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The Definitive Guide published a study comparing the effectiveness of psychoanalysis, behavior therapy and hypnotherapy. Here are the remarkable results: after 600 sessions of psychoanalysis, 38% of patients reported recovery from their conditions; 72% receiving behavior therapy improved after 22 sessions, while hypnotherapy produced a 93% success rate after only 6 sessions.
Clinical Hypnotherapy is a naturalistic trance approach to working with mental and physical concerns in a safe and confidential setting. To contact Steve Johnston, CCH, MA, PsyD-abd with questions or to make an appointment, please e-mail or call him direct at 415.508.4225. Steve Johnston, CCH, MA, PsyD-abdoffers Clinical Hypnotherapy sessions focusing in the following areas:
Addiction
- Smoking Cessation
- Substance Abuse / Dependence / Recovery
- Weight Loss
Depression & Trauma
- Individuals who are struggling with Depression
- Childhood Trauma / Adult Trauma
Anxiety
- Individuals who lead a high stress life
- Individuals who have difficulty relaxing, meditating or unwinding
- Individuals who experience chronic anxiety
- Individuals who have active or passive phobias and/or fears
- Individuals who experience panic attacks
- Individuals who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Individuals who wrestle with sleeping problems (insomnia, trouble falling to sleep, nightmares)
- Individuals who suffer from chronic anxiety focused around a specific activity or event
Peak Performance
- Individuals who have difficulty focusing when "under pressure"
- Individuals who suffer from performance anxiety
- Individuals who have Test Anxiety or for students preparing for placement tests (SAT, ACT, LSAT, MCAT, Etc.)
- Individuals who are preparing for Board Licensing Exams
- Individuals who suffer from stage/event performance and/or to increase their performance focus
- Athletes wishing to improve their overall or specific performance and/or enhance their sports abilities
- Individuals who have anxiety in social situations and/or wish to improve social performance behaviors
Interpersonal Relationships
- Relationships
- Sexual Problems
- Building Inner Resources and Strengths
- Individuals who find themselves repeating a negative or unwanted pattern in their life.
- Cutting Ties and/or Forgiveness
Spirituality
- Dream Work
- Past Life Exploration
Hypnotherapy is a safe and structured relationship between the client and the Hypnotherapist. Hypnosis is used to address and interact with issues which the client brings to each hypnotherapy session. Hypnosis is a completely natural state of mind. You enter this state many times a day without consciously realizing that you are in a light trance state. When you are driving and you accidentally miss your intended turn, when you are watching a movie or daydreaming and everything else falls away to the point that you are not aware of anything else, even if only for a moment. These are examples of very light trance states, a self-induced hypnotic state.
When you are in this state of mind, the critical factor of the mind is relaxed. For example, when you watch a movie, you are completely aware that you are in an auditorium, surrounded by other people, watching a flat screen with a projected image and recorded sound, yet you suspend your disbelief and consciously enter into a state of consciousness where you may feel genuine emotions, forget that you are surrounded by other individuals, or perhaps you don't even notice the theater any longer. Your logical mind or critical factor is still there, but imagination and emotion from the subconscious mind emerges and overrides it. The relaxed critical factor facilitates communication between the conscious and the subconscious mind. Hypnosis works in the same way, offering the client an opportunity to relax their critical factor, their conscious thought process, and access their feelings, physical body and internal processes at a much deeper level.
The mind is divided into the conscious mind and subconscious mind. The conscious mind contains logic, rationalization, willpower, and short-term memory. It is the smaller surface area of our mind, which is said to account for 10% of our mental capacity. The subconscious mind is the larger part, sealed and gated by critical factors of the conscious mind. It contains all permanent memory, habits, programming to generate emotions, intuition, and so on. Intuitive wisdom and creativity (some call this the Higher Self) are also important functions of the subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy relaxes your critical factor and enables the access to this conscious realm of your mind.
The hypnotherapist is like a guide who facilitates the hypnotic process. You can enter or exit the hypnotic state anytime you wish; therefore, you will not "get stuck" or lose control in hypnosis. Through our skilled guidance and your courage to remain open, we can utilize the hypnotic state as a powerful place for transformation and healing.
Hypnotherapy, approved by the American Medical Association in 1958, is an effective, holistic form of therapy utilizing both conscious and subconscious minds. The subconscious mind accounts for 90% of your mental capacity". Thus, calling upon and cultivating the subconscious mind makes hypnotherapy a uniquely powerful tool.
The Definitive Guide published a study comparing the effectiveness of psychoanalysis, behavior therapy and hypnotherapy. Here are the remarkable results: after 600 sessions of psychoanalysis, 38% of patients reported recovery from their conditions; 72% receiving behavior therapy improved after 22 sessions, while hypnotherapy produced a 93% success rate after only 6 sessions.
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are not magical states or forms of mind control, they are natural processes which have been utilized for deep relaxation, inner guidance, healing and counseling since early human civilization. Hypnosis does not take control of your thoughts, nor can the hypnotherapist "force" you to reveal information that you do not want to reveal, in fact, you can choose to lie under hypnosis just as you can tell a lie while in a full waking state. The Hypnotherapist has no power over you while in trance. You can bring yourself out of trance at any time and you can choose to reenter the hypnotic state just as easily. Hypnosis does not erase your memories, nor can the hypnotherapist create "new" memories. You will not "bark like a dog" or "cluck around the office like a chicken" as you may have seen a stage hypnotist do with people during a stage performance. Those individuals were part of a show and were specifically chosen by the stage hypnotist based on criteria that has little to do with hypnosis. Stage hypnotists seek out individuals that want to perform, that have a desire to be seen in such a setting. This is not hypnotherapy.
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