An in-person session is still what I recommend for a successful hypnosis treatment. It’s obviously appropriate, efficient, desirable and often necessary.
But what if extreme social anxiety and shyness make it impossible for a patient to start with office appointments? Also some people communicate better from their own comfortable space, regardless of distance, or prefer to be coached on a level of intimacy that they can only get through voice or video.
If you suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, you probably have to battle flashbacks nearly every single day.
You might shy away from personal relationships, fearing that intimacy will encourage you to reveal psychic injuries you’ve learned to hide in public. “I’m not myself” is a common complaint, or “How can I move forward with these visions and feelings?”
Here’s a basic overview of how hypnosis can help you overcome PTSD…
I can help you improve a skill that almost everyone will have to learn: public speaking. I’ve worked with independent executives, corporate executives, educators, performers, people from all walks of life suddenly called to speak in front of the group. One thing I discovered is that the fear of public speaking is rooted in shame and guilt.
Guilt is also known as the Impostor Syndrome: People don’t feel they deserve being in the place they’re in, so they’re not confident.
In either professional or personal life, the guilt doesn’t make sense. You’re the one in a suit on stage – you deserve to be there! Think about it this way: If not you, then who and why isn’t the supposedly more important person there?
The number one thing people write on all of their client intake forms is that they want to gain more confidence. One of the chief symptoms of lack of confidence is shyness. While shyness and timidity might have some relation to medical disorders in the DSM, such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression, shyness is often a part of someone’s personality, and thus difficult to clinically treat.
The trick about treating shyness is that we want to improve the patient’s life without fundamentally changing a person’s personality. While shyness can inhibit you, we don’t want to change your introspection or self-reflection.
The problems that shyness often causes – most notably fear of approaching people, fear of being judged, and public speaking — are problems worth changing. They get in the way of your career and your relationships with family and friends.
With hypnosis, rather than diagnose and treat shyness, I will help you develop interpersonal and communication skills that are necessary for a fruitful and productive life. Using post-hypnotic suggestibility, I will rewire your brain so that it interprets those moments where shyness dominates as moments of opportunity, rather than obstacles. That’s the main switch, and it can be done in a few sessions. Call my office today.
What do you do when you have a million things going on at once? I call that needing a drink — unless you’re coming to me for alcohol.
First thing you need to know about stress is it’s like money – you need a good deal of it to live in this world, but too much can make you go crazy.
No matter how capable you are, you’re going to get stressed. And that stress will get the better of you. You’ll shut down. You might not do it consciously. Since mind and body are genetically programmed to heal themselves by cooperating with each other, don’t put yourself in the danger of letting one go neglected for so long that your overall balance goes under.
Respect the needs of both. The untapped power of the mind is only beginning to get full recognition in medical communities and media outlets. If your poor thinking is exacerbating a painful, traumatic, or generally stress-inducing circumstance, I’ll train you how to think differently so you get what you need and want.
Hypnosis is a place for you to get re-energized, see your responsibilities clearly, and act in a way that you won’t regret. Call me at (212) 599-3195 to learn more.