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Unleash the Healing Power of Your Mind
Understand the power of your subconscious mind & how it works.
“Healing takes courage, and we all have the courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it”
Tori Amos
My goal is to work with you to co create a safe, authentic space in therapy where you can feel supported to untangle the issues preventing you from living your fullest life.
I take online & face to face Therapy sessions & conduct monthly and weekly programs on hypnotherapy, parenting & motherhood.
Both Fear and courage are products of our imagination. YOUR imagination is the key to making permanent changes in your life.
If you have a phobia, you probably realize that your fear is irrational, yet you still can’t control your feelings. Just thinking about the feared object or situation may make you anxious. And when you’re actually exposed to the thing you fear, the terror is automatic and overwhelming. The experience is so nerve-wracking that you may go to great lengths to avoid it—inconveniencing yourself or even changing your lifestyle.
Understanding your phobia is the first step to overcoming it. It’s important to know that phobias are common. (Having a phobia doesn’t mean you’re crazy!) It also helps to know that phobias are highly treatable. No matter how out of control it feels right now, you can overcome your anxiety and fear and start living the life you want.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy can allow the feeling of fear to subside to easily managed levels. A common method called systematic desensitization involves slowly exposing subjects to fearful situations. This involves Hypnosis and relaxation training, Building a hierarchy, Gradual exposure to feared situations
Obsessions are thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over again and feel out of the person’s control. The person does not want to have these ideas. He or she finds them disturbing and unwanted, and usually knows that they don’t make sense. Compulsions are Repetitive behaviors or thoughts that a person engages in to neutralize, counteract, or make their obsessions go away. I help the clients to change patterns of thinking, beliefs and behaviors that may trigger anxiety and obsessive compulsive symptoms using. I use combination of CBT (exposure and response prevention) and hypnotherapy to give the best of both the therapies and get more long lasting results.
If you are going through a difficult life transition, feeling persistent sadness, anxious, or empty mood, irritability, hopelessness or helplessness, then I want you to know that help is available. I’m here to help you. I can help you with highly personalized psychotherapy & Cognitive hypnotherapy which is evidence based approach. Together we can focus on addressing both the negative thought patterns and the behaviors that contribute to depression and work on the root cause of the problem.
According to the research, In clinical depression amygdala, thalamus & hippocampus are the parts of the brain that may get affected. It was found that activity in the amygdala is higher when a person is sad or clinically depressed. The hippocampus is smaller in some depressed people, and research suggests that ongoing exposure to stress hormone impairs the growth of nerve cells in this part of the brain. But the good news is that psychotherapy combined with Cognitive behavior therapy can alter the brain functions. By repeated CBT training, the brain reinforces the neural pathways, so it becomes easier and easier to deal with future stressful situations.
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), trauma is “an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster.” Everyone’s reaction to potentially traumatic experiences is different. However, a person may experience trauma as a response to any event they find physically, or emotionally threatening or harmful.
After a trauma, it is common to struggle with fear, anxiety and sadness. You may have upsetting memories or find it hard to sleep. Most people get better with time. But if you have PTSD, these thoughts and feelings don’t fade away. They last for months and years, and may even get worse. PTSD causes problems in your daily life, such as in relationships and at work. It can also take a toll on your physical health. In PTSD your brain gets stuck in danger mode. Even after you are no longer in danger, it stays on high alert. Your body continues to send out stress signals and release stress hormones which can lead to PTSD.
According to American Psychiatric Association, Psychotherapy and cognitive behavior therapies (CBT) are very effective in treating trauma. Cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure therapy and stress inoculation therapy are among the types of CBT used to treat PTSD.
As a therapist I can help you to modify painful negative emotions (such as shame, guilt, etc.) and beliefs due to the trauma, overcome distressing memories and emotions, help to face and gain control of fear & distress and help you to learn to cope stressful situations.
At some point in everyone’s life, we encounter with grief. It may be from the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, the end of a relationship, or any other change that alters life like the pandemic.
The five stages of grief are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. As each individual is different, each one will experience all five stages differently and may not even go through them in this order or experience only some stages.
Feelings of grief are a normal response to loss but in many cases, the grieving process can become stuck, leaving the person in a state of what is known as Complicated or Traumatic Grief. Common symptoms of complicated grief can include distressing intrusive thoughts, excessive feelings of guilt, aloneness, isolation and yearning, sleep disturbance, loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities, and attempts to avoid any reminders of the trauma or loss.
