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What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic approach that guides you into a deeply relaxed and focused state—sometimes called a trance—where your subconscious mind becomes more receptive to positive, goal-driven suggestions. It’s not stage hypnosis or mind control; you remain fully aware and in control while accessing the mental clarity needed to create real change.

Research shows hypnosis can effectively reduce stress, anxiety, and phobias, and even improve pain management, sleep, smoking cessation, and weight control. It works by helping you:

  • Tap into subconscious patterns—where habits, beliefs, and emotional responses live—and reframe them.

  • Deepen relaxation, allowing your mind to shift out of fight‑or‑flight mode and into a state that supports healing and focus.

How It Works on Your Journey

  1. Relax & Focus

    We begin with guided relaxation and mental imagery to calm your nervous system and ease into a heightened yet peaceful state—perfect for change.

  2. Targeted Positive Suggestions

    While you’re deeply relaxed, I’ll introduce purposeful suggestions and visualizations tailored to your goals—whether that’s conquering anxiety, breaking habits, or enhancing performance  .

  3. Integration & Empowerment

    After the session, you’ll leave feeling refreshed, grounded, and equipped with new mental tools. Many clients also learn self‑hypnosis techniques to reinforce progress between appointments

Why It Works for All Areas of Life

  1. Whether you’re seeking emotional wellness, habit change, or peak performance and health, hypnotherapy provides a powerful, flexible path to growth:

  2. Emotional Wellness: Release stress, reframe limiting beliefs, heal heartbreak, and cultivate emotional resilience.

  3. Habit Change: Drop unwanted behaviors—from smoking to sugar—and reinforce new, healthier routines.

  4. Performance & Health: Improve sleep, boost energy and focus, manage pain, prepare for surgery, or enhance athletic/exam performance.

  5. Each session accesses your subconscious where lasting transformation really happens—helping you not just behave differently but feel differently at the core

Is It Safe?

​Yes. Clinical hypnotherapy is a safe, trusted modality—comparable in safety to meditation and widely practiced in combination with standard therapeutic approaches (). You remain fully in control, aware, and able to stop at any time.

Who It’s For

Hypnotherapy is ideal if you’re:

 

  • Feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or change

  • Struggling with habits you can’t shift through willpower alone

  • Preparing for an important event, surgery, exam, or performance

  • Eager to boost your confidence, focus, or emotional resilience

 

Even first-timers find sessions relaxing, enlightening, and surprisingly empowering.

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Ready to explore more?

Check out our services page to see how hypnotherapy supports your specific needs—whether it’s emotional clarity, habit freedom, or peak performance—or book a Free Discovery Call to see if it’s a good fit.

Get in Touch

We’re here to help you

Office

5901 S Macadam Ave

​Suite 100

Portland

503-664-6774

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