Clinical hypnosis is a process of targeting clinical issues and using hypnosis as a means of helping people find solutions and resources within themselves. Hypnosis is a state of consciousness in which a person is very relaxed with highly focused internal awareness and an ability to respond to suggestions offered by the therapist.  Clinical Hypnosis differs from stage hypnosis: clinical hypnosis does not employ the tactics typically seen on stages.  While in hypnosis, you will not be asked to do anything unbecoming, undignified, or that violates your sense of self.  In fact, you choose how to respond to the hypnotic suggestions.

Hypnosis is induced by a clinician, leading the patient into the state of relaxed awareness. When in hypnosis, people are aware of external stimuli and are capable of emerging from the state of hypnosis at any time they wish. People are able to refrain from doing or thinking things that are not within their moral or value framework. In the Eriksonian tradition, patients are presented with stories, metaphors, and indirect suggestions that are directed toward the patients’ unconscious mind to achieve some benefit, solve a problem or resolve an issue. It is not the hypnosis that heals, it is what happens in hypnosis that allows people to uncover the resources they have to heal themselves.

Issues addressed and treated using clinical hypnosis:

• Depression
  • Treatment
  • Prevention
• Anxiety
  • Generalized Anxiety
  • Test Anxiety
  • Performance Anxiety
  • Nail Biting
  • Hair Pulling
  • Public Speaking
  • Panic Disorder
• Phobias
  • Driving Phobia
  • Needle Phobias
  • Claustrophobia
• Insomnia and Sleep Disorders
• Trauma
  • Childhood and Acute Adult Trauma
• Chronic Pain
• Medical and Dental Procedures
  • Decreased need for anesthesia
  • Increase healing abilities
• Labor and Delivery
• Cancer Treatment
  • Increased relaxation
  • Side Effects of treatment, especially chemotherapy
• Ambition and Motivation
• Studying Skills
• Somatic issues based in psychological experiences
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Hypertension
  • Pain