Fees and Session Length

 

Initial session:  up to 1.5 hours in length. Goal: Intake, assessment, and usually time for full hypnotherapy session. Occasionally, an initial assessment may result in a recommendation that hypnotherapy is not the best path forward for you and other approaches can then be utilized or recommended. A 15-minute phone call can help in finding out the best approach for you, but note this is not a complete assessment and we reserve the right to recommend alternative approaches based on ethics, expertise, and experience.

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Follow-on sessions: up to 1.5 hours.

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If you’re not sure whether hypnotherapy is right for you, you can schedule a complimentary 15 minute call.

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In-Person Sessions

 

In-person sessions are available in Bushwick, just a 5-minute walk from the Myrtle-Wycoff subway station. Book a session.

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Remote Sessions

 

Sessions can also be done by ZOOM.

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Remote sessions are just as effective and powerful as in-person sessions and clients from across North America and Europe benefit from this work with us as much as clients in person. Once the hypnosis begins, your eyes are closed and the only relationship between you and the hypnotherapist is through the voice, so hypnotherapy is perfectly suited to be done remotely. A headset that can be worn comfortably while reclining is recommended; otherwise, a speaker phone works. Book a session.

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Packages

If you're truly ready to do the work to be your best and highest self, you understand that this will take some time and commitment on your part .  For this reason, I only engage in this work with those who are ready to commit to a minimum of 3 sessions. Frequently, more than 3 sessions are needed to make the changes you seek.  The good news is that's way fewer than traditional talk therapy.

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Preparation for your session

 

It’s good to select an appointment time when you will be:

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• Well rested (good night’s sleep) and naturally (not from caffeine) high mental energy.  If you are not well rested, the mind has more challenge in focusing and a more difficult time accessing positive perspectives.

• Not caffeinated. Avoid coffee two hours before a session. Caffeine activates the nervous system and the mind, which can work against the hypnosis, which is focused relaxation.

• Less stressed than at perhaps other times in your day or week. This makes it easier to relax. For people with a stressful day job during the week, a weekend late morning or afternoon is often an optimal time.

 

For in-person sessions, exact location and arrival details will be emailed to you when you book.

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Approach and Philosophy for Sessions

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As someone considering hypnotherapy as a solution, you may have a single issue you would like to address or you may have a long list of issues you’d like to work on.

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Single Issue Clients

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If you are someone who has a single issue that needs healing, we will get to work with the goal of bringing full resolution in five sessions. Single issues can include nail biting, quitting smoking, losing weight, insomnia, etc.

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We will start by talking together to identify underlying causes for the thoughts, feelings, or behaviors you are looking to resolve. Most issues we are addressing in hypnotherapy are a result of an old coping or protective mechanism, which at one time made sense, but is now outdated and unhelpful. It is often only through hypnosis that we come to an understanding of our experiences and challenges.

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While classic hypnosis approaches often go to work immediately at overriding these mechanisms through giving the subconscious positive programming, this is akin to mowing the lawn to eliminate weeds — its only a matter of time before the energy stored in the root will push up new shoots and soon reestablish the presence of the offending pattern.

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Identifying and healing the root emotional cause is the more holistic and sustainable approach. This is like pulling up the weed by its roots, eliminating any chance for revival. Once a root has been identified, we move forward in your first session to heal that root, followed by explaining to the subconscious that there is no more reason to continue the now-meaningless pattern. We then wrap up the session with visualizations of success or health in that area of your life extending into the future.

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** As always, your health and well-being are in our best interest. We reserve the right to withhold the use of hypnosis until such time we feel it is appropriate for you. For clients in acute emotional distress or presenting significant symptoms of trauma, we may recommend the use of active discussion in the waking state to unravel core issues and complex patterns prior to using hypnosis. In some cases, this may result in hypnosis not being utilized in the first session. **

 

Multiple Issue Clients

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If you are someone who has a list of issues that need healing, our first goals together are to:

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• Assess your goals and limitations.

• Determine the framework within which we can work and develop a recommended therapeutic approach.

• Identify any limiting beliefs around your ability to heal and respond by teaching you about how we can heal with hypnotherapy.

• Get you immediate relief by working on the deepest core issue that you are willing to work on. These is typically done by bringing healing to major painful themes and painful events from your past. Often multiple issues are interrelated and by working at the core issues, other issues disappear.

 

It’s always interesting to see where the movement occurs after a first session such as this. Some issues are easily healed or shifted, while others can require more focused time and attention in follow-on sessions.

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While we generally recommend sessions be spaced 1-2 weeks apart, the timing is ultimately up to you. The content we focus on each time is determined through discussion and agreement.

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Here is an outline of the steps that I generally take with multiple-issue clients:

1. In the first sessions, examine the list of symptoms in want of healing, and tie them to core themes/issues.

2. Conduct a general first session addressing all core issues we are aware of at this time.

3. Evaluate efficacy of session, through (a) your feedback to me of your subjective experience, and (b) you observing yourself over the days following the session and then sharing with me what symptoms were alleviated, and which symptoms remain.

4. Discuss and decide whether additional session work is wanted (up to you based on your urgency in addressing remaining issues) and likely to be helpful (based on the success in changing symptoms as a result of the first session).

5. Either conduct an additional focused session, or end course of treatment.

 

After each session, we return to Step 3, evaluating success, and then Step 4, determining if further work is wanted and likely to be helpful.

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** As always, your health and well-being are in our mutual best interest. We reserve the right to withhold the use of hypnosis until such time we feel it is appropriate for you. For clients in acute emotional distress or presenting significant symptoms of trauma, we may recommend the use of active discussion in the waking state to unravel core issues and complex patterns prior to using hypnosis. In some cases, this may result in hypnosis not being utilized in the first session. **