Hello everyone. I reworked my PSA a bit. I am planning to use this as a blog, and probably not an email at this time, FYI.

TITLE: Why therapy fails and hypnotherapy succeeds

Talk therapy SUCKS at solving your problems. It’s great at digging up the issues and gaining perspective, but it’s lousy at getting you past them. Fortunately, hypnotherapy excels at taking you beyond and creating real change. Even better, it does so in a handful of weeks.

There are many hypnotherapy techniques and methods, and on average I use about 7-10 with each client over 4-5 sessions (sometimes more, sometimes less).

One of my favorite methods works sorta like this:
Say you’re having trouble getting motivated to exercise. You really want to, but life is always on top of you. Then, you see a friend or a co-worker, someone who is your life-and-exercise-equal start going to the gym, getting in shape, and MAKING IT HAPPEN. Suddenly, you automatically have the energy, encouragement, and confidence to do it too. “If they can do it, so can I.”

This particular hypnotherapy method works the same way, only instead of you seeing a friend do it first, we create a highly personalized vision of you doing it yourself. We craft it in a way that your subconscious mind will recognize and accept it, then we get you in hypnosis and deliver it. Once you see yourself do it in this state of light trance, the neuropathways get set in place, and you will easily find yourself wanting to exercise in real-life. In fact, you’ll do it without even thinking about it.

This method works with many things: emotional issues, food cravings, stop smoking, phobias, the list goes on.

Gerry came in to see me for an emotional imbalance. He was having huge outbursts in the smallest moments: standing in line at the grocery store, being cut off on the freeway. It was making it hard for him to leave house or even go to work; he was afraid one of these episodes of rage would show up at the wrong time, and they were starting to happen almost every day. In therapy, he had already hashed out all the logical explanations, analyzed childhood traumas, identified the patterns. Great. All we needed to do was to move past it. In Gerry’s sessions, we used a layering of several techniques, including the one I explained above. I saw him 4 days in a row, and his life was completely changed. The next week, he went back to work with peace and calm. I continued to check in with him in the months following, and the new state continued to grow, making everything better: family life, friendships, even hobbies are more enjoyable now. He has the confidence that he can walk into any situation in control and with total calm.

If any of this is resonating with you…I’d be happy to chat with you about your unique challenges and what hypnotherapy can do for you. Give me a call.