“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”
Heart Centered Hypnotherapy:
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy is used worldwide as a powerful therapeutic and energetic healing modality.
Heart-Centered-Hypnotherapy approaches therapy from a deeply caring and dynamically healing perspective. Our highly trained therapists and practitioners embrace the concepts of self-determination and the belief that every client contains, deeply within their own subconscious mind, the key to their own individual health and healing.
Our first task as a Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy clinician is learning how to speak the language of the subconscious mind. In talk therapy or counseling sessions we have spent years communicating with the conscious mind of our abused, addicted, depressed and anxious clients. In speaking with the conscious mind of our clients, we can offer them behavioral solutions, insight, empathy and positive affirmations. We can try to help them understand their difficulties, but this method contains limitations and often does not produce long lasting changes in their emotions or behavior. It does not relieve their anxiety or depression and talking certainly is extremely limited in treating and eliminating addictive behavior.
It is mainly through learning how to access this deeply personal guidance held within each human being that Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy excels. The subconscious mind contains 90 percent of the mind and within that 90 percent is the deeply held key that unlocks the client’s individual inner guidance.
In other words, it is not the therapist, but the subconscious mind of the client which guides the sessions. We have learned to listen to their own subconscious mind, to sense and to feel exactly where the client needs to go in order to address the blockages which have kept them stuck in unhealthy addictive, victim, rescuer and persecutor patterns. We wait, proceed slowly and allow the client’s subconscious mind to determine where the deepest healing needs to take place. We have learned to proceed slowly and to listen carefully to the revelations of the deeper mind, body and spirit of our clients.
What Issues Is Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy Specified For?
Heart-Centered-Hypnotherapy has documented and successfully treated a wide variety of presenting problems. In fact, the list of what can be treated with HCH is exhaustive. The most common presenting problems for therapists, mental health and marriage counselors, psychologists, school counselors and marriage and family therapists are anxiety and depression. The next extensive category consists of both substance and behavioral addictions. The third highest category of people searching for therapy are those people seeking help with marriage, family and relationship dysfunction. Interestingly enough, most of these problems actually stem from some form of addiction, the previous category.
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy has been extensively and successfully used to treat any and all of these issues for the past thirty-five years by therapists all over the country and in many other countries including South Africa, Taiwan, Kuwait, Turkey, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, and more. We have found that HCH is extremely universal and the healing is just as profound in many other languages and cultures as it is English. The reason that this method has become so universal is that all Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy sessions begin with unconditional love within the heart-center of the administering therapist and then it reaches into the heart, mind and soul of the suffering or addicted client. Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, through the professional who implements it, touches the deepest humanity, the heart and soul of each client to bring profound healing in each and every session. Thus, the overall length of treatment is shortened and the healing is profound and noticeable.
(This information is graciously provided by The Wellness Institute, Issaquah, WA. 98029)
"I have participated in traditional methods of therapy for many years and with success. However, there were always some lingering things talk therapy alone just could not resolve. When I started working with Alanna and we began EMDR and mindfulness exercises, I felt a significant shift in my overall ability to manage my thoughts, depression, and anxieties. Recently we have done some work through heart-centered hypnotherapy, since then I have felt myself transform and heal in ways that I had not experienced through other methods. I have noticed extreme improvements in the impact of past traumas, feelings and thoughts about myself, and my overall mood through this work. I am excited to continue healing and growing through this method!" - Christina C.
EMDR:
What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR Therapy (or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy) is an integrative therapy that helps people heal from Traumatic events as well as, life disturbing experiences. Discovered by Dr. Francine Shapiro, EMDR Therapy has gotten worldwide attention for helping millions of people heal from PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) caused from traumatic events, such as; rape, sexual abuse, auto accidents and combat. EMDR Therapy can also help people who feel distress in their lives to heal and feel more whole after events that have been disturbing such as; divorce, life transitions, grief, anxiety and much more.
When people are experiencing distress in their lives and can’t find a way to fix it on their own they end up coming in for EMDR Therapy. Sometimes events happen in a person’s life and he/she struggles to find a way to integrate that incident. That event can become an unprocessed memory and get stored in the brain creating symptoms that are uncomfortable. Physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and images associated with the event can get locked into the brain, and without treatment, may lead to distressing symptoms and behaviors.
EMDR Therapy is designed to help a person identify and process these stuck pieces so that the symptoms can decrease and one can feel more alive and less distressed. EMDR Therapy helps facilitate the activation of the brain’s inherent system to process and integrate the information that got stored or stuck. EMDR Therapy will not erase the memory; rather you will be able to remember the story without all the emotional charge that was distressing before the treatment.
(This information graciously provided by Maiberger Institute, Boulder, CO)
“EMDR with Alanna has helped me so much! I have been able to process and release the triggers and trauma of my past. I was able to let go of years of resentment and find more peace in my life.”
Integrative Counseling - the multi-modal approach:
What that means to most of us is that there is not one single therapeutic treatment model that is followed for all people. Just as each of our finger prints are different, so are our experiences, personalities, needs and struggles. The benefit of being an experienced therapist, (but not trapped in old school), is that Alanna can gleam wisdom from the variety of old and new therapeutic practice models, and incorporate whatever is needed to address a specific situation or circumstance. Developing a positive relationship with her clients, hearing where they are and where they come from, and learning what they want to have or to be, equips her with what she needs to design a personal treatment plan that integrates the best of the best for them - for you!
