Frequently Asked Questions
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Hypnosis appointments are offered exclusively through my monthly email newsletter. Each newsletter contains links to my scheduling calendar for the following month, where you may choose from available online sessions via Zoom or in-person sessions at my home office in Micanopy, Florida.
I open my calendar one month at a time, on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no waiting list, and appointments cannot be reserved in advance. If a cancellation occurs, that appointment will automatically become available again on the calendar linked in the most recent newsletter.
To receive access to the scheduling calendar, subscribe to my newsletter here.
Requirements for Booking a Session
- You must be 18 years of age or older.
- You must be fluent in English or Spanish so that we can communicate effectively throughout the session.
- You must book your own appointment, using your own name and email address. A family member, friend, or other person may not schedule a session on your behalf.
- Appointments are not transferable. If you are unable to attend, you may not give or sell your appointment to someone else.
- Please do not send money directly to me in an attempt to reserve a future appointment. Deposits are accepted only through the scheduling system when an appointment is available and booked.
- I reserve the right to decline, reschedule, or cancel an appointment when necessary.
Because appointments are limited and can fill very quickly, I recommend opening the newsletter when it arrives if you are hoping to schedule a session.
I appreciate that you may want to help someone you care about experience a session with me. However, hypnosis appointments cannot be booked on behalf of another person.
The person receiving the session must make the decision for themselves, subscribe to my newsletter, and book their own appointment using their own name, email address, and device.
A hypnosis session is a very personal experience, and I want each client to come because they feel ready and have chosen the experience for themselves—not because someone else believes they should have a session.
Appointments are also non-transferable. If you book an appointment for yourself, you cannot later give or transfer that appointment to another person.
If you would like to help someone, you are welcome to share my YouTube channel, website, or newsletter information with them. When they are ready, they can take the next step themselves.
A Spiritual Journey of Forgiveness™ hypnosis session typically lasts approximately 3–4 hours. This includes the time we spend together discussing your life, experiences, issues, and symptoms before beginning the hypnosis portion of your session.
Every session is different, and some sessions may take longer than four hours. I do not want to rush an important process simply because we have reached a certain time on the clock. Please plan accordingly and give yourself plenty of uninterrupted time.
If you are coming to Micanopy for an in-person session, please do not schedule a flight, transportation pickup, appointment, or other commitment immediately afterward. Keep the remainder of your day as flexible as possible. If you are traveling from out of town, I offer single overnight accommodations in my cabin for the night before and/or after your session, subject to availability. This allows you to arrive rested and gives you time afterward to relax rather than immediately getting back on the road or rushing to the airport.
If your session is online, please protect your time in the same way. You must be completely alone and uninterrupted, with additional time available in case the session runs longer than expected. Please don't schedule your session around having to pick up a child, return to work, attend another appointment, or have someone arriving home at a certain time.
Please give your session the time and privacy it deserves. Set aside the day so you can be fully present without watching the clock or worrying about what you need to do next.
In-person session in Micanopy, Florida: $500
Online session via Zoom: $500
In-person session while I am traveling: $750
A $250 non-refundable deposit is required at the time of booking to reserve your appointment.
Payments may be made by PayPal or credit card through Stripe. An invoice for the remaining balance will be sent one week before your session. You may pay the balance online through the client portal or, for an in-person session, bring the remaining balance in cash to your appointment.
Your session fee reflects the time, professional training, experience, and variety of therapeutic techniques I bring to our work together. Because every person responds differently, I cannot guarantee a particular depth of hypnosis, a past life or spiritual experience, or any specific outcome.
Your investment is in the time we spend together and the professional guidance and experience I bring to your individual session—not in a guaranteed result.
I do not offer a sliding scale or payment plans for hypnosis sessions.
A $250 non-refundable deposit is required when you book your appointment, and the remaining balance is due one week before your session.
I understand that the cost of a session may not fit everyone's circumstances or timing. Please never place yourself under financial pressure to book an appointment. I trust in Divine Timing and believe that if a session with me is meant to be part of your journey, the opportunity will present itself when the time is right for you.
I allow one hypnosis appointment per person within a 12-month period.
