FAQ's

Hypnosis or trance is simply a state of relaxed focused attention. In a relaxed focused state, your mind is more responsive to suggestion. In a therapeutic setting, either online or face to face, suggestions are designed to be beneficial to help you change unhelpful thought patterns. 

As humans, we all go in and out of light hypnotic trance state naturally, several time a day. Have you ever been absorbed in watching a good movie or reading a book and completely lost track of time? You are in trance. Trance is a very natural and safe state where you remain in complete control. Using guided relaxation techniques your therapist will guide you into a relaxed state of focused attention by asking you to imagine certain things, often using powerful metaphors and stories which your subconscious mind can interpret and focus on at the deepest level. 

As you listen to your therapist, positive suggestions are made to help you make changes subconsciously by encouraging a shift in perspective. It allows your mind to reflect on the ideas and solutions discussed during our session to understand how they can help you.

The benefit of a trance state is how it connects our conscious mind to our subconscious mind – the seat of what drives and movtivates all of our behaviors. Our subconscious mind is like the hard drive on a computers’s file system, it’s where we store all of our experiences, emotions and thoughts we’ve ever had, all stored in your subconscious.

Every unhealthy current behavior, such as smoking, losing one’s temper, excessive alcohol, or compulsive overeating has a chain of past experiences and beliefs that laid down the foundation for your current choices and behaviors. 

In a relaxed, hyper-focused state of hypnosis – a trained, certified and experienced hypnotherapist can run a ‘Google search’ of all the information that’s stored at the subconscious level of mind and trace the experiences and the subconscious decisions that were made earlier on in life, that may be leading you to the behavior that is no longer serving you.

Hypnotherapy goes beyond hypnosis. 

For example: With hypnosis you might help someone stop smoking by suggesting the taste or smell of cigarettes is worse than it actuall is. But a hypnotherapist can also use age regression to examine the motivation that fuels the habit and discover old false conclusions locked in the subconscious mind, where you now can create new conclusions about old memories and choose new behaviors rather then smoking. 

5-PATH is an acronym that stands for Five-Phase Advanced Transformation Hypnosis®. Certified 5-PATH hypnosis professionals are among some of the most advanced hypnotherapists with whom you can work. Training and certification in 5-PATH® Hypnotherapy allows the hypnotist to go far beyond what most hypnotists can do in a hypnosis session. It helps you make changes both consciously and subconsciously. 

My approach of combining 5-PATH and coaching is based on the latest research in neuroscience and coaching in a well-researched, system for change.

These proven strategies help you make significant, positive changes quickly by helping you create new neural connections that change the way you process and interpret information, therefore helping you change your response to the events in your life achieving your goals. 

5-PATH hypnosis and NLP works for many emotional and performance issues by combining coaching with hypnosis. During the first half of the session, we talk about what you are wanting to achieve, how you want to think and feel, and get clear on what you are wanting to accomplish, how you want to think and feel. Because hypnotherapy is a brain-based therapy, you’ll also learn how the brain works in relation to your issues, and learn the tools for how to work WITH your brain in how IT works, instead of IT working against you.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help improve many conditions and symptoms that are often related to stress, anxiety, and depression. It is an evidence-based therapy for treating fears and phobias and eliminating unwanted habits. The solution focused approach is also effective in helping in other areas such as  performance and business, helping you to increase your confidence and maximise your performance in achieving your goals.

• Addictions
• Anger Issues
• Anxiety and Stress
• Increased Confidence 
• Business Confidence 
• Overcome Fears and Phobias
• Performance Anxiety 
• PTSD 
• Sleep
• Weight problems

And more…

I have never had a client who didn’t go into hypnosis. It use to be believed that only 20% of the population could be hypnotized. We have sinced discovered that those numbers are due to lack of technique, understanding and training of the hypnotist. All you have to do is be of normal intelligence and follow easy instructions and you will go right into a level of hypnosis to do all processes and work necessary to get the changes you want. You’ll find it easier to achieve a hypnotic state with continued practice by using my FREE guided hypnotic relaxation audio recording at home and in between sessions.

There are two ways to go into hypnosis.

1. Automatically and naturally human being go into light and medium states of hypnosis throughout the day spontaneously (consciousness). Have you ever been so obsorbed in working on a project that you lost track of time? Or had the experince of being absorbed in a book or watching a movie where you are hardly pay attention to anything around you? We go in and out of of hypnosis naturally and automatically from time to time. 
2.  A hypnotist guides you into hypnosis. Hypnotists have a number of ways to do hypnotic inductions to help you achieve the deepest levels of hypnosis with ease, so that you can make all the changes you want to make. A good hypnotist can guide you into hypnosis in a little as 4 seconds to 4 minutes. 

People describe hypnosis, or trance as an extremely relaxing and uplifting experience. Hypnosis is a state of mind. It helps you achieve a very calm mental and physical relaxed state. While in the hypnotic state of mind you can have access to information and abilities that you didn’t know you had, and becoming aware of that helps you to make positive change. 

Many people describe it as ‘guided daydreaming.’ You hear everything that’s being said and remember most everything like in a normal conversation while remaining deeply relaxed.

There is no right or wrong way to feel during hypnosis. Some people report feeing deeply relaxed, like sinking comfortably into the chair, and some people feel light and daydreamy, while others feel just what it feels like to be sitting in the chair beneath them.   

During hypnosis you are fully in control focusing on relaxing as a way to bypass the critical factor, where your mind can reflect and think about solutions and begin to see life differently which help you make positive changes. 

Hypnosis occurs naturally in all human beings. if hypnosis were not safe you would hear news stories about people in hypnosis. In all my years working as a critial care nurse, no one has ever shown up in the emergency room ‘stuck’ in hypnosis. In addition, hypnosis has been accepted by the American Medical Association since 1958 and is used for all sorts of issues such as helping IBS, controlling or eliminating pain and skin ailments, finding the cause of depression, anxiety and bad habits and the list goes on and on.

Most doctors just don’t think about it because their training is not in this area, but more and more are embracing the idea and we get referrals from doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors and therapists all the time.

Yes, online hypnotherapy is just as effective as face to face sessions. In fact, some people prefer working online with their therapist because they are more relaxed and comfortable in their own space or home. Sessions can take place wherever you are in the world via Zoom, working with clients based around the world from my home based practice here in the US.