Dealing with Different Types of Losses Using Hypnotherapy Scripts is a unique practical resource for hypnotherapists which considers many aspects of loss rather than focusing solely on dying, death and bereavement. It presents new ways of looking at loss and from many different perspectives.

Jacki Pritchard, MA, works as a clinical hypnotherapist, independent social worker and trainer in social care. She offers hypnotherapy services to adults and children (age 5+) in two practice locations, schools and colleges.

Part I: Working with losses 1 Introduction: hypnotherapy and losses 2 How to use the book 3 Different types of losses 4 Assessment before working with losses 5 Two scripts for the first session Part II: Dealing with emotions 6 Journey of grief 7 Tour bus 8 Lost and found 9 Visualisations for emotional pain 10 It's OK to feel... 11 Opening tulips 12 Feeling alone 13 Fire and anger 14 Learning to cry 15 Wobbling 16 Icicles 17 Ice skating 18 Dig it up 19 Trees 20 Building and breaking down walls 21 Leaving the darkness in the cave 22 Deflation, restoration and improvement 23 Egg timer Part III: Facing and dealing with death 24 Planning for death 25 Man in the corner 26 Animal heaven 27 Conversations on the clouds 29 The great pyramid 30 The storage unit 31 The red admiral butterfly Part IV: Moving forward 32 Acceptance and aspirations 33 Preparing for the future 34 The jigsaw puzzle 35 Kaleidoscope 36 Clouds coming together 37 Time capsule 38 Brightness on the horizon Part V: Additional scripts 39 Being assertive 40 Freedom 41 Bank vault 42 Calendars of life 43 Not always what it seems 44 Finding a lost object 45 Layla and the spoon 46 Wizards 47 Positivity