Established in 1978
Lesserian™ Trademark
Who can use the Lesserian™ trademark?
Only those therapists who prove their skills and standards by examination, ongoing studies and continued professional development are licensed to use this trademark.
All such therapists will have a copy of their licence to show, on request.
It means quality! Only those practitioners who have a recognised qualification; have been accepted as a member of a reputable hypnotherapy organisation and are therefore bound by codes of ethics, standards and conduct; are actively commited to furthering their abilities, understanding and skills and who are able to demonstrate their a commitment to providing the best treatment possible to those who consult them, are entitled to use the Lesserian™ trademark.
Thus any practitioner who holds a licence to use this trademark is capable of providing treatment to the highest standards.
How & why the trademark came into being
In the 1990's the then governing body for the Curative hypnotherapy profession (The Association of Qualified Curative Hypnotherapists) became concerned by the confusion which was being caused by several organisations that incorporated the word 'Curative' within their titles. The members decided it was necessary to 'brand' the treatment, to avoid confusion in the future.
In honour of David Lesser - the pioneer of this treatment - the trademark Lesserian™ was therefore registered by this College to mark the difference.
The name Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy is, therefore, protected and denotes the method of treatment which requires the understanding of how people create their problems which is the necessary first step on the path to enabling a complete and permanent cure to be achieved.
David Lesser, founding father of Lesserian™ techniques
David Lesser was the founding father of Curative Hypnotherapy. It was David who first saw the possibility of finding the cause of people's problems, something that had eluded other researchers in the field, by the use of hypnosis and a specific questioning technique that he developed.
David Lesser had an extremely varied career before qualifying as a Massage Therapist in 1966. In refining his techniques of relaxation massage and learning how to teach them to others, he became interested by the interaction of mind and body, the way such deep mental effects could be achieved by purely physical treatments. He decided to investigate the opposite effect - that of mind over body - which led him to hypnosis.
Further study and research led him to using hypnotherapy, but he was intrigued as to why one person would react in one way to treatment, and others in a different way; some improving vastly, others only slightly and some not at all. He wanted to understand why this was so.
During his earlier career in electrical manufacture, he was used to using a logical 'fault finding' method. If something didn't work properly, there had to be a reason for it and by working logically back through all the components the root of the problem is found.
It was this profoundly logical thought and the need to understand 'why', that started David on his pioneering work into what eventually evolved into Curative Hypnotherapy
While David's innovative work and his understanding of how the subconscious works remains the basis of Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy, advances in the application and techniques continue to be made. The work he pioneered is constantly evolving to remain the most advanced hypnotherapy treatment currently available and is carried out in his name.
David is the author of the only two books on the Curative uses of hypnotherapy. He was the elected President of the Association of Qualified Curative Hypnotherapists from it's inception in 1985 until he died in 2001. He founded the Therapy Training College in 1978.
Definition of Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy (LCH)
All of us react in accordance with our previous experiences and, as no two people have had identical experiences, the true Cause of their problem is unique to them. Therefore this information can only be found out from the sufferer him/herself.
The object of Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy is to enable this cause to be uncovered so that it can be corrected.
Once the cause is eliminated then the effect (the symptom) cannot continue to exist. It will therefore steadily disappear until all traces of the symptom are gone.
LCH is a form of hypnotherapy which changes erroneous subconscious beliefs that a person holds. Symptoms are viewed as changes in the physical or mental condition of an individual which satisfy the erroneous belief.
The potential for erroneous beliefs is created as a result of mistaken interpretations of life events. If subsequent life events reinforce the erroneous belief, a level of saliency of the belief can be reached; which triggers the need for a symptom.
LCH treatment is to correctly identify then re-interpret the mistaken life event. This results in a change to the belief and consequently the loss of need for the symptom. Without a need, a symptom is no longer manifested; which is defined as a cure.
Find out more about Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy
For further information about Curative Hypnotherapy, please follow the links below:
"Hypnotherapy Explained (I Heard Every Word)" by David Lesser
"The Book of Hypnosis" by David Lesser
Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy Training Courses