About Hypnotherapy and Coaching

Lisa offers sessions in person or virtually to help you become the best version of yourself. Whether you're working through relationship trauma, releasing limiting beliefs, breaking unwanted habits, managing anxiety or depression, or pursuing meaningful goals, hypnotherapy and life coaching can help you access lasting change.

How It Works: Understanding Your Mind

Our lives are shaped by our unconscious programming. As neuroscientist Bruce Lipton explains, the subconscious mind's role is to create reality that matches its internal program—which means negative programming tends to recreate negative patterns. Most of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (approximately 95%) operate on autopilot, driven by beliefs and patterns formed long before we were conscious enough to question them.

These patterns often originate in childhood, past relationships, or difficult experiences where your mind created protective strategies to keep you safe. For example, if you grew up in an unstable environment, your subconscious might have learned "trust is dangerous," and now as an adult, you unconsciously sabotage relationships. Or if you experienced criticism, your mind might run "I'm not good enough," and you find yourself perpetually hesitant or self-sabotaging in your career.

The challenge? Your conscious mind can know logically that these beliefs aren't true, yet your body and emotions continue to respond as if they are. This is why willpower and positive thinking alone often don't create lasting change.

Why Hypnotherapy Is Different

Talk therapy helps you logically understand a problem and develop coping strategies. Many clients find that combining talk therapy with hypnotherapy accelerates their progress. Hypnotherapy goes deeper—it works directly with the part of your mind where these patterns actually live: your subconscious and nervous system.

In a deeply relaxed hypnotic state, your conscious mind (the critical, analytical part) steps back, and your subconscious becomes accessible. This isn't sleep—you're aware, relaxed, and in control the entire time. From this receptive state, we can:

• Access the root beliefs and protective patterns underlying your issue

• Understand what these patterns have been protecting you from

• Dissolve emotional triggers stored in your body and nervous system

• Reframe and release past experiences that shaped you

• Install new, resourced beliefs aligned with your authentic self

• Reconnect with your inner wisdom for creating meaningful change

A Practical Example

Consider someone afraid to drive. Consciously, they know they're capable—they have their license, they understand the mechanics. Yet their unconscious mind holds a fear response, perhaps from a childhood car accident or a parent's anxiety. When they approach a car, their nervous system activates: racing heart, trembling hands, shallow breathing, tunnel vision. No amount of logical reassurance calms this response because the fear lives in the body and subconscious, not in the thinking mind.

Hypnotherapy addresses the root fear itself. Through guided visualization and suggestion in a relaxed state, we help the nervous system release the original trauma memory and the protective response it created. The result? The person can now drive comfortably, not because they've forced themselves through willpower, but because their entire nervous system has shifted.

The Mind-Body Connection

Your body stores emotions and memories. Unresolved grief, shame, fear, or anger get locked in your nervous system, muscles, and tissues. This is why someone with anxiety might have chronic tension, why unprocessed grief can feel like heaviness in the chest, or why old resentment can manifest as chronic pain. Traditional talk therapy addresses thoughts; hypnotherapy also engages the body's wisdom through somatic awareness, helping you release what's held at a cellular level.

Parts Work & Inner Dialogue

During hypnotherapy, we often work with the different "parts" of you—the protective part that developed your coping strategy, the wounded part that experienced the original hurt, the resourced part of you that's whole and capable. Rather than fighting these parts or judging them, we dialogue with them compassionately. We understand what they've been trying to protect you from, and we help them evolve into new roles that serve your growth. This is why the shifts tend to be lasting—you're not forcing change; you're creating internal alignment.

Why Talk Therapy Alone Often Isn't Enough

Imagine trying to reprogram a computer by having a conversation with it. You can talk to the computer all day, but if the core code hasn't changed, the output remains the same. Your conscious mind is like the monitor—it receives information and can think about it. Your subconscious is the hard drive—it runs the actual program. Hypnotherapy accesses the hard drive, which is why it can create shifts that talk therapy alone cannot.

What Clients Experience

A hypnotherapy session feels like deep relaxation—similar to that drowsy state between waking and sleep, or the absorbed focus you feel while reading a gripping book. You remain aware and in control. Some clients report feeling peaceful, some notice physical sensations releasing (tingling, heaviness lifting), and many describe the experience as profoundly insightful. After a session, many clients feel lighter, clearer, or noticeably calmer. The real magic happens over the following days and weeks as your nervous system integrates the shift and you notice old patterns no longer triggering the same response.

A Soul-Centered Approach

As Dolores Cannon described, deep hypnosis grants access to your higher self—the part of you connected to your soul's wisdom and authentic path. In this state, you're not accessing some external force; you're connecting with your own deepest knowing. This work isn't just about symptom relief or behavioral change. It's about reconnecting with who you truly are beneath the ego's protective patterns, and remembering what your soul came here to learn and become.

How Hypnotherapy Helps With Specific Challenges

• Breaking Habits: Your habit (smoking, nail-biting, overeating) serves a purpose—it soothes anxiety, numbs pain, or distracts you. Hypnotherapy identifies what need it's meeting and helps you access that resource in healthier ways.

• Healing Relationship Wounds: Whether you're grieving a breakup, working through betrayal, or releasing old attachment patterns, hypnotherapy helps you process the emotion, extract the lessons, and reclaim your sense of self.

• Releasing Phobias: By desensitizing your nervous system to the trigger and releasing the original fear memory, phobias can shift remarkably quickly.

• Managing Anxiety & Depression: Often these stem from disconnection from your authentic self or unprocessed past experiences. Hypnotherapy helps you reconnect and integrate what's been fragmented.

• Achieving Goals: When you align your subconscious beliefs with your conscious goals, resistance dissolves and progress becomes natural.

Sessions: 90 minutes | Rate: $200/session