each person is in fact made up of different "months" that sometimes come into conflict with one another, and that it's a question of calming their relationships...

The emphasis is on the patient's autonomy and integrity:
1) during the session, the patient's own unconscious guides him/her...
2) between sessions and after follow-up, through the personal appropriation of the tool adapted to a form of self-hypnosis, so that the subject can benefit from it on demand, according to life's ups and downs, and better to prevent potentially harmful psychological repercussions from the outset.