Along with smoking cessation and eating disorders, treating alcoholism continues to be a specialty of mine. Since I started practice nearly 40 years ago, the rate of alcoholism in NYC – precisely, substance and alcohol abuse – hasn’t decreased by much. Last I read, over a million New Yorkers are drinking out of control; and a majority of this group are either in their twenties or underaged.

In a city with a thriving nightlife, heavy drinking might not come as a surprise to many people. However, integral to playing hard is the reward of exercising self-restraint in both work and play. I hate to sound old-timey, but there’s simply no fun in the aftermath of binging on alcohol. From my experiences and those of others, the pleasure is always in having fun to a maximum that is safe for you, if also because it saves the people around you from trouble too.

Everyone believes that the twelve-step AA Program has been highly effective for hundreds of thousands of people. It’s a popular solution. But don’t lose hope if you haven’t benefitted from the Program one bit. Remember your other options and that Clinical Hypnosis is one of the best.

Personally, my issue with the AA isn’t complicated. The program can take forever to complete and has a church-like tinge that can easily isolate its members from the very world they want to recover in. Why go through a potentially life-long process of recovering?

I like to say: “You come to me, and I’ll fix you.” The good part is that it only takes one step. You come into my office, we go over your history as an alcoholic, and after that we start the hypnosis. Treatment generally calls for three to five sessions.

Further, you leave equipped with the ability to exercise moderation – unless you specifically desire to abstain from alcohol completely, or unless your medical condition requires abstinence.  Being an alcoholic does not mean you aren’t also a professional in some area. You have a family life of some kind that you want to enjoy. You have passions, hobbies, plans. Ask yourself: Do you really want to resign a large part of your life to routine meetings with a group of fellow ex-alcoholics, or do you want to shape up ASAP and live a future without alcoholism?

Call my office at (212) 599-3195 when you have an answer.

When I started practicing in the early 80s, I blended hypnosis with life coaching. It was an unprecedented hybridization. But I believed that in an ever-changing world that was becoming increasingly complex and interrelated, we need to be flexible in fusing different methodologies. This is still a huge demand in NYC. Whether you’ve lived here for ages, all your life; or are settling in, you’re likely to know what I’m talking about!

Traditionally, hypnosis helps for very specific issues. In the modern age, the interrelated issues are impossible to ignore. With me, it is possible to consider the entire picture. For instance, hypnosis can help with cigarette smoking, but can’t tell you what you should do on a smoke-break with your boss. If he offers you a cigarette and tries to be chummy, what do you do? How do you bond? These are life-coaching questions. I will not dismiss them during your treatment – which, again, is highly individualized.

The point I want to get across is that if you are looking to get an advantage in the NYC jungle – or are having an overwhelming amount of trouble adjusting to the pressures of city life – in any way, I urge you to consider Clinical Hypnosis. Together we can figure out the exact causes of your anxiety, eradicate them through one of the most naturally effective methods out there. Learn more on my website! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with me about scheduling your first session.

If you’re a spouse debating whether to fight for your marriage or to divorce and start improving your lives separately, hypnosis can guide you towards a decision. As I always tell couples in therapy, you need to figure out: What do you want, given all the facts of where you are right now and how that might change should you decide to split? Are you both willing to deal with the mess I don’t know any divorce that wasn’t messy. The thing is, how messy does it get and what kind of mess is it; so again, figure it out: What’s the mess gonna look like and how big is it gonna be?

Personally, I have no bias towards one solution over the other. Most mediators are slightly biased toward maintaining marriage even if the husband and wife are clearly content to get a divorces. I, on the other hand, can totally grasp the sanctity of marriage and the adventure of a post-divorce life.

Even couples with awful chemistry and can’t stand each other possess the power to effect change with action. No couple is paralyzed — they might strangle each other in frustration, but they’re not paralyzed. So, if the two of you are feeling a certain irreconcilable tension in your relationship, if it’s just NOT happening for whatever reason, you need to know that whatever happens is in the palm of your hands. You don’t need me to tell you that.

What you do need from me, however, is assessment that gets to a point. The three of us will be working through emotional, biographical, familial, and economic situation in your marriage; until we understand what the mutual desire is between you and your spouse. That desire might be created as we find it, or it might simply be there waiting to be revealed.  Maybe one person is denying a part of himself, maybe one’s sexual needs aren’t being met and they’re mistaking that for lack of love, etc. Whatever it is, there will be a lot of stripping involved. Stripping of obstacles, of defenses, of false assumptions. The list goes on. Are you and your spouse confused on what to do, now that one’s got a foot out the door and the other wants to say “stay” but can’t?

Give me a call and start getting your act together before it’s too late. (212) 599-3195.