A session can bring forward a great deal of information, emotion, understanding, and personal insight. I believe it is important to give yourself time to process your experience, listen to your recording, apply what you learned, and allow the experience to integrate into your life rather than immediately seeking another session.
I also trust in Divine Timing to bring each person to this work when the time is right. Limiting appointments to once every 12 months allows others the opportunity to have their experience as well.
If and when the time comes for another session, you may find that you arrive with an entirely different perspective and are ready to explore another layer of your journey.
There isn't one induction that works best for everyone.
Different schools of hypnosis use very different approaches. Some methods use a specific induction that practitioners are trained to follow. Others use longer inductions and deepening techniques. Some experienced hypnotists may use very little formal induction at all.
Milton H. Erickson, one of the most influential figures in modern hypnosis, demonstrated that hypnosis could develop through communication and conversation rather than relying solely on a formal script.
So, is a 30-minute induction better than a 10-minute induction? Not necessarily.
An induction is simply a way of beginning the hypnotic process. I think of it as bringing you to the doorway of hypnosis. From there, the experience can deepen progressively as you focus inward, respond to my questions, describe what you are experiencing, and become increasingly involved in the memories, emotions, sensations, or impressions that arise.
This is why I don't judge the effectiveness of hypnosis by how long I spend inducing it.
I also don't believe that every person should automatically receive exactly the same induction. People process information differently. Some respond readily to words and imagery. Others respond more strongly to emotion, sensation, movement, focused attention, or conversation.
My job is to pay attention to you and adjust accordingly.
And the process may actually begin before you ever close your eyes. During our conversation beforehand, I'm already listening carefully to your language, emotions, experiences, and patterns. That helps me understand how you communicate and how best to guide you once we begin.
The best induction isn't necessarily the longest or most elaborate one. It's the one that works for the person in front of me.
Most people can experience hypnosis to some degree, but everyone responds differently. Hypnotic responsiveness exists on a spectrum: some people enter the experience very easily and become deeply absorbed, while others experience a lighter level of hypnosis.
Hypnosis is not something I do to you. It is a collaborative process that requires your participation. You don't need to have a quiet mind, be highly suggestible, or become completely relaxed. You can remain aware, hear what is happening around you, think, speak, and remember what happened.
Your expectations can also influence your experience. If you are waiting to feel asleep, unconscious, out of control, or dramatically different, you may believe that hypnosis isn't working simply because you still feel like yourself.
My sessions are not dependent upon achieving a particular depth of hypnosis. I use a variety of therapeutic and experiential techniques throughout the session, and some may not feel like hypnosis at all. I work with how you naturally respond rather than trying to force you into a particular state.
Certain medications, substances, extreme fatigue, or difficulty accessing emotions may also affect how someone responds during a session. Never stop or change prescribed medication in preparation for hypnosis; take it exactly as directed by your healthcare provider.
No practitioner can guarantee how deeply another person will experience hypnosis, what will arise, or what the outcome will be. When you book a session with me, you are reserving my time and the benefit of the training, experience, guidance, and therapeutic approaches I bring to our work together. The experience itself will be unique to you and cannot be guaranteed in advance.
What matters most is your willingness to participate, communicate honestly, and allow the experience to unfold without trying to make it look or feel a certain way..
You do not need to be able to visualize in order to experience hypnosis or have a meaningful session.
Some people naturally see vivid images or scenes in their mind, while others receive information in completely different ways. You may feel an emotion, notice a physical sensation, hear words or sounds internally, remember something, sense an environment, or simply know something without knowing how you know it.
Some people have aphantasia, which means they have little or no ability to voluntarily create mental images. I have worked with many clients with aphantasia who have had very successful sessions.
I don't need you to “see” what is happening. If I ask what you notice and your response is, “I don't see anything, but I feel...” or “I just know...”, we can work with that. I follow the way your mind naturally communicates rather than trying to make you experience the session visually.
Sometimes an experience may also begin with very little information—a feeling, a word, a sensation, or a simple impression—and develop as we continue exploring it.
There is no right way to experience hypnosis. Seeing is only one way of experiencing; it is not a requirement.
Hypnosis is generally considered safe when used appropriately by a trained practitioner. It is a state of focused attention and heightened absorption in which you remain conscious and able to respond. You do not surrender control of your mind or lose your ability to make decisions.
