Specialites
My clinical strengths.
Over the years I have worked with clients on a variety of issues and have discovered my strengths in helping others. If you are looking to heal from any of the following concerns listed below reach out for a free consultation to discuss further.
Cultivating Self Love
How do I know if I love myself or not? Scan your relationships with others and yourself. If your inner critic is very active, you talk down to yourself and find yourself in relationships where others don’t respect you or treat you well, there may be a block preventing unconditional self love. If you put a lot of pressure on yourself to achieve while struggling with self care and self compassion, this may be another sign.
What is My self talk sounding like?
How do i treat myself when no one is watching?
Learning to love ourselves is a process, especially if we feel like we don’t deserve it. Often we have subconscious beliefs based on past experiences surrounding these events. Our younger parts hold onto the pain and need help to let it go and create a new belief.
Internal family systems (IFS), practicing compassion and mindfulness alongside hypnotherapy is the path towards unconditional love for ourselves. It’s not about just thinking it, its about feeling it and embodying self love.
Somatic Symptoms
Often our physical ailments can be linked to an unresolved emotional issue. For example, I have treated clients with severe sciatic nerve pain where they find symptom relief in one hypnotherapy session. When we release the trapped emotions (i.e.- shock, unprocessed grief, fear etc.) stored in the physical body, we can heal physical ailments. The emotional release helps the body to let go of the somatic expression.
Many physical complaints tend to have emotional root causes. Not every physical ailment will be healed with hypnotherapy/hypnosis, however, many issues can be. If you feel as if your physical pain or other symptom is psychological in nature we can explore that via hypnotherapy.
If you would like to discuss to learn more about this may help your specific concern, click here to book a free consultation call.
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Relationship Recovery
Many of us have experienced trauma in the form of relationships. This can involve our primary caregivers, or perhaps an ex partner or boss. Cognitively we can understand how the other person that harmed us may have unhealed aspects of themselves at play. However, a cognitive understanding isn’t always the full complete path to healing.
If you still experience startle responses, spend a lot of time thinking about how to avoid relationship based conflict and don’t trust yourself or your decisions (seeking validation from others), you may need to heal.
This is where EMDR therapy and Hypnotherapy are very helpful in transforming trauma from the experience itself. We work towards creating a whole brain state with these tools. The goal is to feel safe again in our body and also trust ourselves and our behavioral decisions around relationships. So often learning to trust ourselves again is vital and the tools I use and teach help to rebuild that trust.
Seeking a Higher Purpose
Some clients want help to understand their higher purpose and reason for being here. There is a desire to shift perspective when it comes to our personal challenges. How is this happening for me vs. to me? How can I make a difference in the world. How do I start the process to live more authentically?
Sometimes this personal growth, or what I like to call soul growth, shows up in the form of something called a Dark Night of the Soul. Carl Jung called it a “Night Sea Journey”. This is when external event(s) force us to go inward and explore our shadow selves, our structures and our psyche’s. This is an intense alchemical process that can be trying and painful. It is not however the same as a depressive episode or grief. It is different and can often include symptoms of what I call “mystical depression”. If you are going through a Dark Night you may feel terribly isolated and hopeless or lost (but not suicidal).
This type of inner journey can be very isolating. It is important to have support and to understand what this challenge is asking of you. Therapy can allow for space to consider bigger life questions such as How are these current challenges helping me? What have I been neglecting or avoiding in my life? How will this process bring me closer to my personal truth?
Tools like hypnosis and regressive techniques can help you to connect with your soul and your heart center to assist in answering these questions. Transpersonal hypnotherapy allows for the inclusion of our soul in clinical work.
Please read about the transpersonal methods of psychotherapy I use here. It gives you a clear sense on the how we work on soul growth, together.