Alanna's MA in professional counseling taught and practiced conventional models of psychoanalysis, CBT, person-centered, therapy, Adlerian, etc. Additional trainings developed skills in Solution Focused therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT, Rational Emotive Therapy, and others that are very specific to children and families. The attained full course certification trainings in EMDR, Reiki and Heart Centered Hypnotherapy complete the toolbox of excellence in resources.
The mosaic of training and experience that has developed creates an "artist's eye" in Alanna for what is needed and desired along with Wisdom and that inner knowing or intuitive intelligence that can help speak into the complex situations. While no one would dare claim they would or could know what everyone or anyone needs, especially given the infinite people and situations, there is something to be said for experience and understanding.
“Alanna helped me process the grief due to the loss of my parents. I don’t know what I would have done without her. She is compassionate, wise and a wonderful support.”
Trim-Life
What is TRIM-LIFE?
TRIM-LIFE is a six-week integrative medical/therapeutic weight management program offered in a group setting. This unique program will empower you to manage both your hunger and your weight by addressing body, mind and spirit. You will begin to adopt a brand new relationship with food. If you feel trapped in a cycle of binge eating due to food restriction and fears of deprivation, our program will also help you.
What can I expect from TRIM-LIFE sessions?
In TRIM-LIFE, you will learn mindfulness, relaxation and yoga techniques during two-hour weekly sessions. We will also teach you powerful hypnotic tools. The goals are to help participants reduce stress eating, abandon yo-yo dieting and overcome food addictions.
How do mindfulness and relaxation lead to weight loss?
Our mindfulness and relaxation techniques will allow you to change the inner programming that can make sustained weight loss a challenge. We will help you re-regulate your metabolism to burn “hotter,” releasing unnecessary weight. The TRIM-LIFE program can also help you identify and release feelings that promote cravings and unhealthy eating behaviors. You will learn to identify what you are truly hungry for, and to work on attracting that into your life.
How does hypnosis help to manage weight?
Our TRIM-LIFE practitioners use hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, to help you shrink your stomach to its normal size. This will help you feel satisfied with smaller portions. Hypnosis will also help you eliminate the desire for foods that poison your body. We also use hypnotherapy to pair any triggers for binge-eating behavior with unpleasant associations in your subconscious.
What you'll find in the new Trim-Life® :
Complete six-week program Workbook with educational resources and tools.
Audio programs recorded by Donna Rawlins, a veteran voice actor in Los Angeles
Two Books: Trim-Life; Diets Don't Work - The Power of the Mind Does and Breaking Free from the Victim Trap - Reclaiming Your Personal Power
Facilitator videos and resources
6 - 2 hour weekly group sessions - with follow up support sessions available
Call today to learn when the next group starts or to set up individual service.
(970) 718-9189
Upcoming Events:
Engaging Your Mind, Body and Spirit to Move From a Life of Fear To Love Event
Details
FEAR TO LOVE
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned."
-Marianne Williamson
Presenter: Alanna Bell, MA LPC, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and owner of Aspen Heart Hypnotherapy, LLC and CEO of SoulWise Institute, Inc.
Finding Something More presents:
The Other Side Symposium
We live in a world wrought with fears, worries and doubts. Anxiety has become a major disorder millions of people struggle with regardless of age, race, gender, location or financial status. We have a general undercurrent of stress in our country and world, with politics being as they are, environmental concerns, and economic issues, just to name a few.
Fear is at the root of all the things that cause us to feel anxious, depressed, angry, and hopeless.
Understanding that fear is at the root of all these gives us a hope, because there is an antidote: love. Love extinguishes fear just as light extinguishes darkness. Through this interactive presentation, you will learn how to transform fear into love using practical skills, strategies, mindfulness and guided meditations.
Divine love is within each of us. When we learn to recognize it in ourselves as well as see it in others, we begin to create the experience healing and freedom from the negative feelings and experiences that come from fear.
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear." 1 John 4:8
Some important people in our Network:
To provide our clients with the most complete approach to healing and wholeness, we work very closely with our partners. Some clients may need medication in conjunction with psychotherapy, or perhaps neurofeedback for supplemental treatment to attain brain health. We also partner with a chiropractor wellness center that includes a functional medicine doctor, massage therapist, nutritionist and more. Below are the names, phone numbers and website addresses.
NeuroGrove Integrative Neurotherapy - Neuro-feedback, Biofeedback, integrative brain health interventions: Ashlie Bell, PhD, LCSW, 970-462-6488 NeuroGrove.com
Austin Chiropractic Wellness Center - Functional Neurology, Chiropractic, Nutrition and Therapeutic Massage: Dr. Paul Austin, Chiropractic Neurologist, Suzette Skidmore, LMT, MMT, NCTMB, RM, Massage Therapist Jen Simon, MA, NC, Holistic Nutrition Counseling 303-665-5405 austinfunctionalwellness.com