You also cannot become permanently “stuck” in hypnosis. Hypnosis is not an unconscious state from which someone must rescue or awaken you. If I stopped speaking or the session were interrupted, you could simply return your attention to your surroundings on your own. Occasionally, someone who is very relaxed may drift into ordinary sleep and wake naturally.
Most of us experience states of focused absorption throughout everyday life—becoming engrossed in a book or movie, losing track of time while working on something, or becoming absorbed in our thoughts. Hypnosis uses focused attention intentionally rather than taking away your awareness.
During your session, you may still hear sounds around you. As your attention becomes more focused on your inner experience, those sounds may simply become less important—similar to background conversation, an air conditioner, crickets, or an airplane passing overhead. If something genuinely requires your attention, however, you are still capable of responding to it.
You remain an active participant throughout the session. You can speak, move, open your eyes, ask to stop, or bring yourself out of hypnosis at any time.
Every person experiences hypnosis differently, and every session unfolds in its own unique way.
No. Hypnosis is not mind control, and you do not surrender control of yourself to me.
Unlike portrayals of hypnosis in movies or stage shows, you remain an active participant throughout your session. You can hear me, speak, move, open your eyes, question something I say, decline to follow a suggestion, or stop the session at any time.
You also retain your personal values, judgment, and boundaries. Hypnosis does not give me the power to force you to reveal something or make you behave in a way that is contrary to your values.
However, my work does encourage honest emotional expression. We may connect with memories, relationships, fears, grief, anger, or other deeply held emotions. You may find yourself expressing feelings more openly than you normally would—not because you have lost control, but because you are allowing yourself to experience and communicate what has been held inside.
This is one reason trust between us is so important. I want you to feel safe enough to express what arises without embarrassment or fear of judgment, while knowing that you always have the right to decide what you wish to share or explore.
Most clients remain aware of what is happening and remember their session afterward. Your session is also recorded for you to review later.
My role is to guide the process, ask questions, and follow what arises. You are not a passive subject being controlled by a hypnotist—we are working together throughout the entire session.
You are!
Some people expect that once they are hypnotized, their “Subconscious,” Higher Self, or another part of their consciousness will take over their voice and begin speaking through them while they simply listen and observe.
That is not what you should expect in my sessions.
You are an active participant, and I need you to tell me what you are experiencing. If you see something, tell me. If you feel an emotion or physical sensation, describe it. If a thought, word, memory, or answer suddenly comes into your mind, say it. If you simply know something without understanding how you know it, tell me that too.
Don't wait for your mouth to begin speaking on its own.
Sometimes an answer may come so quickly or unexpectedly that you wonder, “Where did that come from?” That's perfectly fine. You don't need to analyze whether it came from your imagination, intuition, subconscious mind, Higher Self, memory, or somewhere else. Simply tell me what comes to you.
Your responses allow me to follow your experience, ask the appropriate questions, and determine where our work needs to go next.
Hypnosis is not a passive experience where you wait for something else to take over. We are communicating and working together throughout the session. Your voice is an important part of that process.
There can be many reasons why a previous hypnosis session didn't feel successful, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you cannot experience hypnosis.
Many people have misconceptions about what hypnosis is supposed to feel like. If you expected to feel asleep, unconscious, unaware, deeply relaxed, somehow controlled by the hypnotist, or expected a long induction before you could possibly be hypnotized, you may have concluded that you weren't hypnotized simply because the experience didn't match your expectations.
The length of an induction does not determine whether hypnosis is occurring. For some people, the transition into hypnosis happens very quickly. The induction simply begins the process; hypnosis deepens progressively as you focus inward, respond to my questions, and become increasingly absorbed in your experience.
Hypnosis is not sleep. You are an active participant in the experience. You will hear my voice, notice sounds around you, use your own voice to respond to my questions, and remain aware of what is happening. You may even think, “I'm not hypnotized—I'm just lying here talking to her.” That does not necessarily mean hypnosis isn't occurring.
