Hypnosis is a mental health modality that facilitates a trance and opens up the subconscious mind to new suggestions, ideas, and transformation.

Hypnotic trance is a natural state that we enter all the time! Have you ever driven home and as you turned the car off, realized that you had no memory of the drive itself? That’s a hypnotic trance!

Have you ever been watching a movie or TV show and the rest of the world seemed to disappear, you're so engrossed in the emotions of the story, and you lose track of time? That’s also a trance!

We are constantly moving in and out of that state of flow and focus, feeling “in the groove” in every day life. This is a state of being involving focused attention and deep relaxation. 

The practice of hypnosis uses this state of being to opens the subconscious mind up to suggestion and transformation. In a formal setting, hypnosis can be facilitated by a specialist to help an individual elicit deeper focus and relaxation and provide supportive, positive suggestions, imagery, and ideas to help a person reach their goal.

Hypnosis uses a combination of relaxation and focus strategies to open up the imaginative subconscious mind. This is essential because our automatic functions, like habits, core beliefs, and stress-based associations, exist within the subconscious mind.

And guess what? The subconscious mind takes up 95% of our brain function. In order to truly want to make lasting change in the majority of your life, you have to work with the subconscious.

Hypnosis allows people to access and make changes in the subconscious mind more easily, which means you can harness your abilities to reduce stress, build confidence, and enhance creativity and flow, align your brain with your goals, improve your overall wellbeing, and so much more.

In a typical session, you'll be invited to relax your mind and body and focus your attention, and then you'll be offered suggestions to explore images, ideas, imagined experiences to help you reach your unique goal.

Absolutely not! Although mainstream media tends to depict hypnosis as a manipulative, controlling technique, it is actually a very collaborative process!

You may feel a deep state of relaxation and focus, and from this place I will offer suggestions and guide you through imagery to support your goals. However, they are merely suggestions – not commands, or "mind control". You have the ability to accept or reject any suggestion I offer, and you have full ability to conclude the hypnosis and open your eyes at any time. (Despite what movies show us, it is not possible to get “stuck” in a trance).

Like many people in the hypnosis field, I firmly believe that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, meaning that although I offer suggestions to you, you are the one making the changes to your own mind.

An oversimplified explanation might describe hypnosis as a highly customized, suggestion-based guided meditation with a specific goal.

However, there's more to it than that. 

Meditation aims to elevate the conscious  mind, increasing a person's conscious focused awareness on the present moment by accessing a sense of radical acceptance. For example, you may become increasingly more mindful of what it feels like to sit in your chair and breathe, and over time it will become easier for you to accept the present moment circumstances without judgment.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, aims to deepen the subconscious. Using relaxation and focus techniques, an individual undergoing hypnosis are likely to become less attuned to their surroundings, less mindful of the present moment so that they can open up their mind to new ideas, transformation, and change. 

That being said, a lot of folks find the experience of hypnosis to be quite similar to meditation. Both are deeply relaxing, empowering, and leave folks feeling calmer and more confident. Everyone responds differently to hypnosis, so give it a try and see how it feels for you!

While clinically licensed psychologists often utilize hypnosis strategies in their sessions, hypnosis with me is not designed to act as a therapy session.

I am trained in positive psychology, positive neuroplasticity, clinical hypnosis, and mind-body medicine. I am not a licensed clinical therapist, meaning that I do not treat clinical diagnoses that are often addressed in therapy.

Our sessions together are designed to uplift, inspire, and motivate you to believe in your inner strengths and get closer to the goals you'd like to achieve.

Here's what to expect:

In our session, we'll spend some time chatting about your goals, what's holding you back, and what you'd like to gain from our time together.

If you have any questions about hypnosis, we'll also spend some time chatting about the modality and I'll answer any of your questions.

The majority of the session will be the guided hypnosis experience, in which I will offer suggestions to help you relax your mind and body, focus your attention, and access your creative subconscious mind. From there, I'll guide you through imagery-based suggestions to get in touch with your goals and start to show your brain what is possible for you. After the imagery portion of the session, I'll offer suggestions to motivate you to create shifts in your life that will help you move toward your goals and feel more confident.

I'll then help you come back to the present moment with suggestions to re-alert your attention.

After the hypnosis has concluded, we'll take time to chat about your experience and discuss next steps in your journey toward your future!

It depends who you ask! While "manifestation" tends to be discussed in spirituality-related fields, there is some science to it.

Manifestation, as a term, simply means to bring an abstract idea into reality.

In that sense, I believe that "manifesting" your goals has to  begin with transforming the mind. In order to make your goals a reality, it is essential to shift the beliefs that are keeping you from taking action, increase your confidence, and get clear on what you truly want.

Research has shown that what we focus on is amplified in our minds and informs our experiences. As a result, the more we focus on our goals and allow ourselves to believe that we are capable of reaching them, the more likely we will be to notice (and say yes to) opportunities, the less we will sabotage our progress, and the more motivated we will be to keep going.

While hypnosis cannot guarantee a particular outcome, it can help you overcome subconscious blocks so that you can take more deliberate actions aligned with your goals.