What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a naturally occurring phenomenon - a deep state of relaxation.
Hypnosis can be used to access the unconscious mind where the software for our behavioral patterns is stored. Through therapeutically formulated suggestions, habits and emotional responses can be reprogrammed - to help people achieve their goals.
Hypnosis is a highly effective treatment for various physical complaints, nervous symptoms and emotional conflicts.
Hypnosis permits deeper psychological work, accessing the source of emotional conflicts in your subconscious mind.
Hypnosis uses behavioral therapy techniques to extinguish unwanted behavioral patterns in the unconscious mind.
Why Hypnotherapy?
The techniques used in hypnotherapy allow a therapist to access a state of mind with a patient in which he or she experiences a heightened focus and awareness.
The deeply relaxed state of mind and body achieved in hypnotherapy allows suggestions to go directly into the unconscious mind.
Hypnotherapy is one of many different psychotherapeutic treatment modalities which can be used in therapy, to address and treat problematic issues or behaviors that interfere with living the life you want to live.
Prior to starting treatment Dr. Sharona does a thorough evaluation with you to make certain hypnosis is appropriate for you and your goals. After completion of the assessment, Dr. Sharona and you will then formulate a treatment plan, clarifying your goals for the hypnosis session(s).
Hypnotherapy may be used as a primary therapeutic technique to treat unwanted behaviors, and to develop and reinforce new, more effective behavioral patterns.
Or, hypnotherapy may be used at different times in an ongoing therapy as a tool to get past unconscious psychological resistance by going to the source of conflicts or problematic behavioral patterns, to release these “stuck patterns.”
The First Appointment
Dr. Sharona offers hypnosis, and hypnotherapy as primary treatment modalities in her professional practice. The use of hypnosis is always by informed consent, and utilized only after the patient has read a disclosure packet containing more detailed information about hypnosis. Her use of hypnosis is strictly for purposes of treatment, and is utilized to enhance the physical and emotional well-being of her patients. For this reason she begins all hypnosis treatment with an individual evaluation, in which she takes a full life history, and a detailed history of the issues you would like to address in hypnosis. In this initial interview Dr. Sharona will develop a comprehensive understanding of who you are as a person, and how hypnosis might improve your current quality of life. During this process she will determine whether hypnosis is the most appropriate treatment modality for you.
To the extent that is possible, Dr. Sharona will discuss with you, what might come up in hypnosis, and will obtain your permission to explore those areas as well as to identify any areas you would prefer not to address in hypnosis. At the conclusion of your first session, Dr. Sharona will discuss with you, your goals for treatment, and will formulate with you specific goals, to move forward in your life.
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