You also don't have to be deeply relaxed to experience hypnosis. Relaxation can help focus your attention inward, but relaxation itself is not hypnosis. Much of my therapeutic work involves identifying and accessing emotions connected to significant experiences, memories, relationships, and patterns. You may experience sadness, anger, fear, grief, or other strong emotions while remaining deeply engaged in the process.
The training, experience, skill, and adaptability of the practitioner also matter. Hypnosis is not simply a matter of reading an induction and expecting everyone to respond in the same way. People process information differently. A skilled and experienced practitioner should be able to recognize how a client is responding, adjust the approach, and use different techniques when appropriate. (Techniques you don't expect to be used during a session) Sometimes a particular method or practitioner simply wasn't the right fit for you.
Trust and rapport between us are also very important. Many of my clients have followed my work on YouTube for years and may already feel comfortable with me before we ever meet. However, our session is my opportunity to get to know you.
This is why I spend a considerable amount of time talking with you before we begin hypnosis. I want to understand your experiences, the emotions connected to them, the relationships and patterns you have noticed in your life, and what is most important to you.
This conversation is much more than an interview or information-gathering. As I listen to you, I am also paying attention to recurring themes, emotional connections, beliefs, behaviors, and patterns that you may not recognize yourself. I may reflect those observations back to you, offer a different perspective, ask questions that encourage you to look at an experience in another way, or provide coaching when I feel it may be helpful.
Very often, important connections and realizations begin to emerge during this conversation—before we ever begin the formal hypnosis portion of the session. What I learn about you also helps me understand where to focus my questions and how to guide you once the hypnosis begins.
At the same time, we are establishing trust and becoming comfortable communicating openly with one another. By the time we begin hypnosis, the work has already begun.
During hypnosis, you may be expressing very personal memories and powerful emotions. Knowing that you are being heard without judgment can help you speak openly and respond honestly to whatever arises. By the time we begin the hypnosis portion of your session, we have already spent meaningful time together establishing the trust and rapport that supports the work that follows.
My sessions are not dependent upon reaching a particular depth of hypnosis. I use a variety of hypnotic, therapeutic, and experiential techniques throughout the session. Some may not feel like hypnosis at all. Rather than trying to force you into a particular state, I work with how you naturally respond.
It is also very common during or after a session to wonder whether you were simply “making it all up.” Hypnosis uses imagination, memory, emotion, sensation, and focused attention, so the experience can feel surprisingly natural—sometimes almost like a daydream. Rather than trying to determine where every thought, image, feeling, or impression came from while it is happening, allow yourself to experience it first. We can work with whatever arises.
Please don't come expecting your session to be like one you've watched on my YouTube channel. The sessions you see online represent only a small portion of the work I do; most of my client sessions are never published. Your session may look and feel completely different from anything you've watched because it is based upon you and what you bring to the experience.
Your session will be recorded so you can revisit it afterward. You may notice details, connections, emotions, or insights in the recording that you didn't fully appreciate while you were experiencing them.
Having had an unsuccessful or disappointing hypnosis experience in the past does not determine what your next experience will be. At the same time, no practitioner can guarantee a particular hypnotic response or outcome.
Every person experiences hypnosis differently, and every session is different. Your session is your own experience—there is no need to compare it with anyone else's.
Many people feel this way before their first session, especially those who are analytical, strong-minded, or very self-aware. Hypnosis is not about losing control, becoming unconscious, or allowing me to overpower your mind. I don't hypnotize you—you participate in the process with me.
You also don't have to be deeply relaxed to experience hypnosis. Relaxation can help focus your attention inward, but relaxation itself is not hypnosis. Much of my therapeutic work involves identifying and accessing the emotions connected to significant experiences, memories, and patterns. During this process, you may experience sadness, anger, fear, grief, or other strong emotions. Expressing and working with those emotions is an important part of understanding and resolving the underlying issue.
Having a strong or analytical mind is not a disadvantage. You don't need to stop thinking or “turn off” your mind. What helps most is allowing yourself to experience what arises without immediately analyzing, controlling, or judging it.
Everyone experiences hypnosis differently. Some people feel deeply immersed, while others remain completely aware throughout the session. There is no one “right” way to experience hypnosis.
Whenever your Soul is ready for the journey, Divine Timing will allow you to book your session, and the experience will unfold as it needs to.
