Discover what therapeutic hypnosis really involves, how it differs from entertainment hypnosis, and how this evidence-based treatment can help with anxiety, depression, addiction, PTSD, and more.
In a psychiatric services context, hypnosis is a little different from what you might have seen in the movies!
Mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may respond favorably to therapeutic hypnosis.
Dr. Geoff Nugent and his team of mental health counseling and psychiatry experts at Nugent Family Counseling Center provide hypnosis and other psychiatric services.
Available from our locations in:
San Jose, CA
Los Gatos, CA
Reno, NV
Your provider at Nugent Family Counseling Center may recommend therapies and treatments including:
Medications management
Pharmacogenetic testing
Psychotherapy
Aromatherapy
Neurofeedback
Hypnosis
Psychiatric services aim to address your mental health symptoms, as well as the underlying causes of your mental health concerns.
Successfully treating your mental health disorder means using all the evidence-based treatments and modalities available.
Therapeutic hypnosis, also known as hypnotherapy, is:
A form of complementary or alternative medicine that uses guided meditation and concentration to help you focus your attention and temporarily block out intrusive thoughts.
Helpful for exploring painful thoughts or memories
Gain clarity and understanding
Temporarily block awareness of pain
• As part of suggestion therapy
• As part of therapeutic analysis
• To accompany another form of psychotherapy like counseling
When you work with our providers at Nugent Family Counseling Center using hypnotherapy, here's what you can expect:
We start by ensuring that you fully understand the hypnosis process, and how hypnotherapy fits into your treatment goals.
Once you're ready, your provider uses a calm, gentle voice to guide you through a relaxing meditation that enhances your sense of security.
Purpose: This meditation helps to bring you into a receptive trance state.
From the hypnotic trance state, you may be able to more clearly visualize ways to achieve your goals.
Your provider can offer suggestions to help you:
At the end of your session, your provider may help you exit your relaxed state, or you may be able to bring yourself out of your trance on your own.
Either way, you don't need to worry about post-hypnosis suggestions to do silly or self-destructive things.
Hypnosis doesn't control you, but gives you access to a different type of thinking and perceiving so you can take control of your own mental health and wellness.
Pain management
Anxiety
Stress
Sleep disorders
Depression
Addiction
To learn more about how hypnosis can help you cope with pain, anxiety, stress, sleep disorders, depression, addiction, and more...
Get in touch with the team of experts at Nugent Family Counseling Center today.
Explore this evidence-based treatment option for your mental health and wellness
Therapeutic hypnosis isn't like the movies—it's a legitimate, evidence-based treatment that helps with anxiety, depression, PTSD, addiction, pain management, and sleep disorders. In a safe, guided session, you'll enter a receptive trance state that allows you to explore difficult thoughts, gain insights, and work toward your goals. You remain in control throughout—hypnosis doesn't control you, it empowers you to take control of your mental health and wellness.