Author(s):
Sheila Menon, Vidya Bhagat
Email(s):
menonsheila@yahoo.com
DOI:
10.52711/0974-360X.2025.00137 
Address:
Sheila Menon1, Vidya Bhagat2
1Principal, London College of Clinical Hypnosis Asia, LCCH Asia, 807 Block B Phileo Damansara1, Jalan Damansara, Section 16/11 Petaling Jaya Selangor- 46350 Malaysia
2Professor, A.J. Institute of Hospital Management, Mangalore, Rajeev Gandhi University, Bangalore 2, India
*Corresponding Author
Published In:
Volume - 18,
Issue - 2,
Year - 2025
ABSTRACT:
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent and debilitating mental health conditions, often co-occurring with other psychological and medical disorders. While Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) remains the standard treatment, increasing evidence supports the therapeutic efficacy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (CHT) as a complementary intervention. Despite its potential, CHT remains underutilized due to misconceptions and a lack of structured integration into mainstream psychological treatment. This study introduces Conscious-State Altered Therapy (C-SAT) as a rebranded framework for clinical hypnotherapy, incorporating Enhanced Focused Empowering Techniques (EFET) to optimize therapeutic engagement and patient outcomes. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of CBT and CHT in the treatment of anxiety disorders, while proposing EFET within the C-SAT model as an optimized psychotherapeutic framework. Additionally, the study highlights the role of Integrated Relaxation Technique (IRT) in enhancing patient receptivity and cognitive restructuring and explains the rationale for including it as the foundation for C-SAT. Methods: This prospective study intentions to treat anxiety disorders by conducting a qualitative and descriptive analysis in order to highlight a development in clinical hypnotherapy and conceptualize the benefits of clinical hypnotherapy with cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of anxiety disorders. The study engine conducted a thorough examination of peer-reviewed literature published between 2015 and 2024 using databases such as PubMed, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Library. As the primary focus for this study's inclusion criteria, the most significant search terms were "hypnosis techniques," "anxiety disorder treatment," "clinical hypnotherapy," "psychotherapy alternatives," and "anxiety-related outcomes." Conclusion: The results of the study demonstrate that EFET enhances emotional regulation, cognitive reprocessing, and trance induction, offering a competitive advantage over standalone CBT. It contributes to the enhanced conceptualization of the efficacy that enhanced focus bring to the inducted of the hypnotic trance state under Conscious-State Altered Therapy (C-SAT) and in such enhance the patients' potential outcomes. By validating C-SAT and EFET as structured psychotherapeutic models, this study supports the broader integration of clinical hypnotherapy into evidence-based anxiety treatment protocols, advocating for further RCTs and neurobiological research to substantiate its efficacy.
Cite this article:
Sheila Menon, Vidya Bhagat. Integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Clinical Hypnotherapy: Establishing EFET as a Credentialed Framework for Enhanced Clinical Outcomes in Anxiety Treatment. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology.2025;18(2):935-3. doi: 10.52711/0974-360X.2025.00137
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Sheila Menon, Vidya Bhagat. Integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Clinical Hypnotherapy: Establishing EFET as a Credentialed Framework for Enhanced Clinical Outcomes in Anxiety Treatment. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology.2025;18(2):935-3. doi: 10.52711/0974-360X.2025.00137 Available on: https://rjptonline.org/AbstractView.aspx?PID=2025-18-2-69
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