Everyone responds differently after a hypnosis session. You may leave feeling wonderful, peaceful, lighter, emotional, tired, drained, energized—or simply like yourself. There is no “right” way to feel afterward.
You may feel wonderful. You may experience a sense of peace, clarity, relief, or renewed energy. Listening to your recording afterward can help you revisit the experience and continue reflecting on what came through during your session.
You may feel only slightly different. Not every session produces an immediate or dramatic feeling. Give yourself some quiet time afterward. Journaling can be helpful as additional thoughts, memories, connections, or insights may arise.
You may feel emotional. A session can bring deeply held emotions and memories to the surface. You may experience sadness, grief, tenderness, relief, or even a temporary feeling of emptiness. Allow yourself time to process what you experienced without judging how you feel. Forgiveness and gratitude can be especially helpful during this period.
You may feel physically tired or unsettled. Hypnosis sessions can be emotionally intense, and occasionally someone may experience temporary physical sensations such as fatigue, lightheadedness, or nausea. Rest, hydrate, eat something nourishing, and give yourself time to become grounded again. Persistent or concerning physical symptoms should not automatically be attributed to hypnosis and should be discussed with an appropriate healthcare professional.
You may feel little or no immediate change. That is perfectly okay. Sometimes the significance of a session becomes clearer only after you have had time to reflect on it. Rather than searching for a particular feeling or result, allow yourself to notice what—if anything—changes in your thoughts, emotions, perspectives, or behavior over the days that follow.
You may question whether you “made it all up.” This is very common, particularly because you were aware and able to think throughout your session. Hypnosis is not sleep or unconsciousness. Your imagination and creative mind are active during the process, so an experience can sometimes feel as though you were consciously creating it.
You may also recognize things that seem familiar and think, “I already knew that.” Rather than worrying about where an insight came from, consider whether it has meaning or relevance for you. The value of your experience does not depend upon proving its source.
Whatever you experience afterward, trust your process and be gentle with yourself. Listen to your recording when you feel called, reflect on what was meaningful to you, and allow yourself time to integrate the experience naturally.
No. Clients are not permitted to make their own audio or video recordings of the session. I will record the hypnosis portion of your session for you; the induction is not included in your copy.
For an online session, your Zoom recording will be sent to you electronically right after your appointment.
For an in-person session, you will bring a new 32 GB or larger USB flash drive or SD card for your recording, or if you forget it, I can send the files to you electronically.
Your recording is provided for your personal use only so that you can revisit your experience afterward. Please do not upload, publish, distribute, or share any portion of the recording on social media or other public platforms.
I retain the copyright to the recording and to my proprietary techniques contained within it. On occasion, I may share portions of a client session through my own platforms, but only with the client's permission.
No. You do not need to believe in past lives to have a meaningful session.
I don't ask you to accept any particular belief about reincarnation. I simply ask you to remain open to whatever arises without immediately deciding whether it is real, imagined, symbolic, or something else.
An experience during regression may not necessarily represent a lifetime that you personally lived. It may serve as a teaching experience, allowing your consciousness to explore another time, place, person, or perspective in order to understand something relevant to your life today.
That is why I am less concerned with proving whether a past life is historically accurate and more interested in why you are being shown that particular experience. What are you feeling? What are you learning? What patterns or emotions connect with your present life?
A past life may not arise at all. Your experience may take you somewhere entirely different.
You don't have to believe it—you simply need to be willing to experience it.
Once you have scheduled your appointment, you will receive an email from me with everything you need to know to prepare for your session, including any required forms, instructions, and links to the appropriate preparation page. Please read that information carefully and complete any required documentation by the deadline provided.
There is no need to practice being hypnotized, listen to hypnosis recordings, or try to prepare yourself for a particular type of experience. In fact, I prefer that you come without expectations about what your session should look or feel like.
In the days before your appointment, simply take care of yourself. Get a good night's sleep, eat normally, stay hydrated, and avoid alcohol or recreational drugs. Continue taking any prescribed medications exactly as directed by your healthcare provider.
Most importantly, give some thought to why you are coming. Rather than trying to decide where your session should take you, set a simple intention around what you would like to understand, resolve, release, forgive, or receive clarity about.
