My career in subconscious-mind therapy began full-time in 1973. I practised traditional hypnotherapy for several years and like many others of the era, I was disillusioned and dissatisfied with the percentage of positive, lasting benefits being gained by my clients.
Although it is relatively simple to work briefly with a client and have them leave therapy 'feeling' good, helping people gain permanent relief is quite a different thing. Most therapists are quick to claim amazing results, however such claims are often more to do with the therapist's imagination and desires than they are to do with the reality of client outcomes - especially in the longer term.
For me, it got to the point where I could no longer justify continuing with the methods I had been taught and had picked up along the way. The number of clients gaining permanent relief was not high enough and it seemed there had to be a better way to help people.
The first ten years of my career was a struggle to find methods that would not only help people change, but something that would lead to natural and lasting change. It was a time of dedicated research, very careful reflection, numerous mistakes and gradually, a whole new approach to what I was doing.
It became apparent to me that no single 'therapy' was right for everyone, however most of them had something useful to offer. By taking an idea from here and a technique from there, the percentage of positive results began to increase and I was finally able to feel confident about what I was doing. The only problem was that, I was doing things so differently to my colleagues, there were very few people with whom I could share ideas and it was consequently, a rather isolated period of growth and development.
In 1989 I was fortunate to meet Mr Frank Wright, who had been struggling in a similar manner for the same reasons. Through quite a different path, he had come to many of the conclusions and understandings that accounted for the improvements in my own practice. We found that we shared a similar philosophy regarding subconscious-mind problems and true change, and that we were using similar methods that were quite different to those of our contemporaries.
Where there were differences, we immediately set about 'testing' each other's ideas in the clinic, with the result of still further development and refinement of both principles and technique.
With increasing clinical evidence of the effectiveness of our methods, we began teaching other therapists our techniques in 1990, in an attempt to save others falling victim to the mistakes that seem to be par-for-the-course in subconscious-mind therapy. From the time of our first workshop, we agreed to only teach what we did ourselves and we also agreed that our teaching would be based in practise rather than theory.
A period of rapid development followed and by late 1993 the method had become so unique we changed the name to P.S.H. By this time we were also able to take students with no previous training or experience. Although the course format and content has changed dramatically since those early days, the original principles and intentions have remained constant and I am very proud of the calibre of students we have now graduated from this program.
I cannot promise my students that I will always be right - but I do promise them I will teach them everything I can that has been gained from long and hard-earned experience. I also promise them I will do everything I can to help them take this exciting and rewarding profession into the future, with better ideas, more finesse, and above all, a genuine hunger for continued improvement.
Gregory L. Brice
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