Hypnosis is a mental technique that feels like a highly personalized, guided meditation that allows you to open up your subconscious mind to new suggestions and ideas. The subconscious is home to your beliefs, emotions, fears, coping mechanisms, habits, and 95% of your brain function, so by accessing this part of your mind, you have the ability to create powerful, rapid change in your life!

The process allows you to reach a deeply relaxed, trancelike state, where your mind is deeply focused, your body is calm, and the buzzy noise of your brain begins to quiet. This allows you turn down the volume on your conscious inner critic so that you can more easily envision the life, emotions, and behaviors you desire.

 In our session, we'll work together to create experiences that are supportive to your goals. I'll offer what is called suggestions, which may take the form of guided imagery (ex: visualize a situation in which you felt confident) or direct suggestions (ex: "you might start to feel more confident"), and you always have the ability to accept or reject based on what feels best for you. Because your subconscious mind is at the forefront, when you accept these new suggestions, it allows your brain to change faster and more easily than in your everyday life. Images become more vivid, and you are more able to embrace these positive changes without your inner critic getting in the way :)

Our habits, core beliefs, emotions, fears, and imagination all exist within the subconscious mind.

Hypnosis allows us to access and make changes in the subconscious mind more easily, which means you can use this tool to change how you approach your creative work. You can offer your subconscious mind new suggestions to overcome performance stress, build confidence, and enhance creativity, flow, and playfulness in your creative work, and so much more. You'll be able to change your brain and body's response to the stressors that naturally come along with a creative lifestyle.

What's more, recent studies are showing a strong link between visualization and acting/storytelling, which indicate that imagery-based activities of any kind (such as hypnosis) may enhance your imagination and performance abilities. So regardless of the content of your hypnosis session, it is strengthening the same parts of the brain that you need for your work!

Absolutely not! Although mainstream media tends to depict hypnosis as a manipulative, controlling technique, it is actually a very collaborative process! You may feel a deep state of relaxation and focus, and from this place I will offer suggestions and guide you through imagery to support your goals. However, they are merely suggestions – NOT commands, or "mind control". You have the ability to accept or reject any suggestion I offer, provide me with feedback and ask questions during the session, and you have full ability to conclude the hypnosis and open your eyes at any time. (Despite what movies show us, it is not possible to get “stuck” in a trance).

All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, meaning that although I offer suggestions to you, you are the one making the changes to your own mind.

The experience of hypnosis varies from person to person. While some folks remain very "conscious" and alert, others access a state of very deep relaxation, and this does not determine how effective the session will be for you. No matter how "deep" you go in the session, you will remain awake and in control the entire time.

Throughout the session, I'll offer suggestions to help you feel relaxed, energized, uplifted, and inspired.

While we may be focusing on reducing stress in your career, the experience of hypnosis is actually very FUN! The goal is to give your brain elevated, joyful experiences of your creative endeavors. 

You may even find yourself experiencing more calm, joy, and inspiration in your daily life as a result of these sessions.

At the conclusion of every hypnosis session, I'll also provide tools to help you come back to 'wakefulness' fully, so you'll likely leave our session feeling energized.

Ultimately, everyone experiences hypnosis very differently, so I would encourage you to give it a try and see how it feels for you.

In our private session, we’ll begin with a conversation about hypnosis, what you might expect to feel in the process, and we’ll chat about any questions you may have about hypnosis to make sure you feel fully comfortable.

We will discuss your goals for the session and in your career overall so that we can create a hypnotic experience that caters exactly to your desired outcomes.

From there, I’ll guide you through a personalized hypnosis experience, which is entirely collaborative and you are in control the entire time.

I’ll invite you to get comfortable, close your eyes, relax your body, and focus your attention so that you can more easily experience the guided imagery and suggestions. From this place, you'll be invited to explore a series of mental imagery and suggestions that are specifically targeted to help you create the changes you want to make in your brain and your work. This portion of the experience is incredibly inspiring, fun, and uplifting. To conclude, I will bring you back out of hypnosis, making sure you feel energized and alert.

After the hypnosis, we’ll leave some time to chat about your experience, and discuss ways that you can utilize these tools outside of our sessions to continue to rewire your brain on your own.