Hypnosis can be used to treat anxiety, because during your session, the therapist can induce you in a “posthypnotic suggestion” while you’re in a state of trance – your mind being more open to suggestion. For example, you are afraid of spiders and your therapist suggest to you how easily confident you will be next time you confront a spider.
So, hypnotherapy should be definitely used as a complementary treatment to cognitive behavioral therapy. If you’re dealing with anxiety, try hypnosis to treat it.