My specialties include:

• Anxiety disorders
  
• Weight reduction, body-image issues
  
• Women's issues: perimenopause, menopause, balancing motherhood and work, depression
  
• Stage II recovery issues: codependency, intimacy, setting boundaries, healing childhood trauma, grief and loss
  
• Stress management: learning deep relaxation and self-hypnosis
  
• Medical issues: preparing for procedures, self-healing, chronic pain
  
• Parenting through adoption
  

Brief Cognitive Hypnosis

We all learn from repetition and from emotionally powerful experiences. Habits are thoughts, feelings or behaviors that are repeated and formed in the unconscious mind. But the unconscious mind doesn't always know the difference between good and bad habits. Sometimes these habitual ways of responding are merely coping skills that once served an important purpose, but now they have outlived their usefulness.

Most of our learning takes place in the waking state (we're conscious and aware, not asleep or in a dreamy trance-like state). But not all learning happens this way. We also learn from highly emotionally charged experiences, such as shock, trauma and grief/loss. These life events create powerful emotional states that are often very uncomfortable. The reality is that emotionally charge events are acutally "altered states". Sometimes when people experience them, they feel as if they're not "in their right mind", like it's surreal. And so, often the best way to work with them is by using therapeutic altered states (therapeutic trance) to neutralize their negativity, the same way baking soda neutralizes vinegar. The powerful psychotherapeutic tool of Hypnosis can help you do just that. (Read more about this in the FAQ sesion of this website).

This approach to problem resolution combines empirically-based cognitive therapy approaches with the powerful