About Hypnotherapy
Focus
Hypnotherapy is finding focus in a trance- like state and guiding you to the core of where your issue is manifesting in your life. It can be done through age regression and focus healing at that point. Unlike hypnosis, hypnotherapy is truly about starting the healing process. The two are similar in that that are conducive to a client relaxing; hypnotherapy takes the process so much further and uses the power of the mind and soul to help you heal.
Release
Hypnotherapy is about releasing built up negative energy to allow the body and mind to heal through the expression of emotion. Heart Centered hypnotherapy is a clinical certified process that helps clients focus on the healing process. The healing process is far quicker than talk therapy alone. And far more effective long term than drugs alone. Heart centered hypnotherapy helps you to understand what is holding you back from healing or from achieving your goals and becoming your authentic self.
Heart-centered
Heart-centered hypnotherapy addresses the underlying emotions feeding the issue a client may be suffering from. Effective hypnotherapy can quickly, usually in the first session, get right down to the source of the client’s issue through age regression work.
In the hypnotherapy session, Hillary always begin with the current situation or a triggering event in the client’s life. She then asks where these feelings are located in the body. A client may say in “my chest or stomach.” She then has them express these feelings to relieve some of the stress from their body. This is a major component of what makes hypnotherapy so effective. Unlike the majority of counselors and therapists who have been taught to try to treat the feelings by talking about them with the client Hillary helps the client go deeper. Talking about feelings does not release or resolve them because emotions are not located in the brain. They are located in the body.
Hillary's practice is built on this heart-centered hypnotherapy. Her accreditation is from the Wellness Institute in Seattle, Washington, under the tutelage of Diane Zimberoff. Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy is built on a strong humanistic and transpersonal psychology foundation. Zimberoff studied with Fritz Perls, Eric Berne, and Virginia Satir. Then twenty-five years ago, she weaved the hypnosis component into her original therapeutic process that incorporated Gestalt therapy, Transactional Analysis (TA), transpersonal psychology, Reichian body armoring, and a family systems perspective. Diane spent several years in the 1970s studying in India with yoga and meditation Masters. The dynamic results are a gentle blending of the most powerful hypnotherapy regression techniques with quiet meditations.
Hillary continues her studies as she seeks to enhance her client's experience and results. She attends continuing education courses in Seattle four times a year.
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Hillary Merryfield
ACHT, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW
Hillary has over thirty 30 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. She is an MSW, LCSW, LSCSW; she is a clinical social worker in both Missouri and Kansas. And has recently added to her certifications ACHT; Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist.
Starting her career in oncology and hospice counseling, Hillary soon founded her own private practice and opened Adoption Option, Inc. almost thirty years ago. She provides counseling to both the adoptive and birth parents and has a vibrant and active birth parent support group. Trauma for many birth moms inspired Hillary to study further on how to help her clients heal.
With her hypnotherapy counseling, Hillary has helped a wide variety of clients heal from many issues from chronic pain to post PTSD, substance abuse, depression and anxiety, and easing the pain of cancer.
A gifted counselor and healer, Hillary is dedicated to her clients' well-being. She offers one-on-one counseling and designs the session to address whatever the client needs.
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