My approach is collaborative and intuitive, practical and philosophical. My intent is to help you identify your unique strengths and to deepen your trust in yourself, so that you can bolster your aims with unshakable self-confidence.
I understand a person’s external world as a reflection of his or her inner world. As such, many life events can be translated as happenings emerging out of the unconscious. For example, chronic physical and psychic pain often serve an important, albeit unpleasant, function. In fact, symptoms symbolically communicate with you--inviting you to explore deeper issues that lay in the subconscious or the forgotten past.
I understand clients’ negative emotions as ordinary responses to unmet needs. I recognize unwanted habits of all kinds as an avoidance of deeply painful emotions, emotions that can be successfully confronted and transformed with the kind of in-depth exploration that hypnosis fosters. For example, obsessive over-eating can be understood as a the inner child’s response to not having his/her need for nurturance met during infancy, either through unsatisfying breast-feeding or lonely bottle-rearing. Under hypnosis, clients not only gain insight about the pain of parental neglect but learn how to create an empathic inner parent who is responsive to their inner child’s needs and who can be experienced as a permanent resource in their adult lives.
"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."
Carl Jung
I understand a person’s external world as a reflection of his or her inner world. As such, many life events can be translated as happenings emerging out of the unconscious. For example, chronic physical and psychic pain often serve an important, albeit unpleasant, function. In fact, symptoms symbolically communicate with you--inviting you to explore deeper issues that lay in the subconscious or the forgotten past.
I understand clients’ negative emotions as ordinary responses to unmet needs. I recognize unwanted habits of all kinds as an avoidance of deeply painful emotions, emotions that can be successfully confronted and transformed with the kind of in-depth exploration that hypnosis fosters. For example, obsessive over-eating can be understood as a the inner child’s response to not having his/her need for nurturance met during infancy, either through unsatisfying breast-feeding or lonely bottle-rearing. Under hypnosis, clients not only gain insight about the pain of parental neglect but learn how to create an empathic inner parent who is responsive to their inner child’s needs and who can be experienced as a permanent resource in their adult lives.
"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."
Carl Jung