What is clinical hypnosis?

Also known as medical hypnosis or hypnotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique that involves using hypnosis to help individuals achieve a state of focused attention, relaxation, and heightened suggestibility. During clinical hypnosis, the person is guided into a deeply relaxed state where their conscious mind becomes more receptive to positive suggestions and therapeutic interventions.

Top 5 Benefits to Hypnotherapy

  1. Behavioral Change (i.e. smoking cessation, weight management, or overcoming phobias)

  2. Pain Management

  3. Stress and Anxiety Reduction

  4. Enhancing Coping Skills (i.e. anxiety disorders, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  5. Improving Performance (i.e. sports, academics, or public speaking)

  6. Exploring Unconscious Processes and Subconscious Motivators


Hypnotherapy is NOT

  • mind control. I cannot make you do or say anything that you would not normally do or say.

  • control at all. Clinical hypnosis strengths and does not weaken your will power.

  • magic or faith healing. It will help, however, if you have confidence in me that I would never harm you and faith in your own ability to heal.

  • sleep or unconsciousness. You will always know where you are and can bring yourself out of relaxation at any time.


Hypnotherapy is

  • a collaborative process in which the individual maintains awareness and can actively participate in the therapeutic work.

  • your ability to achieve desired goals with directed focus.

  • self-hypnosis. I cannot do anything to or for you. Also, each of us hypnotize ourselves throughout the day without knowing. We might call it “zoning out.”

  • deep relaxation with an intense sense of awareness.

  • similar to a meditative or dream state.

  • based on the power of positive suggestion and positive thinking.

  • a specific combination of art and science, just like medicine.

  • completely safe and helpful, a natural state of mind.

  • a method of changing your thoughts, behaviors, and body using the power of your mind for self-healing and self-development.

  • one of the quickest and most exciting ways to make positive, lasting change in your life.

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