Then come as you are. You don't need to know how to do this—that's my job. Your job is simply to participate, communicate with me, and remain open to the experience.
It’s completely understandable that you may want to bring someone you trust with you, especially if you are traveling or feeling a little nervous about your first session. However, your hypnosis session is a private, one-on-one experience, and no one else may be present.
During our time together, you may discuss personal relationships, experiences, memories, emotions, or other sensitive issues. Even when you trust someone completely, simply knowing that another person is nearby or listening can influence what you are willing to say or how freely you express yourself.
For an online session, you must be completely alone in the room. No one may observe the session, listen from another room, or listen through another device.
For an in-person session in Micanopy, a friend or relative may drop you off, but they must leave the property for the duration of your appointment. They may not wait in the house, cabin, yard, driveway, or in a vehicle on the property.
Because sessions vary in length and occasionally run longer than expected, please do not arrange a specific pickup time. When your session is finished and you are ready to leave, you can contact your driver and let them know it is time to return to pick you up.
Your session is your private space. Protecting that privacy gives you the freedom to focus entirely on yourself and whatever arises during our work together.
Hypnosis itself is not a religion or an occult practice. It is a state of focused attention in which you remain conscious, aware, and in control. You can speak, think, question what is happening, and stop the process at any time.
I understand that some Christians have concerns about hypnosis, particularly when it is combined with spiritual practices or beliefs that are unfamiliar to them. I respect those concerns and will never ask you to abandon your faith, accept my spiritual beliefs, or participate in something that feels contrary to your relationship with God.
My sessions are individualized to the person in front of me. If you are Christian, we can use language and spiritual references that are comfortable and meaningful to you. You may choose to pray, call upon Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God, or simply allow the therapeutic process to unfold without any spiritual terminology at all.
You are never required to communicate with spirits, explore a past life, accept the concept of a Higher Self, or believe anything simply because it arises during hypnosis. You remain in control of your experience and your beliefs throughout the entire session.
For some Christians, the experience becomes an opportunity for prayer, forgiveness, self-reflection, emotional release, and a deeper examination of their relationship with God. Others prefer to approach hypnosis simply as a therapeutic process.
If something does not feel right to you during your session, tell me. Your faith and personal boundaries will always be respected.
Yes. Self-hypnosis is possible, and many people naturally enter states of focused absorption throughout the day. With practice, self-hypnosis can be intentionally used for relaxation, focused attention, visualization, reinforcing positive suggestions, and other personal goals.
However, self-hypnosis is different from participating in a therapeutic hypnosis session with another person.
When you are guiding yourself, part of your attention must remain involved in deciding what to do next: Where should I go? What should I ask? What does this mean? It can be easy for the analytical mind to take over, avoid uncomfortable material, or lead you toward what you already expect to find.
When I guide you, you don't have to direct your own session. I can listen to what you are saying, notice emotional responses and patterns, ask questions you may not think to ask yourself, and follow what emerges without you knowing where we are going next.
This can be especially important when working with emotionally charged memories or experiences. Rather than simultaneously experiencing the emotion and trying to guide yourself through it, you can remain focused on what you are feeling and experiencing while I guide the process.
You are still doing the internal work—I am not taking control of your mind or doing it for you. The difference is that you don't have to be both the client and the guide at the same time.
I am in the small rural town of Micanopy, Florida. It's in North Central Florida. The address will be provided when you book a session.
Driving directions: Take I-75 to exit 374 (Micanopy). Head east and follow the signs to Micanopy. You can also reach Micanopy via State Road 441.
Traveling by Air:
Gainesville Regional Airport is only 30 minutes north of Micanopy and has a few American Airlines and Delta flights each day. This is the closest airport.
Orlando International Airport is approximately 1.5 - 2 hours south of Micanopy via the Florida Turnpike and I-75.
Jacksonville International Airport is approximately 1.5 hours northeast of Micanopy. You will need to take back country roads (with many pot holes) to get to Micanopy.
If you are hoping to schedule a hypnosis session during your visit, I am unable to reserve an appointment in advance or accommodate individual booking requests. Hypnosis appointments are offered one month at a time through my monthly email newsletter on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no waiting list.
