What Hypnotherapy Is
Most people who come to me already understand their problem to some degree. They know what they want to stop doing, start doing, or feel differently about. The difficulty is that understanding something consciously does not always change the reaction.
Hypnotherapy gives us a way to work with the beliefs, emotional responses, habits, and inner conflicts that may be operating outside ordinary conscious effort.
During hypnosis, your attention becomes more focused. You are still aware, you can speak, and you can respond to what is happening. The point is not to give up control. It is to make it easier to work with parts of the problem that may be difficult to reach by thinking about them in the usual way.
What Happens in a Session
We begin by talking about what is happening now and what you would like to change.
I then guide you into hypnosis and follow what comes up during the process. I may ask questions and work with feelings, beliefs, memories, images, inner conflicts, or different parts of yourself.
Depending on the person and the issue, I may draw from parts work, analytical hypnotherapy, regression techniques, NLP, imagery, rehearsal, or suggestion. I do not start with one technique and try to fit everyone into it.
What People Bring to Hypnotherapy
People come with many different concerns, including:
- anxiety and overthinking
- stress and recurring tension
- smoking and other unwanted habits
- confidence and self-esteem
- sleep
- emotional eating and weight-related patterns
- procrastination, focus, and performance
- fears or reactions that do not seem to respond to logic
Sometimes the problem is fairly straightforward. Other times, the behavior or reaction turns out to be doing something important for the person, even though they consciously want it to stop.
That is why I am interested not only in what the symptom is, but in what may be keeping it necessary.
How I Work
I have worked full-time as a hypnotherapist since 2007. Before that, I worked as a mechanical engineer.
Some of that way of thinking never left me. I am interested in what is actually happening, how the pattern works, and what we may be missing when the obvious explanation is not enough.
The goal is not simply to suppress a symptom. It is to understand and work with what is keeping the pattern in place so that a different response becomes possible.
Sessions are available in Albuquerque and online through Zoom.
Questions Before Scheduling
You do not need to know which technique you need before you come in. You can simply tell me what is happening and what you would like to change.
if you have a quick question.