I want you to know that you are not alone and it is ok to feel like this and help is available. I am here to listen and support you in this difficult time of your life to help you to move on, heal your painful emotions.
Joy of Pregnancy & Motherhood
Mothers are the backbone of the family. Motherhood is one of the most fundamental transformations we go through as a woman. Being a mother changes everything.
Parenthood brings powerful identity changes and conflicting emotions like love, protectiveness, joy, nurturing, exhaustion, confusion, anger and apathy. If you are a mother who is feeling frustrated, finding it difficult to manage emotions and balance work & family, then I can help you.
During Pregnancy, our whole body & mind goes through various changes to facilitate a new life. Research shows that Pregnancy is associated with pronounced and long-lasting changes in the structure of women’s brains. This phase can be very challenging for some women with mood swings, sleep issues, frequent emotional outburst, stress & physical pain/ discomfort.
Emotional wellbeing of the mother is very important as it is also impacts the growth of the baby. The growing baby is exposed to everything what the mom is experiencing, which also includes stress. Positive thoughts & emotions during pregnancy can heal and nurture a healthier baby, which is well supported by the research. I can help you to have relaxing and peaceful pregnancy.
Empower the woman
Women & Girls face immense pressure and challenges in today’s world and I know & understand those challenges as a woman. I believe we can overcome all our problems, we just need to learn to take care and heal own thoughts, emotions & pay attention to our physical wellbeing. I can help and support you to overcome and cope with everyday life challenges, transitions and become the best version of you.
Habits are routine behaviors done on a regular basis. They are recurrent and often unconscious patterns of behavior and are acquired through frequent repetition. Many of these are unconscious as we don’t even realize we are doing them. It creates a huge influence in how you expect to behave, think and feel. Bad habits start as a conscious process and with repetition they become unconscious. I help clients with the unwanted habits like, smoking, nail biting, procrastination, gambling, disordered eating, procrastination, perfectionism etc.
With Hypnotherapy & mindfulness it is possible to rewire your brain which neuroscientists call neuroplasticity which is the ability of the brain to form new connections and pathways and change how its circuits are wired. It is possible to change its own structure through thought and application of new activity, and creating new productive habits. Hypnotherapy can identify the cause of your bad habit, reprogram your negative thought patterns, and work with the underlying needs of the bad habit
If your answer is YES to any of the statements above, then I can help you.
Sleep is the building block essential for our physical and mental wellbeing. Lack of sleep can make you irritable, impair decision-making & judgment, cause memory deficits, lower your sex drive, weaken your immune system, cause thinking issues, and lead to weight gain.
Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder. It is the feeling of inadequate or poor sleep because of one or more of the following: trouble falling asleep; trouble remaining asleep; awakening too early; or non-restorative sleep. The individuals experience distress or impairment in functioning as a result of their poor sleep.
If you are facing difficulties in falling or maintaining sleep, then I can help you to have relaxing and peaceful sleep with the combination of Cognitive hypnotherapy & mindfulness, I can help you to find the root cause of your sleep problems and work with you to alleviate insomnia. I focus on thoughts and behaviors that disrupt sleep and help you to promote good sleep hygiene. I also use various relaxation techniques to reduce or relieve worry and anxiety and reduce body tension help in restful sleep
Pain that persists for longer than 6 months is referred to as chronic pain . Chronic pain is more than a physical symptom. Its continuous presence creates widespread manifestations of suffering, including preoccupation with pain; limitation of personal, social, and work activities; demoralization and affective disturbance; increased use of medications and of health care services; and a generalized adoption of the “sick role” (Parsons, 1958) . Living with chronic pain requires considerable emotional resilience as it depletes people’s emotional reserves. In the presence of chronic pain, the continuing quest for relief often remains elusive, which can lead to feelings of demoralization, helplessness, hopelessness, and outright depression.
People with persistent pain often have negative expectations about their own ability and responsibility to exert any control over their pain and they avoid activities that they believe will exacerbate their pain or contribute to additional injury (Vlaeyen, Kole-Snijders, Boeren, & Van Eek, 1995; see Vlaeyen et al. there are now an adequate number of controlled studies of hypnosis to draw meaningful conclusions from the literature regarding chronic pain. In meta-analysis of the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral methods for pain control, imagery/hypnosis demonstrated the strongest positive effects across studies with various types of pain (Fernandez & Turk, 1989).