Services
"I went to a hypnotist… It worked.
I swear to God it worked. It was the greatest decision I ever made in my life!"
Matt Damon, the actor speaking on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
I swear to God it worked. It was the greatest decision I ever made in my life!"
Matt Damon, the actor speaking on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Initial Session1 hour & 15 mins - $100 (15 mins complimentary)
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Follow-Up Sessions1 hour - $100
1.5 hours - $120 |
Common Client Issues
My focus is on helping people make a major shift of awareness in their lives to increase their general wellbeing. Hence the name of the service... Life Change Hypnotherapy. I don't normally do just narrow therapies such as just Stop Smoking programs. (Often one addiction is replaced by another if general mental well-being doesn't improve.)
While many issues may be addressed with hypnotherapy these are some common areas I help with:
While many issues may be addressed with hypnotherapy these are some common areas I help with:
- Anxiety disorders
- Depression
- Traumatic incidents and PTSD
- Stress reduction/elimination
- Alcohol, drugs & other addictions (in the broader context of wellbeing e.g. I don't do just stop smoking sessions)
- Confidence & self-acceptance
- Fears, phobias, & habits
- Suicidal thinking
- Career and life direction uncertainty and feeling "stuck"
- Work and study performance issues
- Job search and interview performance challenges
- Chronic pain conditions
- Parents of children with a disability - wellbeing and coping issues
- Dating, relationship & intimacy Issues
- Existential, spiritual, end-of-life, and life purpose issues
- Releasing the past
- "Weight loss" (see below)
I also get good results with sports people who want to improve their performance and enjoyment of their sport:
"Hi Mitch
Just wanted to let you know that my partner and I won the QLD Open mixed doubles title last week. We beat a team in the final that I didn’t expect us to – with the girl ranked 13 in Australia and the guy number 27. They were also less than half our ages!
I definitely feel like I’m on the right track with my mental approach and used a number of things we worked on.
Thanks again for your help and I’ll contact you soon regarding another session."
Pat F - Former Junior Australian Tennis Champion
"Hi Mitch
Just wanted to let you know that my partner and I won the QLD Open mixed doubles title last week. We beat a team in the final that I didn’t expect us to – with the girl ranked 13 in Australia and the guy number 27. They were also less than half our ages!
I definitely feel like I’m on the right track with my mental approach and used a number of things we worked on.
Thanks again for your help and I’ll contact you soon regarding another session."
Pat F - Former Junior Australian Tennis Champion
Group Programs
I deliver comprehensive wellbeing programs for organisations such as the Strong Staff program which you can see at YourStaffWellbeing.com.au. These program utilise elements of hypnotherapy plus a lot more!
Holistic Hypnotherapy
Three core elements of my approach.
My aim is to improve your wellbeing holistically - body, emotions, mind, and spirit. To do this I selectively draw on positive psychology, mindfulness practices, career/life counselling, personal futuring, brief psychotherapy and empowering psychoeducation as appropriate for your needs and priorities.
I don't just do hypnosis. Some people really need to talk things through. Others need to make practical changes in their life situation or develop new habits. While others need help to look at their life direction and career options.
Hypnosis increases the effectiveness of psychotherapy and positive psychology strategies by directly empowering clients on the unconscious level. Modern hypnosis is closely linked to mindfulness practices and has a strong evidence base for enabling cognitive, emotional, and behaviour change.
To create a major, permanent change in your life, there are 3 key things that everyone really need to see deeply for themselves... and not just have an intellectual understanding of. These 3 things are:
To help you make this shift (and address your initial issue) three sessions are usually enough for most clients. I will also point you in the direction of resources which will expand the results you get. These resources are mainly based on a new approach to psychology.
I don't just do hypnosis. Some people really need to talk things through. Others need to make practical changes in their life situation or develop new habits. While others need help to look at their life direction and career options.
Hypnosis increases the effectiveness of psychotherapy and positive psychology strategies by directly empowering clients on the unconscious level. Modern hypnosis is closely linked to mindfulness practices and has a strong evidence base for enabling cognitive, emotional, and behaviour change.
To create a major, permanent change in your life, there are 3 key things that everyone really need to see deeply for themselves... and not just have an intellectual understanding of. These 3 things are:
- Your thought in the moment creates your experience of life and 100% of your feelings. The process works from the inside out. ALWAYS. However to us it appears that the outside world of circumstances, stress, other people, the past or the future is causing our experience of life... and our problems. This is a powerful illusion we all get drawn into. When you learn to see this, problems lose their power and the world of thought you live in can begin to calm down.
~ This is the source of your "problems" ~ - Your real self is pure consciousness... a core of energy, love and intelligence which is indestructible and eternal. It is always there but often covered up by the effects of your thinking. The real you can never be damaged and is always available as a source of peace, compassion, and wellbeing. It is the innate source of inner strength and health which sustains you and is you. You will always be safe and okay because of this real you… despite the illusions of this world - your world of thought.
