Clinical Hynpotherapy
What is Clinical Hypnosis?
Clinical hypnosis uses guided relaxation and focused attention to address psychological, emotional, physical, and psychosomatic issues. It’s a collaborative process where you stay very aware and in control while accessing subconscious material in a relaxed, focused state.
We enter hypnotic states daily during activities like scrolling on your phone, reading a captivating book, driving a familiar route, or daydreaming. Clinical hypnotherapy directs this natural focus to promote healing and positive change.
Though once hindered by stigma and limited research, hypnotherapy is now evidence-based and becoming increasingly accepted within our modern times. Hypnosis has been a tool used to facilitate healing for thousands of years across cultures and regions.
National Institutes of Health studies confirm its effectiveness for pain, IBS, and anxiety. Hospitals use it for surgery prep and cancer care. The APA supports ongoing research; insurance coverage continues to grow. Combined with EMDR, mindfulness and somatic therapies, hypnosis is increasingly accessible and effective to address a variety of symptoms.
What To Expect in a Hypnotherapy Session
The hypnotic process involves guiding you into a relaxed, focused state using techniques such as progressive muscle relaxation, guided visualizations, mindful breathing, and mind-body connection practices.
While in this relaxed state, your intentions are addressed through regression therapy, parts therapy, and somatic engagement to process memories, enhance strengths, and build healthier thinking and emotional responses.
Hypnosis is essentially self-hypnosis, meaning you remain fully aware and in control throughout in a way that is meaningful and empowering to you, acquiring skills for lifelong stress management and personal growth.
Additionally, hypnotherapy can effectively support trauma and C-PTSD by safely accessing emotional parts to promote healing and emotional balance.
FAQs
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From a scientific perspective, hypnotherapy shifts your brainwaves from busy beta waves to calmer alpha and theta states. This is where neuroplasticity is enhanced—where your brain becomes open to positive change and accessing deeper material that is stored.
From a holistic view, it's about accessing the wisdom that already exists within you. Your subconscious holds not just your challenges, but also your solutions. Hypnotherapy simply helps you bridge that gap.
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Hypnotherapy can help with emotional, mental, and physical problems. It also helps people discover positive qualities, feel better about themselves, and connect more deeply with their true self and body.
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Hypnotherapy works directly with the subconscious mind, accessing somatic and right-brain experiences where memories and emotions are stored. Since most of our behaviors, reactions, and choices are driven by our subconscious, hypnotherapy can create change at this deeper level of awareness.
Talk therapy primarily engages the conscious mind, focusing on cognitive processing and verbal exploration. While valuable, it may not always reach the subconscious patterns that drive our experiences. This is a reason why talk therapy can reach limitations for people seeking to heal beyond past experiences or other areas of “stuckness”.
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I combine hypnosis techniques with bilateral movement. Hypno-EMDR combines hypnotherapy’s deep relaxation and EMDR’s bilateral stimulation to help clients access a calm state for processing trauma, enhancing internal resources, working through negative beliefs, and emotional blocks. By engaging both conscious and subconscious minds, this method can accelerate healing.
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Hypnotherapy may suit you if you feel stuck despite other therapy, seek deeper change, prefer inner work, relate to mind-body healing modalities, or want to work at a subconscious level.
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Most people can feel deeply relaxed or calm. Hypnosis affects everyone differently but is usually a positive experience. Many find the therapy helpful for making meaningful changes.
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Hypnosis is a heightened state of awareness, not unconsciousness, helping you gain insights and apply new perspectives that won’t be forgotten, particularly subconsciously.
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Yes, hypnotherapy can be effective via secure video if you're in a private, comfortable space with a stable internet connection.
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Insurance coverage for hypnotherapy varies. As a licensed LCSW, I integrate hypnotic techniques into therapy, often billable to insurance. Some extended hypnotherapy sessions may require out-of-pocket payment. We can discuss your coverage during the initial consultation.
Transpersonal Hypnotoherapy
Transpersonal hypnotherapy uses a mind-body-spirit approach to explore consciousness and the “multi-dimensional” self. It helps address generational patterns, deepen inner connection, and examine emotional, mental, relational, and physical life patterns related to the Self or soul.
Hypnosis employs guided relaxation and focused attention to engage the body’s natural healing and support lasting therapeutic change. Regression therapy accesses current or past-life memories to uncover root causes of symptoms, helping clients release mental, emotional, and social patterns for relief. I integrate both clinical and transpersonal perspectives.
Resources
In this brief recording, Stefan explains hypnosis, what to expect before a session, common myths, and useful motivations.