About Hypnotherapy

About Hypnotherapy and Clinical Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy is a safe and practical method of helping people of any age manage physical and psychological challenges through the therapeutic power of imagination and self mastery. It is a non-pharmaceutical intervention approved by the American Medical Association in 1959 as a treatment modality and is effective with adults, children and teens. Once learned, self-hypnosis is a valuable, life-long skill that can be utilized for coping, healing, and overcoming detrimental attitudes, habits, and actions as well as goal setting and achievement.

Clinical hypnosis is the use of positive suggestions in a deeply relaxed theta brain state to eliminate habits, attitudes or behaviors that are detrimental to the client’s well being. It allows the client to bypass defense mechanisms and our analytical ability to rationalize any behavior. New associations, through positive suggestion, are established. Clinical hypnosis is the opposite of anxiety in that anxiety is negative messaging and sensation and is uncontrolled. Clinical hypnosis is positive messaging in a controlled environment for the purpose of establishing new patterns and associations.

Hypnotherapy is the use of clinical hypnosis by a trained, certified and experienced practitioner.
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The uses and applications of Hypnotherapy

Children and Adolescents:

  • Anxiety
  • Pre-Post Surgical Intervention for Healing
  • ADD-Increasing Concentration
  • Cough and other Habit Disorders
  • Performance Improvement for Testing, School, and Sports
  • Enuresis
  • Sleep Disturbances
  • Extreme Shyness
  • Nutritional Choice/Weight
  • Smoking and Substance Cessation
  • Anger/Rebellion/Forgiveness
  • Stress and Tension Release
  • Pain Management (with physician referral only)

Adults:

  • Anxiety
  • Pre-Post Surgical Intervention for Healing
  • Increasing Focus and Concentration
  • Performance Improvement (Testing, Work, Sports, Sales)
  • Procrastination
  • Creative Blocks
  • Fears Sleep Challenges
  • Extreme Shyness
  • Nutrition Choice/Weight
  • Smoking and Substance Cessation
  • Anger/Relationships/Forgiveness
  • Stress and Tension Release
  • Pain Management (with physician referral only)