~ This is who you really are ~ - You will forget all this at times and say & do not-so wise things. That is okay. Why? Have another look at Secrets 1 and 2 above. Living with a human brain is tricky! Fortunately, you don't have to be perfect... or even particularly good at it. However, if you keep looking in this direction, these secrets will grow in your awareness and change your life.
~ This is your path ~
To help you make this shift (and address your initial issue) three sessions are usually enough for most clients. I will also point you in the direction of resources which will expand the results you get. These resources are mainly based on a new approach to psychology.
What to Expect
Overall, you can expect to get faster results than with typical "talking therapy." Kirsch, Montgomery, & Sapirstein (1995) performed a meta-analysis of 18 separate studies which compared cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT - the most widely used talking therapy) with and without the use of hypnosis. They found that clients who received CBT with hypnosis showed a 70% greater improvement than those who just received CBT. Hence you can expect time and cost savings as you should not need as many sessions for any one issue.
In the first part of the session we will discuss your experience and explore what is creating that experience.
The latter part of the session will be a time for you to relax and let your day-to-day mind take a break while I guide you through an experience designed to help you access personal resources and empowering changes in your beliefs and emotions. It could be described as "guided meditation on steroids."
In the first part of the session we will discuss your experience and explore what is creating that experience.
The latter part of the session will be a time for you to relax and let your day-to-day mind take a break while I guide you through an experience designed to help you access personal resources and empowering changes in your beliefs and emotions. It could be described as "guided meditation on steroids."
When & Where
Week days and some Saturdays. By appointment only.
Sessions are available at my home office near Wises Road, Buderim/Maroochydore area. It has good access off the motorway, car parking, and air conditioning.
Sessions are available at my home office near Wises Road, Buderim/Maroochydore area. It has good access off the motorway, car parking, and air conditioning.
"Weight Loss" - A Better Approach
"Thanks for your help Mitch. I am amazed at the change in my eating habits so far!! I still am shocked by the type of food I am now drawn to!!!! I am loving the new approach to food and am feeling great about eating healthy."
- Wendy M, Kawana
"Hypnotherapy weight loss" is by far the most searched hypnotherapy phrase on Google. More people look for it than all the other hypnotherapy related phrases put together. Why? Because hypnotherapy for weight loss can be powerful.
Despite this, I don't do traditional "weight loss"!
I focus on health creation using hypnotherapy to support changes in lifestyle, belief patterns, and the types of food people eat. This enables your body to reset the "set-point" for its optimal weight and start heading for it. For psychological and physiological reasons this is a far more effective long-term approach to healthy weight reduction and has many more additional benefits for you as the client. For more information on the physiological approach to weight loss that I work with read this NY Times article here by Dr David Ludwig. Dr Ludwig's research has found that people generally don't get fat because they over-eat... they over-eat because there cells have become programmed to store fat by the types of food they eat... and this makes them crave food. Listen to this podcast here for an in-depth discussion.
Healthy, sustainable weight loss is not about borrowing intrusive medical concepts such as lap band surgery and indiscriminately applying them with hypnosis. There are better approaches. Unfortunately most people are still not aware of the scientific evidence surrounding healthy diet (which is not about "dieting"). The continuing confusion is, at least partly, due to massive on-going efforts by the food and pharmaceutical industry to protect their market share. Hypnotherapy can also be used to counter their efforts at habituating you to their unhealthy "food" products.
Contact me for more information if you are interested.
- Wendy M, Kawana
"Hypnotherapy weight loss" is by far the most searched hypnotherapy phrase on Google. More people look for it than all the other hypnotherapy related phrases put together. Why? Because hypnotherapy for weight loss can be powerful.
Despite this, I don't do traditional "weight loss"!
I focus on health creation using hypnotherapy to support changes in lifestyle, belief patterns, and the types of food people eat. This enables your body to reset the "set-point" for its optimal weight and start heading for it. For psychological and physiological reasons this is a far more effective long-term approach to healthy weight reduction and has many more additional benefits for you as the client. For more information on the physiological approach to weight loss that I work with read this NY Times article here by Dr David Ludwig. Dr Ludwig's research has found that people generally don't get fat because they over-eat... they over-eat because there cells have become programmed to store fat by the types of food they eat... and this makes them crave food. Listen to this podcast here for an in-depth discussion.
Healthy, sustainable weight loss is not about borrowing intrusive medical concepts such as lap band surgery and indiscriminately applying them with hypnosis. There are better approaches. Unfortunately most people are still not aware of the scientific evidence surrounding healthy diet (which is not about "dieting"). The continuing confusion is, at least partly, due to massive on-going efforts by the food and pharmaceutical industry to protect their market share. Hypnotherapy can also be used to counter their efforts at habituating you to their unhealthy "food" products.
Contact me for more information if you are interested.
