Anxieties, Fears & Phobias

Fears and phobias, whether logical or irrational, impair the quality of our lives greatly. Your hypnotherapist can help to identify when the problem started, what caused it and outline a strategy to help you overcome your fears as well as the anticipatory anxiety that has become part of the problem. She will provide tools that will help you leading up to a difficult situation and during the actual event so that you will begin to have only positive experiences. You will also be able to use the tools you learn for future situations.

If the origin of the fear or phobia cannot be identified, your hypnotherapist will take a slightly different tact still ending up at the same positive outcome.

Hypnosis can also be used to increase your understanding and concentration on materials important for an upcoming exam. It helps you to relax, giving your conscious mind more “brainpower” to allocate toward studying. Hypnosis will enhance your sense of well-being and your motivation or desire to have a good memory.

If you are experiencing fears about failing to meet the goals you have set for yourself, your hypnotherapist can help. Similarly, your hypnotherapist can also assist you identify and remove blocks that have hindered your exam performance in the past and help you to understand how your memory works so you can utilize it more effectively.

The human mind is so large we will never be able to fill it in a lifetime. We are capable of remembering most of what we have seen, heard or experienced if we so desire. Your hypnotherapist will give you tools to enhance your recall and ultimately, eliminate the anxiety you experience around test-taking!

Insomnia Relief

Are you someone who has trouble falling asleep, trouble getting back to sleep or waking up too early?

We all need a good night’s sleep to stay sane and re-energize our mind and body. There is nothing more frustrating than a night tossing and turning where you never actually fall asleep or where maybe you do fall asleep briefly only to be awakened and kept up the rest of the night. Once insomnia kicks in, it is often difficult to derail. Anxiety continues to build the less sleep you have had and the greater the responsibilities of the next day.

Fortunately, hypnosis and CBT-I, Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia, can help. Hypnosis naturally acts as a bridge between our being “fully awake” and being “asleep” in our normal day-to-day lives. A hypnotherapist can help you define your sleep patterns, identify any external causes that are keeping you from sleeping, examine your environment and physical state and ultimately re-pattern your mental activity prior to going to sleep thereby making your transition to sleep a relaxing, easy segue. Your hypnotherapist will explain the four stages of sleep and how to transition easily from one to the next with the help of self-hypnosis, a proven strategy for getting to sleep comfortably and getting back to sleep when you awaken in the middle of the night.

In addition, CBT-I coaching and education with guide you toward the thoughts and behaviors that promote healthy sleep long term.

Self-Esteem, Self-Sabatoge

Do you have low self-esteem...struggle with a strong inner critic...know you could achieve more but struggle to do so or battle with self-sabotage? Hypnosis can help.

Healthy, genuine self-confidence is peace of mind. It provides security and independence and allows one to achieve maximum happiness through developing one’s inherent talents, leading a constructive life and entering into fruitful relationships.

There as many reasons for low self-esteem or lack of confidence. Your hypnotherapist can help you uncover these reasons, eliminate limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns or simply help you to change the image you have of yourself through hypnosis. What the mind can see and visualize, the mind and person can accomplish.

Find out more about self-sabotage, how to recognize it, why it occurs and how to stop it so you can heal, move forward, and prosper. Through hypnotherapy your subconscious mind can become more familiar with feeling good and allowing good things to continue happening in your life.

Have you ever wondered why some people, regardless of their talents, background, or experience, just seem to excel? Find out and become one of those people through hypnosis.

Smoking Cessation

Whether you have been a smoker for 6 months or 20 years, quitting is no easy task. Not only do you have your conscious, logical reasons for quitting battling against your much stronger subconscious reasons for continuing to smoke, you also have a chemical addiction and often an emotional addiction involved.

Hypnosis has proven to be a very successful tool for those who truly want to quit. Your hypnotherapist can tailor a program to your needs that will be anywhere from 1 to 6 sessions.

Your hypnotherapist will identify what type of smoker you are, what your triggers are and work with you to overpower your subconscious need and desire to smoke while making sure to incorporate healthy replacement behaviors and options. Your hypnotherapist will also provide helpful tips and proven strategies that you can use outside the session(s) to enhance your long-term success as a non-smoker.

Weight Management/Emotional Eating

Being overweight is taxing on the mind and the body. If you feel you need help managing your weight you may find hypnosis a beneficial tool, especially in terms of keeping a healthy balance in this area of your life over the long-term.

