Through Inner Child work or trance work going back in time, I can help you discover what old beliefs or events might be limiting your consistent success. Perhaps there was a time when someone said something derogatory to you to make you believe you were incapable of a skill, or perhaps you were better than an older sibling or friend but had to prevent yourself from excelling because he/she would look bad or be mad at you if you always won. I can then help you “change history” by guiding you to have an “Etheric Plane Communication.” Through a visualization, you can talk to that person who created a negative label for you or limited you in some way, expressing your anger and decision that you are not going to accept their judgment or be second-best any longer, thereby releasing that buried belief. I can then guide you to reclaim the success and empowerment you denied yourself, allowing you, both consciously and subconsciously, to fully accept and believe that you are excellent at a sport, are a winner and can always succeed.

In trance I can also guide you through a visualization journey and create success for you by positive suggestions, such as (in tennis, for example) “whenever you serve a ball, you’ll be keenly focused and hit it powerfully so that it lands exactly where you want it to land.”

I can also help you through Voice Dialogue, wherein I invite you to access a “disowned” part of yourself that might be afraid of success. You may have an aspect, or self, that is a Struggler, a Loser, the Second-best, or the Kid-who-never-did-well-at-anything. After hearing from that type of self, we can call out an empowered self, also a part of you, the Successful Athlete, the Winner, or the Super-achiever. We can turn up the volume on the empowered self and decrease the energy of the one afraid of success, limiting its presence in your consciousness and life. We can then go into a hypnotherapy trance and do positive suggestions of success, or through Alchemical Hypnotherapy, allow you to experience a meeting with your successful, empowered self and merge with it.

Through Neuro-linguistic Programming techniques, I can guide you through visualization and active, standing exercises to pattern your mind and body to act in accordance to achieve the success you are seeking, whether it be to swing and hit a golf ball in a particular way or to break a running record or to overcome your fear of rock-climbing.

There are a number of innovative methods to create consistent success and break through barriers in sports, and I can help you to achieve the success you seek.

Here is further information of interest:

CBS Photo Gallery: Hypnosis: The new anesthetic?

CBS News has added a nice 10-photo gallery of a patient undergoing thyroid surgery using hypnosis instead of a general anesthetic.

It’s wonderful to see mass-media mentioning hypnosis, especially in such useful and close proximity to doctors and hospitals. It’s also sobering to see the minimal commitment that is often made to hypnosis. This nice gallery of photos is quick to mention that “if the patient ever feels any pain, they are immediately given a shot,” and “hypnosis is used only in low-risk operations that are also using local anesthetic”. It fails to mention, for example, that hypnosis has been a life-saving alternative for even major surgeries in cases where general anesthetic could not be used.

One doctor is quoted as saying, “If we could get more research on the right patient groups that would benefit from (hypnosis), that would be wonderful.”

I love working with pregnant women and couples to empower them to create a beautiful, harmonious and peaceful birth. I help you envision and express the ideal birth situation, and through hypnotherapy trances, reaching the subconscious, we present that vision to be embraced and accepted by the entire body and psyche. I help you release fears related to beliefs about birth or about prior negative birth experiences, and draw out your strong and powerful aspects through Voice Dialogue, visualization or Alchemical Hypnotherapy processes. Having worked deeply with the “Birthing From Within” model for the home births of both of my own children, I help women and couples to create their ideal birth, draw upon their strong and resourceful aspects to deal with surprises, and I teach coping strategies for managing pain, either transcending or moving into and through the pain of labor, going on a visualization journey to your safe place or beautiful garden, and/or drawing on your guides and power animal aspects to give you support, power, endurance and passionate resolve for your beautiful child’s entry into the world.

Here are some additional links of interest:

Hypnobirthing in the news

WTSP News in Tampa Bay, FL has done a couple of stories on the success of hynobirthing. Probably because their own TV reporter Heather VanNest was quite impressed when she used hypnosis for the birth of her child. She wrote a blog post about it here:

http://www.wtsp.com/feature/naturalhealth/article/190304/177/HEATHERS-BLOG

(with video)

People seem to remember when the stars, models and public figures do things, and perhaps that’s why people are impessed that actress Jessica Alba and Victoria Secret model Miranda Kerr (married to Orlando Bloom) both used hypnosis for a medication-free birth. WTSP story here:

http://www.wtsp.com/news/health/article/205032/12/Victoria-Secret-model-…

The subconscious and its desires often make losing weight an on-going battle. When we reach the subconscious through hypnotherapy and convince it to create healthy eating habits, to desire being slender, to enjoy exercise, to be motivated to eat small and light meals, then steady progress is made in weight loss and weight management. Often emotional issues are at the core of weight loss struggles, and through hypnotherapy we can discover the roots of those issues and clear them, freeing you from negative eating patterns. Inner Child work is a very helpful method to discover old hurts and patterns. Through Voice Dialogue, we can reveal agendas of various parts of yourself that may keep you stuck in unhealthy eating habits, such as your Saboteur, who wants to throw a monkey wrench into your new resolve, or your Vulnerable Child, who isn’t getting the comfort she needs and seeks it in brownies, or your Rebel self, who won’t follow any established rules of healthy eating. Then we can hear from your Protector, who wants a healthy and energetic body, and your Aphrodite or Adonis self, who wants to feel beautiful and sexually attractive and appreciated. Hearing from these various selves gives them acknowledgment and acceptance, and then your Aware Ego, the ruler of your inner selves, can determine which aspects of you need to have more voice and which need to be diminished. There are also many Neuro-linguistic Programming processes to help clear old habits and create new healthy habits of eating, of thinking, of behaving.

An ideal weight loss hypnotherapy series of sessions would take between three and four months, one session per week. I support you not only through hypnotherapy, but in assessing your eating habits, what you eat, what makes you eat more, when you eat, and why you overeat or eat unhealthy foods. I also encourage exercise and discuss your exercise life and options, giving you support and and incorporating suggestions for loving exercise into our discussions and into trances.

When you find yourself no longer craving late night chocolate, yearning to exercise daily, easily choosing light meals at restaurants, and losing pounds weekly, you’ll realize the incredible benefits of hypnotherapy for weight loss!

Check out the following article:
SHAPE Magazine, “I Tried It: Hypnosis for Weight Loss”

http://www.shape.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-strategies/i-tried-it-hypnosis-weight-loss

“When Georgia, 28, decided she needed to lose the 30 or so pounds she put on after foot surgery in 2009, the dieting veteran turned to hypnosis.”

After an Angelic Reiki Healing, I offer an angel card reading, with intuitive spiritual guidance and counseling, to help clients find clarity and a deeper understanding about  life issues, experiences, and their life missions.

I am trained in and have received attunements in Reiki I and Reiki II, and have been practicing Reiki for three years.