Hypnosis

Hypnosis is an effective, practical tool for empowering and accelerating success in counseling, weight control, stop smoking, medical and health issues, and peak performance in sports, work, school, and the creative process.

Hypnosis has been officially endorsed by the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Dental Association as an accepted, valid therapeutic method.

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness with increased openness and heightened responsiveness to positive suggestion. It is a state in which attention is concentrated inward on your mental, sensory, and physical experiences with enhanced levels of awareness and abilities.

The way I use hypnosis is to make it a collaborative, cooperative process in which you both have control and are able to:

- have physical relaxation and mental tranquility,
- tap into your mind-body connections,
- access and mobilize conscious and unconscious resources,
- look at things differently, and
- explore and resolve issues and experiences.

I'll teach you self-hypnosis so you can weave your new attitudes and responses into the fabric of your life.

Let me help you use your bio-emotional energy to make positive change in your life.

ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Milton H. Erickson, MD, is widely recognized as the father of modern hypnosis and brief strategic therapy. Ericksonian hypnosis and psychotherapy is a flexible individualized approach which accepts and utilizes the client's unique experiences, processing style, and frame of reference. Erickson believed that the unconscious mind was a repository of wisdom and experiences from which personal resources could be accessed and mobilized.

Naturalistic and conversational hypnosis as well as strategic interaction, metaphors, tasks, and the personal and creative qualities of the therapist are the major therapeutic tools.

Dr. Erickson's work was also the inspiration and foundation for such innovative therapies as Bandler and Grinder's Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Steve de Shazer's Solution Talk therapy, the interactionalist approach of Haley, Watzlawick, Fisch, et.al. at M.R.I., brief therapy, and the refined use of metaphor, paradox, confusion, therapeutic tasks, reframing, and many other advances.