Hypnotherapy for Psoriasis

Using hypnotherapy for Psoriasis can have incredible results for some sufferers. Our research conducted over 8 years of working with psoriasis has shown that hypnotherapy can help 50% of people with psoriasis.

We use hypnotherapy to change the signals that are sent to your skin it has been shown in other studies to be very effective with psoriasis see below. For our clients that have used our programme have at the least been able to be far more relaxed about their Psoriasis.

Hypnosis can also help them to “almost” forget about their condition. It also helps to reduce the redness which helps to reduce the itching that people often experience. Your skin is the largest organ in your body and as an organ it is controlled completely by your sub-conscious mind.

As an example, if you were to become embarrassed the skin on your face will become red with the increased blood flow to the skin.  If I asked you to do that with your conscious mind you could not do it. The same thing happens during illness and grief where a wan and pale expression is quite common.

Hypnotherapy working on psoriasis

Within hypnosis we will be looking for a possible sensitising event.  We will work with visualisations, self-hypnosis and doing stress management in cases where stress and anxiety are thought to be a factor. We have had some very good results.  For more information, please visit here.  This is a clinical study by the Department of Dermatology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore on the use of Hypnosis with psoriasis.

The top layer of skin is much thicker in plaque psoriasis.

It gets this way because the normal growth cycle of skin cells has been accelerated to 3 or 4 days, compared to 28-30 days in normal skin.  Skin cells accumulate at the surface.  The white, flaky build-up that sheds from the skin is actually dead skin cells. The epidermis is about twice as thick as normal.  

The bottom level of the epidermis where cells multiply is particularly active (cells are proliferating 28 times faster than normal skin). The blood vessels of the skin expand. There is also increased blood flow in psoriatic skin, necessary to bring nutrients to the rapidly growing skin cells. This combination leads to the redness of the lesions. The dermis is where the inflammation originates.  Immune system cells are drawn into the dermis as part of the immune response that takes place in psoriasis and these cells send inflammatory signals to the skin cells. Using hypnotherapy with psoriasis we aim to change the faulty signals that are sent to the immune system.