Weight gain and weight reduction usually have a strong emotional component that can act against, or overrule, your conscious intentions. A hypnotherapist can help to uncover these emotional components and work to change them so they are more congruent with your true desires and logic. Your hypnotherapist can also work to strengthen the healthy belief systems you hold in your subconscious mind so that they can eventually override your unhealthy beliefs and impulses.

Your hypnotherapist will work with you to create a healthy, balanced, “whole-body approach”, including diet, exercise and hypnosis which will keep you on track to obtaining your goals faster than you may have experienced in the past.

Grief and Loss

Hypnosis can be very helpful for people dealing with death and loss. Grieving is often a longer process than we expect. This is not helped by the fact that there are few rituals to help grievers in our culture or country. Support from family and friends can’t always be enough.

Your hypnotherapist has many tools to help you if you are struggling with loss regardless of what stage of the process you are in. She will provide help in terms of processing and accepting the reality of the situation, experiencing and tolerating the pain of it, constructing ways to express your most painful feelings, uncovering feelings of guilt, blame or anger, beginning to reorganize, integrating the loss into a new life, reinvesting in new relationships and lastly helping to repair your outlook on the world after having gone through a difficult and often complicated situation.

Importantly, hypnosis can provide a safe place for the griever to go for a moment, a place to rest from the work of grieving.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

If you suffer from IBS you are familiar with the symptoms which may include abdominal pain and alteration of bowel habits, as well as abdominal distension and bloating. Those with milder symptoms can be helped through lifestyle advice and some medical treatments, but those with severe symptoms currently lack an effective treatment option.

Hypnosis can be a highly effective treatment for the bowel disorder IBS. Studies involving a total of 346 patients conducted by researchers at The Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, showed that hypnotherapy alleviated symptoms in 40 per cent of those affected -- and that the improvement is long-term.

In addition to helping to alleviate, or reduce, the symptoms, hypnotherapy can also be helpful for the anxiety, embarrassment and in some cases shame that people dealing with IBS may face.

Stress Reduction

Stress has been classified as the number one health issue in the U.S. in recent years. We all experience different levels of stress and different types of stressors daily, everything from being stuck in traffic or an unexpected loud noise on the smaller scale, to emotional upset or job loss on the larger side. Sometimes these stressful situations come all at once making them seem even more difficult to endure. Stress creates tension in the body. The body’s sensory network perceives itself to be under attack and goes into protection mode. Prolonged stress can be very debilitating both mentally and physically and actually lead to stress related illness and/or depression.

A hypnotherapist can help to identify and clarify the stressors in your life and work with you to lesson them and begin to incorporate new, healthier responses to these stimuli. You will become more aware of the stress and tension in your body, when it starts and where exactly it resides. Conversely, you will become reacquainted with what your body feels like when it is in a completely relaxed state, which is very helpful. Diet, exercise, dream therapy and sleep improvement programs can also be incorporated to provide a healthier and less stressed base for you to operate from daily.

Sports Performance

Athletes have often used hypnosis to eliminate negative thoughts, reduce anxiety, increase focus and concentration and increase their access to the more relaxed, calm state known as “being in the zone.” This type of mental training can increase confidence, consistency, and ability, and it applies to all levels of athletes, including those recovering from injury and those just learning a sport.

Your hypnotherapist can help if you have gotten into bad sports habits on the course or in the game, fallen into a "slump", lost your confidence, had a negative experience related to your sport, or just need to improve your mental endurance which can be key for the individual sports like golf or tennis or if you are preparing for a string of championship games or a particularly high stake, high-pressure event. Let hypnosis elevate your game to the next level!

In-Person, Phone or Video Sessions Available

Our hypnotherapy services are most often conducted in person in one of our comfortable office setting. However, sometimes phone or video sessions are necessary or most practical and can be accommodated.

Hypnosis is a state of focused relaxation which can easily be achieved over the phone. You can be in a different city, country or remote location and still enjoy the benefits of Hypnotherapy. All you need is a quiet space where you won’t be interrupted, a comfortable couch or recliner, a speaker phone, phone with headset or internet access.

Your hypnotherapist will initially discuss the changes you would like to make, your goals, desires and current limitations and then easily transition you into hypnosis all from the comfort of your chosen location. Once the session has ended, your hypnotherapist will bring you back out of the hypnotic state, discuss the session and any questions you might have. Phone sessions have proven to be just as effective as in-office sessions, and are extremely helpful for people with busy life or work schedules, those who are traveling, on vacation or living outside the Los Angeles area.

Executive Hypnosis Coaching

H & W offers Executive Hypnosis Coaching to corporations in group or individual settings by zoom or in person depending on the situation and budget. Please set up a free phone consult for additional details, list of corporate clients and pricing here.