Common Questions

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Oh, Hollywood!  No.  Hypnosis cannot make you do anything you don't want to do.  That's a common misconception and a Hollywood fabrication.  If it were true everyone who understands hypnosis would be filthy rich! Right?!

Hypnotherapy is not stage hypnosis.  There is a trick to stage hypnosis (shocker), and I tell my clients exactly how it's done!

Yes.  Hypnosis is a theta brain wave state everyone goes in and out of naturally every day. Two examples are: when you first wake up in the morning and just before you fall asleep at night.

I hear this a lot.  That just means the hypnotist wasn't speaking to your subconscious mind in the manner in which it learns.  Hypnosis is not "one size fits all". First, we need to find your suggestibility, aka how your individual mind takes in information, and then we speak to it in that way. 

You can!  You have a 50% chance of it succeeding for you.  It all depends on if the hypnotist is speaking in the manner in which your individual mind takes in information. We all learn differently, and it's important to speak to the subconscious mind in the particular manner in which it learns.  Also, those videos are, of course, going to be more generalized, so it may or may not be what you need to help with a particular challenge.

Sessions can be broken down into two parts, the cognitive part and the hypnosis. During the cognitive part, we discuss what you want out of the session.  Then, in hypnosis, what you want is put into your subconscious mind. I compare it to venting to a friend, and then doing a guided meditation.

Everyone experiences hypnosis differently. Even the same individual can experience hypnosis differently from day to day.  Some people don't even feel like they have been hypnotized, while others don't recall the hypnotic part of the session, but most lie somewhere in between, remembering parts of it, and kind of drifting off during others.

You have the option of having the hypnotic part of every session recorded at no additional charge. You will then have this recording to use whenever you choose forevermore.

This is a common misconception. Hypnosis is not a passive experience. It's not magic.  It's science. I cannot make you do anything you don't want to do. It is however, a very efficient way to make changes in our life, because we are dealing directly with our subconscious which is our mental programming.  

It varies from person to person and depends on the specific challenge, how long you've had this challenge and how motivated you are to achieve your goal.  This is the perfect topic to discuss in your consultation.

I graduated with honors from the only hypnotherapy school that is accredited by the Department of Education, The Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California, am a member of the American Hypnosis Association and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.

That's normal!  Book a FREE phone consultation.  I can answer any questions you have, you can meet me, and decide for yourself whenever you're ready. I promise I'm not scary!