I use hypnotherapy as a tool to help my clients get to the root of their challenges.

Many people have questions about hypnotherapy. The American Psychological Association defines hypnotherapy not as a type of therapy but rather a technique that is used to facilitate therapy.

As a national board-certified clinical hypnotherapist-diplomate (NBCCH-D), I help you get into a trance-like or relaxed state in order to by-pass negative thoughts and beliefs. This allows access to your subconscious. 

When we can access your subconscious, you are able to shift perspective. This can enable you to change habitual thought patterns, along with emotional and physiological responses to triggers that cause you to suffer.

Hypnotherapy is an opening up of experience. You are fully aware of what is happening and have total control. 

The goal of hypnotherapy is for change to come from you and your subconscious, not the hypnotherapist putting ideas into your head. 

Before actually experiencing hypnotherapy, it can help to understand the 3 phases that you will go through.

1. Induction phase  

This phase is a guided process, similar to a guided meditation, that helps you relax and reach a mild trance or a state of highly-focused attention.

2. Working phase 

There are 3 different types of working phases:

Creating your resource state

A resource state could be your own relaxing place that you can go to in your mind when you are experiencing stress. It can also allow you to build up your self-esteem, or create your own script, called a Miracle Day. Your Miracle Day is the visualization of your perfect day. And when you can imagine a perfect day, you begin to see your days in a more positive and fulfilling way.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

This strategy incorporates CBT to help with desensitization of anxiety provoking thoughts and allows for verbal and visual restructuring.

Regression

Regression helps create connections with historical wounds or traumas that are impacting you today. It can also get to memories that are keeping you stuck in a narrative that is causing you pain.

3. Trance termination phase

this is a guided integration to help you review what you have learned and then bring you back into the present moment.

These are short descriptions of what these three phases of hypnotherapy can look like.

For more information, please don’t hesitate to call and ask questions. I am happy to answer any concerns you may have.

Common Myths or Concerns:

1.    I will lose control.
You are always in control through out the entire hypnotherapy process. It’s my role to guide you to resolving the challenges you want to resolve. I can never and will never force you to do anything you don’t want to do.

2.    I will be unconscious.
Communicating with the subconscious mind is much different than being unconscious. The sensation of hypnosis is much like being in a meditative state where you are much more aware of what is going on.

3.    I won’t remember what happened.
The main idea is for you to remember. Hypnotherapy allows you too remember from a different perspective.

4.    The hypnotherapist is in control.
As the hypnotherapist I am only a guide. You are always in control.

5.    I am not hypnotizable.
Many people who have had the experience of not being hypnotizable, can eventually become hypnotizable. The keys are trust of and familiarity with the process and the hypnotherapist.

What Hypnotherapy can help with:

1. Unexplained infertility
2. Specific fears or phobias
3. Depression
4. Low self-esteem
5. Chronic pain
6. Recovery from trauma
7. Generalized anxiety
8. Insomnia
9. Working through grief
10. Focus and success with work or school
11. Sports performance
12. Medical issues
13. Sexual performance
14. Impulse control
15. Habitual or addiction issues
16. Letting go of past relationships
17. Fear of success or failure

* I currently do not accept insurance but I can provide a superbill for you to submit for out-of-network reimbursement. I do accept HSA credit cards and all other major credit cards, cash, and checks.

Under the “No Surprises Act”, mental health clinicians that are out-of-network are required to provide notice of the Good Faith Estimate – click here for the notice.