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When looking for hypnotherapy or any other service, you’ll have noticed a new website which is prominently placed in Google search results. This website is called “Three Best Rated.” It claims to show the three best rated hypnotherapists, garages, plumbers, hairdressers, or whatever in each city. So you might be wondering why Phobia Help is not listed on the three best rated website?
The short answer is because I have not submitted details of my website to Three Best Rated. But you might be wondering why that is, especially as it costs nothing. So here’s the reason.
It’s because I respect my clients. My clients are intelligent people. They would not rely upon a computer to “rate” hypnotherapists or any other service, because a computer cannot understand the difference between good hypnotherapists and bad.
Why you should not take advice from a machine.
A computer is a machine. Machines cannot be hypnotised. Machines do not need phobia hypnotherapy, because machines do not have phobias. Machines do not get anxious, have panic attacks, relationship problems, or low mood. They do not lack confidence. They cannot be traumatised. All a computer can do is to detect information and pictures on a website.
What Three Best Rated looks for.
There’s a long list of items which Three Best Rated uses to pick the three “best” hypnotherapists, plumbers, physios, gardeners or whatever in your area. This includes whether the business offers online booking, whether it has a business logo, whether it has pictures, updates social media pages every day, has an online chat facility, and seasonal gift vouchers.
What I provide.
I don’t do online booking because it’s too impersonal. My clients prefer to discuss with me in person when would be the ideal time for their next appointment. Different clients have different needs.
I do not have a business logo, although being a skilled artist I could easily create one! Clients pay me for my skill and knowledge of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy, based on training and long experience, not for a fancy logo.
My website does have pictures, but that’s just to improve my ratings on Google- another computer! Three best rated just counts the number of pictures, because it can’t tell one picture from another.
However there are three pictures on my site which would interest potential clients. There’s a picture of me with a huge dog, to prove that I overcame fear of dogs. There’s also a picture of a much younger me in my white coat with blue shoulder flashes, from when I was a nurse, as evidence of my professional background. And a picture of my first hypnotherapy diploma, dated 1993, to show how long I’ve been doing hypnotherapy.
I’m about to create a Facebook page. But I certainly won’t be updating it every day! What’s the point of writing just for the sake of writing? I’ll write something on it when I have something interesting to say.
I don’t have an online chat facility because my clients prefer speaking to a human being, and obviously I can’t be available 24/7 to speak to people in person. I’d have to rely upon a chatbot. Most questions that my clients have could not be answered by a machine.
As for seasonal gift vouchers, starting hypnotherapy is an important decision. Sometimes the best time is the present, other times it might be better to wait a bit. And it’s not always a good idea for one person to decide that someone else needs therapy. Therefore, gift vouchers are not appropriate in hypnotherapy.
So that’s why you won’t find me on the Three Best Rated hypnotherapists results, even though the therapists who do feature on it are far less experienced than me.
