About
Board Certified Hypnotherapist · Master Trainer · New York
Seventeen years of practice
have taught me to look beyond the presenting problem.
I began this practice in 2009, after training in neuro-linguistic programming and Ericksonian hypnotherapy in New York.
From the beginning, I worked with people who were thoughtful, capable, and often highly successful in the rest of their lives.
They could usually explain what was happening. Many had already tried therapy, coaching, self-development, or disciplined efforts to change.
Insight was present.
The unwanted response was still present too.
As my practice developed across countries, cultures, and very different circumstances, I learned to listen for what remained consistent beneath the immediate problem.
The visible problem is rarely the whole problem.
That observation changed the direction of my work. It led me away from isolated symptoms and toward the patterns connecting your reactions, decisions, relationships, and sense of self.
That is the work I chose to pursue:
helping you reach the part of a problem
that understanding alone has not changed.
You are more than the problem
that brought you through the door.
I am a Board Certified Hypnotherapist and Certified Master Trainer in hypnosis.
My training also includes Ericksonian hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, life coaching, trauma-informed counseling, and comprehensive energy psychology.
These disciplines inform my judgment, but no list of techniques determines the work. You do — your history, and the pattern actually in front of me.
Training provides tools.
Experience determines when, why, and whether to use them.
My professional development has continued throughout seventeen years of private practice, including recent study in counseling work with psychological trauma.
Experience has made me less interested in impressive explanations and more attentive to what actually changes a person's life.
You often arrive with considerable insight. You've reflected, read, analyzed, tried. What you need from me isn't another person repeating what you already know. You need careful assessment, an independent perspective, and work precise enough to address what has continued despite your intelligence and effort.
What continues despite that effort is what the assessment is built to locate.
My responsibility is to understand the wider context without losing sight of the specific change you came to make.
I take seriously the trust involved when you bring me something you haven't been able to resolve on your own.
The work should restore freedom of response,
not create dependence on the practitioner.
I value candor, precision, privacy, and work with a defined purpose.
I will not force a predetermined explanation onto you. The assessment must show what is happening, what can reasonably be addressed, and what course of work fits the situation.
This is
structured
work.
Direct.
Private.
Deliberate.
Adapted to the person rather than delivered from a script.
I work especially well with people like you — thoughtful, high-functioning, prepared to engage seriously and speak honestly.
Sessions are structured, time-bound, and supported by written summaries when appropriate, so the work remains clear between meetings.
Everything shared in the work is treated as confidential.
You will not be asked to perform vulnerability.
You will be asked to participate honestly.
Next step
At a certain point,
understanding stops
changing the outcome.
What you see is not what produces it.
The work begins with identifying the primary mechanism
and determining the level of work required.
A few brief questions to understand what you’re dealing with before we speak.
