In Alternative Therapies, Kathy found that hypnosis is being investigated by a number of mainstream scientists and that hypnotherapy is currently offered for a wide variety of conditions.

Kathy discovered there is often a lack of strong supporting clinical evidence but even so, there are a number of conditions where it seems hypnotherapy really could be of value.

She investigated two of these: meeting a dentist who uses hypnotherapy as a spectacular form of pain relief for a patient undergoing extreme dental surgery without an anaesthetic and a doctor who has had great success using it to treat the most severe form of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.