Are you wondering if you can benefit from hypnosis, mindfulness, NLP, or guided imagery?

I say, “Yes!”

And here’s why: those are simply names for ways we humans already absorb and process ideas about ourselves. Using them deliberately gives you MORE control over the way you think, feel and act. Not less.

You are looking at this page. So already we know that you are curious, intelligent, motivated, and ready to change. And you’re probably tired of doing the same old thing and hoping for different results.

Why not try connecting the bits of you that think with the bits that feel and create?

Ever wonder who goes best into hypnosis? 

Studies show that intelligence helps. Although everyone slips into trance-like states daily, people with stronger connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain seem to need less practice.

So, left-handed people, athletes, engineers, children, people who love to read or who get engrosses in movies — these people have a lot of experience engaging their imagining and honing their focus. 

And if you’re an anxious person, you’ve hit the jackpot!

I know you can respond to hypnosis and suggestion.

Having an inner mind that’s open to accepting suggestions is how we become anxious in the first place.

Sessions need to fit your needs.

You can probably figure out why Voss Wellness usually out-performs academic peer-reviewed studies that are done using the same method with every participant.

(Hint: the answer is IN the question….)

Answer: Because a good practitioner never conducts exactly the same session twice.

When your relaxation, imagery, and suggestions are geared toward your needs, they’re naturally more effective than generic ones.

Who are you? YOU are a unique individual. Shouldn’t your sessions be unique, too?

Take advantage of our free phone consultation to see if our service is a good fit for you.

About Me

Hypnosis changed my life.

I may be the last person anyone would have ever imagined becoming a hypnotherapist. My first careers were as a newspaper reporter and licensed private investigator. Basically, I was a professional skeptic.

Then, a San Francisco investigator I was working for who ran the business out of his home, decided he didn’t want operatives smoking on the premises. So he sent us to a hypnotist for smoking cessation.

What a trip! After our single session, I quit for some time.

Years later, I was working in Los Angeles as a union stagehand doing lighting, props, and sets for television and live events. I was working hard, but irregular sleep and too many doughnuts soon had me seeking hypnotherapy for weight loss. Again, it helped.

My experience with hypnosis inspired me to change careers.

I realized that much as I loved the sweaty glamour of technical theater, I missed connecting with people. And the same skills that had made me successful in previous jobs would apply to hypnotherapy, especially listening in a way that invites people to open up about their lives.

So, I started training. I did several base-level courses, because I knew that I’d need more than one technique.

I stopped smoking again – this time permanently – while at The Hypnosis Academy of America in Santa Fe. My life-long digestive problems mostly disappeared after a special training in hypnosis for IBS. And I applied what I learned about relaxation and hypno-anesthesia as a Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis instructor to my jaw-clenching TMJ issues.

Then I went on to study mindfulness, medical hypnosis, NLP, and more. I continue to learn and be delighted by advances in neuroscience, mind-body therapies, and virtual reality.

I’m still not particularly “woo-woo” and work from evidence-based techniques. The changes I and my clients experience, along with the science, inspire me.

I have a life outside of work.

When I’m not getting carried away with enthusiasm about the power of the mind, I enjoy kayaking, cooking, reading and theater.

Oh, and I also love making things for cats Nick and Nora, who allow us to serve them. They joined the household in 2022, after a hypnosis mentor helped me overcome a cat allergy. (Drats! back to that enthusiasm again!)

Qualifications & Training (Highlights)

  • Member, International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association
  • Smoking Cessation Specialist, Northern California Hypnosis Academy (Ken Guzzo)
  • Founding member, The Addiction Project (Wendi Friesen)
  • Co-creator and Instructor, Mind-Body Pain Management Techniques CEU Training for Nurses, 2017, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA (Pierre-Etienne Vannier)
  • 5-PATH & & 7th PATH Certified Practitioner, Banyan Institute, 2010.
  • Hypnobabies Certified Hypnosis Instructor (HCHI) #137, 2009.
  • Medical Hypnotherapist, (Seth-Deborah Roth) Oakland, CA, 2009.
  • Certified Hypnotherapist #108-153, American Council of Hypnotist Examiners,
    from the Hypnotherapy Academy of America, Santa Fe, NM, 2007.
  • IBS Hypnotherapy Certificate, 2007, Alabama Hypnotherapy Center.
  • Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Certificate, April 2007, Dr. Eleanor Field
  • Certified Hypnotist, March 2007, Hypnosis Motivation Institute, Tarzana, CA
  • Medical Hypnotherapy Specialist, 2007, American Board of Hypnotherapy ( Melissa Roth & Paul Durbin)