Hypnosis is a state of focused awareness everyone experiences
naturally many times a day.

It’s the relaxed but alert state your mind reaches just before you fall asleep (called "hypnagogic"), and again just before you wake up (called "hypnopompic").

Similarly, when absorbed in a good book or great film, when day dreaming, or when you miss your highway turnoff deep in thought, you're in a light but focused hypnotic state.

It's that naturally occurring state a Hypnotherapist guides you to, then prolongs and deepens so you can make the beneficial changes and improvements you've chosen to change your lifestyle and beliefs.ove forward with clarity and confidence.

The subconscious is your mental “Auto Pilot.”

It's the seat of all your emotions … it carries habitual conduct, it’s the home to the imagination and it remembers everything you’ve ever seen, done, heard, felt and learned.

The subconscious is also the home of your belief system, from where both negative and positive beliefs arise automatically.

Through hypnosis, we bypass the conscious mind and re-programme the negative beliefs you’ve chosen to change so the subconscious tells the conscious mind of your new reality,
allowing both to believe the same thing for rapid change.

After setting your alarm clock at night and just before falling asleep, have you ever given yourself the last thought of, "I WILL wake up at 6:00 o'clock tomorrow ..." and surprised
yourself by waking up minutes before your alarm went off?

You embedded a suggestion in your subconscious just before falling
asleep in the Theta brain state, vs. the fully conscious Beta state.

That's how easy it is.

That's how quick it is.

And that's how much YOU are in
control of the process.

As a matter of fact, as all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, we teach you self-hypnosis from your very first session.

No.

Hypnosis is safer than watching TV.

Television, movies and commercials throw subliminally masked messages at you in psychologically calculated short bursts for the duration of the show - about lifestyle, about
products they want you to buy, about how you should think, act and dress.

Rather than bombarding you with directions like rapid burst commercials, a certified Consulting Hypnotherapist is a guide, and we fully discuss any life changes you want
to make before any session.

You have complete control at all times.

No and No.

You can’t get “stuck” in hypnosis anymore than you can get “stuck” in concentration, or in a good book,
or while watching an enthralling movie.

The uninformed fear is that in the unlikely event the Consulting Hypnotherapist becomes incapacitated during a session and goes unconscious for some reason or another, that the client will be “stuck” there until they’re “brought out.”

Hypnosis requires rapport and interaction to sustain and if the practitioner stopped communicating with you, you will simply drift off
into a natural sleep and awaken naturally a short time later.

SECRETS

The misconception propogated by TV for drama is that one is incapable of lying when in a hypnotic state, and that it robs you of the ability to keep embarrassing secrets confidential.

On the contrary, while in hypnosis, you will not spontaneously begin talking nor reveal any intimate secrets you wouldn’t tell while in a waking state as you're always in control with
the Consulting Hypnotherapist acting as your guide, not your interrogator.

No one in hypnosis can be compelled to blurt out things they don’t want to share. In fact, with a little effort, one can 'fib' while entrained.

Too, for sensitive life issues, an experienced practitioner doesn’t necessarily even need to
know anything about them to guide you into state where the subconscious can be guided to adjust negatively arising thought.

Actually, hypnosis is more effective with intelligent people.

It’s proven there’s a positive correlation between intelligence and hypnotisability and as hypnosis requires concentration, the best clients are actually the more intelligent of the population.

Alternatively, even though all humans enter an entrained brain state at least twice a day (when going to sleep and waking up), it’s difficult and often impossible to hypnotise psychotics, people with an IQ under 70 or severely detached individuals as they aren’t able to concentrate for any substantive period of time.

No.

Not any more than when deeply absorbed in a good book or movie.

Hypnosis is a state of concentrated focus and although the path into hypnosis parallels the brainwave path into sleep, relaxation is not a requirement to reach an entrained state.

A marathon runner, for example, will reach a light hypnotic state within one mile or less.

Medical studies have also established that the EEG of a hypnotised person is indistinguishable from that of a person who is relaxed and alert with their eyes closed.

A sleeping person is unresponsive while a person in an entrained state, while deeply relaxed and appearing asleep, is very aware with their senses increasing 6-10 times more than normal.

After their first session, most clients remark about how clearly they can think while in that relaxed state of mind.

I’ve heard that too and can’t help smiling when someone says it.

I’m considered an expert in the field and I’d LOVE to offer “one session fixes” but that’s only happened five or six times over my years of practice.

Most clients though find their changes happen in 3-5 sessions.

Some clients though draw what they need in one session, for example ... ,
a smoker who’s cut down to 1 or 2 a day on their own can likely walk out of my office that day as a non-smoker, if smoking is even found to be the causitive issue at that point.

Unfortunately, to meet the “only one session” promise, some lesser experienced practitioners will try embed negative suggestions, like every time a client has a cigarette, someone in their family will die.

That approach pretty well guarantee the client will NEVER stop smoking.

Science knows so much about the hypnotic state of mind and there are so many ways to approach an issue that there is, in my opinion, NO reason to embed negative suggestions.

Yes.

Counsellors in Ontario can only be bound to break confidentiality in 3 instances when we are required by law to report:

- If there is reason to believe a
child is being harmed
- If you tell me, or if it becomes obvious, that you are going to harm
yourself or another person
- If I am ordered by the courts to break confidentiality