If you know when you will be in Florida, make sure you are subscribed to my newsletter and watch for the issue containing appointments for the month of your visit. If an appointment is available that works with your travel dates, you may book it directly through the calendar.
If you are unable to secure a hypnosis appointment, you may also contact me about scheduling one of my other in-person services in Micanopy, such as a PandoraStar Deep Trance Meditation Light session, Rife Frequencies, or a Sound & Vibration session. These services have limited availability and may sometimes be arranged directly with me, even when they are not currently listed on my scheduling calendar.
Please do not make non-refundable travel arrangements based on the expectation of securing a hypnosis appointment, as I cannot guarantee availability during your visit.
Although I originally trained in QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) with Dolores Cannon, my sessions are not QHHT sessions. Over the years, I continued my education as a Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist and trained in several additional therapeutic and regression methods. My work today incorporates techniques from those different approaches, along with methods I have developed through years of working with clients.
The Interview
Both QHHT and my sessions begin with a conversation before hypnosis. In QHHT, the practitioner gathers the client's history and reviews a prepared list of questions that the client would like answered during the hypnosis session.
I typically spend 60–90 minutes talking with you before we begin hypnosis. This is much more than gathering information. We explore significant experiences, relationships, emotional patterns, and the issues that brought you to the session. This conversation helps me understand you and establishes the trust and rapport necessary for the work that follows.
I do not ask clients to submit a list of questions for their Higher Self before their appointment. We will have plenty of time to discuss what is important to you when we meet.
The Hypnosis Session
QHHT follows the method developed by Dolores Cannon, using its particular induction and regression process and communication with what QHHT refers to as the “Subconscious” or Higher Self.
My sessions are very different. They are unscripted and individualized. I don't know where your session will take us, and I don't try to direct you toward a particular experience. A past life may emerge—or it may not. We may work with childhood experiences, the womb, emotions stored in the body, relationships, forgiveness, grief, fears, recurring patterns, spiritual experiences, or other material that arises during the session.
Because people experience hypnosis differently, I use a variety of verbal and non-verbal hypnotic and therapeutic techniques rather than depending upon one induction or one method. Some of the work may not even seem like hypnosis. My focus is on identifying and working with the emotional roots of the issues that brought you to me, rather than trying to produce a particular type of hypnotic experience.
Depending upon what arises, a session may also include parts work, forgiveness therapy, emotional release, communication with deceased loved ones, or spiritual work involving lost souls, thought forms, or other experiences perceived by the client. When appropriate to the client's beliefs and experience, we may call upon God/Creator, angels, spiritual teachers, or other sources of spiritual support.
During an in-person session, I may also incorporate tuning forks, sound and vibration, my hands, and other energetic techniques as part of the experience.
The biggest difference is that there is no predetermined journey. I don't expect you to visit three past lives, communicate with your Higher Self, or experience what you've seen someone else experience on YouTube. I follow what arises from you and use the therapeutic techniques that are appropriate as the session unfolds.
My sessions typically last approximately 2½–4 hours, including our conversation before hypnosis.
The intention behind my work is not curiosity or simply discovering who you may have been in another lifetime. My focus is on helping you understand and resolve the deeper emotional and spiritual issues affecting your life today, with forgiveness, love, understanding, and liberation at the heart of the process.
The Higher Self is a term often used to describe the wiser, expanded aspect of our consciousness—the part of us that seems able to see beyond our everyday thoughts, fears, beliefs, and limitations.
Some people understand the Higher Self as their soul or eternal consciousness. Others may call it their inner wisdom, intuition, Divine Self, or connection to God/Source. The terminology is less important to me than the experience itself.
During hypnosis, information may arise through words, images, emotions, physical sensations, memories, or simply a sense of knowing. At times, clients may experience a perspective that feels wiser or more expansive than their ordinary conscious thinking and identify it as their Higher Self.
I don't require you to believe in the Higher Self, nor do I structure my sessions around questioning or interviewing it. My sessions are guided by what naturally arises from you.
Whether you understand that guidance as coming from your Higher Self, your soul, your subconscious mind, your intuition, or something greater is ultimately for you to decide.
