Hi, my name is Dr. Errol Gluck. For the last 35 years I’ve been doing a combination of rational cognitive coaching and neuroplasticity which is medical hypnosis.
The concept of coaching is that we don’t label a person as being bad or good or being neurotic or depressed or anxious. What we do is we identify what is the resistance that is stopping a person from achieving their goals? We then lay out a plan, a very specific plan, of what steps need to be taken or what thoughts need to be changed.
Most of us have a pretty good barometer when it comes to differentiating between work and home. Though we are the hardest working country in the world, most of us still know when to take the tie off and put our feet up on the ottoman. But some people don’t know that line. Some people bring their work home with them, or bring their domestic/familial problems to the office.
Now of course, everyone to some extent will have some bleeding between the two; you might have a call to take every now and then while at the dinner table, or you just might have to take an extra long lunch break to deal with your kid’s tantrum. But when that separation becomes too imbalanced, that’s when things get bad.
The brain is more complex than any computer ever invented. It is the central operator of every part of you; nothing (well, almost nothing) happens without starting first in the brain. So it makes sense that my life coaching is so brain-oriented.
Call it the hypnotist in me, but it doesn’t make sense to start anywhere else. While some life-coaches like to start you on an exercise program or a new technique, or to refer you to a whole bunch of other consultants, I like to start very simply with your brain. I find the mental habits you have that are restraining you from progress.
I might decide hypnosis is necessary to fix certain problems, but I can also determine that hypnosis is not necessary. I have people who come to me for hypnosis alone, hypnosis and life-coaching, or just life-coaching. But no matter where you land on that spectrum, all my therapy starts with the brain — and nowhere else. Call my office at 212-599-3195.
I think the most commonly asked question I am asked by perspective clinical hypnotherapy clients is, “How many sessions will I need, in order to be fully treated?” The answer is, it honestly varies from person to person and condition to condition.
Many factors come into play when determining a session’s length or how many sessions will be needed, such as the reason and issue for treatment, the effects of the issue on your daily happenings, and your personal rate of progress. Everyone processes, communicates, and absorbs information differently, and as a professional hypnotherapist, it is my goal to make sure I am able to cater to all your individual needs, tailor making each hypnotherapy session to benefit the unique patter of neural pathways within your brain.
One thing you must know is that hypnosis is generally a short-term treatment process. Unlike psychology and psychiatry, which often take two sessions per week for an open-ended time (often years), hypnotherapy is most effective in a handful of sessions. Because the science of hypnotherapy relies on being immediately suggestive, its results are also fairly immediate, and thus is the basis of its appeal.
In this day and age, cosmetic surgery is just as socially accepted as getting your oil changed. Thanks to modern science and technology, it is completely possible to completely alter your entire physique in absolutely no time at all.
However, there are those who take it too far, and what starts as simply freshening up to make one appear more trim, curvy, or youth, can quickly progress and develop into a severe addiction.
The most notably recognizable transformation in recent history would be the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Many joke he went from looking like a sweet little African American boy, to a Caucasian woman, in the matter of a couple of years. However, such a drastic transformation was clearly symptomatic of many complex, deep-rooted mental health issues and insecurities.