Brain training is an umbrella term for any self-directed mental practice that creates changes (neuroplasticity) in the mind and brain. 

Neuroplasticity is essentially the brain's natural ability to grow, change, and adapt. Brain training gives folks an opportunity to self-direct the changes that happen.

Brain training includes practices from fields such as: positive neuroplasticity, positive psychology, meditation, hypnosis and self-hypnosis, mindfulness, visualization and guided imagery, cognitive behavioral therapy, and so much more.

Yes… and no. While components of meditation exist in brain training, there is so much more to it. Dr. Rick Hanson puts it best: Think about your brain as a garden. There are three ways to positively interact with it:

• you can witness the garden and observe what’s there (practices involving meditation, self awareness, mindfulness, etc)

• you can pull weeds (practices to eliminate negative subconscious associations, fears & anxiety, ‘bad’ habits, etc)

• you can plant flowers (practices to build inner resources, encourage and enhance positive emotions and experiences, cultivate gratitude and joy, etc.)

While meditation does play a role in brain training, it is far less than one third of the work you will do with me. Rather than simply calming your nervous system and seeing what’s already there, like many other programs do, you’ll be using practices to deliberately change the subconscious functions in your brain for good.

Brain training is an umbrella term that encompasses deliberate mental practices including (but not limited to):

• Mindfulness practices to build awareness of what you are feeling and what you need in a given moment

• Self-hypnosis to make powerful changes in the associations and beliefs that exist in your subconscious mind

• Self discovery tools to identify limiting core beliefs and causes of stress

• Self-guided visualization and guided imagery (ex: visualization for movement & skills, for stress, for relaxation, for goals, for performance, & more)

• Installation of beneficial experiences to improve brain function and quality of life ("taking in the good")

• Creative and expressive tools to learn to communicate and experience emotions (positive and negative)

• Cognitive shifting, or redirecting attention to reduce physiological stress and survival emotions

• Breathing and mindfulness techniques to manage survival emotions and move out of fight or flight

• Cognitive restructuring to reframe stressful situations

• Recognizing and growing inner resources and strengths that allow us to face life's challenges with ease and calm strength

• Cognitive practices to break down and shift limiting core beliefs

• Gratitude practices to shift out of the negativity bias and change a person's selective attention

All of the practices listed above are natural human experiences, and we often do these things without thinking about them (ex: imagining our dream life, taking deep breaths when we're overwhelmed, recognizing how grateful we are for an experience). What makes brain training powerful is the ability to take these natural human processes and amplify them and use them deliberately to change the brain in the ways that we want.

In my programs, you'll apply combinations of the tools above to work toward your specific goals and needs. Regardless of the length of engagement, working with me involves an introduction to practices, instruction for how to use and apply them in daily life, and self-directed practices to engage with outside of our sessions or course lessons.

Brain training and hypnosis can empower an individual to create a wide variety of changes in their minds and lives, such as:

• Building confidence
• Growing inner strengths and resources
• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• Adopting healthy habits
• Increasing access to creativity and flow
• Changing the brain and body's response to stress
• Cultivating learned optimism
• Managing and preventing burnout
• Finding more joy and gratitude in life
• And SO much more